White House Releases Disturbing Global Warming Report (slowed by years of foot-dragging by Bush)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.care2.com/causes/global-warming/blog/government-releases-disturbing-global-warming-report/

The White House released a major scientific report today that should finally end any last lingering doubt about the extent of global warming.

Release of the report, a decade in the making, had been slowed by years of foot-dragging by the Bush administration.

Its message? Global warming is manmade. It’s irrefutable. And it’s occurring a lot faster than we thought, not only in remote polar regions, but throughout the fifty states.

Compiling years of peer-reviewed research from multiple national and international agencies, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the report is the most comprehensive assessment of the impacts of global warming in the United States to date. It offers concrete and unequivocal evidence that global warming is happening in our own backyards, already affecting the things we care about. It should be required reading for all Americans.

The report, a joint effort of 13 federal agencies as part of the United States Global Change Research Program, makes clear that global warming is not an opinion to be debated, but rather scientific fact to be addressed.

It looks at rising temperatures, heavy downpours, carbon emissions, and rising sea levels and how each will play out in the nation’s geographic regions. It also examines how climate change will affect every aspect of society, from energy production, to transportation, to agriculture. And the news isn’t good.

FULL story at link.

[Bandit]

1. That picture shows clearly man has no effect on the environment.

:shrug:

[lunatica]

2. Why the hell is this thread sinking?

Kick!

Just because Sarah Palin isn't mentioned in it doesn't mean it should sink!

Thanks for posting it. Climate change is the most important thing happening right now and will affect future wars, governments, entire populations and countries in ways we can't begin to imagine. Something needs to be done about it right now.

[wildflower]

5. I'm with you

:kick:

[surrealAmerican]

3. Of coarse, irrefutable evidence won't convince the people ...

... who don't "believe" in global warming. It's still a good thing to have this report out finally.

[Javaman]

4. K & R

[City Lights]

6. K&R

And fuck you, george!

[lunatica]

7. kick

[csziggy]

8. K&R

[ceile]

9. kick

[JeffR]

10. K & R

Must read.