Arguments about climate change

Don't worry ibis, if that's the same computer program which predicts we'll all be gone in 2012 then we won't have to wait until 2112 for the world to heat up by 4 degrees C.

Not even land on Mars will save you then

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Sea levels rising twice as fast as predicted

Yesterday's urgent wake-up call to governments about global warming – telling them the data on which they are basing their official advice is flawed – came from four scientists from the US, Australia, France and Germany, who gave a press conference at a scientific meeting on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

They revealed remarkable figures showing just how fast it is now happening. Professor Steffen said Greenland was losing 200 to 300 cubic-kilometres of ice into the sea each year – about the same amount as all the ice in Arctic Europe. This on its own is causing the global sea level to rise by more than a millimetre a year, he added, whereas a decade ago Greenland's contribution to sea level rise was non-existent.

Dr Church said that the most recent satellite and in situ data showed seas were now rising by more than 3mm a year – more than 50 per cent faster than the average for the 20th century.

"As a result of improved estimates of the observed rise, the thermal expansion, the melting of the glaciers and of the ice sheets, we now have a much better quantitive understanding of why sea level is rising," he said. "Without significant, urgent and sustained emissions reductions, we will cross a threshold which will lead to continuing sea level rise of metres."

UK Indo

Geoengineering ..

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CLIMATE EXPERTS have urged scientists and engineers to find radical answers to global warning, suggesting they might even explore a way of refreezing the North and South Poles.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for engineering solutions that will ensure the earth doesn’t overheat, including “methods and technologies . . . to directly cool the planet”.


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0312/1224242735368.html

Auditor #9 wrote:

Geoengineering ..

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CLIMATE EXPERTS have urged scientists and engineers to find radical answers to global warning, suggesting they might even explore a way of refreezing the North and South Poles.

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) called for engineering solutions that will ensure the earth doesn’t overheat, including “methods and technologies . . . to directly cool the planet”.


http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0312/1224242735368.html

Doesnt refrigeration generate heat???

Growing light-reflecting plant species perhaps???