Climate Change Is a Clear and Present Danger

Joe Romm interviews scientist and coordinating lead IPCC report author Christopher Field about the science of climate change.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• climate
• change
• global
• warming
• science

[eatmorenachos]

Response No. 1.

"Climategate" is a joke. It's like saying that the mistakes of a few doctors negates 100+ years of medical research.

The rising amount of Co2 corresponds with rising overall world temperatures that are at a more rapid rate than what happened in the past. It's not from the sun's output either (they can measure for that).

Check out the EPA's website, although by your comments you're just not going to see the forest for the trees.

[eatmorenachos]

So you admit the glaciers are melting? You acknowledge the earth is getting warmer?

[carlvilbrandt]

This is far worse than anyone is saying.  Its about mass extinction and man is the cause. See the talk at Ted peter ward mass extinction... and even he is underestimating how fast and how extreme the conditions.. He does however out line what has happened in the past 10 extinctions on earth. We are now in the process of what will be the eleventh extinction most all the complex life on earth. The question is what will we do at the eleventh hour to avoid our own extinction if any thing.

[eatmorenachos]

@Kropikovo Fires burn and spread more easily and more rapidly in hot, drier conditions such as they now have in the western U.S.

[Kropikovo]

@eatmorenachos How's this connected to global warming? You just described common behavior of a large forest fire.

[eatmorenachos]

@Kropikovo ,

Forest fires are burning more intensely because the conditions are so dry and everything burns including the underbrush. Fires can also create a microclimate that sucks in oxygen so much that it creates its own wind and creates more heat---just like bellows and a forge.

There are areas where the fire burned so hot that it cooked the soil and so the forests aren't bouncing back like the used to---this has been widely reported and is backed by forestry officials and firefighters.

[Kropikovo]

@eatmorenachos hehe.

Spring warmup is coming sooner? Not in our country... Here's everything as it should, for many many years. FACT

Forest fires are burning hotter? You mean that the wood in these forest is now able to emit more heat when burning? That's a bit of a nonsense. FACT

Sarah Palin is just a comic politician. If you haven't noticed, she's barely able to repeat stuff someone else tells her. FACT

Any warming on global scale not proven to be cause by humans. FACT

[mphello]

@Kropikovo Credibility of police and people who get rich being in the military have zero credibility with me.

Soldiers get paid to murder people. They get rich, living off government welfare, to steal other countries' oil.

The only ones who deserve life and liberty are mathematicians, pro-animal rights vegans and atheists, scientists, and environmentalists, and those who don't breed.

[mphello]

@Kropikovo Because those ppl don't know shit. The vast majority of people (regardless of their past political stripes or even specific credentials) who have actually DONE the real research and DONE the real work in climate science and published their work in peer-reviewed climate journals have proven humans are heating the atmosphere and oceans faster than we and the rest of life can adapt.

[mphello]

To the brainless conservative on here who thinks AGW should be endlessly debated upon but never acted upon, well, I don't think that bomb threats and death threats should be acted upon by police if they are directed at terrorists and tyrants like GW Bush or Chris Christie or Republicans or Democrats or the fascist DEA. I think it should be endlessly debated whether free speech should ever be curtailed.

[mphello]

@Kropikovo Exactly. Many people believe socialism or communism are the best economic policies.

Many people believe in astrology (I don't). Many believe aliens from other planets visit earth (I do).

Many people believe that having sex with children is good for children (I don't, but I respect their opinion).

As long as you are logically consistent with your extreme tolerance, and don't cherry-pick on issues, then you don't deserve to be tortured and killed. Otherwise, you do.

[eatmorenachos]

@Kropikovo ,

That crackpot "documentary" is a pack of lies. It showed graphs with data that stopped in the 1980s. Why the 1980s? Because to include more data would've disproved its claim.

Carl Wunsch, who was in the "documentary" said his views were "completely misrepresented" and the show was "pure propaganda." The company that made it ADMITTED that it DID misrepresent his views.

Eigil Fris-Christiansen said his research was misrepresented and the "documentary" was "not accurate."