Global Warming

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientis...-10-years.html

scientist predicts ice age within 10 years

looks like contradiction - one sources are saying that there would be rising of temperature, another - there would be ice age.

poor people just don't know what to believe. i think that's exactly what "somebody" wants to happen.

i hear not once, that it is only on the level of public information and mass media. on the level of science it is clear already, what is what with climate change.

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mars, jupiter, neptune’s largest moon, and pluto warmed at the same time as earth warmed;

i just have a question - if there would be no technologies on the earth and no people at all, is climate change on the earth would be the same?

as i know nobody says that there is no natural climate change. but would it have the same rate as with our activities? we should consider that we put alot of "garbage" in the atmosphere and that have particular results. as i know, analysis showing that there is no way to explain today's climate change only by natural causes. that's the point.

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august 27, 2008, washington post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082603014.html

"arctic sea ice has shrunk to the second-lowest level since record-keeping began three decades ago, a group of international researchers determined yesterday, a revelation underscoring how rapidly climate change is transforming ecosystems in northern latitudes.

the extent of arctic sea ice is now 2 million square miles below the long-term average for aug. 26, according to the international arctic research center and the japanese aerospace exploration agency, a figure that is within 400,000 square miles of the all-time record low set in september 2007. this figure is already below the long-term average for september ice cover and because the ice traditionally reaches its minimum level in mid-september, researchers warned that a new low might be recorded within weeks.

the national snow and ice data center (nsidc), which independently analyzes arctic ice cover, will announce today that it has reached the same conclusion, based on a five-day mean of satellite measurements.

"if we continue to lose ice at this rate, we will best" the 2007 record, said julienne stroeve, an research scientist. "we're going to lose that ice, so we've got to understand what this means for the rest of us."

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26/08/2008, telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...eawhale226.xml

whales are losing weight because of climate change, according to japanese scientists.

the team for the institute of cetacean research in tokyo measured the bodies of more than 4,500 minkes that had been killed since the late 1980s when japan started its controversial whaling programme.

they found that the whales are getting thinner at an alarming rate and evidence suggests global warming could be to blame because it restricts food supplies.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08...c_ice_mystery/

... arctic ice refuses to melt as ordered there's something rotten north of denmark
by steven goddard → more by this authorpublished friday 15th august 2008 10:02 gmt

arctic ice melt media misinformation retracted
25 aug 2008, desmogblog
http://www.desmogblog.com/arctic-ice...tion-retracted

the register reporter steve goddard is admitting today that his article last week on melting arctic sea ice is incorrect:

"... it is clear that the nsidc graph is correct, and that 2008 arctic ice is barely 10% above last year - just as nsidc had stated."

too bad the damage has already been done. ...goddard's article has already caught fire in the climate blogosphere with over 70 references to the story according to blog search engine technorati.

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august 26, 2008, national snow and ice data center
http://www.nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

"sea ice extent has fallen below the 2005 minimum, previously the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. will 2008 also break the standing record low, set in 2007? we will know in the next several weeks, when the melt season comes to a close. the bottom line, however, is that the strong negative trend in summertime ice extent characterizing the past decade continues."

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sciencedaily, september 10, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0910160757.htm

[see illustration on website]

"when and how global oil production will peak has been debated, making it difficult to anticipate emissions from the burning of fuel and to precisely estimate its impact on climate. to better understand how emissions might change in the future, pushker kharecha and james hansen of nasa's goddard institute for space studies in new york considered a wide range of fossil fuel consumption scenarios. the research, published aug. 5 in the american geophysical union's global biogeochemical cycles, shows that the rise in carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels can be kept below harmful levels as long as emissions from coal are phased out globally within the next few decades.

"this is the first paper in the scientific literature that explicitly melds the two vital issues of global peak oil production and human-induced climate change," kharecha said. "we're illustrating the types of action needed to get to target carbon dioxide levels.""

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dot earth blog - nytimes.com, september 9, 2008

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...mings-dangers/

"the post article describes a talk given last week by thomas fingar, the chairman of the national intelligence council:

by 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern china to the horn of africa. for poorer countries, climate change “could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” fingar said, while the united states will face “dust bowl” conditions in the parched southwest. he said u.s. intelligence agencies accepted the consensual scientific view of global warming, including the conclusion that it is too late to avert significant disruption over the next two decades.

the article said his speech also echoed a 2007 post here noting that in terms of population trends, the world is very much not flat:

… [a]mong industrialized states, declining birthrates will create new economic stresses as populations become grayer. in china, japan and europe, the ratio of working adults to seniors “begins to approach one to three,” he said.

population explosions in poor regions were also labeled a top threat recently by michael v. hayden, the director of the central intelligence agency."

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interesting point of view expressed by harvard professor daniel gilbert (author of stumbling on happiness). he speaks about the psychology of global warming.

video at pop!tech conferences website:

http://www.poptech.org/popcasts/popc...viewcastid=163

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sciencedaily, september 16, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0915162428.htm

“if you take reduced ice thickness into account, there is probably less ice overall in the arctic this year than in any other year since monitoring began,” said martin sommerkorn, wwf international arctic programme’s senior climate change advisor.

“this is also the first year that the northwest passage over the top of north america, and the northeast passage over the top of russia are both free of ice.”

dr. sommerkorn said the continuing loss of older, thicker ice means that the arctic ice cover is following a trend of becoming younger and thinner each year.

... the governments of the world are currently negotiating a new climate agreement to come into force from 2013 when the first phase of the kyoto protocol has ended.

“governments must speed up these talks and ensure to agree the new climate deal at the un summit in copenhagen in december 2009, just fifteen months from now, dr sommerkorn said.