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[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Feb 26, 2012 Author:Various Post Date:2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:1372186 Comments:2390
When a segment of the population has adopted a world view that denies science and tells them that global warming is a myth or a whacky scientist conspiracy to destroy capitalism and then the real world not the talk radio world catches up to them there is shock and denial still. These are conditions we have not seen before and to deny that the climate is changing is to deny reality as it burns around you.
Seriously, what happened to the GOP? It used to be the party of people who liked reading Latin and going to the Opera. Now the GOP has become the party where the members would rather watch a rerun of "Hee Haw" than Masterpiece Theater.
Destro posted on 2012-06-27 10:29:24 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #2. To: Destro (#1)
And although Greenland’s ice sheets used to get new blankets of snow year-round, Box reports “there’s been little summertime snowfall over the ice sheets since about 2006.” With the Arctic a potent driver of climate across the globe, change at the top of the world will have repercussions elsewhere. Altered wind patterns appear to be one of the earliest symptoms, Richter-Menge says. Over the past several winters, she notes, “we’ve seen where the cold Arctic air isn’t staying in the Arctic any more, but breaking out to head south” into temperate regions. Meanwhile, the more southerly air it’s displacing has been drawn northward, leading to unusually warm Arctic winters. The report’s big take-home message, she says: “These changes represent a persistent condition” — with consequences far beyond the Arctic. "
Significant Sea Level Rise in a 2-Degree Warming World
* Jun 25, 2012
The study is the first to give a comprehensive projection for this long perspective, based on observed sea-level rise over the past millennium, as well as on scenarios for future greenhouse-gas emissions.
"Sea-level rise is a hard to quantify, yet critical risk of climate change," says Michiel Schaeffer of Climate Analytics and Wageningen University, lead author of the study. "Due to the long time it takes for the world's ice and water masses to react to global warming, our emissions today determine sea levels for centuries to come."
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-27 12:29:14 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #3. To: All (#2) (Edited)
Copenhagen climate summit: Five possible scenarios for our future ... www.guardian.co.uk/.../2009/dec/.../copenhagen-five-climate-scenari...
Dec 18, 2009 – ... region, southern Africa, Australia and south-west United States. ... A third of the world's species will become extinct as the 2C rise changes their habitats too ... Millions of square kilometres of Amazon rainforest could burn down, ... 1.5C.
In southern Africa, Australia and the western US, deserts take over.
