Cooling on warming
Not too long ago the British were hot about global warming. As The New York Times notes, climate change was such a big deal in the U.K., Parliament put targets for emissions cuts into national law a couple years ago. But there’s been a cooling of British opinion on warming, following months of reports about allegedly skewed science, mistakes in key reports and other developments rattling the research supporting climate change theory. A BBC poll in February found just 26 percent believe man-made climate change is happening — down from 41 percent in November. “Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” says Greenpeace spokesman Ben Stewart. “This is happening in the context of overwhelming scientific agreement that climate change is real and a threat. But the poll figures are going through the floor.” Greenpeace, other environmental groups and scientists who swear by man-made global warming say inaccuracies in a United Nations report and e-mail traffic suggesting climate scientists fudged numbers to bolster their research have been blown out of proportion. They’re urging global warming believers to fight back. But it’s hard to restore lost credibility once regular people, British and others, doubt your integrity and your motives.
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Global warning is a hoax? Based on a poll of the general population? Over 50% of the general public believes in angels.
In case you didn’t notice, April 2010 was the hottest global April in recorded history.
The highly respected “Nature”..just read the journals!! 1. School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
The rise in Arctic near-surface air temperatures has been almost twice as large as the global average in recent decades1, 2, 3—a feature known as ‘Arctic amplification’. Increased concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases have driven Arctic and global average warming
But recently, science, especially climate science, has become a political football. Corporations, front groups, media pundits, and legislators seeking to delay desperately-needed action to reduce global warming pollution have manufactured controversies and misrepresented the facts.
They want to sow confusion and lull the public into a dangerous complacency.
Why? Because they’re scared. In the last few years we’ve made substantial progress toward reining in harmful emissions and establishing a cleaner approach to our nation’s energy system.
Change is coming, and these attacks on science are simply a last ditch attempt by polluting industries and their allies to continue to operate business as usual.
we will:
* Organize scientists from around the country to beat back misinformation and educate decision makers and the public about the real facts on global warming.
* Develop and distribute accessible, robust materials to help the media and public understand the science behind global warming.
* Engage experts in key states to highlight the local impacts of global warming, costs of inaction, and opportunities for state-based action.
* Build American pride in the dedicated researchers who are working to understand and adapt to the consequences of our changing climate.
The Royal Society looked into the Fossil fuel industry groups complaints about the scientific studies and found the science scientific studies had been done correctly and were peer reviewed.The science that co2 is a Greenhouse gas,and as it builds in the atmosphere warms the climate.We need to be at 350 ppm.We are at about 390 ppm way above the 270 ppm at the start of the industrial revolution level.The Arctic is especially sensitive to the one degree raise in temp.Once you melt so much summer ice,it take 82 time the amt of energy to get it back to ice.ice has a high albedo.As water the heat is absorbed..So things are looking Very serious for the biosphere.Bye dear Polar bears..