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:Doesn't matter what's causing it, we can slow i

[Quarters]

If it's nature's doing the last statement we humans should be making is "We can still help slow it down." Who are we to say that it should be slowed down? We are so ignorant of the whole thing we can't even agree on the base cause of it. I, for one, wouldn't want us mucking around trying to change nature under the auspices that we're doing it for nature's own good.

We're cancer, plain and simple.

[Aphrika]

it's gone through more violent and extreme changes long before a single human emerged from the primordial sludge. And now we're to believe that somehow earth's perfect harmonial environemntal equilibirum, which never ever existed in the first place, is being upset by man?

Yup, we're Earth's cancer. We grow and grow and grow, and at some point in the future, we're going to kill our host being. As an organism with a lifespan of C.70 years, we lack the ability to understand our impact on the planet firsthand, so we'll ignore the initial symptoms, putting them down to other causes.

Then one day, we'll find there's no food, water, air, fuel, space. One day there will be too many of us, using a finite amount of resources. Self-destruction is our destiny - it's part of being human and it will happen. As you say - 6 billion years of extreme changes, but you can't deny that the Earth as a body in it's own right, is past its zenith. It's downhill from here and it would be better without us.

Uh... "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore

[gekoscan]

Have none of you seen "An Inconvenient Truth" by Al Gore?

Global warming is a huge huge issue. *HUGE* *FUCKING HUGE*

Out of like 1000 scientific specialists, ZERO debate the fact that we are killing our planet and impacting the climate at a rate that is nearly irreversible *YES ZERO*

If you had a globe that was 6.3 meters high our atmosphere would be about 1 damn cm. It's so so thin.. the more C02 the more the sun heats up this thin thin layer.. So are we effecting it? most fucking definitely.. i mean temperature and seasonal changes are being noticed all over the world and this isn't going to stop. The hottest temperatures on record all over the world have been all broken and rebroken in the last 15 years.. with the hottest occuring last year *YES LAST FUCKING YEAR*

We are a cancer to our own mother and she has a far greater immune system then we can imagine ;) New orleans was just a touch in the bucket.. so keep ignoring it and being ignorant.. And instead of spending money to research the problem and having a vision, we can just spend it repairing mother natures damages till she kills us completely.

If you haven't seen this documentary, you should call in sick and rent it tomorrow. That's how important it is that every person on the planet see this movie today.
PEACE

How sad

[Guuge]

How sad that scientists of all people have to preemptively defend against attacks from the Right. Whenever there's new information about evolution, global warming or even human biology there's a certain level of anti-intellectual backlash to be expected. How did it come to this?