Global warming coming faster and sooner

[Chris]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report.

The WWF say climate change threat has worsened in the 15 months since the IPCC last reported.

Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, "Climate change: faster, stronger, sooner" reveals that global warming is accelerating more rapidly than the predictions made in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report published in 2007.

One of the most concerning aspects of recent data is evidence that, in some places, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 years ahead of current IPCC predictions.

Summer sea ice is now forecasted to completely disappear in the summer months sometime between 2013 and 2040 -- something which hasn't happened for over a million years.
The report's author, geoscientist Dr Tina Tin told CNN: "Arctic sea ice is melting much faster than everybody had been expecting. Why? Well, maybe it's because the positive feedback mechanisms have kicked in much quicker than we have been able to quantify."

Climate changing 'faster, stronger, sooner' - CNN.com

 

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[dilloduck]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report.

The WWF say climate change threat has worsened in the 15 months since the IPCC last reported.

Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, "Climate change: faster, stronger, sooner" reveals that global warming is accelerating more rapidly than the predictions made in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report published in 2007.

One of the most concerning aspects of recent data is evidence that, in some places, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 years ahead of current IPCC predictions.

Summer sea ice is now forecasted to completely disappear in the summer months sometime between 2013 and 2040 -- something which hasn't happened for over a million years.

The report's author, geoscientist Dr Tina Tin told CNN: "Arctic sea ice is melting much faster than everybody had been expecting. Why? Well, maybe it's because the positive feedback mechanisms have kicked in much quicker than we have been able to quantify."

Climate changing 'faster, stronger, sooner' - CNN.com

Will we all die if we don't vote socialist ?

 

[RDH32KH]

The earth has been experiencing climatic changes for 4-5 billion years. The earth has been much warmer than it is now, and life continued. What do you think caused the earth to experience climatic cycles before man existed?

 

[del]

The earth has been experiencing climatic changes for 4-5 billion years. The earth has been much warmer than it is now, and life continued. What do you think caused the earth to experience climatic cycles before man existed?

karl rove

 

[RDH32KH]

Intelligent response.

 

[tigerbob]

Why? Well, maybe it's because the positive feedback mechanisms have kicked in much quicker than we have been able to quantify."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/20/wwf.climate.report/index.html

Yeah, that'd be it.

 

[del]

Intelligent response.

thank you

 

[del]

Yeah, that'd be it.

not enough carbon credits being sold is my guess.

 

[tigerbob]

What do you think caused the earth to experience climatic cycles before man existed?

O.J. did it.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report.

The WWF say climate change threat has worsened in the 15 months since the IPCC last reported.

Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, "Climate change: faster, stronger, sooner" reveals that global warming is accelerating more rapidly than the predictions made in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report published in 2007.

One of the most concerning aspects of recent data is evidence that, in some places, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 years ahead of current IPCC predictions.

Summer sea ice is now forecasted to completely disappear in the summer months sometime between 2013 and 2040 -- something which hasn't happened for over a million years.
The report's author, geoscientist Dr Tina Tin told CNN: "Arctic sea ice is melting much faster than everybody had been expecting. Why? Well, maybe it's because the positive feedback mechanisms have kicked in much quicker than we have been able to quantify."

Climate changing 'faster, stronger, sooner' - CNN.com

Ya cause our technology can not predict what will happen next year it can tell us what will happen in 30 years. Retard.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

By the way wasn't there supposed to be an ice free North Pole this last summer? What ever happened with that?

 

[dilloduck]

By the way wasn't there supposed to be an ice free North Pole this last summer? What ever happened with that?

Just another scare tactic to vote green. Big oil will be replaced by big green and everythign wil lbe better. Trust me.

 

[Chris]

By the way wasn't there supposed to be an ice free North Pole this last summer? What ever happened with that?

Sea ice this summer was the second lowest on record.

Don't worry though. We will get there soon enough.

 

[Chris]

The earth has been experiencing climatic changes for 4-5 billion years. The earth has been much warmer than it is now, and life continued. What do you think caused the earth to experience climatic cycles before man existed?

Many things effect climate most especially the sun's cycles. The problem with what is happening now is that the sun's cycles only account for 25% of the warming that is taking place, according to the Stanford Solar Center scientists.

We have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 39% in the last 200 years. CO2 levels are now higher than they have been in the last 600,000 years, which is as far back as the Antarctic ice core records go. The level of CO2 being added to the atmosphere is accelerating as China and India industrialize. Soon we will have doubled the level of CO2 in the atmosphere and melted the North Pole. We are using the earth as a giant lab experiment, and we do not know what the result will be.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Sea ice this summer was the second lowest on record.

Don't worry though. We will get there soon enough.

What? It wasn't ice free? We can not even guess what will happen in a couple months but we can predict 30 years from now? What a great system.

 

[Chris]

What? It wasn't ice free? We can not even guess what will happen in a couple months but we can predict 30 years from now? What a great system.

We can predict one thing.

Adding more CO2 to the atmosphere will warm the earth.

No one disputes that.

The only question is, How much?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

We can predict one thing.

Adding more CO2 to the atmosphere will warm the earth.

No one disputes that.

The only question is, How much?

And you keep ignoring the SCIENTIFIC fact that as it increases it has a diminishing effect. And there is not one shred of evidence that the Earth's environment has ever had runaway problems. In fact the evidence indicates that Nature is in fact unlikely to ever support a run away effect at all.

 

[Chris]

We see quite a bit of ignorance on display here. We are pumping 8 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. That's one ton of CO2 for every person on the earth. Soon we will have doubled the amount of CO2. The North Pole will soon be ice free for the first time in 1,000,000 years. If you want the facts about global warming, go to the NOAA website.

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