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Human-Caused Global Warming Could be Insurmountable

The world’s leading body of climate scientists has concluded global warming is

“very likely†caused by human activity and may be impossible to stop. In its

strongest language to date, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Environmental

Climate Change is predicting melting glaciers, rising temperatures and higher

sea levels.

 

IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri: " I only want to draw your attention to the fact

that we are, and if you look at the language of the summary for policy makers

you'll be able to read this, we are in a sense doing things, that perhaps have

not happened in 650,000 years. "

For the first time, the panel also said global warming has been the likely cause

of increased hurricane and cyclone activity over the last thirty years. IPCC

working group co-chair Susan Solomon warned of more unexpected changes if

current trends continue.

Susan Solomon: " If we were to keep emitting green house gases at or above the

current rate, that would cause further warming and induce many changes in the

global system, the global climate system, that would very likely be larger in

the 21st century than they were in the 20th century. "

 

 

Under Pressure, Panel Downgrades Probability of Human Causation

Although the climate change report is the gloomiest on record, it’s already

being criticized for not going far enough. The panel was said to have initially

reached a consensus of ninety-nine percent certainty on human activity’s link

to global warming. But it reduced the assessment to ninety-percent under

reported pressure from China. Several scientists have also warned the IPCC’s

warnings on sea levels could be outdated and too optimistic.

 

Scientists Offered $10,000 to Challenge Climate Report

Opponents of global warming science had their own response. The American

Enterprise Institute is now offering scientists and economists $10,000 to write

articles undermining the UN climate change report.

 

Exxon-Mobil Posts Record $39.5 Billion Profit

The American Enterprise Institute’s offer came as one of its funders -- the

oil giant Exxon -- announced another record year for its bottom line. On

Thursday, Exxon posted an annual profit of $39.5 five billion dollars for 2006.

That’s the most ever by a US company, beating Exxon’s own record from 2005.

 

 

" Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies

in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are

cold and are not clothed. "

-- Dwight Eisenhower