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Title: Global Temperature Highest in Millennia
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NY Post
URL Source: http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dyna ... AULT&CTIME=2006-09-25-19-08-16
Published: Sep 25, 2006
Author: AP
Post Date: 2006-09-25 22:26:26 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 151
Comments: 10
lobal Temperature Highest in Millennia WASHINGTON (AP) -- The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.36 degree Fahrenheit per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. That brings the overall temperature to the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago. Hansen, who first warned of the danger of climate change decades ago, said that human-made greenhouse gases have become the dominant climate change factor. The study said the recent warming has brought global temperature to a level within about one degree Celsius - 1.8 degree Fahrenheit - of the maximum temperature of the past million years. "If further global warming reaches 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know. The last time it was that warm was in the middle Pliocene, about 3 million years ago, when sea level was estimated to have been about 25 meters (80 feet) higher than today," Hansen said The researchers noted that a report in the journal Nature found that 1,700 plant, animal and insect species moved poleward at an average rate of about 4 miles per decade in the last half of the 20th century. The warming has been stronger in the far north, where melting ice and snow expose darker land and rocks beneath allowing more warmth from the sun to be absorbed, and more over land than water. Water changes temperature more slowly than land because of its great capacity to hold heat, but the researchers noted that the warming has been marked in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans. Those oceans have a major effect on climate and warming that could lead to more El Nino episodes affecting the weather. "This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human-made pollution," Hansen said in a statement. Few scientists doubt that the planet has warmed, though some question the causes of the change.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
I sure as hell hope so...I'm pretty fed up with the one we've got right now.
SoCal's due for one this winter I understand. The rain is nice. I'll try to remember what Rush said about Global warming. ;P
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Which wouldn't be a problem except for the free health care.
LOL!
The rain is nice. I'll try to remember what Rush said about Global warming. ;P Hmm I kinda remember. was it anything like what he said about illegal drug users? :P
Three months ago the word was 400 years. What changed since June?
Hellfire! Why don't we jut hope for the pole shift so the whole planet goes topsy-turvey. That would finish things up quite nicely. At least the neocons would be dashed to smithereens. ;0)
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
OK, so shut down the Chinese manufacturing plants and export the jobs over here. One thing that bothers me is all of the atmospheric spraying which has been going on for some time. That crap has a significant impact on solar radiation and other things which affect the hydrologic cycle and many things which we have no idea.
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.” James Fenimore Cooper
Weze neocons gonna fix dis problem by keepin on poisonin da people wit flouride, hydroganonananted oils, high fruity corn syrup, fluride in water and food, gestationally engineered crops, wars and dupletioned uranium. Just trust Bush. He gonna use all dese tings to deplete the surplus population and save da earth. He cant do it without jew help so we gonna kep on killin as well so da earth can release itself of the worst poison which is mankind...ecept for our kind that is.
in dere own ebonics :D
"If further global warming reaches 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
El Nino
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
The researchers noted that a report in the journal Nature found that 1,700 plant, animal and insect species moved poleward at an average rate of about 4 miles per decade in the last half of the 20th century.
It is not possible for the maggots to come directly out of a tap. All domestic water meters are fitted with filters that are smaller than any maggot.
#4. To: who knows what evil (#1)
sure as hell hope so...I'm pretty fed up with the one we've got right now.
#5. To: robin (#2)
SoCal's due for one this winter I understand.
#6. To: Zipporah (#0)
It is not possible for the maggots to come directly out of a tap. All domestic water meters are fitted with filters that are smaller than any maggot.
#7. To: Zipporah (#0)
#8. To: Zipporah (#0)
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"This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human-made pollution," Hansen said in a statement.
#9. To: Zipporah, christine (#0)
I worship Israel. Kill all Arabs and let Allah sort 'em out. We are the chosen ones. Shalom.
#10. To: BlackSands, Zipporah (#9)
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