Breaking: Climate Report Says Global Warming 'Extremely Likely' Caused By Humans

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

@AP: BREAKING: Climate report says global warming "extremely likely" caused by humans.

@BreakingNews: More: Human role in global warming is even clearer, temperatures to rise 0.3-4.8 C in this century, UN panel says - @AFP

CLIMATE PANEL: WARMING 'EXTREMELY LIKELY' MAN-MADE

By KARL RITTER
— Sep. 27 4:02 AM EDT

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A landmark report by an international scientific panel says it's "extremely likely" that human activity is the dominant cause of global warming.

That's the strongest statement to date on the issue by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In its previous assessment, in 2007, the U.N.-sponsored panel said it was "very likely" that global warming was man-made.

It now says the evidence has grown thanks to more observations, a better understanding of the climate system and improved models to analyze the impact of rising temperatures.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/talks-landmark-climate-report-wrapping

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Live coverage of the press conference from The Guardian:

Jarruad, Sec general of WMO:

The decade 2001-2010 was the warmest on record

Continuing the trend of global warming

More temperature records were broken than in any other decade

The rate of increase would have been even greater if not for the influence of La Nina and ocean cooling

...
IPCC chairman:

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


I also want to highlight that each of the last three decades has successively warmed at the earth's surface

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/27/ipcc-climate-change-report-ar5-live-coverage

Download of Workin Group 1 Summary for Policymakers here: http://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGIAR5-gSPM_Approved27Sep2013.pdf

[dipsydoodle]

2. Reuters : U.N. panel blames mankind more clearly for warming

(Reuters) - Top climate scientists blamed mankind more clearly than ever as the main cause of global warming in a report on Friday meant to guide governments in dealing with rising temperatures, delegates said.

"It's been accepted," Jonathan Lynn, spokesman for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told reporters of a final summary for policymakers approved at the end of the week-long meeting in Stockholm.

He gave no details but delegates said the report raised the probability that most global warming since the mid-20th century was manmade to 95 percent, from 90 percent in its previous report in 2007 and 66 percent in 2001.

The report also says that a recent slowdown in the rate of global warming is unlikely to last, delegates said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/27/uk-climate-ipcc-idUKBRE98Q0A820130927

[inch4progress]

3. I guess in response we can look forward to a few weeks of bad science and supposition from the

Far-right and their funders!

Entertaining as they are, too many people buy their BS which is very dangerous since we seem to be nearing a point of no return with the climate.

When the ice age arrives, and there is very little potable water, will they change their tune?

[Berlum]

6. Expect a tsunami of lies and spin from the Republicons, Inc. (R)

The stronger the facts, the bolder their lies.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Worst I've heard so far was an attempt to say that Heartland Institute funds are 'independent'

since they come from rich family foundations, whereas anything written with government funds, such as the IPCC, is 'biased'. This was from an Australian who was funded by the Heartland Institute to claim that there was no evidence of man-made warming. He thought he was independent, despite rich people funding him to show that business can go ahead as usual; while he thought that the governments of the world, for whom global warming is a big problem they wish didn't exist, are somehow 'biased' when they fund research that shows it's real.

If governments were to demand any result from research, they'd say "tell us everything's fine, so we can continue to say 'grow the economy, nothing will go wrong', and our countries will like us for it". Governments are being honest when they've told the IPCC "tell us what will happen, however nasty it is, so that we can plan". But the lying bastards taking the money from Koch etc. just won't admit that. They have to project their own dishonesty onto someone else.

[inch4progress]

19. Independent? Families? Gimme a break!

Altria Client Services Inc. MO $90,000 BTN
Amgen, USA AMGN $25,000 HCN
Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc. BUD $5,000 ITTN
AT&T T $100,000 ITTN
BB&T BBT $16,105 ECN
Comcast Corporation CMCSA $35,000 ITTN
Diageo DEO $10,000 GO
Eli Lilly & Company LLY $25,000 HCN
General Motors Foundation GM $30,000 SRN
GlaxoSmithKline GSK $50,000 HCN
KCI KCI $115,000 FIRE
LKQ Corporation LKQX $24,500 FIRE
Microsoft Corporation MSFT $59,908 ITTN
Nucor Corporation NUE $502,000 ECN
PepsiCo, Inc. PEP $5,000 BTN
Pfizer PFE $130,000 HCN
Reynolds American Inc. RAI $110,000 FIRE
Time Warner Cable TWC $20,000 ITTN
XL Group XL $35,000 FIRE

The way I see it they just don't give a flying fuck about what happens to Earth. They know the technology will be there in the future allowing the SUPER WEALTHY to live on space stations when the earths atmosphere is too toxic for us to thrive.

Elysium is a movie recently made staring Matt Damon on this very subject. You should give it a watch. If you do watch it online, I suggest that you at the very least send a check to feeding America or the H20 Africa Campaign, or you could always just send your check right to Sony Pictures lmao, I believe that who legally owns the rights;/. I'd post links, but It's prohibited under the tos .

I'm a trans humanist and I so want to see man be all that we can be, but EVERY MAN should be elevated by any progress, not just the super wealthy.

[Bolo Boffin]

4. We may lose a few Republican talking heads on this one.

Combining the UN, Al Gore, and science all together may send a few of them over the edge completely.

[AverageJoe90]

5. No surprises here.

Pretty much all the evidence says that we've been primarily responsible for today's climate issues going back even before the planet started warming as a whole at the end of the '70s. But at least the IPCC is still doing a good job overall in trying to get the information out there. Thanks for the post, Hissyspit.

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

7. What about the scientists on the deniers side...

Don't we give them a chance to reply to this...I'm sure Lord Monckton and his crew of hearty men are now poring over the details ..maybe it's me but I've got a feeling that they'll refute it...yeah,yeah,yeah it's obvious that a spelling mistake will be made and that will form the basis of their attacks....these turds are bought and paid for ....

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Also extremely likely: pope is catholic.

[beerandjesus]

9. Hahahaha! You beat me to it.

[hatrack]

10. But . . . But . . . FREEDUMB!!!!!

[Orsino]

11. Water extremely likely to be wet. n/t

[JRLeft]

12. God, disagrees according millions of people.

[FiveGoodMen]

17. He could save us all so much arguing if he'd just speak for himself!

[DCBob]

13. Its also "extremely likely" Rethugs will claim this all about getting funding for more research.

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or perhaps they will say it too expensive and too late to do anything about it so we have to just live with it.

This is probably the most important issue to the future of this planet and it will hardly get any notice in the media or in congress. Sickeninng.

[HuskyOffset]

18. future of the planet . . .

. . . is fine. What's at risk is the animals and people. Like George Carlin said, "The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are fucked."

I miss George.

[heaven05]

14. duh, ya think????!!!!!

geez Tell me something new like, when are we going to start saving our planet?

[Sunlei]

15. I want to move to someplace better and safer than Texas near the coast.

tired of this droughts/heat effects on my property. I have 100+ year old trees, pasture of buffalo grass struggling to survive!

Even though I've never flooded or burned, YET..someday soon flood will happen.


or some bozo will drive a ATV on the grass and set it on fire.