Global Warming Weakens Vast Pacific Climate System

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/redir.php?jid=666f66cf5973d612&cat=9dd26ff7f3fbfc0e
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This important system has weakened by 3.5 percent over the last 140 years, and the culprit is probably human-induced global warming, scientists reported in the current edition of the journal Nature.

"This is the impact of humans through burning coal, burning benzene, gasoline, everything," said Gabriel Vecchi of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and an author of the study. "It's principally the greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel burning."

The observed slowdown has been more pronounced in the last 50 years, Vecchi said in a telephone interview, noting this fits with what theorists and computer models predict should happen as a result of human-induced global warming.

It is not consistent with any natural fluctuation in the system, Vecchi said.

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We have heard about the Atlantic but this is news about the Pacific...

[kestrel91316]

1. Betcha Mr. Vecchi doesn't work for NOAA very much longer..................

He obviously IGNORED the memo.

[getwesback]

2. once again confirming the irony that our only hope is to admit itshopeless

we needed to reverse course at least 10 years ago, and all we've done is accelerate. ....only question is how much longer til we reach the tipping pt.

[XemaSab]

3. This article grossly understates the threat

Walker circulation controls Asian monsoons, eastern Pacific upwellings, sea levels, and other major environmental and climatic features on both sides of the Pacific. If this circulation breaks down, tens of millions (if not more) are likely to starve.

[lovuian]

4. I agree it predicts drought severe drought

and America is going to see changes too on the Western side...