.1C x 20 years = 2C
(Sounds of AA guns, mortars, bomb raid sirens)
I don't care.
(fires a hole into an old-lady holding an RPG)
All a distraction.
(Bashes baby bald eagles' skull into ground, while simulataneous sucking its cerebral contents)
Burps
(All that is known is forgotten. Power rules over loyalty. Our past not even a legacy. Worship of power instilled. All new ideas banished. All current ideas treated as holy magic)
Can we please get a minimum age on this site? Or at least an IQ test on the sign up process?
The earth itself produces more than 90% of all emissions. So...
My "quantifiable intelligence" if it can be measured, is: 143 +-16 on the Stanford-binet scale.
I am 27.
U.N. Report To Downgrade Climate Change Risk
In an apparent about-face from its most recent report in 2007, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to dramatically scale back previous dire predictions regarding the perceived threat of man-made global warming. The IPCC’s fifth such report, set to be released later this month, will reportedly address incorrect measurements used to calculate temperature change in the previous incarnation.
When the group issued results six years ago showing the earth’s temperature could rise more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit, the mainstream media naturally jumped on board by perpetuating the myth that we are responsible for our own inevitable demise.
Though specific details have not yet emerged, early reports show the IPCC will substantially downgrade its previous prediction, which was based on an inaccurate computer program.
Climate change activists already face their own “inconvenient truth,” as temperatures worldwide have not risen in recent years. Coupled with less-than-devastating predictions by the IPCC, the movement seems destined for gridlock.
Actual science, however, is largely disregarded by the green energy crowd, which will surely pick and choose portions of the upcoming report that support their flawed hypotheses. As more actual research replaces the wild speculation of Al Gore and his ilk, the doomsday shrieks will sound increasingly absurd.
Considering their adherence to a set of provably false tenets, leftists apparently fail to see the irony in calling conservatives climate change “deniers.”
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased
Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850 (see Figure SPM.1). In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years
Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010 (high confidence). It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0−700 m) warmed from 1971 to 2010 (see Figure SPM.3), and it likely warmed between the 1870s and 1971
Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent (high confidence)
The rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia (high confidence). Over the period 1901–2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] m
The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. CO2 concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissions. The ocean has absorbed about 30% of the emitted anthropogenic carbon dioxide, causing ocean acidification
Total radiative forcing is positive, and has led to an uptake of energy by the climate system. The largest contribution to total radiative forcing is caused by the increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 since 1750
Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system.
Climate models have improved since the AR4. Models reproduce observed continental-scale surface temperature patterns and trends over many decades, including the more rapid warming since the mid-20th century and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions (very high confidence).
Observational and model studies of temperature change, climate feedbacks and changes in the Earth’s energy budget together provide confidence in the magnitude of global warming in response to past and future forcing.
Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes (Figure SPM.6 and Table SPM.1). This evidence for human influence has grown since AR4. It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.
Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system. Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.
Global surface temperature change for the end of the 21st century is likely to exceed 1.5°C relative to 1850 to 1900 for all RCP scenarios except RCP2.6. It is likely to exceed 2°C for RCP6.0 and RCP8.5, and more likely than not to exceed 2°C for RCP4.5. Warming will continue beyond 2100 under all RCP scenarios except RCP2.6. Warming will continue to exhibit interannual-to-decadal variability and will not be regionally uniform
Changes in the global water cycle in response to the warming over the 21st century will not be uniform. The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will increase, although there may be regional exceptions
The global ocean will continue to warm during the 21st century. Heat will penetrate from the surface to the deep ocean and affect ocean circulation.
It is very likely that the Arctic sea ice cover will continue to shrink and thin and that Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover will decrease during the 21st century as global mean surface temperature rises. Global glacier volume will further decrease.
Global mean sea level will continue to rise during the 21st century (see Figure SPM.9). Under all RCP scenarios the rate of sea level rise will very likely exceed that observed during 1971–2010 due to increased ocean warming and increased loss of mass from glaciers and ice sheets.
Climate change will affect carbon cycle processes in a way that will exacerbate the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere (high confidence). Further uptake of carbon by the ocean will increase ocean acidification.
Cumulative emissions of CO2 largely determine global mean surface warming by the late 21st century and beyond (see Figure SPM.10). Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions of CO2 are stopped. This represents a substantial multi-century climate change commitment created by past, present and future emissions of CO2.
Well the report is out and here are some of the highlights.
http://www.ipcc.ch/
No apparent about faces, no dramatically scaling back of dire predictions, no downgrading of the risk of climate change, what happened? Don't you just hate it when the truth fails to live up to your view of the truth? My advice, find new sources for information because clearly the ones you've been using are wrong.