Global warming maybe worse than current predictions
Temperatures could rise by 3C by 2050, models suggestSo climate change brought on by a dramatic increase in temperature is going to be far worse than the officials are suggesting. Meanwhile the climate deniers are proven wrong again and again...
Global temperatures could rise by 1.4-3.0C (2.5-5.4F) above levels for late last century by 2050, a computer simulation has suggested.
Almost 10,000 climate simulations were run on volunteers' home computers.
The projections, published in Nature Geoscience, are somewhat higher than those from other models.
The researchers aimed to explore a wider range of possible futures, which they say helps "get a handle" on the uncertainties of the climate system.
People planning for the impacts of climate change need to consider the possibility of warming of up to 3C by 2050, even on a mid-range emission scenario, the researchers say.
The study - run through climateprediction.net with the BBC Climate Change Experiment - ran simulations using a complex atmosphere-ocean climate model.
The representations of physical parameters were varied between runs of the model, reflecting uncertainties about precisely how the climate system works.
And the forecast range was derived from models that accurately reproduced observed temperature changes over the last 50 years.
The low end of their range is similar to that of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its 2007 report, but the high end is somewhat above the range their analysis produced.
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The right wing denial campaign holds hands with this Government in stymying the debate and shutting down any real legislative progress to transform the NZ economy into a sustainable one.
This is a Government who wanted to denigrate conservation land with mining based on lobbyist valuations that were a joke using a false Eden Park analogy.
This is a Government who dumped 100% pure as a tourism brand to water down the criticism that we are environmental hypocrites.
This is a Government who stole the water rights from South Islanders so that they could hand over more water rights to Farmers who pollute and filthy our clean streams.
This is a Government who want to privatize our state assets so that they can take the money from assets we collectively own and hand it over to the Dairy industry for MORE irrigation for MORE cows for MORE pollution.
And this is a Government who are allowing Solid Energy to build a lignite production facility in Bill English's electorate to power his Brother's Federated Farmer's industry cheaply yet we have 1000MegaWatts of wind power and between 360Megawatts and 630MegaWatts of hyrdro power yet to be tapped into, so why, oh why would we use the dirtiest, filthiest 18th century technology for the 21st century?
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Man made pollution is warming the planet dangerously towards a tipping point which could crash our collective civilization, of that there is zero doubt, yet a report put out by Greenpeace shows how one of the largest secret corporations in America, Koch Industries, is spending tens of millions on inaccurate and misleading information regarding climate change.
Koch Industries funded 20 organizations central to the global media echo chamber that was Climategate.
Yet despite the lies from the right and the right wing blogosphere in NZ, the science keeps showing us that global warming is happening and we can link now the terrible floods in Australia and Brazil and snow storms in Europe to global warming.
The right wing have managed to pollute the debate so that inaction is the only result, we need to wake up to the reality that the hyper consumer culture and the neoliberal financial structure it relied on is not just bankrupt literally, it is no longer sustainable beyond the constraints of the biosphere.
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And the Coal Industry is following the same strategies as the tobacco industry used so that they could minimize opposition and wring out a few more years of profits.
http://localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/solid-energy-and-tobacco-industry.html
Since it is abundantly clear that developing countries (I'm looking at you China) don't give a shit about their emissions, cutting ours seems like some sort of bizarre collective exercise in self-harming.
IMO those concerned (i.e most of the West) would be MUCH better off spending the trillions of dollars that scams like Cap and Trade will cost as "the solution" to climate change, on preparation of the fallout if it indeed eventuates as predicted.
The Banksters at Goldman Sachs are already salivating over Cap and Trade due to the huge amounts of derivatives and financial instruments not even thought of yet that they can leverage off of it at our expense.
We should simply accept that Climate Change is happening, we can't stop it, and prepare for it as best we can with proven technologies. Cutting our emissions when countries like China don't is like pissing in the ocean.
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