Pssssssssssssst!Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause

[malaise]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/02/561608576/massive-government-report-says-climate-is-warming-and-humans-are-the-cause
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It is "extremely likely" that human activities are the "dominant cause" of global warming, according to the most comprehensive study ever of climate science by U.S. government researchers.

The climate report, obtained by NPR, notes that the past 115 years are "the warmest in the history of modern civilization." The global average temperature has increased by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit over that period. Greenhouse gases from industry and agriculture are by far the biggest contributor to warming.

The findings contradict statements by President Trump and many of his Cabinet members, who have openly questioned the role humans play in changing the climate.

"I believe that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do," EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in an interview earlier this year. "There's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact."

That is not consistent with the conclusions of the 600-plus-page Climate Science Special Report, which is part of an even larger scientific review known as the fourth National Climate Assessment. The NCA4, as it's known, is the nation's most authoritative assessment of climate science. The report's authors include experts from leading scientific agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, as well as academic scientists.

"This is good, solid climate science," says Richard Alley, a geoscientist at Penn State University, who says he made minor contributions to the report's conclusions on sea level rise. "This has been reviewed so many times in so many ways, and it's taking what we know from ... a couple of centuries of climate science and applying it to the U.S."

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Fuck the deniers

[Squinch]

1. I'm starting to become incensed by the willful ignorance surrounding this EVERYWHERE.

More than anyone, the weather people are pissing me off no end. When a weatherman in NYC talks about how "beautiful" the weather is when it's 75 degrees in November, I want to send him a box of fire ants.

Beautiful? Did you hear about the die off of insects, imbecile???? Do your children like to eat????

[malaise]

2. There are many weather hacks

who don't give a damn about the climate and our destruction of this planet

[malaise]

3. Read the comments page - they don't joke with these moroms

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/blockbuster-assessment-humans-likely-responsible-virtually-all-global-warming-1950s

[Squinch]

4. Lol. I like the guy who says global warming is not real because no one publishes data on the

changes in the sun's output.

These people are so stupid they must put their pants on their heads in the morning and walk around like that all day.

[malaise]

6. I like the responses even better

[ProudLib72]

5. Malaise, if someone is a climate change denier

who tells me there is no evidence that humans are responsible, can I punch them in the face and tell them there is no evidence their bloody nose was caused by human action?

[malaise]

7. I don't like violence but I may have to make an exception