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:Risk assessment is lowered, politics apart

[leandrod]

Global warming does not imply more crops, or more habitable lands. It implies less.

Sorry, but I can't take your word for it. I would need references. All I have seen up to now are scare lines about the advent of warming, not complete assessments about the state of a warmer Earth. I am not even sure we know enough about these things.

For example, a significant fraction of the world relies on the glaciers in the Himalayas for water. If those go, there will be vastly less habitable lands.

Never heard about glaciers in Himalaya are going. They may be diminishing, but they will still be there in all probability. Shorter winters would give us more crops, as tropical lands already have higher productivity than temperate and cold ones.

WE'RE OFF THE HOOK! WE'RE OFF THE HOOK!

[StefanJ]

If the hideous shit doesn't hit the fan until 2050 then we're not responsible!

PARTY ON! WOO WOO WOO!