209.200.74.155
BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE CLIMATE SCIENTISTS
DAVID BATTISTI, WILLIAM E. EASTERLING,
CHRISTOPHER FIELD, INEZ FUNG, JAMES E.
HANSEN, JOHN HARTE, EUGENIA KALNAY, DANIEL
KIRK-DAVIDOFF, PAMELA A. MATSON, JAMES C.
MCWILLIAMS, MARIO J. MOLINA, JONATHAN T.
OVERPECK, F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND, JOELLEN
RUSSELL, SCOTT R. SALESKA, EDWARD SARACHIK,
JOHN M. WALLACE, AND STEVEN C. WOFSY
IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS
(snip--I removed a couple footnotes, the formatting
was screwed up, so see the document for yourself...)
It is likely or very likely that human-induced increases in
these greenhouse gases are already causing global climate to
warm. Human activities likely caused most of the approximately
0.6 oC (1.1 oF) rise over the 20th century. The mean ocean
temperature has risen by 0.05 oC (0.09 oF), global average
sea level has risen by 0.1 to 0.2 meters (1/3 to 2/3 feet)
over the 20th century, and snow cover and Arctic ice have
decreased by about 10% and 10-15%, respectively, since the
late 1960s (when data first became available for this
measurement). A variety of other climate factors are changing
consistent with warming induced by greenhouse gases. By
contrast, we know of no measures of climate on the global
scale that indicate cooling.
It is virtually certain that what has been observed so
far is only the beginning, and that continued greenhouse
gas emissions along current trajectories will cause
additional warming of the earth system as a whole. The
average time for removal from the atmosphere of added
carbon dioxide is measured in centuries. It is very likely
that such perturbation would cause the rate of surface
warming and sea level rise in the 21st century to be
substantially larger and faster than that experienced in the
20th century, without precedent in the past 10,000 years.
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August 31, 2006
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They're the experts!
Say, one of those fellows wrote a textbook I used in
school, Wallace and Hobbs for ATM 301, how about that.
amazon.ca
This is a great text book! Later there is more calculus
and a lot of that went over my head--but some of the
stuff in this book stuck. |
