Climate Panel Says To Prepare For Weird Weather

Layzej writes "Extreme weather, such as the 2010 Russian heat wave or the drought in the horn of Africa, will become more frequent and severe as the planet warms, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns in a report released today. Some areas could become 'increasingly marginal as places to live in,' the report concludes. Critics of the report note that 'Governments have in the past considerably weakened the language of IPCC summaries for policymakers,' and that the IPCC process tends to water down even the most obvious conclusions."

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Re:So

[G_REEPER]

I remember all the headlines about New York city would be buried under ice as part of the new ice age to be here by the year 2000. That was in the 70's. So they have a track record for being wrong.:-)

Re:For those that dismiss these news as irrelevant

[Jane Q. Public]

Kevin Trenberth has been caught more than once telling bald-faced lies, even to fellow researchers, about possible weather effects of climate change. He simply has no credibility anymore as a scientist. Please don't quote him again as a source unless you want people to laugh at you.

Re:Warms?!

[Jane Q. Public]

Mod parent up. More than 5. Anecdotes about weird weather mean literally nothing. It happens EVERY YEAR, in various parts of the planet. But it also happens in different places every year.
,br /> My area had a record cold spring this year, and we now have about 6" of snow in mid-November, which is also unusual. Evidence of "climate change", one way or the other? Hell, no.

Re:2020

[bunratty]

I see lots of people arguing that the melting and warming are not happening.

Let's take your argument and apply it to just about anything else. If earthquakes happened in the recent past, especially before fracking, then it means fracking is probably not responsible for earthquakes in any significant way. If avalanches happened in the recent past, especially before the invention of skiing, then it means that skier are probably not responsible for avalanches in any significant way. This is the problem with most arguments against anthropogenic global warming. If you change the context to just about anything else, it's immediately apparent how silly the argument it.