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

To: mistermj who wrote (14264)	6/29/2007 3:54:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Hansen is beyond pretty clear. Earth is in 'imminent peril' - scientist warn June 19 2007 at 10:23AM A group of United State scientists have warned that a United Nations panel on climate change underestimated the scale of sea-level increases this century resulting from global warming, The Independent reported on Tuesday. The six scientists cautioned that the Earth is in "imminent peril" in a 29-page article published in the July 15 issue of the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A." "Recent greenhouse gas emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures," wrote the group led by James Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. They predict in their paper, "Climate change and trace gases" that sea levels may rise by several metres by 2100, according to The Independent. That compares to a forecast from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published in a February report that predicts sea levels increasing between 18 and 59 centimetres. The other scientists involved in the paper were Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha and Gary Russell, also of the Goddard Institute, David Lea of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Mark Siddall of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University in New York. - AFP iol.co.za And he thinks everything else is politics, too. Testimony by James Hansen: Political Interference with Government Climate Change Science STATUS REPORT Date Released: Monday, March 19, 2007 Source: House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform spaceref.com and so does Cheney (only 8 pages long; you should be able to finish it over a loooooong 4th of July weekend if you start 5 minutes ago. Cheney's statements were the latest move in the Bush administration's ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming. It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change. But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and enforced by none other than Karl Rove. An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act - as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials - confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters. rollingstone.com.