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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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Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)They are pushing stories that challenge it more than support it these days it seems.
bobGandolf
(871 posts)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|