Government measures 'may have slowed down global warming'

[TexasDevilDog]

"Baroness Sandip Verma said the rate of warming might have decreased, which could support the effectiveness of green policies."

Of course, having a policy cools down the planet, even though CO2 levels have gone north of 400ppm.

"It added that concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased to levels that are unprecedented in at least 800,000 years.

...... but still could not explain why the world has barely got any hotter in the last 15 years."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2809995/Government-measures-slowed-global-warming-Energy-minister-claims-policies-playing-role-curbing-rising-temperature.html

[jyro]

The Earth has been getting warmer or colder for 4 billion years. The only constant in Earths environment is change. It will continue to change till it’s consumed by the Sun.

Man has been on earth .00075% of Earth’s age or 300,000 years.
Earth will continue to change after man is long gone.

The universe is dynamic. Suns supernova, galaxies collide, planets are formed and lost in black holes daily.

Man is merely a brief observer, not the cause.

[DON SVO]

The Earth has been getting warmer or colder for 4 billion years. The only constant in Earths environment is change. It will continue to change till it’s consumed by the Sun.

Man has been on earth .00075% of Earth’s age or 300,000 years.
Earth will continue to change after man is long gone.

The universe is dynamic. Suns supernova, galaxies collide, planets are formed and lost in black holes daily.

Man is merely a brief observer, not the cause.

With that in mind, what/who will outlast man? I ask this in the sense of intellectual beings, not cockroaches.

[Craizie]

With that in mind, what/who will outlast man? I ask this in the sense of intellectual beings, not cockroaches.

What ever we evolve into according to Xmen.

[Scott Mc]

Fat, mindless blobs will run the planet after we expire.

[racrguy]

Fat, mindless blobs will run the planet after we expire.

They already do. Have you seen congress?

[YALE]

Gee... If only we had the tools to measure these claims on both sides...

[svauto-erotic855]

Sounds like that "Jobs created or saved" line.

[noshine4mine]

With that in mind, what/who will outlast man? I ask this in the sense of intellectual beings, not cockroaches.

I would say Humans, we just need a ride off this rock.

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John Kerry Makes Stunning Climate Claim, Proves Futility of Climate Change Action

Although he probably didn’t mean to, Secretary of State John Kerry made a compelling case for why the U.S. and other countries should not go down the path of shutting down coal-fired plants, raising energy prices and stunting economic growth to combat global warming.

Speaking in Paris, Kerry said:

“The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what – that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.

“If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions – remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions – it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.”

He’s exactly right. Paul Knappenberger and Patrick Michaels estimate that the climate regulations the Obama administration are imposing on the energy sector – costs that will be passed down to households – will avert a meager 0.018 degree Celsius of warming by the year 2100.

In fact, the U.S. could cut 100 percent of its CO2 emissions and it would not make a difference in global warming.

Using the same climate sensitivity modeling as the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world would only be 0.137 degree C cooler by 2100. What’s worse is that if you included 100 percent cuts from the entire industrialized world in their modeling, then you would only avert warming by 0.278 degree C by the turn of the century.

If Kerry got his wish, developing countries like India and China would play ball. But they’re not going to and quite frankly, neither is the rest of the developing world and some parts of the developed world.

According to the Climate Action Tracker, there are plans to build more than 2,400 coal-fired power plants over the next 15 years. That includes plants that have been announced, in the pre-permit stage, permitted or under construction. These countries want access to cheap and abundant energy, in order to provide their citizens with a stable current of electricity and to keep their economy growing.

Kerry got one point very wrong, however. We’re talking about carbon dioxide emissions, not carbon pollution. The administration has evolved their message on this issue, from global warming, to climate change, to carbon pollution.

Carbon dioxide is a colorless, non-toxic gas that does not have adverse impacts on human health. Calling CO2, carbon pollution, is deceiving the public. But at least Kerry spoke clearly about the futility of any unilateral or multilateral plans to address global warming.

http://cnsnews.com/commentary/nicolas-loris/john-kerry-makes-stunning-climate-claim-proves-futility-climate-change

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[Craizie]

I think climate change is more affected by the Great A'Tuin's chosen path.

[Baron Von Crowder]

The climate change is based on the average temp across the world per year being up 1.4 degrees since 1880.

Does anyone else think that's amazingly stable? The thermostat in my house that cant keep it that steady.

[BP]

The climate change is based on the average temp across the world per year being up 1.4 degrees since 1880.

Does anyone else think that's amazingly stable? The thermostat in my house that cant keep it that steady.

It dropped 1.1 degrees between 91/92 after Mount Pinatubo erupted. Clearly the answer to global warming is more pollution.

[SS Junk]

"It added that concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased to levels that are unprecedented in at least 800,000 years.

And they know this how? Crock of shit.