Climate change is no longer open for debate
It is not carbon dioxide that needs defense. It is life that needs defending from excessive human generated carbon dioxide.
by Liz Ratcliff
The Mankato Free Press
February 23, 2014
Climate change is no longer open for debate. It is fact. Since 1991 more than 97 percent of climate scientists agree that the climate is warming and that human generated CO2 emissions are the cause. And more recently that number has increased.
James Powell, distinguished Ph.D. appointed to the National Science Board by Ronald Reagan and again by George H.W. Bush, states that from November 2012 to December 2013, there were 2,258 peer reviewed climate articles by 9,136 authors. Only one author rejected man-made global warming. If we are to stand a chance, we have to acknowledge this. Now. Climate change denial has gone the way of the flat Earth society.
Almost every government in the world has agreed that we must limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius to sustain life as we know it, as agreed to in the Copenhagen Accord. We have already raised the temperature by 0.8 degrees, and it has caused more damage than predicted.
The oceans are 30 percent more acidic, one-third of the Arctic summer ice has vanished, and our atmosphere now contains 4 percent more moisture which contributes to the accelerated pace at which we are experiencing catastrophic floods, droughts, and other extreme weather.
Scientists estimate that we can put 565 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere and still remain below the 2 degree threshold. NASA scientist and climate expert, James Hansen, says that if we stopped increasing CO2 levels right now, the global temperature would continue to rise another 0.8 degrees, which puts us dangerously close to the 2 degree mark.
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by Liz Ratcliff
The Mankato Free Press
February 23, 2014
Climate change is no longer open for debate. It is fact. Since 1991 more than 97 percent of climate scientists agree that the climate is warming and that human generated CO2 emissions are the cause. And more recently that number has increased.
James Powell, distinguished Ph.D. appointed to the National Science Board by Ronald Reagan and again by George H.W. Bush, states that from November 2012 to December 2013, there were 2,258 peer reviewed climate articles by 9,136 authors. Only one author rejected man-made global warming. If we are to stand a chance, we have to acknowledge this. Now. Climate change denial has gone the way of the flat Earth society.
Almost every government in the world has agreed that we must limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius to sustain life as we know it, as agreed to in the Copenhagen Accord. We have already raised the temperature by 0.8 degrees, and it has caused more damage than predicted.
The oceans are 30 percent more acidic, one-third of the Arctic summer ice has vanished, and our atmosphere now contains 4 percent more moisture which contributes to the accelerated pace at which we are experiencing catastrophic floods, droughts, and other extreme weather.
Scientists estimate that we can put 565 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere and still remain below the 2 degree threshold. NASA scientist and climate expert, James Hansen, says that if we stopped increasing CO2 levels right now, the global temperature would continue to rise another 0.8 degrees, which puts us dangerously close to the 2 degree mark.
(Continued here.)
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