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Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change
An anonymous reader writes "A leaked copy of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made the rounds and the good news is that the predicted temperature rise expected as a result of man-made emissions of carbon dioxide is lower than predicted in 2007. From the article: 'Admittedly, the change is small, and because of changing definitions, it is not easy to compare the two reports, but retreat it is. It is significant because it points to the very real possibility that, over the next several generations, the overall effect of climate change will be positive for humankind and the planet. Specifically, the draft report says that "equilibrium climate sensitivity" (ECS)—eventual warming induced by a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which takes hundreds of years to occur—is "extremely likely" to be above 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit), "likely" to be above 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) and "very likely" to be below 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 Fahrenheit). In 2007, the IPPC said it was "likely" to be above 2 degrees Celsius and "very likely" to be above 1.5 degrees, with no upper limit. Since "extremely" and "very" have specific and different statistical meanings here, comparison is difficult.'"
Attention retarded moderators:
You know the above post is true. Obama will have everybody convinced that we overreacted to Hitler, Mussolini, Emperor Ming, Mao, and Stalin, that they really weren't such bad guys.
The errors are all due to anti-business anti-employer politicis: officials rewriting research reports to make "climate change" more dramatic than it seemed, to justify irrationally extreme measures.
This was all insired by the Nazis' programs, and perpetuated by the fraudulent voting on the last two presidential elections facilitated by advocates for various parties; encouraging various non-eligible people to get votes in and counted, and in and counted again, and a third time, and a fourth time ---- four votes per person: as long as their vote was the right one.
In the absence of overzealous gun control regulation; the fully armed well-regulated militia would have clearly put a stop to all this craziness.
Just a note to point out that IPCC has an agenda, as opposed to the climate scientists, who, while perhaps suffering from confirmation biases, have a much more neutral stake on the whole thing either way.
Thanks for that. It goes to show that if it's about climate change and it's in the WSJ, you'd be better served using it as shitpaper.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.