Congrats Al Gore: Nobel Peace Prize

[shano]

There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason.

George W. Bush has been forced, in the face of all the irrevocable evidence, to accept that global warming is manmade.

So which is it? Partly human activities, or entirely manmade?

 

[BSD]

So which is it? Partly human activities, or entirely manmade?

err...

Washington Post

Undeniable Global Warming

Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is a scientific consensus on the fact that Earth's climate is heating up and human activities are part of the reason. We need to stop repeating nonsense about the uncertainty of global warming and start talking seriously about the right approach to address it.

The scientific consensus is clearly expressed in the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In its most recent assessment, the IPCC states unequivocally that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities: "Human activities . . . are modifying the concentration of atmospheric constituents . . . that absorb or scatter radiant energy. . . . [M]ost of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.

The IPCC is not alone in its conclusions. In recent years all major scientific bodies in the United States whose members' expertise bears directly on the matter have issued similar statements. "

Mostly humanmade, in other words.

 

[yacarob1]

Shano

It's perfectly obvious.

Global warming was single-handedly invented by Gory Al, as was the internet.

 

[TWI]

 

[BSD]

Great video, TWI.

"The risk of not acting far outweighs the risk of acting"

The only thing I'd beg to differ with there is that acting need by no means be seen as a cost to be borne, I think it's rather the way forward to a whole new future with entire new industries generating gazillions in profits that have the additional advantage of being clean and stemming from renewable sources etc, also in view of oil being finite anyway.

 

[TWI]

I agree, actually, I already make healthy profits trading carbon emissions as a start.

 

[BSD]

That sounds interesting TWI, haven't looked at that at all yet, must admit.

Good trading there.