Climate Change
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The LeftThe United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)2007 Report“Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values determined from ice cores spanning many thousands of years. The global increases in carbon dioxide concentration are due primarily to fossil fuel use and land use change, while those of methane and nitrous oxide are primarily due to agriculture.” See link here
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)“New research into the Earth’s paleoclimate history by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies director James E. Hansen suggests the potential for rapid climate changes this century, including multiple meters of sea level rise, if global warming is not abated.” “This warming is largely driven by increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, particularly carbon dioxide, emitted by the burning of fossil fuels at power plants, in cars and in industry. At the current rate of fossil fuel burning, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will have doubled from pre-industrial times by the middle of this century. A doubling of carbon dioxide would cause an eventual warming of several degrees, Hansen said.” See link here
National Geographic“In the last century, the planet temperature has risen unusually fast…Scientists believe it’s human activity that is driving the temperatures up, a process known as global warming.”
The United NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
One of the most prominent experts on climate science, Rajendra Pachauri, and Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is criticizing negotiators at the United Nations (UN) climate change conference for not paying enough attention to science. Watch report below
Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)“The reality is that the IPCC mobilizes the best scientists from all over the world, thousands of them. We function in a totally transparent, objective manner. These are scientists who devote their time without any compensation from the IPCC. The IPCC has a very lean secretariat, it’s a very small body, it’s not a large bureaucracy. We are governed by all the governments of the world, and when we carry out an assessment, at each stage, the draft has to be peer reviewed by experts. We take their comments on-board and then finally, all the governments of the world review our draft and we take their comments into account and come up with a final version. So if you want to invent a system whereby the best and most diverse scientific expertise from all across the globe could be harnessed for getting out an assessment of climate change what would you come up with? The IPCC.” ~ If this video fails to start at the quote highlighted above, it begins at 7 minutes 3 seconds ~
ABC News“A vast majority of Americans, 85%, now believe that global warming is happening.” “The vast majority of scientists have determined global warming to be a real threat. So why has it taken so long to convince Americans? Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ross Gelbspan blames a 15 year misinformation campaign by the oil and coal industries.“ Watch full report in video below
Discovery Channel“Dr. Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University and one of the world’s leading scientists studying the potential effects of global warming. His research on the effects of warming on atmospheric chemistry, ecosystems and the nitrogen cycle, ocean circulation and the ice sheets helped inform the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Dr. Oppenheimer is one of the scientists featured in Discovery Channel’s two-hour special, Global Warming: What You Need to Know With Tom Brokaw.” Open the link below to get some answers by Dr. Oppenheimer http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/globalwarming/boards/boards.html
The video below provides a counter to the documentary presented for the right.
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The RightPaul Driessen, Author Green Power, Black Death“My big concern with global warming is that the policies being pushed to supposedly prevent global warming are having a disastrous effect on the worlds poorest people” James Shitkwaki, Economist and Author“The rich countries can afford to engage in some luxurious experimentation with other forms of energy. But for us, we are still at the stage of survival…One clear thing that in my view from the whole environmental debate is the point that there is somebody keen to kill the African dream. And the African dream is to develop.”
The Congressional Budget Office“Regardless of how the allowances were distributed, most of the cost of meeting a cap on C02 emissions would be borne by consumers, who would face persistently higher prices for products such as electricity and gasoline. Those price increases would be regressive in that poorer households would bear a larger burden relative to their income than wealthier households…Job losses in those industries would be likely to impose a fairly large burden on a relatively small number of households; investors’ losses, by contrast, would tend to impose a smaller burden on a much larger number of households.” Verify at pages 1-2 in report. here ________________________________________Professor Paul Reiter – Pasteur Institute, Paris
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