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To: i-node who wrote (15895)	4/22/2017 11:08:56 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 365530

"anyone who posts that IPCC bullshit really cannot be taken seriously." It's just the opposite; people who say the Physical Basis is bullshit were formerly the kids in the last row shooting spit wads and giggling while their 3rd Grade teacher was showing the rest of the class how to make a cloud.

To: i-node who wrote (15895)	4/27/2017 8:26:39 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Respond to of 365530

A Number of the extremists on the issue go far beyond the IPCC ------------ Climate Nuts vs the IPCC In one recent climate thread on Google+, I was informed, by three different people, that global warming would: Create two billion climate refugees Flood most of the world's large cities Destroy civilization. The simplest rebuttal to such claims is the latest IPCC report. The IPCC, after all, is doing its best to persuade people to support action to slow global warming, so unlikely to minimize the problem. But if you look not at the rhetoric but at the factual claims, the impending climate catastrophe looks like a wet firecracker. For instance: There is no evidence that surface water and groundwater drought frequency has changed over the last few decades, although impacts of drought have increased mostly due to increased water demand. Economic losses due to extreme weather events have increased globally, mostly due to increase in wealth and exposure, with a possible influence of climate change (low confidence in attribution to climate change). Some low-lying developing countries and small island states are expected to face very high impacts that, in some cases, could have associated damage and adaptation costs of several percentage points of GDP. ... most recent observed terrestrial-species extinctions have not been attributed to recent climate change, despite some speculative efforts (high confidence). With these recognized limitations, the incomplete estimates of global annual economic losses for additional temperature increases of ~2°C are between 0.2 and 2.0% of income ... .... daviddfriedman.blogspot.com More on the IPCC's findings here - daviddfriedman.blogspot.co.nz