Experts: Latest climate report too rosy

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070128/ap_on_sc/climate_report;_ylt=AkZRkghn7PA6S5nzZiQyPTes0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OTB1amhuBHNlYwNtdHM-

Experts: Latest climate report too rosy

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer 33 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures.


But that may be the sugarcoated version.

Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers. Those calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations:

They "don't take into account the gorillas — Greenland and Antarctica," said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. "I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century."

Michael MacCracken, who until 2001 coordinated the official U.S. government reviews of the international climate report on global warming, has fired off a letter of protest over the omission.....
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AP Photo: An ice lake is seen in the Greenland ice cap, in this Aug. 17, 2005,...

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[barb162]

1. I hope everyone gets scared enough by this to change

their driving habits, their use of energy, that they become conservation-minded, etc. Also think of moving off coastal areas if you're living ther now. When the Greenland ice melts, forget the coasts.

[mcscajun]

2. Any report that has to be approved by over 150 different governments

including the U.S. and Saudi Arabia is bound to be rosier than it ought to be. Too many cooks and all that...

:scared:

[WePurrsevere]

3. Considering all the different agenda's that play into their approving it...

I think I'd "consider the sources" and take it with a large cow lick of salt.

[onehandle]

4. Experts slam upcoming global warming report (Too sugarcoated)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Later this week in Paris, climate scientists will issue a dire forecast for the planet that warns of slowly rising sea levels and higher temperatures.

But that may be the sugarcoated version.

Early and changeable drafts of their upcoming authoritative report on climate change foresee smaller sea level rises than were projected in 2001 in the last report. Many top U.S. scientists reject these rosier numbers.

Those calculations don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets in two crucial locations:

They "don't take into account the gorillas -- Greenland and Antarctica," said Ohio State University earth sciences professor Lonnie Thompson, a polar ice specialist. "I think there are unpleasant surprises as we move into the 21st century."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/29/climate.report.ap/index.html

[DixieBlue]

5. Well, that's a happy Monday, then.

I don't even know what to say anymore. It just all seems so absurd and preventable. And we're still doing so little.

[pitohui]

6. is that necessarily bad?

people won't sacrifice for a lost cause

a rosy report is more likely to get people to take some action than a "all is doom and woe" report in my opinion

i offer myself as example -- as i think we are already over the tipping point, i do not give up anything i see as improving my life to do something i believe can't be done

the fewer people who think it's hopeless, the better

you wouldn't give up your future and your dreams, or your child's future and dreams, if the world was going to end no matter what you did anyway

as erlich once said, "might as well go first class if you're on the titanic"

[Nihil]

7. How's New Orleans doing these days?

Reckon you can survive a bit more water this year?

Take care of yourself Pitohui but please don't join the
"Consume everything now before we're Raptured" brigade ...

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