US experts say global warming faster than thought

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/us_weather_climate

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A new US supercomputer has shown that global temperatures could be rising more than scientists had thought, experts said.


The computer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research projects that temperatures could rise by 2.6 degrees Celsius (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit) if countries continue to emit large amounts of carbon dioxide.


The previous estimates were a rise of about two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).


Information from the Community Climate System Model, known as CCSM3, will be presented to the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, an international body of experts established by the United Nations (news - web sites) to assess the environmental impact of climate change.


This tabular iceberg which recently broke away from Antarctica, is considered by scientists as an important clue to the rate of global warming. A new US supercomputer has shown that global temperatures could be rising more than scientists had thought, experts said.(AFP/File/Dr Hans Oerter)

[maxsolomon]

1. why won't the leftists won't stop spreading this myth!?

why do they hate america? don't they realize they're hurting the economy with this irresponsible rumor mongering?

[underpants]

2. Like them radical 'Murka haters over at the Pentagon

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
Threat to the world is greater than terrorism


A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

[maxsolomon]

3. holy crap! i'm digging a cistern this weekend!

those lefty alarmists! global warming will make seattle sunnier! how is that bad?

[donsu]

4. tick, tick, tick

it's too late

[Karenina]

6. Ka-BOOM!!!

We ALMOST "got it" in the late 60s and early 70s but got drowned out by the "ME" generation. There is hell to pay and I'm NOT looking forward to it.

[hatrack]

5. You'll like this - 94.1F In Dawson City, Yukon On June 20th

It does occasionaly get pretty hot in the interior far north, but this was an all-time record, and on the last day of spring, no less.