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Climate scientists who appeared Wednesday morning before a Senate committee hearing on climate change and extreme weather impacts had stark warnings for the lawmakers: climate change is here, climate change is man-made, and climate change is going to cost us big time.
Dr. James McCarthy, professor at Harvard University and lead author of several climate impact studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other international papers, told the committee that there is "widespread agreement among specialists who devote their careers" to monitoring key indicators of global warming.
He acknowledged that, of course, climates fluctuate on a yearly basis, but that the mounting evidence of a warming world was changing the baseline of those fluctuations.
"In the future," he said, as greenhouse gases continue to increase, natural events like El Nino cycles, "Will wreak even more havoc as they break old records for warm and wet conditions across much of the globe, because they will be occurring upon a higher baseline of warming."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/01-4
2on2u
(1,843 posts)nanabugg
(2,198 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)Unfortunately, she doesn't discriminate betWeen humans.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)... so I don't have a problem with going down the voter rolls and sending a bill to everyone with an (R) beside their name.
yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)although perhaps stoning is more carbon neutral.
haele
(12,673 posts)With their wallets if they're unwilling to provide physical help.
Let's see, we have drought and we'll also lose half of Florada and other low-lying coastland, so we'll have a serious amount of climate refugees. The Dust Bowl migration will be pleasant memory compaired to what we probably will be seeing within the next ten to twenty years.
They're going to be paying. Unfortunatly, so will those of us who didn't deny Climate Change.
Haele