Mar 31, 2014 8:05pm
It’s not the future: It’s here now.
Climate Change Is Here Now, Says UN Report
It’s not the future: It’s here now.
Lower Manhattan underwater from rising seas during hurricane Sandy; wildfires — many more of them like the one in Colorado; droughts in the American West; and wicked hurricanes and typhoons like Haiyan, the one in the Philippines last year: All these, according to a new report from the UN’s climate panel released today, are signs of the impact of climate change.
“We are experiencing the impact here and now; Global warming is occurring,” Noah Diffenbaugh, associate professor Stanford University and coauthor of the report told ABC News. “The impact of global warming is already being felt. It is being felt across the continents; they are being felt in the ocean. This is not just about the risk of climate change a century from now but it’s really about managing the risk of the current climate.”
And while global warming is easiest to see at the poles, with ice caps being drastically reduced over the past 10 years, this new report by a United Nations sanctioned science panel says there is no more debate: Global warming is real, here now, wreaking havoc worldwide and caused by humans.
The first sentence of the report lays it pretty simply: “Human interference with the climate system is occurring, and climate change poses risks for human and natural systems.”
Last year alone, the U.S. suffered seven weather disaster events, costing the country $7 billion and 109 lives, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“We have very clear observations of global warming, we know it is happening. We also know that is not consistent with the natural variations in the climate system,” Diffenbaugh said. “It is consistent with human activity, particularly the emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.”
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While those living in the northeast corridor of the United States might find it hard to believe after a winter with record snowfall, around the world 2013 was one of the warmest years on record.
“It’s very easy to look outside one’s doorway and draw conclusions about whether the temperature is going up or down,” Diffenbaugh said. “The reality is that globally, 2013 was one of the hottest years on record, and the winter of 2014, while it was extremely cold in parts of the United States, it was actually one of the warmest Januaries on record.”
According to NOAA, Anchorage, Alaska’s above average January temperature of 29.4 degrees F was slightly warmer than the below average temperatures seen in Philadelphia (28°) and New York City (29 ºF).
And what the current and future global warming means is real risk of climate extremes impacting lives, livelihoods, security, and crops.
“It’s very likely that if global warming continues along the current pathway, that we are likely to see more of the extreme heat that can be damaging to crops in the United States. In terms of water supply; we now know that further global warming is likely to increase how many extremely low snow years we experience in the western United States — this has important impacts for water supply in the western united states; When we look at sea level over the coming decade, this suggests we are likely to see increased risk of extremely strong storm surges in land falling storms and extremely large flooding events.”
The good news is, if we caused it, the report says, we can fix it. In fact, fossil fuel use is dropping in the United States, but unfortunately China and India more than make up for the difference.
“There are a lots of ways I know I can improve how much I am impacting the climate system, certainly the air travel, whether or not I leave my lights on, whether or not I ride my bike or take a short trip in the car, I know that all of these activities that I engage in end up contributing CO2 to the atmosphere and when we add all that up all over the world, that is what’s causing the global warming that we are very clearly observing,” Diffenbaugh said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/03/climate-change-is-here-now-says-un-report/
everything from Politics and dirty politics,Power, Coruption, Greed,The World Family Group,Oil,Sock puppet's paid by businesses with self serving interests (ie;more money to them without having to give a toss about how they go about it),Mining,Big Business,Power, disimpowerment of the people,distruction of our environment and our way of life,the CO2 and Mining Tax,Murdoch media,our Governments urgent need to push their anti climate change message (in order to remove the Carbon tax and remove the red and green tape),ethics,morals,92 year old Aussie diiggers being arrested trying to save his part of Australia from destruction from mining magnates,Foreign trade deals and agreements,reduction in our rights as Australians as well as our rights at work and much more fits with this topic.
I do hope that can be respected here.
Who stands to win out of the anti science propaganda ? The filthy rich
to Izab ref:
At 92, I was arrested for protesting against mining. I'm glad I took a stand
The people worried about climate change have got to take action, because the government has completely ignored them. So I’ll continue to protest – I owe it to all children
you are a true Aussie Champian Bill .Thank you
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Thank you for posting this Izab.
WE would all do well to heed this gentleman's words:...
"The government doesn’t listen to the people, and this mine is a good example. There were over 300 submissions against the mine, and one submission for it. But it was approved...."
"there is no future for my grandchildren and great grandchild unless there is a reversal in our use of fossil fuels, and a replacement by renewables...."
"We’re in a unique position in this country to use wind power, solar power, and other renewables.."
......."We’re faced with a catastrophe"
There's MONEY in the climate change nonsense
MONEY !
LOTS OF MONEY !
So MUCH money stands to be made that those who stand to become trillionaires by taxing the world on the nonsense 'climate change' BS
are prepared to PAY people to spout 'climate change' online
EVEN here in the old ebay forums
Throughout history there have been cycles
there have been warmer and cooler periods
This is all revealed via tree rings and other scientific research
Climate change is BS
and people have worked it out 
But because there is SO MUCH money at stake through taxing the entire world over FICTITIOUS climate change BS
they won't stop trying to foist it on those of low intelligence
Meanwhile, conscienceless creatures continue to hawk 'climate change' for PAY online
and if someone offered them the same or a bit more money to deny 'climate change', they'd be singing the opposite tune
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:Thankfully, Global Warming Nazi's are the minority........
nazi's may be a minority , but i don't know one person who agrees with you. and i did once. the majority of those have conceded the point, the rest have moved under that rock over yonder.. 
@polocross58 wrote:There's MONEY in the climate change nonsense
MONEY !
LOTS OF MONEY !
So MUCH money stands to be made that those who stand to become trillionaires by taxing the world on the nonsense 'climate change' BS
are prepared to PAY people to spout 'climate change' online
EVEN here in the old ebay forums
Throughout history there have been cycles
there have been warmer and cooler periods
This is all revealed via tree rings and other scientific research
Climate change is BS
and people have worked it out
But because there is SO MUCH money at stake through taxing the entire world over FICTITIOUS climate change BS
they won't stop trying to foist it on those of low intelligence
Meanwhile, conscienceless creatures continue to hawk 'climate change' for PAY online
and if someone offered them the same or a bit more money to deny 'climate change', they'd be singing the opposite tune
you seem quite bright otherwise . you have many opinions i disagree with, but most of those are just opinion. this is a fundamental failure of comprehension on your part.. politics is clouding your judgement as they intended.
@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:Thankfully, Global Warming Nazi's are the minority........
yes.you are ever present though .Speading misinformation and incouraging ignorance
@nero_wulf wrote:A post well worth reading
Public not buying a climate apocalypse
Public not buying a climate apocalypse
and the POLL graph from the above post
I fail to see what significence a public opinion poll can have in proving or disproving the theory of climate change.
In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published a book proposing his heliocentric theory i.e. that the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa.
If Gallaxy had conducted a public opinion poll a few years later - what do you imagine the result would have been.
Would a failure to endorse his theory, by the general public - and also the Vatican, who eventually put his book on the 'index' of publications Catholics were forbidden to read - have proved him wrong?
Had Galaxy conducted a poll in which 60% of meteorological scientists were shown to be sceptical - that might carry some weight.
