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A Countdown To Global Catastrophe?

Posted by Hemos on from the you-said-crossing-the-streams-was-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From The Independent: The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. For the full story, see this article."

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  1. junk science and environmentalists by havaloc · · Score: 4, Informative

    From tsunami to Kyoto not impacting the environment at all to dropping emissions, to overblown disaster movies, scientists resigning various environmental organizations, and other speeches. People are even connecting the environment to the tsunamis, which have nothing to do with the environment, and everything to do with Earthquakes that are going to happen anyway. Lets get some perspective here.

  2. Re:stupid tsunami by scatalogical · · Score: 5, Informative

    Global warming states that the maxima of BOTH hot and cold will increase. Nice to see people are too ignorant to even know what the actual theory is.

  3. Re:We've been in a warming trend by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently we have another person who was asleep in math class when they taught the concept of rate of change. The last ice age ended 10,000 years ago. They're talking about comparable changes in temperature possibly happening over the next 100 years.

  4. Re:Original Study? by Angostura · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sadly, the actual report is not online, it costs £5 to buy, which is pretty mad IMHO.

    You can find the original press release and list of recommendations, here though.

    I'm a trained biologist, but not *not* an eco-nut. However the variety of scientific evidence coming out lately, combined with the interesting stuff on global dimming has got me seriously worried. And I mean seriously.

    I'm sure you are right and the Earth's biosphere will probably cope, over the space of a few thousand years. However I have a two year old daughter, and I would really rather prefer her to enjoy the fruits of our society, rather than watching N. American and Europe become a dust-bowl over the next 40 years.

    Time to actually take this stuff seriously.

    Precis on dimming: Global warming effects may have been masked by particulate pollution which appears to have reduced the amount of sunlight getting to the Earth by a massive 30% in some cases).