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All eyes on the middle east these days...but knowone seems to notice the plans the US government have for logging,mining, and oil drilling in every statepark and national forest in the USA...soon there will be nothing left...and knowone seems to care....
no one also seems to mind the emerging technological dictatorship either, while we claim to be liberating the world from such things.
i care
but im a nobody from nowhere so i dont matter
"The danger zone is not something we're going to reach in the middle of the century; we're in it now."
Global warming might be twice as catastrophic as previously thought, flooding settlements on the British coast and turning the interior into an unrecognizable tropical landscape, the world??s biggest study of climate change shows.
Researchers from some of Britain??s leading universities used computer modeling to predict that under the ??worst-case? scenario, London would be under water and winters banished to history as average temperatures in the UK soar up to 20C higher than at present.
Globally, average temperatures could reach 11C greater than today, double the rise predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international body set up to investigate global warming. Such high temperatures would melt most of the polar icecaps and mountain glaciers, raising sea levels by more than 20ft. A report this week in The Independent predicted a 2C temperature rise would lead to irreversible changes in the climate.
The new study, in the journal Nature, was done using the spare computing time of 95,000 people from 150 countries who downloaded from the internet the global climate model of the Met Office??s Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research. The program, run as a screensaver, simulated what would happen if carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were double those of the 18th century, before the Industrial Revolution, the situation predicted by the middle of this century.
David Stainforth of Oxford University, the chief scientist of the latest study, said processing the results showed the Earth??s climate is far more sensitive to increases in man-made greenhouse gases than previously realized. The findings indicate a doubling of carbon dioxide from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million would increase global average temperatures by between 2C and 11C.
Mr Stainforth said: ??An 11C-warmed world would be a dramatically different world? There would be large areas at higher latitudes that could be up to 20C warmer than today. The UK would be at the high end of these changes. It is possible that even present levels of greenhouse gases maintained for long periods may lead to dangerous climate change? When you start to look at these temperatures, I get very worried indeed.?
Attempts to control global warming, based on the Kyoto treaty, concentrated on stabilizing the emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels, but the scientists warned that this might not be enough. Mr Stainforth added: ??We need to accept that while greenhouse gas levels can increase we need to limit them, level them off then bring them back down again.?
Professor Bob Spicer, of the Open University, said average global temperature rises of 11C are unprecedented in the long geological record of the Earth. ??If we go back to the Cretaceous, which is 100 million years ago, the best estimates of the global mean temperature was about 6C higher than present,? Professor Spicer said. ??So 11C is quite substantial and if this is right we would be going into a realm that we really don??t have much evidence for even in the rock [geological] record.?
Myles Allen, of Oxford University, said: ??The danger zone is not something we??re going to reach in the middle of the century; we??re in it now.? Each of the hottest 15 years on record have been since 1980.
© 2005 Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd
Peace
They can't even accurately predict the weather a few days from now... This global warming bullshit does not worry me... Especially since it is typical and normal for the average earth tempurature to vary over time :rolleyes:
Sarcarm or not(this quoted post)...I say this...the last US presidential election resulted in record turnout at the poles....yet only 61% of eligible voters chose to cast a ballot... Everyone matters....Want to make a difference? Get involved...vote...or be satisfied when others voice their opinion and you dont bother....Quote:
Originally Posted by NowhereMan
We realize the system isn't perfect...but its the only one we have...vote...make your friends vote...and do not wait till election day...go to rallies...sign petitions...It all happens one person at a time....sad to say most americans would rather sit on their asses and bitch instead...
glaciers all over the planet are melting....gone fore ever....do the math people!!!
I hear what your saying but remember, mother earth will take just so much before she kicks back! This big ol' planet will take us out way before we can do her!
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm
Bush has taken over by doing all the little things day after day... it's not that he is president it is that he got people in power around you... the ones your vote does matter in... his propaganda and bullshit has won so many smaller races for his party that it's a fucking joke.... he just raised $800,000 yest in Fl for a smaller race here... it's that shit that is keeping his regime in power. And that everyone can be a part in... those votes matter. He needs the small people in power in each state and must have congress in order to stay where he is. In 6 months he can be removed and this shit can stop... it's time Reagan's ideal world ended, cause it was just Bushes anyways (the first Bush, pres.. grandfather started with Nixon, but we all know how well that one went)... Time for a new party and a new Idea, save the planet... no more war, no more rich prciks running the world...
get out and put signs up, tell your friends and shit... vote in november and this shit will stop... it starts small it's call grassroots and it works...
http://www.grassroots.org/index.ww
latest global impact study..... global warming and its effects...
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwa...olicyNews.html