IPCC Report- its serious folks
The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states with 95 percent confidence that humans are the main cause of the current global warming. Many media outlets have reported that this is an increase from the 90 percent certainty in the fourth IPCC report, but actually the change is much more significant than that. In fact, if you look closely, the IPCC says that humans have most likely caused all of the global warming over the past 60 years.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-ar5-human-caused-global-warming-con...
Yes you can't go green if the alternative is not offered
Go green is just another of those nonsenses that they perpetuate.
Fatimah - well we know one thing for sure - it won't be fixed via capitalism. The powerful have too much too lose.
Has capitalism been an environmental disaster? You bet it has.
Yet another alarming but thought provoking report that will not hurt to pay heed to, but may have disastrous results if dismissed as bunkum now and then found to be true a few years down the road!
And as Nomerci rightfully pointed out, regardless of whether these scientists are mere naysayers with studies lacking much conviction or really onto something concrete, one needs to only look around to see the extent of damage mankind is wrecking on their surroundings. Face it, we are not doing ourselves any favors!
Well, whether this is true or not, we all know by now that we are not helping ourselves. In fact, we are making ourselves sick... putting chemicals into the air, ground and water, helps neither people to be healthy, nor the Earth on who's health we depend for our survival.
Ignorance is repeating a claim that has already been debuked within the scientific comunity eg models are unreliable , we are coming out of an ice age. There is no disagreement amongst those scientists who are active in the field of climatology and who publish papers for review by thier peers. Again you are repeating denier junk on this matter without taking the effort to read the primary source material. Where do you get your info from on this topic?
Ignorance would not be understanding the research or choosing not to read it in the first place.
Plenty of scientists are climate sceptics, so are you calling everyone that disagrees with you ignorant?
We call you line of thinking an argument from ignorance
Sometimes scientists prepare reports and models that fit the observations, doesn't mean they are correct.
I am not saying I am right and they are wrong, I am saying I am not convinced. The last ice age was not that long ago so you would expect some warming.
Rate of surface warming not warming of oceans . The heat imput into the system had increased. Read the report before you regurgitate denier nonsense
The report is a collaboration of 1000's climate scientist dedicating thier life' to understanding and projecting global temperatures. You know more than them?
Sigh. Are the models, in fact, untestable?
Climate models have already predicted many of the phenomena for which we now have empirical evidence.
Eg that the troposphere would warm and the stratosphere would cool.• That nighttime temperatures would increase more than daytime temperatures.•
The report also concedes that world temperatures have barely risen in the past 15 years, despite growing amounts of greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere.
Really. Have you reviewed the science? I have.
The models they are using leave too much to interpretation, the variance so far too high to draw any definite conclusions. The global ecosphere contains too many variables for our current computer models to be able to predict the future. That is without including cosmic influences on the earths climate.
So as I said I am not saying it is 100% incorrect, I'm just saying I am not convinced.
However please give me your interpretation of the science if you think I am wrong
Still have your head in the sand. What an appropriate place to do so
Not convinced. The science is not over whelming.