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| www.csua.org/u/yk6 -> news.yahoo.com/carbon-pollution-2-million-pounds-second-180229689.html next Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds a second By By SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press - Sun, Dec 2, 2012 * FILE - This Nov. The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely global warming can be limited by more than a couple degrees, which is an international goal. more heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely global warming can be limited by more than a couple degrees, which is an international goal. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global warming can be limited to a couple of degrees, which is an international goal. The overwhelming majority of the increase was from China, the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter. Of the planet's top 10 polluters, the United States and Germany were the only countries that reduced their carbon dioxide emissions. That's about a billion tons more than the previous year. Three years ago, nearly 200 nations set the 2-degree C temperature goal in a nonbinding agreement. Negotiators now at a conference under way in Doha, Qatar, are trying to find ways to reach that target. The only way, Peters said, is to start reducing world emissions now and "throw everything we have at the problem." Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada who was not part of the study, said: "We are losing control of our ability to get a handle on the global warming problem." In 1997, most of the world agreed to an international treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, that required developed countries such as the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 5 percent when compared with the baseline year of 1990. But countries that are still developing, including China and India, were not limited by how much carbon dioxide they expelled. The latest pollution numbers, calculated by the Global Carbon Project, a joint venture of the Energy Department and the Norwegian Research Council, show that worldwide carbon dioxide levels are 54 percent higher than the 1990 baseline. The 2011 figures for the biggest polluters: 1 China, up 10 percent to 10 billion tons. The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely global warming can be limited by more than a couple degrees, which is an international goal. Organizers are seen on stage at the opening ceremony of the 18th United Nations climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, Monday, Nov. UN talks on a new climate pact resumed Monday in oil and gas-rich Qatar, where negotiators from nearly 200 countries will discuss fighting global warming and helping poor nations adapt to it. The two-decade-old talks have not fulfilled their main purpose: reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet. notlob 7 hrs ago When it suits them, conservatives will invoke the scientific expertise and theories of a deceased dope-smoking stand up comedian. Scientific research by scientists, they're not so interested. nullator o 2 days 1 hr ago So the bad guys, the US are about the only ones that are down, while the ones who don't need to adhere to any standards, like China and India are up. So let's get tough on the US and move more industry to these countries. Powerboat Guy o 2 days 2 hrs ago I'm sure the limos, the private jets, the bloated caviar eating delegates and prostitutes gathering for the conference helped reduce carbon output! Man has always been so damn arrogant about going it alone. We took the only one who could make a difference out of the equation just like ancient Israel. and now we are beginning to experience the results of being so SELF SUFFICIENT! NHL o 2 days 1 hr ago Years ago when I heard clowns talking about China & India being "markets" I knew we were in big trouble. I always said when 1 billion Chinese leave their bikes behind & start driving the world was DOA. Michael M o 1 day 9 hrs ago Many are claiming US reduction in the emission of greenhouse gas directly correlates to the timing of outsourcing US work and closing US factory's due to that outsourcing. Mom puts baby up for adoption-without telling dad A father will be reunited with his daughter whose wife had given her up for adoption without his knowledge or consent. Facebook just realized it made a horrible mistake Facebook (FB) announced on Tuesday that it will begin opening Facebook Messenger to consumers who do not have a Facebook account, starting in countries like India and South Africa, and later rolling out the service in the United States and Europe. This is a belated acknowledgement of a staggering strategic mistake Facebook made two years ago. That is when the messaging app competition was still wide open and giants like Facebook or Google (GOOG) could have entered the competition. WhatsApp, the leading messaging app firm, had just 1 million users as late as December 2009. By the end of 2010, that number had grown to 10 million. Widow: Fought with husband before NY subway push The wife of a New York City man who was pushed onto subway tracks to his death by a mumbling stranger says she and her husband had argued before the tragedy. Flight attendant out of job after Facebook remark A Cathay Pacific flight attendant is out of a job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee in a passenger's face because she happened to be the daughter of someone she dislikes intensely: ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Man May Get Rude Awakening Why Wife Clings To Night Shift DEAR ABBY: I'm married to the girl of my dreams. For several years my wife worked the day shift at a hospital more than an hour away from home. I tried to convince her to find a job closer, so we could see each other more. Finally, she told me she had been offered a night shift position at the hospital here in town. The disturbing New York Post photo of a man about to be crushed by a subway train Aghast commentators insist the photographer should have dropped his camera and helpedIt's a New Yorker's worst nightmare: A reportedly disturbed panhandler shoved a subway commuter, 58-year-old Ki Suk Han, onto the tracks, where he was crushed to death by an oncoming train. The story was splashed on the front page of today's New York Post, which featured a chilling image of Ki seemingly paralyzed as he watches the train barrel toward him. "DOOMED," blared the headline, with the accompanying text: "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die. Tyson on Catching Brad Pitt With Ex Long before Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt was involved in another love triangle, this time between Mike Tyson and his ex-wife Robin Givens. 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| www.csua.org/u/yod -> news.yahoo.com/20-old-report-successfully-predicted-warming-scientists-200858337.html Time has proven that even 22 years ago climate scientists understood the dynamics behind global warming well enough to accurately predict warming, says an analysis that compares predictions in 1990 with 20 years of temperature records. After an adjustment to account for natural fluctuations, the predictions and the observed increases matched up, the current research found. The predictions in question come from the first climate assessment report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1990. The IPCC is an internationally accepted scientific authority on climate change, drawing on the expertise of thousands of scientists, so its reports carry special weight. computer models than those now used to simulate the future, said one of the researchers behind the current analysis, Dith Stone, now a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He worked on the analysis while at the University of Cape Town and University of Oxford. What's more, two decades ago, scientists could not have anticipated a number of potentially climate-altering events. eruption of Mt Pinatubo in 1991, which spewed sunlight-blocking particles into the atmosphere, as well as the collapse of industry in the Soviet Union or the economic growth of China, Stone and David Frame, of Victoria University Wellington in New Zealand, write in work published online today (Dec. But 22 years ago, scientists understood one crucial factor: "The prediction basically depended on how much carbon dioxide was already in the atmosphere, and that has been what's important," Stone said. The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted What matters is the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution; short-term changes in emissions have relatively little effect on overall warming, Frame and Stone write. Other climate scientists have come to the same conclusion; one recent paper warned significant emissions cuts must happen soon to limit warming to a manageable level. The 1990 prediction did require an adjustment, since it did not take into account natural variability -- which includes the chaotic nature of weather as well as longer-term natural patterns, such as the El Nio/La Nia cycle. When Frame and Stone took natural variability into account, they found that the observed warming was consistent with the IPCC's best estimate for warming. Ed o 3 hrs ago Even a broken clock is correct 2x per day. Although in many cases the climate change was predicted longer ago than that report. Heck, I predict that the earth will warm up more then cool down in the future. master of disguise 2 days 1 hr ago I use an ordinary wired headset. It's more comfortable, hands-free, and the calls are clearer. The new silicone cables resist tangling much better than vinyl did. pup o 1 hr 12 mins ago In grade school, we were taught that the earth went through normal temperature cycles. An example used to demonstrate climate change was Greenland, which at one time had a climate that was very good for farming. This led to it being colonized and farmed for roughly 5-600 years, then the earth entered a 'little ice age' which caused the majority of settlements in Greenland to be abandoned. My teacher stated that by studying known data collected through ice cores and sediment analysis it was predicted that in 50-100 years Greenland would once again have a climate favorable to farming. ") The same predictions made back then using historical data from ice cores, sediment and other records are being made today, arriving at the same conclusions about climate swings, but placing the entire blame on mankind. John 1 day 1 hr ago @Early Cuyler, what troubles most scientists is that events like the Wisconsin Glaciation took place over 10's of thousands of years. Where as the extremes we are seeing now are taking place over decades. Grump o 2 days 13 hrs ago A lot of you are saying there was little or no discussion of global cooling during the 60's and especially the 70's. I remember hearing people speak on the dangers of an impending ice age(iia), though it wasn't the main theme of the event. It was discussed and it was even suggested that we pump more co2 into the atmosphere to counter it. My mother was an engineer with a strong scientific component to her personality. She had worked on the F104 Starfighter while at Lockheed, and while at Boeing had helped with the SST, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs to name just a few. While other kids were reading comics I was reading Scientific American and Popular Science. I know you will chuckle at this but Boys Life, and Readers Digest along with other magazines, not just Time and Newsweek, ran stories about an iia. I remember very clearly watching several different educational television shows concerning the predicted on coming ice age, all quoting various Phd's and experts. I remember being shown a movie at school called the Weather Machine. The US Department of Defense was so concerned it contracted out a comprehensive study on the effects of a deep ice age on world society. In the general public we didn't start talking about global warming until around 1981 or 82 and then only anecdotally. You see it wasn't just in supermarket check out lines or only in one magazine. It was discussed in school and I bet if you looked you could dig up an old text book that actually laid out the arguments for it. Granted there were differing views and global warming was one of them but differing views were tolerated back then. Man the really bad thing about Yahoo is that when they get their panties all scrunched up in the crack of their butt they just seem to not to be able to leave a dead horse alone, climate change (a hoax IMO) or gay marriage it just doesn't seem to matter if it's wrong Yahoo will push it. Speedfreak o 6 hrs ago Maybe the fact that ice was a mile thick over what is present day New York only 15,000 years ago may have given these guys a little hint that we have been experiencing global warming (and cooling) for some time. These processes were going on long before us and will continue long after we are gone. Star Trek: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto & JJ Abrams On The Thrilling Upcoming Sequel The next Enterprise adventure will go where the cast and director have never gone before. Report: One classroom of students unaccounted for following Connecticut school shooting NEW YORK (Reuters) - An entire classroom of students is unaccounted for following a shooting at an elementary school in suburban Connecticut on Friday, a local newspaper reported. The Hartford Courant, citing unnamed sources, said at least 20 people were shot and that many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. CBS News, citing unnamed officials, reported at least 27 people, including possibly 18 children, were killed when at least one shooter opened fire at the school in Newtown, Connecticut. Motor racing-F1 team principals vote for Alonso over Vettel Dec 13 (Reuters) - Formula One team principals have voted Ferrari's Fernando Alonso their driver of the year, despite Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel becoming the sport's youngest triple world champion at 25. A poll of all the team heads carried out by Britain's Autosport magazine, with each asked to list their top 10 and award points according to grand prix scoring, placed Alonso first with 269 and Vettel second on 198. Alonso lost out to Vettel by three points on the track after the season's finale in Brazil last month. Massive Gang Bust in the Bronx Brings Down the 'Bad Barbies' It felt like a time warp on Wednesday night when an unexpected headline hit the wires: "NYC authorities take down 'Bad Barbies'." And despite the promising-sounding reports from the mayor's office, it would seem that New York City is still dealing with a gang problem. |
| www.csua.org/u/yo9 -> news.yahoo.com/ap-gfk-poll-science-doubters-world-warming-080143113.html next AP-GfK Poll: Science doubters say world is warming By By SETH BORENSTEIN | Associated Press - 2 hrs 37 mins ago * FILE - In this July 26, 2011 file photo, a Greenlandic Inuit hunter and fisherman steers his boat past a melting iceberg, along a fjord leading away from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet, near Nuuk, Greenland. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate change are inching up among Americans in general, but concern is growing faster among people who don't often trust scientists on the environment. In follow-up interviews, some of those doubters said they believe their own eyes as they've watched thermometers rise, New York City subway tunnels flood, polar ice melt and Midwestern farm fields dry up. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate change are inching up among Americans in general, but concern is growing faster among people who don't often trust scientists on the environment. In follow-up interviews, some of those doubters said they believe their own eyes as they've watched thermometers rise, New York City subway tunnels flood, polar ice melt and Midwestern farm fields dry up. Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell "sunbathe" on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen April 25, 2007. The activists are warning that global warming could thaw the Arctic and make the sea warm enough for people to swim and sunbathe in. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (NORWAY) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Enlarge Gallery Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell "sunbathe" on the edge of a frozen ... WASHINGTON (AP) -- A growing majority of Americans think global warming is occurring, that it will become a serious problem and that the US government should do something about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Even most people who say they don't trust scientists on the environment say temperatures are rising. The poll found 4 out of every 5 Americans said climate change will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it. That's up from 73 percent when the same question was asked in 2009. And 57 percent of Americans say the US government should do a great deal or quite a bit about the problem. Only 22 percent of those surveyed think little or nothing should be done, a figure that dropped from 25 percent. Overall, 78 percent of those surveyed said they believe temperatures are rising, up from 75 percent three years earlier. In general, US belief in global warming, according to AP-GfK and other polls, has fluctuated over the years but has stayed between about 70 and 85 percent. The biggest change in the polling is among people who trust scientists only a little or not at all. About 1 in 3 of the people surveyed fell into that category. Within that highly skeptical group, 61 percent now say temperatures have been rising over the past 100 years. That's a substantial increase from 2009, when the AP-GfK poll found that only 47 percent of those with little or no trust in scientists believed the world was getting warmer. This is an important development because, often in the past, opinion about climate change doesn't move much in core groups -- like those who deny it exists and those who firmly believe it's an alarming problem, said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University social psychologist and pollster. Krosnick, who consulted with The Associated Press on the poll questions, said the changes the poll shows aren't in the hard-core "anti-warming" deniers, but in the next group, who had serious doubts. "They don't believe what the scientists say, they believe what the thermometers say," Krosnick said. "Events are helping these people see what scientists thought they had been seeing all along." Phil Adams, a retired freelance photographer from Washington, NC, said he was "fairly cynical" about scientists and their theories. But he believes very much in climate change because of what he's seen with his own eyes. "Having lived for 67 years, we consistently see more and more changes based upon the fact that the weather is warmer," he said. Nearly half, 49 percent, of those surveyed called global warming not just serious but "very serious," up from 42 percent in 2009. More than half, 57 percent, of those surveyed thought the US government should do a great deal or quite a bit about global warming, up from 52 percent three years earlier. But only 45 percent of those surveyed think President Barack Obama will take major action to fight climate change in his second term, slightly more than the 41 percent who don't think he will act. Overall, the 78 percent who think temperatures are rising is not the highest percentage of Americans who have believed in climate change, according to AP polling. In 2006, less than a year after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, 85 percent thought temperatures were rising. The lowest point in the past 15 years for belief in warming was in December 2009, after some snowy winters and in the middle of an uproar about climate scientists' emails that later independent investigations found showed no manipulation of data. Broken down by political party, 83 percent of Democrats and 70 percent of Republicans say the world is getting warmer. And 77 percent of independents say temperatures are rising. Among scientists who write about the issue in peer-reviewed literature, the belief in global warming is about 97 percent, according to a 2010 scientific study. About 1 in 4 people surveyed think that efforts to curb global warming would hurt the American economy, a figure down slightly from 27 percent in 2009 when the economy was in worse shape. Just under half, 46 percent, think such action would help the US economy, about the same as said so three years ago. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,002 adults nationwide. Results for the full sample have a margin of error of plus or minus 39 percentage points; The latest AP-GfK poll jibes with other surveys and more in-depth research on global warming, said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of Yale University's Project on Climate Change Communication. When climate change belief was at its lowest, concerns about the economy were heightened and the country had gone through some incredible snowstorms and that may have chipped away at some belief in global warming, Leiserowitz said. Now the economy is better and the weather is warmer and worse in ways that seem easier to connect to climate change, he said. "One extreme event after another after another," Leiserowitz said. They're connecting the dots between climate change and this long bout of extreme weather themselves." Thomas Coffey, 77, of Houston, said you can't help but notice it. "We use to have mild temperatures in the fall going into winter months. Now, we have summer temperatures going into winter," Coffey said. "The whole Earth is getting warmer and when it gets warmer, the ice cap is going to melt and the ocean is going to rise." He also said that's what he thinks is causing recent extreme weather. "That's why you see New York and New Jersey," he said, referring to Superstorm Sandy and its devastation in late October. "When you have a flood like that, flooding tunnels like that. Nearly 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds. Belief and worry about climate change are inching up among Americans in general, but concern is growing faster among people who don't often trust scientists on the environment. In follow-up interviews, some of those doubters said they believe their own eyes as they've watched thermometers rise, New York City subway tunnels flood, polar ice melt and Midwestern farm fields dry up. Stupnagel 41 mins ago Jean, what... |
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