UN Report Downgrades Human Impact on Climate

GodInHell writes to mention an article in the Telegraph, stating that man's impact on the environment has been 'downgraded'. A UN report has found that our species has not had as large effect on climate change as was previously thought. The average temperature is still due to rise almost 5 degrees C in the next 100 years, bringing drastic changes in weather patterns. From the article: "The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001. Climate change skeptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent. Scientists insist that the lower estimates for sea levels and the human impact on global warming are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming."

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Re:Any Irony Here?

[bug1]

"a carbon tax would stagnate the economy at least a little"

Stagnate: To cease to flow; to be motionless

So the economy would be a little bit motionless ?

You could have said it would _slow_ the economy, less typing, and it even makes sense.

Re:Any Irony Here?

[arminw]

.....That's the reason that Kyoto largely exempts developing economies.....

Kyoto is a farce designed to hobble western economies and give some an unfair advantage. If pollution is really bad and affects the entire planet, then it doesn't really matter where it is generated. Unlike many pollutants man generates, CO2 is a natural component of the atmosphere. Every time you exhale you add some.

Climate is subject to many variables, including solar output. There is evidence that human activity has had little if any effect on global climate in the past.

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/5200event.htm

There is nothing that says solar output may not oscillate again like it did 5200 years ago. There are two intriguing mentions in the Bible about a future time when there will be significantly increased solar output. (Isaiah 30:26, Revelation 16:8-9) People may scoff at these ancient writings, but neither can anyone unequivocally say this could never happen.

We humans did not make the earth nor the sun. We are incredibly arrogant creatures who think we can affect the work of the Creator in any material way.