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G_j

(40,372 posts)
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:09 AM Sep 2013

Special Help for Climate Deniers

especially useful after the latest report...

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http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/world/climate-change-5-things/?hpt=hp_t1

Climate change report points blame at humans
By Dave Hennen, Brandon Miller and Eliott C. McLaughlin

updated 7:40 AM EDT 09.27.13

(CNN) - Human activity has caused at least half of climate change in the last half-century, hundreds of scientists say. They are 95% certain of this, the surest they've ever been, says a United Nations report published Friday.

That activity? Driving cars, running power plants on coal and oil, torching swathes of forestland and debris; anything involving burning carbon-based fuels and emitting greenhouse gases.

We are seeing the consequences already in extreme weather patterns, particularly drought and flood, and they will probably get worse this century, the report said.

"It should serve as yet another wake-up call our activities today have a profound impact on society, not only for us, but for many generations to come," Michel Jarraud, head of the World Meteorological Organization, said at a news conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Special Help for Climate Deniers (Original Post) G_j Sep 2013 OP
Mainstream media isn't helping much Puzzledtraveller Sep 2013 #1
Here's a good article for them... bobGandolf Sep 2013 #2
and the UN report is now out, G_j Sep 2013 #3

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)
1. Mainstream media isn't helping much
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:15 AM
Sep 2013

They are pushing stories that challenge it more than support it these days it seems.

bobGandolf

(871 posts)
2. Here's a good article for them...
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:19 AM
Sep 2013

Snip:
"Top scientists from a variety of fields say they are about as certain that global warming is a real, man-made threat as they are that cigarettes kill.

They are as sure about climate change as they are about the age of the universe. They say they are more certain about climate change than they are that vitamins make you healthy or that dioxin in Superfund sites is dangerous."

[link:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/95-certainty-warming-means-scientists-20357334|

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