http://epw.senate.gov/speechitem.cfm?party=rep&id=263759
dingbats ....
"Here Lies Al Gore, Inventor of the Internet and Global Warming"
dingbats ....
"Here Lies Al Gore, Inventor of the Internet and Global Warming"
Bush admits the global warming results from fossil fuels....
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I just got this from a friend of mine. Corporations like XOM and MO are pure evil 
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
Small blurb of the article below. Read the whole thing using the link above...
nitro
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
Small blurb of the article below. Read the whole thing using the link above...
nitro
Australia 12-25-06 coldest in 150 years:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20974107-2,00.html
But in Victoria, it was the coldest Christmas Day in 150 years that brought "significant" amounts of snow to Victoria's southern regions, including a 30mm drop at Mount Baw Baw, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Other_Parts_of_the_World_2006.htm
Icy roads and snow in Israel block roads and close schools 27 Dec 06
A Year of Records in Scotland - 16 Dec 06 - and spring flowers made their latest appearance for 40 years.
Such weather extremes are a hallmark of an entry into an ice age.
Record cold in western Canada - 3 Dec 06
Huge Blizzards in China - 27 Nov 06 Some of China's northern cities have experienced "the biggest blizzards for 20 years", the official state news agency, Xinhua, reports.
One-day snowfall record in Canada - 02 Dec 06
Temps in Calgary Hit 100-Year-Low 28 Nov 06 Environment Canada says such low temperatures unusual for this time of year (The coldest in more than 100 years . . . and all they can say that it is "unusual"?)
Coldest November night in Sydney, Australia in more than a century
Snow storms and record cold in Australia ââ and summer starts in two weeks
Millions in Europe lose power as cold weather increases demand - 5 Nov 06
First snow in Tasmanian town in 34 years - 29 Oct 06
Antarctic temperatures coldest since 1979 - 2 Oct 06"This year's extreme loss of ozone can be explained by the temperatures above Antarctica reaching the lowest recorded in the area since 1979," ESA Atmospheric Engineer Claus Zehner said.
Record low temperatures in New Zealand - 8 Jul 06
And etc.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20974107-2,00.html
But in Victoria, it was the coldest Christmas Day in 150 years that brought "significant" amounts of snow to Victoria's southern regions, including a 30mm drop at Mount Baw Baw, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Other_Parts_of_the_World_2006.htm
Icy roads and snow in Israel block roads and close schools 27 Dec 06
A Year of Records in Scotland - 16 Dec 06 - and spring flowers made their latest appearance for 40 years.
Such weather extremes are a hallmark of an entry into an ice age.
Record cold in western Canada - 3 Dec 06
Huge Blizzards in China - 27 Nov 06 Some of China's northern cities have experienced "the biggest blizzards for 20 years", the official state news agency, Xinhua, reports.
One-day snowfall record in Canada - 02 Dec 06
Temps in Calgary Hit 100-Year-Low 28 Nov 06 Environment Canada says such low temperatures unusual for this time of year (The coldest in more than 100 years . . . and all they can say that it is "unusual"?)
Coldest November night in Sydney, Australia in more than a century
Snow storms and record cold in Australia ââ and summer starts in two weeks
Millions in Europe lose power as cold weather increases demand - 5 Nov 06
First snow in Tasmanian town in 34 years - 29 Oct 06
Antarctic temperatures coldest since 1979 - 2 Oct 06"This year's extreme loss of ozone can be explained by the temperatures above Antarctica reaching the lowest recorded in the area since 1979," ESA Atmospheric Engineer Claus Zehner said.
Record low temperatures in New Zealand - 8 Jul 06
And etc.
Seriously, do you Republikkklans suffer from some common form of mass stupidity that scientists have failed to uncover? Just because a few locations of the world have a few days of uncharacteristic cold weather ( note I said few days ) you freely extrapolate that into a global cool down? Could it be that uncharacteristic weather patterns are a sign that the worlds weather is indeed changing?
The sheer stupidity of people like you is mind boggling. It's all beginning to make sense now. No wonder you freely vote for drug addicted lying retards like Bush. One can take solace in the fact that most of you congenital retards are old sad failures already half way into the grave. That's unless you're passing down the stupidity by "home skooling" your unfortunate progeny. Stupid people like you are not only an internal threat to america, but a threat to the entire globe.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061229/sc_afp/canadaarctic
Immense ice shelf breaks off in Canadian Arctic: researchers
MONTREAL (AFP) - An enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year, researchers said, warning it could be another symptom of global warming.
The 66-square-kilometer (25.5-square-mile) ice island tore away from Ellesmere, a huge strip of land in the Canadian Arctic close to Greenland.
The break occurred in August 2005 and was so violent that it caused tremors that were detected by Canadian seismographs 250 kilometers (155 miles) away, but at the time no one was able to pinpoint what had happened.
The Canadian Ice Service contacted geographer Luke Copland of the University of Ottawa, who reconstructed the chain of events by piecing together data from the seismic readings and satellite images provided by Canada and the United States.
"This loss is the biggest in 25 years, but it continues the loss that occurred within the last century," Copland told AFP, saying 90 percent of the the ice cover had been lost since the area was discovered in 1906.
"What is important and interesting is that it is sudden, quite large even," he said.
Are you the one that thinks that there is no oil in Fiji?
Quote from bsmeter2:
Inquiring minds want to know. Americans give "democracy" good lip service, will they invade Fiji next? This will be interesting to watch, since Fiji has no oil!
United Nations scam:
More than 17,000 scientists, two-thirds of whom hold advanced academic degrees, signed a Petition against the Kyoto climate accord. The Petition urged the US government to reject the Accord, expressing their profound skepticism about the science underlying the Kyoto Accord. The atmospheric data simply do not support the elaborate computer-driven climate models that are being cited by the United Nations and other promoters of the Accord as "proof" of a major future warming.
Record low temps and record highs for snowfall are not in just a few places for a few days, it's worldwide the last several years. Do some research.
It's not global warming, it's Ocean Warming in the arctic from volcanic activity on the ocean floor in numerous places thought not to exist before. It's causing the bergs to break off faster.
Sea levels are falling not rising. Sea levels are falling in Tuvalu (in the Pacific Ocean), Sea levels are falling in the Arctic Ocean, Sea levels are falling in the Atlantic Ocean.
Quote from nitro:
I just got this from a friend of mine. Corporations like XOM ... are pure evil
nitro
Ok, maybe XOM is not as evil as previously thought:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16593606/
nitro
Warming 'likely' man-made, unstoppable
By SETH BORENSTEIN 43 minutes ago
The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is "very likely" caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
The scientists â using their strongest language yet on the issue â said now that world has begun to warm, hotter temperatures and rises in sea level "would continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution. The report also linked the warming to the recent increase in stronger hurricanes.
"The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice-mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing, and very likely that is not due to known natural causes alone," said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change â a group of hundreds of scientists and representatives of 113 governments.
The phrase "very likely" translates to a more than 90 percent certainty that global warming is caused by man's burning of fossil fuels. That was the strongest conclusion to date, making it nearly impossible to say natural forces are to blame.
What that means in simple language is "we have this nailed," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who originated the percentage system.
The 20-page report, which was due to be officially released later in the day, represents the most authoritative science on global warming.
The new language marked an escalation from the panel's last report in 2001, which said warming was "likely" caused by human activity. There had been speculation that the participants might try to say it is "virtually certain" man causes global warming, which translates to 99 percent certainty.
The panel predicted temperature rises of 2-11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100. That was a wider range than in the 2001 report.
However, the panel also said its best estimate was for temperature rises of 3.2-7.1 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2001, all the panel gave was a range of 2.5-10.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
On sea levels, the report projects rises of 7-23 inches by the end of the century. An additional 3.9-7.8 inches are possible if recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
But there is some cold comfort. Some, but not all, of the projected temperature and sea level rises are slightly lower than projected in a previous report in 2001. That is mostly due to use of more likely scenarios and would still result in dramatic effects across the globe, scientists said.
Many scientists had warned that this estimate was too cautious and said sea level rise could be closer to 3-5 feet because of ice sheet melt.
Nevertheless, scientists agreed the report is strong.
"There's no question that the powerful language is intimately linked to the more powerful science," said one of the study's many co-authors, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria, who spoke by phone from Canada. He said the report was based on science that is rock-solid, peer-reviewed, and consensus.
"It's very conservative. Scientists by their nature are skeptics."
The scientists wrote the report based on years of peer-reviewed research and government officials edited it with an eye toward the required unanimous approval by world governments.
In the end, there was little debate on the strength of the wording about the role of man in global warming.
The panel quickly agreed Thursday on two of the most contentious issues: attributing global warming to man-made burning of fossil fuels and connecting it to a recent increase in stronger hurricanes.
Negotiations over a third and more difficult issue â how much the sea level is predicted to rise by 2100 â went into the night Thursday with a deadline approaching for the report.
While critics call the panel overly alarmist, it is by nature relatively cautious because it relies on hundreds of scientists, including skeptics.
"I hope that policymakers will be quite convinced by this message," said Riibeta Abeta, a delegate whose island nation Kiribati is threatened by rising seas. "The purpose is to get them moving."
The Chinese delegation was resistant to strong wording on global warming, said Barbados delegate Leonard Fields and others. China has increasingly turned to fossil fuels for its huge and growing energy needs.
The U.S. government delegation was not one of the more vocal groups in the debate over whether warming is man-made, said officials from other countries. And several attendees credited the head of the panel session, Susan Solomon, a top U.S. government climate scientist, with pushing through the agreement so quickly.
The Bush administration acknowledges that global warming is man-made and a problem that must be dealt with, Bush science adviser John Marburger has said. However, Bush continues to reject mandatory limits on so-called "greenhouse" gases.
But this is more than just a U.S. issue.
"What you're trying to do is get the whole planet under the proverbial tent in how to deal with this, not just the rich countries," Mahlman said Thursday. "I think we're in a different kind of game now."
The panel, created by the United Nations in 1988, releases its assessments every five or six years â although scientists have been observing aspects of climate change since as far back as the 1960s. The reports are released in phases â this is the first of four this year.
The next report is due in April and will discuss the effects of global warming. But that issue was touched upon in the current document.
The report says that global warming has made stronger hurricanes, including those on the Atlantic Ocean, such as Hurricane Katrina.
The report said that an increase in hurricane and tropical cyclone strength since 1970 "more likely than not" can be attributed to man-made global warming. The scientists said global warming's connection varies with storms in different parts of the world, but that the storms that strike the Americas are global warming-influenced.
That's a contrast from the 2001 which said there was not enough evidence to make such a conclusion. And it conflicts with a November 2006 statement by the World Meteorological Organization, which helped found the IPCC. The meteorological group said it could not link past stronger storms to global warming.
Fields â of Barbados, a country in the path of many hurricanes â said the new wording was "very important." He noted that insurance companies â which look to science to calculate storm risk â "watch the language, too."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202...oGyjSlxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
By SETH BORENSTEIN 43 minutes ago
The world's leading climate scientists said global warming has begun, is "very likely" caused by man, and will be unstoppable for centuries, according to a report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
The scientists â using their strongest language yet on the issue â said now that world has begun to warm, hotter temperatures and rises in sea level "would continue for centuries" no matter how much humans control their pollution. The report also linked the warming to the recent increase in stronger hurricanes.
"The observed widespread warming of the atmosphere and ocean, together with ice-mass loss, support the conclusion that it is extremely unlikely that global climate change of the past 50 years can be explained without external forcing, and very likely that is not due to known natural causes alone," said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change â a group of hundreds of scientists and representatives of 113 governments.
The phrase "very likely" translates to a more than 90 percent certainty that global warming is caused by man's burning of fossil fuels. That was the strongest conclusion to date, making it nearly impossible to say natural forces are to blame.
What that means in simple language is "we have this nailed," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who originated the percentage system.
The 20-page report, which was due to be officially released later in the day, represents the most authoritative science on global warming.
The new language marked an escalation from the panel's last report in 2001, which said warming was "likely" caused by human activity. There had been speculation that the participants might try to say it is "virtually certain" man causes global warming, which translates to 99 percent certainty.
The panel predicted temperature rises of 2-11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2100. That was a wider range than in the 2001 report.
However, the panel also said its best estimate was for temperature rises of 3.2-7.1 degrees Fahrenheit. In 2001, all the panel gave was a range of 2.5-10.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
On sea levels, the report projects rises of 7-23 inches by the end of the century. An additional 3.9-7.8 inches are possible if recent, surprising melting of polar ice sheets continues.
But there is some cold comfort. Some, but not all, of the projected temperature and sea level rises are slightly lower than projected in a previous report in 2001. That is mostly due to use of more likely scenarios and would still result in dramatic effects across the globe, scientists said.
Many scientists had warned that this estimate was too cautious and said sea level rise could be closer to 3-5 feet because of ice sheet melt.
Nevertheless, scientists agreed the report is strong.
"There's no question that the powerful language is intimately linked to the more powerful science," said one of the study's many co-authors, Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria, who spoke by phone from Canada. He said the report was based on science that is rock-solid, peer-reviewed, and consensus.
"It's very conservative. Scientists by their nature are skeptics."
The scientists wrote the report based on years of peer-reviewed research and government officials edited it with an eye toward the required unanimous approval by world governments.
In the end, there was little debate on the strength of the wording about the role of man in global warming.
The panel quickly agreed Thursday on two of the most contentious issues: attributing global warming to man-made burning of fossil fuels and connecting it to a recent increase in stronger hurricanes.
Negotiations over a third and more difficult issue â how much the sea level is predicted to rise by 2100 â went into the night Thursday with a deadline approaching for the report.
While critics call the panel overly alarmist, it is by nature relatively cautious because it relies on hundreds of scientists, including skeptics.
"I hope that policymakers will be quite convinced by this message," said Riibeta Abeta, a delegate whose island nation Kiribati is threatened by rising seas. "The purpose is to get them moving."
The Chinese delegation was resistant to strong wording on global warming, said Barbados delegate Leonard Fields and others. China has increasingly turned to fossil fuels for its huge and growing energy needs.
The U.S. government delegation was not one of the more vocal groups in the debate over whether warming is man-made, said officials from other countries. And several attendees credited the head of the panel session, Susan Solomon, a top U.S. government climate scientist, with pushing through the agreement so quickly.
The Bush administration acknowledges that global warming is man-made and a problem that must be dealt with, Bush science adviser John Marburger has said. However, Bush continues to reject mandatory limits on so-called "greenhouse" gases.
But this is more than just a U.S. issue.
"What you're trying to do is get the whole planet under the proverbial tent in how to deal with this, not just the rich countries," Mahlman said Thursday. "I think we're in a different kind of game now."
The panel, created by the United Nations in 1988, releases its assessments every five or six years â although scientists have been observing aspects of climate change since as far back as the 1960s. The reports are released in phases â this is the first of four this year.
The next report is due in April and will discuss the effects of global warming. But that issue was touched upon in the current document.
The report says that global warming has made stronger hurricanes, including those on the Atlantic Ocean, such as Hurricane Katrina.
The report said that an increase in hurricane and tropical cyclone strength since 1970 "more likely than not" can be attributed to man-made global warming. The scientists said global warming's connection varies with storms in different parts of the world, but that the storms that strike the Americas are global warming-influenced.
That's a contrast from the 2001 which said there was not enough evidence to make such a conclusion. And it conflicts with a November 2006 statement by the World Meteorological Organization, which helped found the IPCC. The meteorological group said it could not link past stronger storms to global warming.
Fields â of Barbados, a country in the path of many hurricanes â said the new wording was "very important." He noted that insurance companies â which look to science to calculate storm risk â "watch the language, too."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202...oGyjSlxieAA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-