Greenhouse Gas Emissions Already Exceed ‘Worst-case’ Scenario

October 10, 2007

  • October 10, 2007 at 7:56 am
    Nobody Important says:
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    I refer you back a couple post to the comment about the hammer and nail. Of course we have some effect, but what effect? I don’t believe that we need to destroy our economy and limit the ability of emerging economies just because of some possible and thoroughly unproven theory. More and more scientists and just people are coming to the same conclusion. You don’t kill a fly with a hammer.

  • October 10, 2007 at 9:52 am
    lambchop says:
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    My sister has a Bachelor’s Degree (summa cum laude in environmental management. What this article is stating is true. I hear it often from my sister also. If we don’t find a way to help heal this planet, this planet will find a way to heal itself and that will include eliminating man. If we do not take swift action now there will be no return. We will be known (if anyone is left to know) as the greediest generation ever, consuming all the planets natural resources for cheep energy without regard for the planet or future generations.

  • October 10, 2007 at 9:58 am
    Aaron says:
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    What if the data is right and we fail to act? Just let the next couple of generations suffer tremendously for it?
    I would much rather err on the side of caution than that of economics. Additionally, just from a common sense point of view what happens if you lock yourself in a room and then pump it full of CO2? (Most likely Death at a minimum severe brain damage.) Same principle with the earths atmosphere. Right now its like the old analogy of trying to put 4 pounds of excrement into a 2 pound bag. You can do it, but it usually results in somebody having to clean up a mess…..I say instead of being reactive and complacent, lets be procative and take the lead on this issue globally. We are the nation that managed to put a man on the moon, win the cold war without ever firing a shot and have a significant impact on world events for the last 100 years. We should be able to create and utilize technologies that would result in not only a solution to the problem but also to a return of american greatness not only as a country but also as a society in which oppurtunity is equally provided to all. Not just those born into it.Its time to end the status quo…

  • October 10, 2007 at 10:50 am
    Al Gore says:
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    See.

    I was right all along and no-one would believe me

  • October 10, 2007 at 1:58 am
    Chilly says:
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    AAAAAHHH!!! WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!

    Funny how the solutions to “global warming” always have a Marxist ring…

    Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006. Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is “unknown” and accused the “prophets of doom of global warming” of being motivated by money, noting that “the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!” “Glaciers’ chronicles or historical archives point to the fact that climate is a capricious phenomena.

    This fact is confirmed by mathematical meteorological theories. So, let us be cautious,” Allegre explained in a September 21, 2006 article in the French newspaper L’EXPRESS. The National Post in Canada also profiled Allegre on March 2, 2007, noting “Allegre has the highest environmental credentials. The author of early environmental books, he fought successful battles to protect the ozone layer from CFCs and public health from lead pollution.” Allegre now calls fears of a climate disaster “simplistic and obscuring the true dangers” mocks “the greenhouse-gas fanatics whose proclamations consist in denouncing man’s role on the climate without doing anything about it except organizing conferences and preparing protocols that become dead letters.”

    Allegre, a member of both the French and U.S. Academy of Sciences, had previously expressed concern about manmade global warming. “By burning fossil fuels, man enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which has raised the global mean temperature by half a degree in the last century,” Allegre wrote 20 years ago. In addition, Allegre was one of 1500 scientists who signed a November 18, 1992 letter titled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity” in which the scientists warned that global warming’s “potential risks are very great.”

    Geologist Bruno Wiskel of the University of Alberta recently reversed his view of man-made climate change and instead became a global warming skeptic. Wiskel was once such a big believer in man-made global warming that he set out to build a “Kyoto house” in honor of the UN sanctioned Kyoto Protocol which was signed in 1997.

    Wiskel wanted to prove that the Kyoto Protocol’s goals were achievable by people making small changes in their lives. But after further examining the science behind Kyoto, Wiskel reversed his scientific views completely and became such a strong skeptic, that he recently wrote a book titled “The Emperor’s New Climate: Debunking the Myth of Global Warming.”

    A November 15, 2006 Edmonton Sun article explains Wiskel’s conversion while building his “Kyoto house”: “Instead, he said he realized global warming theory was full of holes and ‘red flags,’ and became convinced that humans are not responsible for rising temperatures.” Wiskel now says “the truth has to start somewhere.” Noting that the Earth has been warming for 18,000 years, Wiskel told the Canadian newspaper, “If this happened once and we were the cause of it, that would be cause for concern. But glaciers have been coming and going for billions of years.”

    Wiskel also said that global warming has gone “from a science to a religion” and noted that research money is being funneled into promoting climate alarmism instead of funding areas he considers more worthy. “If you funnel money into things that can’t be changed, the money is not going into the places that it is needed,” he said.

    Astrophysicist Dr. Nir Shaviv, one of Israel’s top young award winning scientists, recanted his belief that manmade emissions were driving climate change. “”Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye,” Shaviv said in February 2, 2007 Canadian National Post article. According to Shaviv, the C02 temperature link is only “incriminating circumstantial evidence.” “Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming” and “it is unlikely that [the solar climate link] does not exist,” Shaviv noted pointing to the impact cosmic- rays have on the atmosphere. According to the National Post, Shaviv believes that even a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere by 2100 “will not dramatically increase the global temperature.” “Even if we halved the CO2 output, and the CO2 increase by 2100 would be, say, a 50% increase relative to today instead of a doubled amount, the expected reduction in the rise of global temperature would be less than 0.5C. This is not significant,” Shaviv explained.

    Shaviv also wrote on August 18, 2006 that a colleague of his believed that “CO2 should have a large effect on climate” so “he set out to reconstruct the phanerozoic temperature. He wanted to find the CO2 signature in the data, but since there was none, he slowly had to change his views.” Shaviv believes there will be more scientists converting to man-made global warming skepticism as they discover the dearth of evidence. “I think this is common to many of the scientists who think like us (that is, that CO2 is a secondary climate driver). Each one of us was working in his or her own niche. While working there, each one of us realized that things just don’t add up to support the AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) picture. So many had to change their views,” he wrote.

  • October 10, 2007 at 2:11 am
    1933 Historian says:
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    Please read the climatology studies on 1933. It was hotter then than now. We had the Dust Bowl, drought, global warming, etc. The world did not end.

    What we need is the dust cloud from a huge volcanic eruption which will cool the earth as it has done for hundreds of thousands of years.

    By the way, I am sitting in the SE US with record heat and a drought.

  • October 10, 2007 at 2:38 am
    Little Frog says:
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    … all your problems look like nails!

  • October 11, 2007 at 2:45 am
    Gill Fin says:
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    I knew if Gorebal warming stayed out of the news for, say, six months, that the knee jerk chicken littles would have to give it another shot in the arm. Haven’t read a single thing about it in months and have been amused at how quickly it died down. Now it’s back. Gore told the world that there is no more doubt, that the consensus was in, that all relevant scientists agree and that further conversation was pointless. Really? What about those of us who find it all too CONVENIENT Al? Those who blindly fall in step with Als convenient theory, who don’t seem to recognize a pattern by some to keep us in a perpetual state of
    crisis with media and now movies telling us how bad we all have it, buy into his smooth story. Those of us who have questions, look at history, and do not overestimate our importance (as do Gore and his fembots) can wait for more data. If indeed there is some giant problem, then man will do what he has always done.
    Adapt. I have faith in man. I dont have faith in the thought police like Al Gore.
    I give him some credit – not many guys have the guts to claim credit for the internet AND Gorebal warming.

  • October 10, 2007 at 4:02 am
    Aaron says:
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    In response to Chilly. Just wanted to know what difference does the cause make if the effects are likely to be as devastating whether climate change is man made or a naturally occurring phenomenon? I know right wing extremist groups would love to deny the obvious which is that irregardless of cause the planets temperature is increasing. But, my question is don’t we have a moral obligation to consider the future generations that will have to deal with these changes? Or should we all just say screw it? Who cares, live for the moment? I won’t be alive when most of these changes occur so maybe I should just by a Hummer a 7000sqft house and a lot of cheap **** at walmart and live the so called good capitolist life?

  • October 11, 2007 at 7:54 am
    Nobody Important says:
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    What if the moon were made of green cheese and we didn’t mine it to end hunger? You solve problems that are real, not imagined. As more scientists begin to doubt this unproven and wild theory, we need to spend time solving the many problems that are here and are real.



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