{"article":{"id":192993,"heading":"Truth is being witheld from Americans on global warming","author":"reposted","created":"2007-02-08 20:00:50","modified":"2013-11-11 00:47:03","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:47:03","article":"

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Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years

Carbon dioxide is the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global

warming and, in 2005, concentrations stood at 379 parts per million (ppm).

This compares to a pre-industrial level of 278 ppm, and a range over the

previous 650,000 years of between 180 and 300 ppm, the report says.

http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/environment\/article2211568.ece<\/a>

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The fallout of global warming: 1,000 years

Humans have already caused so much damage to the atmosphere

that the effects of global warming will last for more than 1,000 years,

according to a summary of a climate-change report being prepared by

the world's leading scientists.

The draft, seen by The Globe and Mail yesterday, also says evidence

the world is heating up is now so strong it is “unequivocal” and predicts

more frequent heat waves, droughts and rain storms, as well as more

violent typhoons and hurricanes. It concludes the higher temperatures

observed during the past 50 years are so dramatically different from

anything in the climate record that the last half-century period was likely

the hottest in at least the past 1,300 years.

Moreover, 11 of the past 12 years rank among the warmest since humans

began taking accurate temperature measurements in the 1850s, a record

of extremes so pronounced it is unlikely to be due to chance.

www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070131.wclimate31\/BNStory\/

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Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a

lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to

undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an

ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration,

offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a

report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,2004397,00.html

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World's sea levels rising at accelerating rate

Sea levels are rising even faster than scientists predicted,

according to a global analysis of data from tide gauges and

satellites.

environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,2004718,00.html



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European countries have warmest January on record

In the Netherlands, January temperatures were the highest since they

were first measured in 1706, the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI

said on Wednesday, averaging about 7.1 degrees Celsius -- 2.8 degrees

more than usual.



today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2007-01

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Exposing ExxonMobil's GW Disinformation Campaign by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Exxon has responded to roars of recent outrage over its anti-social antics by announcing that it has stopped funding the Competitive Enterprise Institute which has collected over $2 million from the oil giant since 1998 to weave lies about climate change - and 4-5 other groups that Exxon refused to name. Exxon’s new contrition is hardly sincere. The company still continues to fund 40 other groups in its unrelenting campaign of deception… As evidence of the company’s insincerity, Exxon’s chief executive and CEO Rex Tillerson, on Friday told world leaders in Davos that oil companies should not be held esponsible for global warming. The blame, he argued, rests instead with the very consumers and government officials his company has spent millions of dollars manipulating and defrauding. America is a decade late in addressing the serious threat from global warming largely due to ExxonMobil’s campaign of deliberate deception. ExxonMobil’s conduct amounts to a war on civilization. The company can’t simply sweep this legacy of fraud and villainy under the rug with a paid op-ed campaign in the New York Times, or with oily statements shifting the blame to consumers. The company needs to cease its campaign of deception completely if it is to genuinely atone for its crimes against humanity.”

Found on the Climate Crisis Coalition website on 1\/30\/07, originally posted to the Huffington Post\"

http:\/\/www.climatecrisiscoalition.org\/blog\/<\/a>

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The Pace of Arctic Global Warming is Staggering

....the change \"is happening so extremely

fast, much much faster than we have seen

in thousands and thousands of years. It

could have an unpredictable result.\"

news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20070125\/sc_afp\/climatearcticnorwaywarming

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Glaciers (water supply) Melting 6 X Faster Than '80s

\"They melted on average about 1.6 times

faster annually this decade compared with

the 1990s, and about six times faster than

in the 1980s.\"

www.france24.com\/france24Public\/en\/administration\/afp-news.html?id=07012

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Earth is Losing its Ability to Absorb CO2?

Scientists are very worried from their

data that shows increasing CO2 levels

that are growing faster than anticipated

and faster than the growth of emissions.

environment.guardian.co.uk\/climatechange\/story\/0,,1994071,00.html

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Global Warming: Here Are the Hard Facts

This is an article that tells it like it is.

Show this to your friends that are in

denial. It is quite disturbing but it is

loaded with irrefutable facts.

www.rutlandherald.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070121\/NEWS\/701210320

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NOAA REPORTS 2006 WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD FOR U.S.

www.noaanews.noaa.gov\/stories2007\/s2772.htm

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Globe is Warming Faster Than Scientist's WORST PREDICTIONS

Our worst fears are exceeded by reality

seattle.indymedia.org\/en\/2007\/01\/256991.shtml

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First 7 Months of 2006 Hottest Ever Recorded in U.S.

madison.indymedia.org\/feature\/display\/44565\/index.php

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Alps Experiencing Warmest Time in 1,300 Years

VIENNA, Austria - Europe's Alpine region is going through its warmest

period in 1,300 years, the head of an extensive climate study said Tuesday.

http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16052360\/<\/a>



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Surge in Temperature Astounds Climate Researchers in the U.K

This year will be Britain's warmest since records

began, say scientists.

http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/story\/0<\/a>,,1971636,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=18

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Extreme Autumn Temperatures Cause Unseasonable Flowering

In The Netherlands

Observers in the Netherlands reported that more than 240 wild

plant species were flowering in December, along with more than

200 cultivated species. According to biologist Arnold van Vliet

of Wageningen University, this unseasonable flowering is being

caused by extremely high autumn temperatures.

http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2006\/12\/061221232129.htm<\/a>

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Experts warn North Pole will be 'ice free' by 2040

...\"but our research suggests that the decrease

over the next few decades could be far more

dramatic than anything that has happened so

far,\" .... \"These changes are surprisingly rapid.\"

http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0<\/a>,,3-2499663,00.html

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Bears That Have Stopped Hibernating: More GW Consequences

This article tells of bears in Spain that for at least three years have

not hibernated, rather they stayed active because there was plenty

to eat and no need for the normal slumber. It also tells of many

other plant and wildlife abnormalities attributed to the rising

temperatures in Europe.

http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines06\/1221-01.htm<\/a>

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Reduce CO2 in Ten Years, or Climate Will be Out-of-Control

With the new scientific discovery

that the result of global warming

will be \"abrupt climate change\"

to ice age conditions (Broecker)

due to a shut down of ocean currents,

this article is a scream in the wilderness

from a scientist that has been muffled

for years by the US Government. Note

it was not printed in the US.

If we fail to act, 'we will end up with a different planet'

http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/environment\/article2208257.ece<\/a>

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Scientists' Report Documents ExxonMobil’s Tobacco-like

Disinformation Campaign on Global Warming Science

[Along with Government interference

in reports and speeches by it's own

scientists, this article helps to

explain why Americans are not

marching in the streets about climate

change.]

Oil Company Spent Nearly $16 Million to Fund Skeptic Groups,

Create Confusion

http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/news\/press_release\/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html?wt.rss=rss<\/a>



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New Publishing Rules Restrict Scientists

The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the

U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls

on research that might go against official policy.

www.physorg.com\/news85254012.html

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The A to Z Guide to Political Interference in Science

Scientists who work for and advise the federal government have

seen their work manipulated, suppressed, distorted, while agencies

have systematically limited public and policy maker access to

critical scientific information.

http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/scientific_integrity\/interference\/a-to-z-guide-to-political.html<\/a>

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NOAA Scientist Barred from Mentioning ‘Kyoto’ and 'Climate Change'

\"It seems more like Nazi Germany or the

Soviet Union than the United States,\"

http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/local\/article\/0<\/a>,1299,DRMN_15_5205550,00.html





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