Founded in 1988, the I.P.C.C. is a joint venture of the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization. Every four or five years, it conducts an exhaustive survey of the available data and issues a multi-volume assessment of the state of the climate. By the time the I.P.C.C. publishes an assessment, it has been vetted by thousands of scientists, as well as by the organization’s hundred and ninety-odd participating governments. The process guarantees that I.P.C.C. reports are conservative—indeed, frequently out of date—since every statement has had to pass review not just in Paris and London but also in Riyadh and Washington. The first I.P.C.C. assessment, issued in 1990, was noncommittal on the source of the warming that had been observed up to that point. In each subsequent report, the organization has moved cautiously but inexorably toward assigning responsibility. Last week’s assessment, the fourth, put the likelihood that human beings are the cause of global warming—now evident from “increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global mean sea level”—at ninety per cent. It went on to note that temperatures will continue to climb for decades, that heat waves and floods will become more frequent, and that the last time the Arctic and the Antarctic were warmer than they are today for an extended period—before the start of the last Ice Age—global sea levels were at least thirteen feet higher.
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The findings “vetted” by thousands of “scientists” and 190+ governments turned out to be a crock. More Orwellian that Orwell could believe.
Do these people just make it up as they go along?
Below is evidence for an ice-free Arctic ocean within the last 11,000 years.
Late Quaternary coccoliths at the North Pole: Evidence of ice-free conditions and rapid sedimentation in the central Arctic Ocean
Ice free Arctic Ocean, an Early Holocene analogue
New insights on Arctic Quaternary climate variability from palaeo-records and numerical modelling
Never let the facts get in the way of a good scare story.
“Already enough CO2 has been pumped into the air to alter life on earth for thousands of years to come. To continue on our current path because the alternative seems like too much effort is not just shortsighted. It’s suicidal.”
Now THAT’s what I’m talkin’ about. ALAARRRRRRRRRM…complete with a prediction! Thousands of years! If we were to succumb to some pestilence, the planet literally DOESN’T CARE. Vegetation and seawater would go on soaking up CO2, and everything would be fine, in say, ten years. And probably still at 380 ppm.
I suspect the oceans would start absorbing CO2 much faster than they acknowledge. The Gulf oil spill disappeared about 100 times faster than they forecast.
I think the Gulf Oil Spill was 200 times smaller than they claimed! Yes the Sea Critters that consume oil were happy campers for a while! Natural seepage is more than most admit So the minor bit we add just makes a minor difference. Think about the ships sunk during WW II!
These are the same experts that tell us that we need to develop renewable energy sources because oil production has reached a “peak” and the world will soon run out of oil. If the world is running out of oil and other “non-renewable” fossil fuels, where will thousands of years of carbon emissions come from?
Steve,
Funny. I just read the article and it doesn’t mention himalayan glaciers at all.
Of course the IPCC DID ADMIT it was WRONG about that, unlike some people who discuss the issue.
and you may have noticed, since you bolded it, that the article talks about temps being warmer for an extended period leading to higher sea levels Do you contend that higher temps for extended periods won’t lead to higher sea levels?
It’s rocket science Tony. All IPCC statements are conservative, so their Himalayan claim is conservative. Belief in CAGW seems to correlate with an inability to think logically.
except that the IPCC admitted the mistake. Since it was a mistake, that is an indication of logical thinking, unlike people who won’t admit mistakes.
What a maroon
Steve,
Once again your logical thinking eviscerates my point
Given that you are almost never on topic ….
Steve,
I learned from a master