Reuters: New Study: Global Temperatures to Rise 9 Degrees by 2100

[tex-wyo-dem]

A new study, which researchers have called "the most exhaustive end-to-end analysis of climate change impacts yet performed", predicts that global warming could be twice as bad as previous estimates had suggested.

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The most impactful way to lower the projections would be to significantly reduce human-produced greenhouse gas emissions, according to the researchers.

While complex factors such as human economic activity can be difficult to quantify exactly in a computer model, it's increasingly clear that those kinds of factors have a significant impact on global climate. As this study portrays, the more comprehensive and sophisticated our computer models get, the grimmer the news.

In other words, as our models become increasingly more accurate compared to previous models, global warming reveals itself as more acute rather than less. And it becomes much more apparent just how large of an impact human-induced factors can have on climate change.

<more: http://www.reuters.com/article/mnCarbonEmissions/idUS148975034620090522>

[hatrack]

1. Oops!

:eyes:

[BeFree]

2. The longest, most impacting...

...slow motion train wreck the world has ever seen. The only way to stop it now is to blow us all away with nukes. That'd show 'em, eh?

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Bad headline—that's not what the study said

Read more here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=196338&mesg_id=196338

[jamieque]

4. Forgive me...

But I must say BS to the reuters article and the study itself. We'll be fucking dead long before 2050 if we don't stop pollution dead in its tracks by the end of the next decade. All this BS talk makes my head hurt because I already have a good idea of the what disaster we'll be facing in the near future. Yep, it is bad and there is no way to sugar-coat the coming danger. We have to change how we live and work if we hope to even be around to see 2050. Forget 2100!

The study and the data is totally wrong and inaccurate. The temperature increase by 2100 would be way over 9 degrees. Hell, if we continue our current polluting ways we'll raise the temparature by that much long before we get to the middle of the current century. I hate inaccurate projections.