Panel: Earth Is Rapidly Getting Warmer

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species.

After five days of sometimes tense negotiations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted its fourth and final report this year, along with a summary, on the science of climate change and the effects of human-produced greenhouse gases.

It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes – and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.

The document says recent research has heightened concern that the poor and the elderly will suffer most from climate change; that hunger and disease will be more common; that droughts, floods and heat waves will afflict the world’s poorest regions; and that more animal and plant species will vanish.

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4 comments on “Panel: Earth Is Rapidly Getting Warmer

  1. Chris says:

    I have thrust in a UN body deciding the extent of “global warming” about as much as I do 815 sticking to scripture. In other words, none….

  2. Chris says:

    scratch “thrust” should be “as much trust”

  3. Oldman says:

    How do they explain the following. Please follow the links and read it for yourself.
    “Ten years later residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest  November temperature in 90 years.”
    From: http://my.telegraph.co.uk/reasonmclucus/november_2007/al_gore_wrong_again.htm

    Or if this doesn’t work, go to: http://www.drudgereport.com/

    “S Americans ‘wondering if Winter will ever end’ as Buenos Aires sees lowest temps in 90 years…” from Drudge Report where you can get above link.

  4. Christopher Hathaway says:

    They seem to be shouting more and more loudly the more their science is refuted.