Scientists Are Shocked!

Sep 29, 2008 14:01

Shocked, I say!

Greenhouse gas emissions exceed IPCC's worst case senario.

Corinne Le Quere, professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey, said the prediction that current emissions put the planet on track for a temperature rise of more than 11 degrees....

What is "kind of scary" is that the worldwide emissions growth is beyond the highest growth in fossil fuel predicted just two years ago by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said Benjamin Santer, an atmospheric scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.... LA Times 26 September 2008

When your planet's ecosystem is crashing, it's rather silly to say it's like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

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