Global Warming is 'twice as bad as previously thought'

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Myles Allen, of Oxford University, said: "The danger zone is not something we're going to reach in the middle of the century; we're in it now."

www.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=604955

[MARALE]

1. Interesting

They used bandwidth from computers on the internet that donated their downtime. Ran as a screensaver.


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David Stainforth of Oxford University, the chief scientist of the latest study, said processing the results showed the Earth's climate is far more sensitive to increases in man-made greenhouse gases than previously realised. The findings indicate a doubling of carbon dioxide from the pre-industrial level of 280 parts per million would increase global average temperatures by between 2C and 11C.

Mr Stainforth said: "An 11C-warmed world would be a dramatically different world... There would be large areas at higher latitudes that could be up to 20C warmer than today. The UK would be at the high end of these changes. It is possible that even present levels of greenhouse gases maintained for long periods may lead to dangerous climate change... When you start to look at these temperatures, I get very worried indeed."

Attempts to control global warming, based on the Kyoto treaty, concentrated on stabilising the emissions of greenhouse gases at 1990 levels, but the scientists warned that this might not be enough. Mr Stainforth added: "We need to accept that while greenhouse gas levels can increase we need to limit them, level them off then bring them back down again."

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3. please tell me how you transfer those snips from article to message board

i have an emac and am relatively incapable in computerland. i am also looking for info on how to transfer images from a website to message board.

[Oreo]

2. The thing that always pisses me off...

is when ignorant people say "It's really cold out... there's no global warming!"

The melting of the icecaps and the possible loss of the Gulf Stream would absolutely make it colder and are absolutely caused by global warming.

They won't catch on until NYC and CA are under water... but they'd probably like that.

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4. locking

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