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...and nothing short of a planetary rescue will save it from the environmental cataclysm of dangerous climate change...Those are not the words of eco-warriors but the considered opinion of a group of eminent scientists writing in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.Six scientists from some of the leading scientific institutions in the United States have issued what amounts to an unambiguous warning to the world: civilisation itself is threatened by global warming.They also implicitly criticise the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for underestimating the scale of sea-level rises this century as a result of melting glaciers and polar ice sheets.Instead of sea levels rising by about 40 centimetres, as the IPCC predicts in one of its computer forecasts, the true rise might be as great as several metres by 2100. That is why, they say, planet Earth today is in "imminent peril".In a densely referenced scientific paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A some of the world's leading climate researchers describe in detail why they believe that humanity can no longer afford to ignore the "gravest threat" of climate change."Recent greenhouse gas emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures," the scientists say. Only intense efforts to curb man-made emissions of carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases can keep the climate within or near the range of the past one million years, they add.The researchers were led by James Hansen, the director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who was the first scientist to warn the US Congress about global warming.The other scientists were Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha and Gary Russell, also of the Goddard Institute, David Lea of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Mark Siddall of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York.
To read more go to:
http://environment.independent.co.uk/climate_change/article2675747.ece
PS:With all respect to this prestigious group of scientists...since I was in elementary back in the 70's I remember how teachers gave us magazines with horrific pics of "impending environmental disaster".I used to take naps sometimes and take those magazines and read them and think:"Oh God,The world is gonna end by 2000...!"My heart used to pound with fear and worry.I vividly remember pics of dead fishes in lakes and people dying in Africa.
I used to think also that I would die of dehydration....!I used to cry after the movies they showed us.There was no hope...We were headed to global holocaust.....!
Well 2000 came and I kept eating fish and watering my garden,and the glaciers kept crashing in the water before the amazed eyes of tourists from all over the world....It's amazing how when some have an agenda they would discredit and close their "scientific ears" to other renowned scientifics opinions that are actually giving us a totally different picture than Al Gore's apocalypitic movie.To be honest I don't give into this "environmental frenzy".I've read and heard scientists that are trustable and they are painting a very different and scientific picture of what is going on in the planet.I'm sorry if you are "GREEN"and are offended by my views and thoughts.
I still like to wipe like everybody else...
As in the days of Noah....
