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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-29-05 12:46 PM
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'Smoking gun' on humans and global warming claimed (NASA)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7665636


Using ocean data collected by diving floats, U.S. climate scientists released a study Thursday that they said provides the "smoking gun" that ties manmade greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.

The researchers, some of them working for NASA and the Energy Department, went a step further, implicitly criticizing President Bush for not taking stronger action to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.

They said the findings confirm that computer models of climate change are on target and that global temperatures will rise 1 degree Fahrenheit this century, even if greenhouse gases are capped tomorrow.

If emissions instead continue to grow, as expected, things could spin “out of our control,” especially as ocean levels rise from melting Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the NASA-led scientists said. "The climate system could reach a point where large sea level change is practically impossible to avoid."
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"impossible to avoid"

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starmaker Donating Member (520 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-29-05 12:53 PM
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-29-05 12:53 PM
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2. But on the bright side
Edited on Fri Apr-29-05 12:56 PM by SpiralHawk
koMMander Bush has ordered a crash Manhattan-Project Style effort to "study the problem further."

Preliminary indications are that this possible phenomenon was definitely caused by Bill Clinton and the Democrats.

The coyly titled "Official BushCo Crash Climate Study" will proceed with Due Diligence until the CONclusion DEADline: Dec. 21, 2012.

So you can all sit back and relax. gLOBal cLIMatE changE is in Bush's hands. HE will tell us (in 2012) whether there's anything we should be worried about, and the PUNISHMENT Bill Clinton and the Dems deserve for failing to have a gay male protitute on their private paid-off press corps, and also for causing the END of the WORLD.
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