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Michael, please stop replying to your posts. You have been found out. Go dig a hole to protect yourself.

 

“If the ocean continues to accumulate heat and increase melting of marine-terminating ice shelves of Antarctica and Greenland, a point will be reached at which it is impossible to avoid large-scale ice sheet disintegration with sea level rise of at least several meters," the report states. "The economic and social cost of losing functionality of all coastal cities is practically incalculable.

We suggest that a strategic approach relying on adaptation to such consequences is unacceptable to most of humanity, so it is important to understand this threat as soon as possible.”

Hansen said that the only way to avoid catastrophic flooding of global areas was to cut greenhouse gas emissions ideally by six per cent a year and make fossil fuels more expensive by imposing a “simple, honest, price on carbon emissions.”

This, combined with a rapid transition to renewable energy and more efficient forestry and agriculture practices to sequester carbon, would reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels down to a safer level 350 parts per million by 2100, helping to restore the Earth’s energy balance.

http://www.nationalobserver.com/2015/07/20/news/two-degree-target-may-still-cause-catastrophic-sea-level-rise-james-hansen-warns

 

You would know about "Belief Formation" and its risks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMmKH00dsVI&feature=youtu.be

 

Oh yay... A video from an unfunny "Comedian".
It's like most things you post... unfunny comedians, stupid geniuses, criminal good-guys.

Post something of value. Russel Brand is worthless and basically so are you.

 

An unprecedented coalition of the UK’s most eminent scientific, medical and engineering bodies says immediate action must be taken by governments to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

But the joint communiqué, issued by 24 academic and professional institutions, also says that tackling global warming would drive economic progress, benefit the health of millions by cutting air pollution and improve access to energy, water and food. To have a reasonable chance of keeping warming below 2C, the internationally agreed danger limit, the world must end all emissions within the next few decades, the communiqué warns.

The British Academy is one of the 24 institutions and its president, the climate economist Lord Nicholas Stern, said David Cameron and the UK had a special responsibility to lead the fight against climate change. “The UK led the world with both the modern scientific revolution and the industrial revolution, and must lead again now on the creation of a safer, cleaner and more prosperous world,” Stern said.

“Now is the time for the prime minister and the rest of his government to show leadership on this issue, by implementing effective domestic policies to tackle climate change and to support efforts overseas, including a strong international agreement [at a crunch UN summit] in Paris at the end of this year,” said Stern.

Sir John Beddington, the government’s chief scientific adviser until 2013 and now president of the Zoological Society of London, said some impacts of climate change are already here and will continue for decades, even if emissions are slashed. He said taking steps to adapt to these unavoidable changes was vital: “This is particularly important for human welfare, where water and food security issues loom.”

“Actions need to be taken now, by governments, individuals, businesses, local communities and public institutions, if we are to tackle this global challenge [and] deliver the required cuts in emissions,” states the communiqué. The institutions backing the message include the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Another institution involved is health research charity the Wellcome Trust, which has been the focus of a Guardian’s Keep it in the Ground campaign. The campaign has asked the charity to sell its substantial investments in fossil fuel companies. The Wellcome Trust acknowledges climate change is a great threat to health and the campaign argues that it is therefore “morally and financially misguided to invest in companies dedicated to finding and burning more oil, gas and coal.”

The communiqué, issued on Tuesday, spells out the opportunities of action to curb climate change, as well as the risks. “While the threats posed by climate change are far-reaching, the ways in which we tackle them can be a source of great opportunity,” it states. “Capturing this potential quickly and effectively will drive economic progress. There are also significant additional benefits available, including food, energy and water security, air quality [and] health improvements.”

The text of the full communiqué
The scientific evidence is now overwhelming that the climate is warming and that human activity is largely responsible for this change through emissions of greenhouse gases.

Governments will meet in Paris in November and December this year to negotiate a legally binding and universal agreement on tackling climate change. Any international policy response to climate change must be rooted in the latest scientific evidence. This indicates that if we are to have a reasonable chance of limiting global warming in this century to 2°C relative to the pre-industrial period, we must transition to a zero-carbon world by early in the second half of the century.

To achieve this transition, governments should demonstrate leadership by recognising the risks climate change poses, embracing appropriate policy and technological responses, and seizing the opportunities of low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.

Risks. Climate change poses risks to people and ecosystems by exacerbating existing economic, environmental, geopolitical, health and societal threats, and generating new ones. These risks increase disproportionately as the temperature increases. Many systems are already at risk from climate change. A rise of 2°C above pre-industrial levels would lead to further increased risk from extreme weather and would place more ecosystems and cultures in significant danger. At or above 4°C, the risks include substantial species extinction, global and regional food insecurity, and fundamental changes to human activities that today are taken for granted.

Responses. Responding to the challenge will require deploying the full breadth of human talent and invention. Creative policy interventions and novel technological solutions need to be fostered and applied. This will require a sustained commitment to research, development, entrepreneurship, education, public engagement, training and skills.

Opportunities. While the threats posed by climate change are far-reaching, the ways in which we tackle them can be a source of great opportunity. There exists vast potential for innovation, for example in low-carbon technologies. Capturing this potential quickly and effectively will drive economic progress. There are also significant additional benefits available from climate mitigation and adaptation actions, including food, energy and water security, air quality, health improvements, and safeguarding the services that ecosystems provide.

Actions need to be taken now, by governments, individuals, businesses, local communities and public institutions, if we are to tackle this global challenge, deliver the required cuts in emissions, and take maximum advantage of the available opportunities and additional benefits.

Signatories in alphabetical order:
Academy of Medical Sciences, Academy of Social Sciences, British Academy, British Ecological Society, Challenger Society for Marine Science, Geological Society, Institution of Civil Engineers, Institute of Physics, Institution of Chemical Engineers, Institution of Environmental Sciences, Learned Society of Wales, London Mathematical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Economic Society, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Meteorological Society, Royal Society, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Society for General Microbiology, Wellcome Trust, Zoological Society of London

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/21/act-on-climate-change-now-top-british-institutions-tell-governments

 

These scientists have said that the observed warming is more likely to be attributable to natural causes than to human activities. Their views on climate change are usually described in more detail in their biographical articles.

• Khabibullo Abdusamatov, astrophysicist at Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Timothy Ball, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Winnipeg
• Robert M. Carter, former head of the school of earth sciences at James Cook University
• Ian Clark, hydrogeologist, professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
• Chris de Freitas, associate professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland
• David Douglass, solid-state physicist, professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
• Don Easterbrook, emeritus professor of geology, Western Washington University
• William M. Gray, professor emeritus and head of the Tropical Meteorology Project, Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
• William Happer, physicist specializing in optics and spectroscopy, Princeton University
• Ole Humlum, professor of geology at the University of Oslo
• Wibjörn Karlén, professor emeritus of geography and geology at the University of Stockholm.
• William Kininmonth, meteorologist, former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology
• David Legates, associate professor of geography and director of the Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware
• Anthony Lupo, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Missouri
• Tad Murty, oceanographer; adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
• Tim Patterson, paleoclimatologist and professor of geology at Carleton University in Canada.
• Ian Plimer, professor emeritus of mining geology, the University of Adelaide.
• Arthur B. Robinson, American politician, biochemist and former faculty member at the University of California, San Diego
• Murry Salby, atmospheric scientist, former professor at Macquarie University
• Nicola Scafetta, research scientist in the physics department at Duke University
• Tom Segalstad, geologist; associate professor at University of Oslo
• Nir Shaviv, professor of physics focusing on astrophysics and climate science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia
• Willie Soon, astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Roy Spencer, meteorologist; principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• Henrik Svensmark, physicist, Danish National Space Center
• George H. Taylor, retired director of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State University
• Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, professor emeritus from University of Ottawa
• Les Woodcock, professor emeritus of chemical thermodynamics at the University of Manchester and former NASA scientist.

 

Michael! This just in!

http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/15/20059/2015/acpd-15-20059-2015.html

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms: evidence from paleoclimate data, climate modeling, and modern observations that 2 °C global warming is highly dangerous

J. Hansen1, M. Sato1, P. Hearty2, R. Ruedy3,4, M. Kelley3,4, V. Masson-Delmotte5, G. Russell4, G. Tselioudis4, J. Cao6, E. Rignot7,8, I. Velicogna7,8, E. Kandiano9, K. von Schuckmann10, P. Kharecha1,4, A. N. Legrande4, M. Bauer11, and K.-W. Lo3,4
1Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions, Columbia University Earth Institute, New York, NY 10115, USA
2Department of Environmental Studies, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, North Carolina 28403, USA
3Trinnovium LLC, New York, NY 10025, USA
4NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA
5Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), Gif-sur-Yvette, France
6Key Lab of Aerosol Chemistry & Physics, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China
7Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91109, USA
8Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
9GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Wischhofstrasse 1–3, Kiel 24148, Germany
10Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, University of Toulon, La Garde, France
11Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

Received: 11 Jun 2015 – Accepted: 09 Jul 2015 – Published: 23 Jul 2015
Abstract. There is evidence of ice melt, sea level rise to +5–9 m, and extreme storms in the prior interglacial period that was less than 1 °C warmer than today. Human-made climate forcing is stronger and more rapid than paleo forcings, but much can be learned by combining insights from paleoclimate, climate modeling, and on-going observations. We argue that ice sheets in contact with the ocean are vulnerable to non-linear disintegration in response to ocean warming, and we posit that ice sheet mass loss can be approximated by a doubling time up to sea level rise of at least several meters. Doubling times of 10, 20 or 40 years yield sea level rise of several meters in 50, 100 or 200 years. Paleoclimate data reveal that subsurface ocean warming causes ice shelf melt and ice sheet discharge. Our climate model exposes amplifying feedbacks in the Southern Ocean that slow Antarctic bottom water formation and increase ocean temperature near ice shelf grounding lines, while cooling the surface ocean and increasing sea ice cover and water column stability. Ocean surface cooling, in the North Atlantic as well as the Southern Ocean, increases tropospheric horizontal temperature gradients, eddy kinetic energy and baroclinicity, which drive more powerful storms. We focus attention on the Southern Ocean's role in affecting atmospheric CO2 amount, which in turn is a tight control knob on global climate. The millennial (500–2000 year) time scale of deep ocean ventilation affects the time scale for natural CO2 change, thus the time scale for paleo global climate, ice sheet and sea level changes. This millennial carbon cycle time scale should not be misinterpreted as the ice sheet time scale for response to a rapid human-made climate forcing. Recent ice sheet melt rates have a doubling time near the lower end of the 10–40 year range. We conclude that 2 °C global warming above the preindustrial level, which would spur more ice shelf melt, is highly dangerous. Earth's energy imbalance, which must be eliminated to stabilize climate, provides a crucial metric.

 

You should consider the following questions:

Do I live today in a high-risk, high-impact flood and coastal zone in NY/NJ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH21LEmfbQ ?

 

Yes indeed. Check your risk here:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=43.3251,-101.6015&z=13&m=3

Miami and New Orleans and the Nethelands all bad news.

As well as Michael's house:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=40.830379,-74.3484388&z=1&m=60

 

You libtards are so cute how you think you really fucking matter.
Like you can really control climate.

 

Do you really fucking matter?

 

Which libtard stopped the Ice-Age from ending?

 

The Donald for Prez!!

 

No way... I love all the failed policies of the lib-tard left.
Only Hillary is capable of keeping that momentum.

 

Extra Extra Read All About It....

Ice Age Melts without the existence of mankind!

 

Research??????????
Are you joking? The vast majority of drugs and candidates are initially identified in academic laboratories, and then plundered en masse so the academic lab can acquire funding for it's further activities. The vast wealth offered (relatively speaking) to these scientists is simply not possible to ignore! All the while, it is very likely that the initial and mid term costs of this candidate have been paid for by public or private foundation funds. Sure, we do lots of other activities (some of them well), in order to progress the candidate, but we "discover" very little with our "R&D". !! Of course, financial spread sheet convolutions make it possible to off load lots and lots of "business" expenses $$ into that bucket of tax-avoidance opportunity. Lots of very well off, and some quite rich, individuals in Pharma!!!
BooHoo.

 

HAHA!

 

So True!

 

And Michael's Tea Bag meeting place at
650 American Legion Dr
Teaneck, NJ 07666
will be well hydrated:

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=40.88643,-74.022694&z=1&m=30

On the next agenda: Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.