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Climate Science 2009...Summary by Joe Romm

Bohemian — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:59:23 -0600

Climate Science 2009A Summary by Joe Romm
www.climateprogress.org

2009 was the year the scientific literature caught up with what top scientists have said privately for years. Key aspects of our climate are changing faster than expected. If we stay on our current emissions path, we face incalculable catastrophe.In 2009, the scientific literature caught up with the expert grapevine. Many predicted impacts of human-caused climate change are indeed occurring much faster than anybody expected, and all across the planet — particularly ice melt.
If we stay anywhere near our current emissions path, we are facing incalculable catastrophes by century’s end, including rapid sea level rise, massive wildfires, widespread dust-bowlification, large oceanic dead zones, and 9°F warming. Much of it will be all but irreversible for centuries. The consequences for human health and well being are going to be extreme.

That’s not a surprise to anybody who has talked to leading climate scientists in recent years. But it's a scientific reality only about 2% of people fully grasp. Here, then, I will review the past year of peer-reviewed climate science literature.

Heat-trapping greenhouse gases are at unprecedented levels, and the paleoclimate record suggests that even slightly higher levels are untenable:

* World carbon dioxide levels jumped 2.3 ppm in 2008.
* CO2 levels are the highest for 15 million years, when it was up to10°F warmer and seas were up to 120 feet higher.
* World Meteorological Organization & NOAA; 2000-2009 was hottest decade on record.
* Antarctica has warmed significantly over past 50 years
* EAST Antarctica is losing mass, and may soon contribute significantly to sea-level rise.
* Dynamic thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheet ocean margins is pervasive & enduring.
* A major Antarctic glacier is being lost at accelerating exponential rate like nothing else in the natural world.
* The North Pole is poised to be largely ice-free by 2020.* Bolivia’s 18,000 year-old Chacaltaya glacier completely disappeared.
* The world’s glaciers shrank for the 18th successive year.

Given this unexpectedly fast ice melt, seas level rises will be much higher & faster than previously thought:

* Sea levels may rise 3 times faster than IPCC estimated, hitting 6 feet by 2100.
* Faster Greenland ice sheet melting could raise U.S. East Coast sea levels >6 feet by 2100.
* West Antarctic ice sheet collapse would be catastrophic for U.S. coasts.

Dangerous positive carbon-cycle feedbacks threaten to amplify human-caused GHG effects:

* “Clouds Now A Big, Bad Player in Global Warming” — an amplifying feedback.
* So many amplifying methane feedbacks; so little time to stop them all.
* Global warming is killing U.S. trees, another dangerous carbon-cycle feedback.

High emissions levels + positive feedbacks = climate catastrophe:

* M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F
* Definitive NOAA-led report on U.S. climate impacts warns of scorching 9 to 11°F warming over inland U.S. by 2090 — and that 's just business as usual!”
* Ocean dead zones to expand and “remain for thousands of years”
* The worst-case IPCC scenario trajectories are being realised” — 1000 ppm
* Climate change expected to increase Western wildfire burn area as much as 175% by 2050
* Climate change “largely irreversible for 1000 years,” with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe

Seriously bad news for human health and welfare:

* The Lancet : Cutting greenhouse gas emissions has major direct health benefits
* NRC: Fossil fuels cost the U.S. $120 billion/year
* "Global Warming Is A Medical Emergency”
* Half world’s population could face climate-driven food crisis by 2100

The time to act is most certainly now.

Let's end this summary with the best piece of scientific news; one that suggests it is not too damn late to act! A NOAA-led study found we have not yet activated strong climate feedbacks from permafrost and methane hydrates. So far that most dangerous of all feedbacks — Arctic and tundra methane releases — does not appear to have been fatally triggered.

The anti-science crowd use smoke and mirrors to distract as many people as possible, but the rest of us need to listen to the science and keep our eyes on the prize — reversing greenhouse gas emissions trends as quickly and rapidly as possible.
In 2009, Time Magazine named American physicist and climate expert Joe Romm one of itsHeroes of the Environment. The son of a newspaper editor, he is now the Web's most influential blogger in the field of climate and energy. Romm gained his PhD from MIT. When working for the Rockefeller Foundation, he identified energy & climate change as 'sleeper issues' that would dominate the coming decades. He then became assistant secretary at the Clinton Department of Energy. His 2006 book on global warming, Hell & High Water, is essential reading in the field.

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JUNE, 2008 {SOCIALIST ASSEMBLIES}I agree with scholar Haynes that the IRS should police the pews for partisan politics to remove tax exemptions. First the Alliance Defense Fund should not be called 'Christian' and second those houses should not be called places of 'Worship'. By definition Christianity cannot exist without 'Church' and what we have today in evangelical ministries is not 'Church' nor is the activity 'Worship'. Church is Orthodox. A socialist assembly beamed electronically is neither Orthodox nor 'Church'.These televised socialist assemblies can be as sweet as Joel in Houston or as sour as Reverend Wright- but neither are 'Churches' and none conduct 'Worship'.Orthodox is Catholic (East and West) and includes the America variants of Mormon, German Baptist, Amish, Mennonite Jehovah's Witness and a few others. None of these are or can be promoted as socialist electronic assemblies. If they are - then they are not. There is no future in pastors.To put it simply: If it comes from the tube- it ain't Christian.Fundamentally, America needs to re-think its road.Rance DeWitt
JULY 2008Letter to the Editor

One thousand militarized bully pulpits have replaced a God-fearing Congress and Senate. Our very government has been compromised. It all began with Billy Graham and television.

Protestantism evolved as anti-Church. Mother Church like Mother Earth and Mother Nature became disposables- anything but sacred. Evangelicals and Fundamentalists cite C.S. Lewis but Lewis cites them as rebels- men without chests- who should lay down their arms. Will they?

Archimedes put the mathematics of Pythagoras into words.

Give me a fulcrum and with a lever I will move the world, he said. Not change the world- but move. For what changes cannot move and what moves need not change. America now changes everything and moves nothing.Those men saw Jesus coming and straightened a path for Him. Peter and Paul marched to Rome for that purpose too. The fulcrum-rock is Christ and the Church is the lever above. Without the Church there is no Christ nor leverage of good over evil.

Today, electronic tube religion separates man from the Church. All that is left is a multitude of loose cannons shouting Jesus for money. He said, you will shout my name from every street corner but I do not know you and you are not mine.

Christianity is no religion.

Salvation is a solution based upon His completing the human genome from Alpha to Omega. The accounting combines Heaven and Earth in a co-operative agreement between mankind and Him. The path is both ontological and apostolic. That is the definition of Orthodoxy. Consequently, there is no salvation outside the Church- and Protestantism is not a church. It is an apostasy (rebellion) against the Church.The Mormons had good cause for digging a new well.I became Catholic because I saw the Orthodox banner like our flag being lifted over Iwo Jima. I saw Pope John Paul fitting the description of Christ who said: I will send you a Comforter and a Paraclete. President Ronald Reagan recognized this and acted in that vision. Our very Liberty today survives for a this and a that. Our truths should not be given over as fodder for loose cannons. For if nothing is sacred- none are worthy.

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Global warming is a myth

robertox87 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:33:33 -0600

Beijing in China has experienced record low temperatures and the largest snowfall on the capital since 1951. Temperatures are expected to fall to minus 16 (a 40 year low). One official in China blames Global Warming for these unusual conditions!

Even Seoul has seen the heaviest snow for more than 70 years.

Britain is at present experiencing the worst winter conditions in decades, and if the snowfall predicted for the next 24-48 hours is correct, this will be the highest level since 1962-63.

Some of the countries, who have managed to escape the snow, have been hit with flooding. These include Brazil, Italy and Australia.

Many have blamed the cold spell on wintry conditions originating in Siberia. This does happen of course, as Siberia is an extremely cold place at this time of the year (I spent 3 months there once and it was minus 30 in October!). But it is unusual for the cold to travel in such a wide area (especially as far as Seoul).

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sathishkumar — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:07:01 -0600

Solar Power

bmsolar — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:50:05 -0500

Here comes the Sun - with all the energy for free. You can take care of all your energy needs simply by tapping into 'solar power'. All day, and if you can store it, all night. All you need is a device that saves and converts solar energy. There are different ways of going about it, depending on your particular needs.

How does it work?
A Home Solar System uses what are called solar arrays. Solar arrays, as the name suggest, are nothing but a number of solar cells that trap and convert the energy given by the sun. A solar cell, thus, is the smallest unit of any energy-using device. Numbers of such cells are placed side by side, in rows and columns, to form the arrays. These arrays are then exposed to the sun, mostly by placing them on rooftops.

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Frans Wilson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:40:09 -0500

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Frans Wilson — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:50:31 -0500

Humans ! We have based all of life’s values around big bright lights and neon colors. These lights fuse or dim, the colors fade and we have nothing to show in only a few years. This is called none sustainable development.

Then we expect nature to deal with all the problems we created. Nature could, on condition we keep a human-organic balance. Unfortunately, this is not part of bright lights and we do not have the capacity to think that far.

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Things we can do to help

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Turn off lights.
Turn off other electric things, like TVs, stereos, and radios when not in use.
Use rechargeable batteries.
Do things manually instead of electrically, like open cans by hand.
Use fans instead of air conditioners.
Use less hot water.
Whenever possible, ride your bike or walk.
Try to buy organic fruits and vegetables if you're concerned about pesticides.
Don't waste products made from forest materials.
Uses recycled paper and/or recycle it. Reuse old papers.
Don't buy products that may have been made at the expense of the rainforest.
Support products that are harvested from the rainforest but have not cut down trees to get it.
Plant trees, especially if you have cut one down.
Get other people to help you in your cause. Make and/or join an organization.
Buy products with little or no packaging.
Encourage your grocery store sell environmentally friendly cloth bags for people to use when they shop, or bring your own.
REDUCE, REUSE, & RECYCLE.
Compost.
Buy recycled products.
Don't buy pets taken from the wild.
Don't buy products if animals were killed to make it.
Cut up your six-pack rings before throwing them out.

Clinical Trials

kuytev — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:03:53 -0500

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Air Car, transport solution for global warming

Peace_Portal — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:40:00 -0500

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