Post by Mistress Rell on Feb 2, 2007 12:44:02 GMT -5
PARIS (AFP) - The UN climate panel has blamed humans for global warming and warned it would be unstoppable for centuries to come, causing rising seas and fierce storms.
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the world's paramount scientific authority on global warming -- said Friday the phenomenon was "very likely" caused by human activity, with a certitude of 90 percent.
The Earth's surface temperatures will likely rise between 1.8 Celsius to 4 C (3.2 F to 7.2 F) and sea levels increase 18 to 59 cm (7.1 to 23.2 inches) by 2100, the report concluded.
The scientists also predicted increasingly intense storms, heat waves and heavy rains in the decades to come.
The impact of pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will cause serious climate disruptions "for more than a millenium," the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said.
The exhaustive study by 2,500 scientists from more than 100 countries sounds alarms about the impact of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, and is designed to help policy makers.
Sea rises, the report notes, are predicted to shrink both the Arctic and Antarctic, and in some projections "Arctic late summer ice disappears almost entirely by the latter part of the 21st century."
"It is likely that that future tropical cyclones" -- similar to the one that devastated New Orleans -- will become more intense, with large peak wind speeds and heavy precipitation," it said.
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Well it's official. we are responsibe. And how could we not be. From what I've been hearing on the news channels, this report is quieting many skeptics. Including the Prime Minister of Canada, who, before the last elections worte off Global Warming as nothing more than:
I, personally have seen the effects, just look at how strange the weather has been for the first half of the winter. You can't tell me that was normal weather patterns.[/green][/i]
The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- the world's paramount scientific authority on global warming -- said Friday the phenomenon was "very likely" caused by human activity, with a certitude of 90 percent.
The Earth's surface temperatures will likely rise between 1.8 Celsius to 4 C (3.2 F to 7.2 F) and sea levels increase 18 to 59 cm (7.1 to 23.2 inches) by 2100, the report concluded.
The scientists also predicted increasingly intense storms, heat waves and heavy rains in the decades to come.
The impact of pouring greenhouse gases into the atmosphere will cause serious climate disruptions "for more than a millenium," the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said.
The exhaustive study by 2,500 scientists from more than 100 countries sounds alarms about the impact of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere, and is designed to help policy makers.
Sea rises, the report notes, are predicted to shrink both the Arctic and Antarctic, and in some projections "Arctic late summer ice disappears almost entirely by the latter part of the 21st century."
"It is likely that that future tropical cyclones" -- similar to the one that devastated New Orleans -- will become more intense, with large peak wind speeds and heavy precipitation," it said.
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Well it's official. we are responsibe. And how could we not be. From what I've been hearing on the news channels, this report is quieting many skeptics. Including the Prime Minister of Canada, who, before the last elections worte off Global Warming as nothing more than:
"a tactic for sucking money from the richer countries".
I, personally have seen the effects, just look at how strange the weather has been for the first half of the winter. You can't tell me that was normal weather patterns.[/green][/i]