Global warming? What global warming?
January 23, 2007 at 5:32 pm by Web Editor in NewsA few days ago I chided the AJC for declaring "Global warming, it’s not" when they tried to explain why we were having two weeks of spring weather in the middle of January.
Now comes word that a new report compiled by 600 scientists is going to tell you what Republicans don’t want you to hear: Global warming is upon us, and it’s very real.
Here’s the money quote:
WASHINGTON — Human-caused global warming is here — visible in the air, water and melting ice — and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.
"The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as we speak," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The evidence … is compelling."
A few weeks ago, I was browsing the web and came across a series of photos that compared glaciers and mountaintops near the Artic Circle today with photos taken 30 years ago. The difference was startling. Where there once was ice and snow, there is now nothing.
The news report notes that last year was the hottest year on record for the United States, and that the two warmest years on record for the world were 2005 and 1998.
The U.S. has essentially taken the ostrich approach to global warming. Can that attitude possibly be taken seriously any longer?
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