2.04.2007

Overwhelming evidence of human induced climate change

Well, here it is... the Fourth report - No matter how skeptical you are, you simply cannot ignore this report. 400 authors from 40 countries!!! This is not about politics, it's about having a future. If you don't believe, ask yourself why... Who are you supporting? Is that extra profitiablity next quarter really worth it? It's time for some hard choices - and you can either help create a solution or be held accountable... and believe me, you will be...

The world is getting rapidly hotter, and human actions are the driving force behind global warming. This is the conclusion of a report by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on February 2 in Paris. The fourth assessment of its kind by the IPCC, the study builds on past assessments and six years of research by 400 authors from 40 countries.

The report states in a straightforward manner that "global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750 and now far exceed pre-industrial values." The causes of the increase in carbon dioxide concentration is determined to be due to fossil use and land-use changes. Agriculture takes the blame for increases in nitrous oxide and methane.

Globally both land and sea temperatures are rising at an alarming rate. Because the atmosphere is warming, water vapor content has increased since the 1980s because warmer air can hold more vapor. Melting glaciers and polar ices have caused rising sea levels, and annual average Arctic sea ice has shrunk by 2.7 % per decade, increasing to 7.4% in the summer.

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