The Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command has identifued climate change as the most likely threat to the Pacific region, as ThinkProgress reported:
Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, gave a striking answer when asked about the greatest threat the region faces: climate change.
Locklear told the Boston Globe, the changing climate “is probably the most likely thing that is going to happen . . . that will cripple the security environment, probably more likely than the other scenarios we all often talk about.”
Among the issues that the Admiral cited as most concerning was the possibility that rising sea-levels result in the disappearance of whole countries, producing influxes of ‘climate refugees‘ in neighboring states.....Climate Progress
Head Of U.S. Pacific Forces: Climate Change Is Biggest Threat To Region’s Security
Ryan Koronowski
Could it be that those suspected of sewing disinformation about human-induced global warming for gain could one day find themselves charged with crimes against humanity as whole countries disappear? I'd like to think so.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/06/22/green-drivel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2011/01/20/greenpeace-founder-questions-man-made-global-warming/
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=10fe77b0-802a-23ad-4df1-fc38ed4f85e3
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121013-antarctica-sea-ice-record-high-science-global-warming
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http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/forget-global-warming-alaska-headed-ice-age
BB,
A key data point is Greenland:
http://nsidc.org/news/press/20130129_greenlandicesheettoday.html
Short term trend doesn't look too good...
Rsp
the blaze? glen beck?
"But today The Mail on Sunday can reveal that a leading member of Prof Muller’s team has accused him of trying to mislead the public by hiding the fact that BEST’s research shows global warming has stopped.
Prof Judith Curry, who chairs the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at America’s prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology, said that Prof Muller’s claim that he has proven global warming sceptics wrong was also a ‘huge mistake’, with no scientific basis.
Prof Curry is a distinguished climate researcher with more than 30 years experience and the second named co-author of the BEST project’s four research papers."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2055191/Scientists-said-climate-change-sceptics-proved-wrong-accused-hiding-truth-colleague.html#ixzz2NHmWGGy4
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The great global warming swindle - Full version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtevF4B4RtQ
Bullish, your sources, like the Daily Mail, are not helping your cause.
The article at the one credible source your provide, National Geographic News, argues against your case.
Watch the video and let me know what you think.
Put up by an Alex Jones fan.
Bullish, your sources, like the Daily Mail, are not helping your cause.
I don't have a cause.
Just watch the video at least you can see the other side's argument.
Climate change is happening and always has been happening since long before humans walked the face of the earth. Hard to tell how much of it is due to solar activity, volcanic eruptions or industrial pollution. To some extent though as polar ice melts the volume and weight of the oceans will become greater and will depress the ocean floors making them deeper. Moreover, added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be a windfall for all types of photosynthetic plants which in turn will store some of the heat building up in the atmosphere.
I'm a lot with you here Ed on this one... but imo there will be a transition period where (for instance if Greenland melts) ocean levels will probably rise imo significantly until this water is redistributed into the currently drier areas....
BB,
No mention of "closed system" on the video which is interesting as a lack of a view of closed system principles is what we see in the academe of economics too....
iow the film cites "decaying leaves" as "producers" of CO2 yet no mention that the leaves originally got the CO2 from the atmosphere only a few months before this decay started... and leaves are a Carbon sink as the ones on the bottom of the pile get covered and can never fully oxidize.... same with the food that we humans (7 billion) eat.
I'd like to see a comprehensive closed system analysis of the atmospheric carbon issue.... I've never seen one.
rsp,
Dirty polluting carbon industry propaganda?
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