The fifth assessment report, part one, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is due to be published in September. Think Progress has obtained a draft copy in advance and the report indicates it is 95 percent likely that human activities– chiefly the burning of fossil fuels– are the main cause of warming since the 1950s. That is up from at least 90 percent in the last report in 2007.
In addition to this finding, the impacts of climate change are speeding up.
Readers don’t need a filter for this information, so click here to go to the Think Progress site to read the story titled, “New IPCC Report: Climatologists More Certain Global Warming Is Caused By Humans, Impacts Are Speeding Up” by Joe Romm.
Would like to predict the media will be discussing this report, but outlets like Reuters have pared back coverage of climate change and pressured reporters to include false balance. Not holding our breath on that.
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If climate change really was a real inevitable crisis wouldn’t the scientists have agreed it will happen not just agree it could happen? Besides saying it is “real and happening” they have never said anything past “could be” a crisis. Science has never said their 28 year old danger to the life of the planet is inevitable or eventual. So if science never says it WILL happen and thus finally end this costly debate we may as well consider ourselves doomed because a consensus of “maybe deadly crisis” serves as the epitaph for the planet. So just what has to happen now after 28 years of intensive CO2 research for science to say their own catastrophic threat to the entire planet is as real as they love to say an eventual comet hit is?
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Paul,
Thanks for reading Blog for Iowa and making this post. I see you are a frequent commenter around the Internet, so I’ll keep it brief.
You ask a lot of questions, which in the end are red herrings. Global warming is real, climate change has happened. There is no inevitability to it. It is happening now.
Science and every scientist agreeing are not the same thing. Scientists will not all agree on the science of climate change, probably ever. Consensus is not needed to take action to both mitigate the causes of and mediate against the effects of climate change. We should take action before it is too late.
Thanks again for posting. Hope to see you around the Internet.
Regards, Paul
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