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Climate Change Sceptics
December 11th, 2007 by admin
As climate change is one of the main reasons that peak food is imminent, it is disappointing that so many people are still climate change sceptics in spite of overwhelming evidence that warming is happening and is mainly the result of increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere due to human activity. In many cases, people prefer not to know. The consequences of continuing to increase emissions are - for some people - too horrible to contemplate. Because possible solutions are difficult to implement, they convince themselves there is no problem.
If you have doubts about Global warming then this may the most Important Video You'll Ever See.
The “debate” is overMore than 2000 of the world’s top climate scientists, including U.S. researchers, recently released a sobering report stating that “human activities” are causing the earth’s average temperature to rise and that effects of warming are happening faster than predicted.
( Click on the headline to view the whole story ) Evidence is now ‘unequivocal’ that humans are causing global warming – UN report
2 February 2007 – Changes in the atmosphere, the oceans and glaciers and ice caps now show unequivocally that the world is warming due to human activities, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in new report released today in Paris.
( Click on the headline to view the whole story ) Geophysicists: Theory of Global Warming 'Well Established'
Friday, January 25, 2008
By Andrea Thompson The world's largest society of Earth and space scientists has released a new statement on climate change that unequivocally names human activity as the cause of global warming.
Following is the text of the revised statement (also available online at http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/positions/climate_change2008.shtml).
A road map to extinction
I chose this title because if Humanity insists on going down this road, then this will be it’s fate. “If” you read all the information that I have collected here, I guarantee you will leave here without any doubt about the outcome, if we continue down this path.
My site is a collection (library) of videos, documentaries and news articles from across the net.
Together they clearly tell a story told by others. It gives a grim report card on the health of Mother Earth as of today.
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What a difference a year makes.
Seems like just a year ago that Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth came out enlightening the world about Global Warming. At that time he said “We are now facing a Planetary crisis”
One year ago scientist said that we had 10 years to get are act together. Here we are one year later and things have changed drastically. That time frame is quickly dissipating . We are now find ourselves dealing with events that were supposed to be 50 to 100 years into the future ( based on computer models) where Global Warming is concerned.
Today “We find ourselves facing a Planetary Emergency”
Global warming is a silent killer.
It comes disguised as weather events, which by themselves mean little. It is the collection of all these events from year to year and how they change yearly which indicates we are seeing climate change now.
Climate models had predicted that all of the changes would happen decades and even centuries into the future, but we are seeing them now. Scientists have been grossly underestimating the speed that these changes would happen mostly because; they were just too conservative in their estimates.
You can’t really blame them. Predicting the future is definitely not a perfect science. I have to give them credit in that most of what they said is coming true; it’s just that they got the time frame all wrong. It is happening a lot faster than they had anticipated.
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“Global warming” is a misnomer because it implies a gradual, mostly uniform, that it is mainly about temperature, & quite possibly benign. What’s happening in reality is non uniform, is affecting everything about climate, & is almost entirely harmful.
A more accurate term is “Global Climatic Disruption”
This ongoing disruption is…
Real without doubt
Mainly caused by humans
Already producing significant harm
Growing more rapidly than expected
This is what is being said now
President Obama 'has four years to save Earth' Says James Hanson
"We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," said Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science. "This is the last chance." Hansen also says: What is at stake? Warming so far, about two degrees Fahrenheit over land areas, seems almost innocuous, being less than day-to-day weather fluctuations. But more warming is already "in the pipeline," delayed only by the great inertia of the world ocean. And climate is nearing dangerous tipping points. Elements of a "perfect storm," a global cataclysm, are assembled.
"if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." says Hansen
"We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen said during his appearance at the National Press Club. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would."
…...a series of stunning and worrisome studies has just shown that global warming is accelerating three times more rapidly than initially feared….
Professor Barry Brook cautioned that even the most ambitious international greenhouse gas reduction targets might not prevent a catastrophic increase in temperatures: "Two degrees has the potential to lead to three or four degrees because of carbon-cycle feedbacks."
The message, delivered by the UK Met Office’s Hadley Centre for Climate Change, was cataclysmic. "There should have been panic on the streets," says Lynas in his new book, Six Degrees, "people shouting from the rooftops, statements to parliament and 24-hour news coverage."
“Survival of humanity is at stake" because of climate change, according to Mirta Roses, director of the Pan-American Health Organisation.
The speed at which mankind has used the Earth’s resources over the past 20 years has put “humanity’s very survival” at risk, a study involving 1,400 scientists has concluded.
Earth is on track to hit this extinction-triggering warming point in about 100 years unless greenhouse gas emissions are curbed, predicts Peter Mayhew of the University of York in Britain.
As one prominent climate scientist said recently, "We are seeing impacts today that we did not expect to see until 2085."The IPCC, which reflects the findings of more than 2,000 scientists from over 100 countries, recently stated that it is "very unlikely" that we will avoid the coming era of "dangerous climate change."
"Global warming is a big feature of our lives now. It is no longer something that only future generations will have to cope with," said Ted Scambos
"The very small warming that's happened to date is having a large effect—pretty much everywhere we look—on the ice of the planet," said Richard Alley of Pennsylvania State University in University Park.
"I think in most of these cases, we have already reached the tipping point," Hansen said.
Moreover, some scientists now fear that the warming is taking on its own momentum—driven by internal feedbacks that are independent of the human-generated carbon layer in the atmosphere.
Nature itself was about to turn nasty, says Lynas in his new book
"It's
pretty gut-wrenching," said Allan Carroll, a research scientist at the
It’s going to get warmer than it is today. Even if we stabilized greenhouse gas concentrations today - a virtual impossibility - the rate of warming would slow, but not stop for another 30 years. This delayed warming, caused by (among other factors) how long it takes for the ocean to heat and cool, is called “warming in the pipeline”.
"Arctic land warming and permafrost thaw are likely to accelerate," and the rate of warming could triple in coming years
The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Oceans On The Precipice Of Mass Extinctions And Rise Of Slime
Earth in middle of sixth mass extinction, half of its species could be wiped out by 2100
Scientists say the current extinction rate is now up to 10,000 times faster than what has historically been recorded as normal.
Oxygen-starved oceans rapidly dying
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News Flash
President 'has four years to save Earth'US must take the lead to avert eco-disasterSunday 18 January 2009
Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added. Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. "We cannot afford to put off change any longer," said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead." Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists. Only the US now had the political muscle to lead the world and halt the rise, Hansen said. Having refused to recognise that global warming posed any risk at all over the past eight years, the US now had to take a lead as the world's greatest carbon emitter and the planet's largest economy. Cap-and-trade schemes, in which emission permits are bought and sold, have failed, he said, and must now be replaced by a carbon tax that will imposed on all producers of fossil fuels. At the same time, there must be a moratorium on new power plants that burn coal - the world's worst carbon emitter.
Scientist: 'We're toast' without action on global warming
June 24 2008 Story Highlights
NASA's James Hansen: Greenhouse gases have passed the "dangerous level" Situation has gotten so bad the world's only hope is drastic action, he says "This is the last chance" to act, he says Hansen called a "prophet" for warning Congress about global warming in 1988
Climate target is not radical enough - study
Monday April 7 2008
He has steadily revised his analysis of the scale of the global warming and was himself one of the architects of a 450ppm target. But he told the Guardian: "I realize that was too high." Hansen said that he now regards as "implausible" the view of many climate scientists that the shrinking of the ice sheets would take thousands of years. "If we follow business as usual I can't see how west Antarctica could survive a century. We are talking about a sea-level rise of at least a couple of metres this century."
Too late? Why scientists say we should expect the worst
Tuesday 9 December 2008 Despite the political rhetoric, the scientific warnings, the media headlines and the corporate promises, he would say, carbon emissions were soaring way out of control - far above even the bleak scenarios considered by last year's report from the IPCC and the Stern review. The battle against dangerous climate change had been lost, and the world needed to prepare for things to get very, very bad…….
The cream of the UK climate science community sat in stunned silence as Anderson pointed out that carbon emissions since 2000 have risen much faster than anyone thought possible, driven mainly by the coal-fuelled economic boom in the developing world. So much extra pollution is being pumped out, he said, that most of the climate targets debated by politicians and campaigners are fanciful at best, and "dangerously misguided" at worst.
Sea absorbing less CO2, scientists discover
Monday 12 January 2009
Scientists have issued a new warning about climate change after discovering a sudden and dramatic collapse in the amount of carbon emissions absorbed by the Sea of Japan. The shift has alarmed experts, who blame global warming. The world's oceans soak up about 11bn tonnes of human carbon dioxide pollution each year, about a quarter of all produced, and even a slight weakening of this natural process would leave significantly more CO2 in the atmosphere. That would require countries to adopt much stricter emissions targets to prevent dangerous rises in temperature. Kitack Lee, an associate professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology, who led the research, says the discovery is the "very first observation that directly relates ocean CO2 uptake change to ocean warming".
Warming World In Range Of Dangerous Consequences
by Staff Writers
The earth will warm about 2.4 degrees C (4.3 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels even under extremely conservative greenhouse-gas emission scenarios and under the assumption that efforts to clean up particulate pollution continue to be successful, according to a new analysis by a pair of researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
That amount of warming falls within what the world's leading climate change authority recently set as the threshold range of temperature increase that would lead to widespread loss of biodiversity, deglaciation and other adverse consequences in nature.
On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction
There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week (August 11 2008). At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, "the end of living and the beginning of survival" for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction…...…….The climate system is already experiencing significant feedbacks, notably the summer melting of the Arctic sea ice. The more the ice melts, the more sunshine is absorbed by the sea, and the more the Arctic warms. And as the Arctic warms, the release of billions of tonnes of methane – a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than carbon dioxide over 20 years – captured under melting permafrost is already under way……..…..The truth is that to prevent runaway greenhouse warming, we will have to leave most of the world's fossil fuels in the ground, especially carbon-heavy coal, oil shales and tar sands….Hadley Center: “Catastrophic” 5-7°C warming by 2100 on current emissions path
Dr. Vicky Pope, head of climate change predictions at the Met Office’s Hadley Centre, writes in the UK Times that In a worst-case scenario, where no action is taken to check the rise in Greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures would most likely rise by more than 5°C by the end of the century. It may be “a worst-case scenario” for rational people like her, but right now even Hadley understands it is better described as the “business-as-usual” case.
Update: Thanks to WestCoastClimateEquity for pointing out this figure.
This staggeringly grim conclusion shouldn’t be news to anyone. After all, the traditionally staid and conservative International Energy Agency annual noted in its World Energy Outlook released last month said, “ Without a change in policy, the world is on a path for a rise in global temperature of up to 6°C.”
Thanks in large part to poor messaging by scientists (and environmentalists and progressives) and generally lame media coverage, the public thinks there is some broad range of temperature rise we face, from pleasant to maybe a tad too toasty. That’s because scientists mostly analyze and talk about a range of emissions scenarios that almost exclusively assume very strong emissions reductions efforts — efforts that aren’t happening and don’t look to be happening anytime soon because of the lack of urgency brought on in part by that poor messaging (and by a major disinformation campaign led by conservatives and energy companies). The consequences of 5.5°C warming by 2100, which Hadley says is “ likely” on our current emissions path are all but unimaginable — mass extinction, devastating ocean acidification, brutal summer-long heat waves, rapidly rising sea levels, widespread desertification. But they are rarely studied or articulated by scientists who can’t imagine humanity would be so stupid as to let this happen. I have tried to piece them together them together from the scientific literature (see “ Is 450 ppm (or less) politically possible? Part 0: The alternative is humanity’s self-destruction“).
A 5.5°C warming would inevitably lead to the mid- to high-range of currently projected sea level rise — 5 feet or more by 2100, followed by 6 to 20 inches a decade for centuries (see “ Startling new sea level rise research: “Most likely” 0.8 to 2.0 meters by 2100“). That means 100 million or more environmental refugees by century’s end alone.
Then we have desertification of one third the planet and moderate drought over half the planet, plus the loss of all inland glaciers that provide water to a billion people.
MELTING METHANEA Storehouse of Greenhouse Gases Is Opening in SiberiaBy Volker Mrasek Researchers have found alarming evidence that the frozen Arctic floor has started to thaw and release long-stored methane gas. The results could be a catastrophic warming of the earth, since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide…...
…….It's always been a disturbing what-if scenario for climate researchers: Gas hydrates stored in the Arctic ocean floor -- hard clumps of ice and methane, conserved by freezing temperatures and high pressure -- could grow unstable and release massive amounts of methane into the atmosphere. Since methane is a potent greenhouse gas, more worrisome than carbon dioxide, the result would be a drastic acceleration of global warming. Until now this idea was mostly academic; scientists had warned that such a thing could happen. Now it seems more likely that it will.
On the Threshold of Abrupt Climate Change
by Staff Writers
Most people think of climate change as something that occurs only gradually, however, with average temperature changing two or three degrees Celsius over a century or more; this is the rate at which 'forcing' mechanisms operate, such as the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels or widespread changes in land use. But climate change has occurred with frightening rapidity in the past and will almost certainly do so again. Perhaps the most famous example is the reverse hiccup in a warming trend that began 15,000 years ago and eventually ended the last ice age. Roughly 2,000 years after it started, the warming trend suddenly reversed, and temperatures fell back to near-glacial conditions; Earth stayed cold for over a thousand years, a period called the Younger Dryas (named for an alpine wildflower). Then warming resumed so abruptly that global temperatures shot up 10 degreesC in just 10 years.
Acidifying Oceans Add Urgency To Carbon Dioxide Cuts
ScienceDaily (July 6, 2008) — It's not just about climate change anymore. Besides loading the atmosphere with heat-trapping greenhouse gases, human emissions of carbon dioxide have also begun to alter the chemistry of the ocean--often called the cradle of life on Earth. The ecological and economic consequences are difficult to predict but possibly calamitous, warn a team of chemical oceanographers in the July 4 issue of Science, and halting the changes already underway will likely require even steeper cuts in carbon emissions than those currently proposed to curb climate change.
Mass Extinctions And Rise Of Slime
by Staff Writers
Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048
Study By Ecologists, Economists Predicts Collapse of World Ocean Ecology
(WebMD) The apocalypse has a new date: 2048.
Act or the planet is at peril: new study
Juliette Jowit in London
The world will have to take drastic action within two years to reduce greenhouse-gas pollution if it is to avoid the worst effects of climate change, a new British study warns.
We are at the precipice of a catastrophic global change.
You can see it in the news from day to day.
From heat to rain, 2007 a year of weather extremes
The Arctic ice cap melted this summer to the greatest extent on record.
Greenland ice melting fast too: report
Loss of Antarctic ice has soared by 75 per cent in just 10 years
March 2008 the warmest on record over world land surfaces 2008This year may set records fortornadoes and tornado-related deaths.————————————-
Humanity is facing it’s greatest challenge ever.
Two profound, life-changing events - the rapid depletion of fossil fuels and rising sea level from the warming of the earth's atmosphere - are converging to dramatically alter our future. This is being aggravated by overpopulation, food shortages because of increased use of bio-fuels and desertification. As well as a deepening World Water Crisis. I have covered these issues in varying degrees based on the info available.
As we receive the news from day to day most would not see any concern, as these issues are just another bad news story. However when you lump them all together and look at the bigger picture, you see a planet in crisis. That is what I am trying to do here.
I am trying to give you a snapshot of the present and future.
I can assure you this is not the kind of news I want to hear or pass on.
However we must deal with these issues if we are to keep this Planet Habitable for our Children.
I have made it easy for you, by putting all this information at your finger tips.
Please read on to get the complete story
Planet Earth
Is our home
We call her Mother Earth.
She is a living, breathing planet.
She gives life, but she can take it away, as she has many times since her birth some 4.2 billion years ago.
Since then over
99.99% Of all the species that have ever lived on this planet are now
Extinct
We are part of the Earth’s story and we are but a chapter in many chapter's in this story book.
What makes this whole chapter different?
We as a species, for the first time in the history of the Earth, have the power to write some of our history and determine how our chapter could end.
But it appears that the chapter covering humanity’s history
could be soon coming to a close.
So
Are you just going to lay down and wait till the train runs
you over?
Al Gore on 60 Minutes Video
We have a moral responsibility to ensure that “we are not hijacking” future generations ability to live a normal life.
How did we get to this spot
“We would have to have 3-5 extra planets if everyone consumed at
View the video “the Story of Stuff”
I have divided my site as follows:
Page 1 - Is my introduction
Page 2– Thought provoking articles
Page 3 - See what the scientist have to say about Climate Change. Changes that can be expected for the future.
Page 4– Health of the planet . Wild Weather
Page 5– Health of the planet . Global Shifts and Arctic and Greenland Meltdown.
Page 6- Health of the planet Antarctic and Glacier Meltdown. Drought.
Page 7– Health of the planet State of the Oceans.
Page 8– Health of the planet State of the Forest.
Page 9– Abrupt Climate Change. What are possible scenarios for future climate of the planet.
Page 10- Possible catastrophic events as a result of global warming Nature’s own time bombs. The tipping points.
Page 11- other Climate News
Page 12– Bio-fuels
Page 13- The conservative failure to deal with climate change
Page 14 - The Denial Machine. Where denialist came from
Page 15- covers the Peak Oil Crisis, overpopulation
Page 16- My personal conclusion.
Page 17- A collection of links to other sites
If you find it to much reading, just scan through and look at the titles highlighted areas in RED and Blue links.
This is not just some news story anymore. We are writing the final few pages of humanities history.
We still have time to change the ending.
It is imperative that we start making changes now to ensure a sustainable future for our children
For some of you, your motto may be “Ignorance is bliss”. You can choose too ignore it and stick your head in the sand.
But this won’t go away.
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