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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (7112)	7/26/2006 4:03:07 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

That is more balanced than I could have expected from the leftwing LATimes. ... "To call it global warming would be overdoing it," said climatologist Daniel R. Cayan of Scripps and the U.S. Geological Survey. "This is largely natural variability." But the current heat wave, which has been brewing since May, has nonetheless raised alarms. It is simmering with sustained intensity, echoing record high temperatures now wilting Europe and Asia. "There may be some exacerbating climate change ingredient," Cayan said. "In fact, it is almost certain." The current high temperatures fit with extremes that have been on an upward arc for the last century and are in line with computer projections for more records in the future. ... The debate eludes resolution because of the difficulty of separating normal temperature swings from longer trends. In the effort to understand climate, certainty comes only with the hindsight of centuries. The severity of the current heat wave, in which temperatures this month have reached 100 degrees or more for at least 10 straight days, marks the first time in 57 years that both Northern and Southern California have experienced simultaneous, extended high temperatures, California's Undersecretary for Energy Affairs, Joe Desmond, said Tuesday. "This is a historic heat wave," Desmond said. Still, Patzert said of California's weather: "Is that a part of global warming? I don't know." ... I have read that human activity currently accounts for less than 3% of CO2 emissions. If that is accurate would a 50% reduction in human CO2 emissions have much impact? (We only get to breath every other day. Just kidding.)