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

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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.