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Climate study confirms: global warming is real
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by ishambat | October 22, 2011 at 09:58 am
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A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming – in fits and starts – since around 1900.
Most climate scientists attribute warming since the mid-1950, at least to some degree, to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities – burning coal, oil, and to a lesser extent gas, and from land-use changes.
The latest results mirror those from earlier, independent studies by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Britain, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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at 10:35 on October 22nd, 2011
For some reason, some will never believe global warming is real until everything is dead.
at 10:54 on October 22nd, 2011
For some reason, some will never get a clue that a greenhouse gas that contributes only 40 parts in 10,000 parts is not the greenhouse gas to be regulated ... especially since CO2 is required by plants to produce oxygen.
BTW, the largest greenhouse gas in parts per 10,000 is ... wait for it ... water vapor. The climate changes all the time and sun spots are the largest influence on the changing climate around this little blue ball called Earth.
at 12:10 on October 22nd, 2011
By the way Edmund...
http://my.nowpublic.com/environment/scientific-tidbit-says-sun-not-all-responsible-winter
at 16:55 on October 22nd, 2011
"For some reason, some will never get a clue that a greenhouse gas that contributes only 40 parts in 10,000 parts is not the greenhouse gas to be regulated"
Really. It takes less concentration than that of cyanide to kill you. When carbon dioxide concentrations grow 25% in half a century, it is very much a cause for alarm
"especially since CO2 is required by plants to produce oxygen."
Which is why, when you cut down the rainforest that absorbs carbon dioxide AND raise carbon dioxide emissions at the same time, you have big problems.
" The climate changes all the time and sun spots are the largest influence on the changing climate around this little blue ball called Earth."
Absolutely untrue. If it was Sun or anything to do with the Sun, the entire atmosphere would be warming. Instead the Earth's surface has warmed, while the stratosphere has cooled. This can only be due to carbon dioxide and methane accumulating in middle atmosphere to reflect sun's rays bouncing off earth's surface back to the Earth, causing the Earth's surface to warm, while allowing fewer of these rays to escape into the stratosphere, causing the stratosphere to cool.
at 17:06 on October 22nd, 2011
Thxs for that ishambat I believe that effect is called 'global dimming'..
'Climate Change and Global Warming'
'Global Dimming'
The problem I see is, most who don't want to truly understand or believe all the aspects of this global environmental phenomenon called global warming and climate change, will always find excuses why it isn't happening as suggested or isn't happening at all.
at 17:16 on October 22nd, 2011
And not only will they find excuses, but they will do everything that they can to shout as loud as they can and be as malicious as they know how to be in order to intimidate people into keeping quiet about what is an obvious and common-sensical truth: That when you raise carbon dioxide emissions while cutting down rainforests that absorb carbon dioxide, you have big problems.
at 12:09 on October 22nd, 2011
My concern is more about water quality and air quality than the climate itself.
Most of our rivers and streams are so polluted in the USA, we can't eat the fish. Air quality is poor in most cities. So, addressing those near term issues I think will result in addressing the big climate problem.
at 16:59 on October 22nd, 2011
Replacing polluting energy technologies with non-polluting energy technologies will also go a long way toward addressing these problems.