Scientists warn global warming accelerating
This topic is becoming highly politicized, which is the reason you’ve found it in this journal’s archives. Whatever you may think about climate change claims, it cannot be denied that ‘Global Warming’ is being used as a pretext to chain the citizens of the world with a host of new carbon taxes and onerous legislation. (In fact, many of the scientists whose names are associated with the IPCC report really aren’t – either aren’t scientists, or do not fully support its findings as presented). While that might be an effective way to fill Al Gore’s pockets, it will do little if anything to curb climate change. To do that, take responsibility for your own environmental footprint. This world is beautiful, and if you value that you will tread lightly upon it.
Flashback: Top Japanese Scientists: Warming Is Not Caused By Human Activity | IPCC caught with false figures, doubt cast on accuracy of global temperature record
Jan M. Olsen, Associated Press
March 12, 2009
COPENHAGEN – Hundreds of leading scientists warned today that global warming is accelerating beyond the worst predictions and threatening to trigger “irreversible” climate shifts on the planet.
Saying there’s no excuse for inaction, the nearly 2,000 climate researchers meeting in Copenhagen urged policy makers to “vigorously” implement the economic and technological tools available to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
Their stark message came at the end of a three-day conference aimed at updating the findings of a 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change before U.N. talks in December on a new global climate treaty.
“The worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories (or even worse) are being realized,” the scientists said in a statement. “There is a significant risk that many of the trends will accelerate, leading to an increasing risk of abrupt or irreversible climatic shifts.”
The climate change panel predicted a sea level rise of 18 to 59 centimetres by the end of the century, which could flood low-lying areas and force millions to flee. But more recent research presented at the conference suggested that melting glaciers and ice sheets could help push the sea level up at least 50 centimetres, and possibly as much as a metre.
“Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change with poor nations and communities particularly at risk,” the statement said.
It noted that policy makers already have a range of tools to mitigate global warming. “But they must be vigorously and widely implemented to achieve the societal transformation required to de-carbonize economies,” it said.
The conclusions of the congress will be presented to politicians when they meet in Copenhagen in December to discuss a new global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
“We know from scientific evidence that climate change is a reality and that climate change will have damaging effects on the economy all over the world,” said Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, one of the politicians attending the scientific conference. “Therefore we need an agreement and we need an agreement this year.”
Earlier today, British economist Nicholas Stern, the author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, told the conference that the global recession presents an opportunity to build a more energy-efficient economy.
“Coming out of this we have got to lay the foundations for a low-carbon growth, which is going to be like the railways, like the electricity, like the motorcars, this is going to be over the next two, three decades the big driver in investment,” Mr. Stern said.
He added green investments make sense because energy-efficient economies will be more sustainable in the future.
“We know from this crisis that if we postpone looking risk in the face, it will bite us much more deeply,” he said.
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