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alfredo

(60,074 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2013, 11:37 AM Sep 2013

Here's Dr Jeff Masters report on the IPCC report. If you agree, share on social media.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2535

"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased." Thus opens the landmark 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued today. Working without pay, hundreds of our most dedicated and talented climate experts have collaborated over a six-year period to create the most comprehensive and authoritative scientific document on climate change ever crafted. The first 31 pages of what will be a 4,000-page tome was released this morning after an all-night approval session that stretched until 6:30 this morning in Stockholm, Sweden. This "Summary For Policymakers" lays out a powerful scientific case that significant climate change with severe impacts is already occurring, humans are mostly responsible, the pace of climate change is expected to accelerate, and we can make choices to cut emission of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases that will limit the damage.
Read more at http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/landmark-2013-ipcc-report-95-chance-most-of-global-warming-is-human#CBODDP5oqlC8AdBU.99

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