"Fossil fuels are to blame, world scientists conclude
...The gold-standard Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report represents "a real convergence happening here, a consensus that this is a total global no-brainer," says U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, former director of the federal government's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in New Jersey.
"The big message that will come out is the strength of the attribution of the warming to human activities," says researcher Claudia Tebaldi of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.
Mahlman, who crafted the IPCC language used to define levels of scientific certainty, says the new report will lay the blame at the feet of fossil fuels with "virtual certainty," meaning 99% sure. That's a significant jump from "likely," or 66% sure, in the group's last report in 2001..."
Full article from: USA TODAY
This USA TODAY article also has some interactive extras not available elsewhere. I'm not sure how long this link will stay up, and it's definitely worth clicking on before it goes away!
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What is the IPCC?
"Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UN and WMO."
http://www.ipcc.ch/index.html
~ Side note - I thought Dr. Heidi Cullen & Bill Nye handled themselves very professionally in the presence of contrarian Richard Lindenz, while all three were on Larry King Live last night. To actually hear with my own ears Lindenz claim that the ice core records can only give us a temperature record 2,000 years back- well, I guess I can't really say that it surprised me all that much considering the source. But, still. Two thousand years, Mr. Lindenz? Is that like in super cat years, perhaps?
"The big message that will come out is the strength of the attribution of the warming to human activities," says researcher Claudia Tebaldi of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.
Mahlman, who crafted the IPCC language used to define levels of scientific certainty, says the new report will lay the blame at the feet of fossil fuels with "virtual certainty," meaning 99% sure. That's a significant jump from "likely," or 66% sure, in the group's last report in 2001..."
Full article from: USA TODAY
This USA TODAY article also has some interactive extras not available elsewhere. I'm not sure how long this link will stay up, and it's definitely worth clicking on before it goes away!
-Related-
What is the IPCC?
"Recognizing the problem of potential global climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. It is open to all members of the UN and WMO."
http://www.ipcc.ch/index.html
~ Side note - I thought Dr. Heidi Cullen & Bill Nye handled themselves very professionally in the presence of contrarian Richard Lindenz, while all three were on Larry King Live last night. To actually hear with my own ears Lindenz claim that the ice core records can only give us a temperature record 2,000 years back- well, I guess I can't really say that it surprised me all that much considering the source. But, still. Two thousand years, Mr. Lindenz? Is that like in super cat years, perhaps?