The scientists, whose findings are reported in a draft summary of the next big United Nations climate report, largely dismiss a recent slowdown in the pace of warming, which is often cited by climate change doubters, attributing it most likely to short-term factors.
The report emphasizes that the basic facts about future climate change are more established than ever, justifying the rise in global concern. It also reiterates that the consequences of escalating emissions are likely to be profound.
“It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010,” the draft report says. “There is high confidence that this has warmed the ocean, melted snow and ice, raised global mean sea level and changed some climate extremes in the second half of the 20th century.”
The draft comes from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of several hundred scientists that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, along with Al Gore. Its summaries, published every five or six years, are considered the definitive assessment of the risks of climate change, and they influence the actions of governments around the world. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent on efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, for instance, largely on the basis of the group’s findings.
The coming report will be the fifth major assessment from the group, created in 1988. Each report has found greater certainty that the planet is warming and greater likelihood that humans are the primary cause.
The 2007 report found “unequivocal” evidence of warming, but hedged a little on responsibility, saying the chances were at least 90 percent that human activities were the cause. The language in the new draft is stronger, saying the odds are at least 95 percent that humans are the principal cause.
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The earths weather has run in cycles for thousands of years. It is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has always had an influence on the climate of this planet, and with the population increase of such a great extent it is not unreasonable to assume it could have a very substantial effect on the climate now, is it the end all of end alls, no it is not. For some of the less fortunate it could be but for the majority of the population it will just be an adjustment to be dealt with.
I agree Mystery but to expand upon that... the alarmism created over Global Warming is nothing more than a scam played upon us all. CO2 is a life giving gas and without it, all plant life would cease to exist and without plant life; insects to animals to humans would go by the wayside too.
Al Gore, Mr. Cap-N-Trade himself and his Green Foolade Posse, follow Gore as if he was the second coming of Christ. They all perpetuate the lie that has become Global Warming. And since they couldn't really prove that the globe was warming, 'the truth inconveniently' left the building. So they had to come up with another explanation for why the earth is warming and the winner was... Climate Change.
Any fool knows that the climate changes... just look outside your window every morning. It is ever-changing. They just changed the vernacular to suit their crooked agenda. And what is that agenda? Money, money, money and control, control and more control.
Media Ignore Al Gore's Financial Ties To Global Warming... http://newsbusters.org/node/11149
And I forgot to mention the fear that this agenda instills upon the populace. They would love to see most of us play like 'chicken little's' and hide our heads in the sand. F that!
Oh and btw... here's just a couple of Al Gore's mansions. And these pricks want us to get rid of our indoor fireplaces because of CO2 emissions??? Fricking hypocrites!!!
"All you little breathers should be ashamed of your fracking selves. You are damaging the planet! Such a fragile sphere, our planet, it is only made of rock! All the effects of co2 we have ever produced /released /exhaled pales in comparison to one fracking volcano / one fracking Fukushima. Don't worry, little breather, the fracking global economy will crash soon enough, and most of the evil fracking carbon producers will die off and the sky will be blue again. Uh... after the chemtrails dissipate, of course. In the mean time, would you mind holding your breath?" #Guiltforlife
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