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    Effects of climate change seen everywhere

    Report: Effects of climate change seen everywhere

    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY8:09 p.m. EDT March 30, 2014


    (Photo: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO, AFP/Getty Images)

    Climate change is affecting all parts of the globe, and the gap between the latest science on climatic change and government action to cut greenhouse emissions remains large, according to a sweeping U.N. report out today.

    "In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts ... on all continents and across the oceans," according to a landmark report released early Monday in Yokohama, Japan, by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's most comprehensive climate change report ever created.


    The devastating effects of recent extreme events and extreme weather disasters also prove that our ability to adapt to a changing climate is low, according to the report.


    If left unchecked, the report finds that climate-change risks include:

    •Coastal flooding, which will devastate areas near the shore.
    •Widespread hunger due to warming, drought and severe downpours.
    •Damage to big cities because of inland flooding.
    •Extreme weather and storms, damaging some of the things we take for granted, like electricity, running water and emergency services.

    "We live in an era of man-made climate change," said Vicente Barros, co-chair of the group that prepared the report. "In many cases, we are not prepared for the climate-related risks that we already face."


    Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
    is the second in a series of four reports prepared by hundreds of the world's top climate scientists through the IPCC.


    The report states that climate change has already affected agriculture, human health, ecosystems, water supplies and some people's livelihoods. The striking feature of the effects, said the report, is that they are occurring from the tropics to the poles, from small islands to large continents, and from the wealthiest countries to the poorest.


    "The report concludes that people, societies and ecosystems are vulnerable around the world, but with different vulnerability in different places, said Stanford's Chris Field, one of the report co-chairs. "Climate change often interacts with other stresses to increase risk."


    There is no new science in this report, which assesses recent science since the previous IPCC report in 2007.


    "There's been a tremendous increase in the past seven years of the understanding of climate-related risks," said Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University.


    The report states that the chances and possible outcomes of many of the risks of climate change could still be diminished. However, strong action would have to be enacted to decrease the emissions of the greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide) that cause global warming.

    In addition, the report also states that governments can protect their people from those risks, if they do so now.


    Despite the warnings given by the IPCC in its reports over the past two decades, the gap between the science and what governments are doing remains huge, says Sandeep Chamling Rai, head of the World Wildlife Fund's delegation to the meeting.

    A heavy haze hangs over Shanghai, China, in December.(Photo: Eugene Hoshiko, AP)

    "The science is clear and the debate is over," he said. "Climate change is happening and humans are the major cause of emissions, driven mainly by our dependence on fossil fuels. This is driving global warming.

    This report sets out the impacts we already see, the risks we face in the future and the opportunities to act."


    Overall, the take-home message from the report is that today's choices are going to define the world we live in for the rest of the century, said Kelly Levin of the World Resources Institute in Washington.


    The third report will be released next month in Berlin.


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    Little time left to turn down the world's heat, U.N. says

    By Matt Smith and Brandon Miller, CNN

    updated 8:30 PM EDT, Sun March 30, 2014

    A farmer and his children plant a field with bean seeds and fertilizer in southern Ethiopia in 2008, a year after severe floods destroyed most of the food crop. Ethiopia is the country 10th most vulnerable to climate change effects, according to a 2013 report by Maplecroft.

    STORY HIGHLIGHTS

    • Time's running out to rein in climate change, U.N. panel concludes
    • "A certain amount of warming" is locked in, expert says
    • Without checks on emissions, the impacts may be irreversible, report states
    • Losses outweigh gains for farmers and the poor, it concludes


    (CNN) -- Your forecast for the next century: Hotter, drier and hungrier, and the chance to turn down the thermostat is slipping away.

    That's the latest conclusion from the United Nations, which urged governments to address the "increasingly clear" threats posed by a warming climate before some options are closed off for good. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that taking steps to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions blamed for rising temperatures could buy more time to adjust to a warmer world.


    Cutting emissions now "increases the time available for adaptation to a particular level of climate change," the report states. But it adds, "Delaying mitigation actions may reduce options for climate-resilient pathways in the future."


    "In many cases, we are not prepared for the climate-related risks that we already face," Vicente Barros, the co-chaiman of the IPCC working group behind the document, said in a statement accompanying the report. "Investments in better preparation can pay dividends both for the present and for the future."


    The summary for policymakers was released Monday morning in Yokohama, Japan. It's the second part of the IPCC's benchmark assessment of climate change, a document released every six years with the input of nearly 1,000 scientists. Without checks on emissions, the impacts of climate change will be more severe, more likely, and possibly irreversible, it concludes.


    Monday's report underscores "that we have committed to a certain amount of warming," said Kelly Levin, an energy and climate expert at the U.S.-based World Resources Institute.


    "Over the next few decades, we are going to lock ourselves into a climate change commitment that is going to paint a very different world, depending on what we choose today," Levin said. "The choices we make today are going to affect the risks we face through the rest of the century."


    As a result, "Adaptation is emerging as central area in climate change research," Levin said. But adaptation -- steps such as building sea walls, conserving water and designing cities for warmer climates -- has its limits, she said.


    "The report suggests some options are going to be too resource-intensive or too expensive," she said.


    An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other emissions have driven average temperatures up by about 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) since 1950, the IPCC says. The first part of its report, released in September, concluded that even a best-case scenario would result in an increase in global average temperatures of 1.6 C; the worst-case scenario estimates a rise of 3.7 degrees Celsius (6.6 Fahrenheit).

    The idea that carbon emissions are changing the Earth's climate is politically controversial, but generally accepted as fact by the overwhelming majority of scientists. And as emissions continue to rise, driving up CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere, the impacts will be more severe, more likely and possibly irreversible, Monday's report states.

    The summary of the full document -- which is more than 1,000 pages -- will be the premiere guide for lawmakers. It breaks down the expected impacts by continent and by categories such as marine life, agriculture and flood risks. And by diving into the specifics of the report, policymakers will be able to see what risks their specific locations face, as well as what adaptation and mitigation techniques could prove fruitful.


    "The real highlight is how many impacts there are, how widespread they are and how pervasive they are around the world," said Heather McGray, who studies adaptation at WRI.


    In most cases, climate change will exacerbate existing problems, such as the availability of fresh water in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors conclude that glaciers will continue to shrink "almost worldwide," affecting water supplies downstream.


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    "In this report, the finding is the impacts of climate change are already widespread and consequential," McGray said.


    The impacts won't be the same for everyone, and as usual, the world's poor are more likely to be hurt.


    "Climate-related hazards affect poor people's lives directly through impacts on livelihoods, reductions in crop yields or destruction of homes and indirectly through, for example, increased food prices and food insecurity," the report states. Positive effects on the impoverished "are limited and often indirect."


    For those people, the effects "will be catastrophic" unless emissions can be reduced, McGray said.


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    Global Warming Blamed on Humans With 99.9% Certainty, New Study Suggests

    Posted by: Chelsea Alves 58 mins ago

    Climate change, also known as global warming, is with 99.9% certainty man-made, a nonlinear physicist at [COLOR=#009900 !important]McGill University concluded; in a paper published in Climate Dynamics.

    In his paper tilted “Scaling fluctuation analysis and statistical hypothesis testing of anthropogenic warming,” Shaun Lovejoy can’t prove one negative — that humans aren’t ruining our planet. What he was able to do was demolish the claim that natural variability is the root cause of the world warming, not to mention extreme weather phenomena the world has recently been experiencing.


    Global warming is with 99.9% certainty man made, a new study suggests.
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    “This study will be a blow to any remaining climate-change deniers,” Lovejoy said in a statement. “Their two most convincing arguments – that the warming is natural in origin, and that the computer models are wrong – are either directly contradicted by this analysis, or simply do not apply to it.”


    Lovejoy sought out to test whether the causes of climate changes are due to natural causes using statistics. His calculations are based not on computer models, but on actual findings in the field – of surface air temperatures – going back to the 16th century, way before industries began spewing clouds of carbon dioxide into the air.


    Computer models forecasting the future draw back to historic data. Lovejoy looked at the temperature data collected for the models, and asked if nature could have caused it.


    Lovejoy then calculated the probability of measured global warming from natural variability, based on the probabilities of natural fluctuations on a centennial scale. What did he conclude? The probability that Mother Nature caused this degree of global warming the planet has been experiencing since 1880 is less than 0.1%.


    With that said, he has a 99.9 percent degree of confidence that the fluctuation of 0.9 of one degree in average temperature since 1880 is not natural. In other words, there is less than 1 in 100, he argues.


    While he isn’t directly blaming humans for causing the mayhem, if it isn’t Mother Nature, we all known what else remains to blame.


    Read more at http://americanlivewire.com/2014-04-...med-on-humans/
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    Sorry, the UN is using Climate Change as a political tool for control and a one world government with the UN running it.
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    John Coleman has been the weatherman on San Diego KUSI for years.
    He has always been kind of an odd duck.
    He would make strange sounds and dance around like he had a screw loose.
    He would mix his politics with the weather.
    He recently went on vacation and sent the station a letter that said he wasn't coming back.
    And just disappeared from the station.



    John Coleman says goodbye to KUSI, San Diego

    Posted: Apr 10, 2014 7:45 PM PDTUpdated: Apr 10, 2014 9:04 PM PDT


    For the past 20 years, John Coleman was more than a face of KUSI. It's arguable he's been the face of San Diego television. A legitimate national talent working at a local independent? A rare occurrence that is likely to never repeat itself.

    Coleman, 79, has spent the past two decades at KUSI. He's been a broadcaster since 1953.


    The west Texas native is best known for his drawn-out and often-imitated pronunciations of "KUUUUUSI" and "the breeeeeeeeeze!" as well as for "SO-SA" (Sort of Santa Ana) - for when a light offshore flow brings pleasant conditions - and being "giddy" at the end of the work week on Friday nights.


    Coleman was attending the Tropical Weather Conference in South Padre Island, Texas, where today he made a presentation of some of his earliest television broadcasts.


    He was the first weatherman for "Good Morning America" on ABC and founded The Weather Channel in the 1980s. He has also been politically active over the years as a booster of H. Ross Perot's Reform Party in the 1990s and a critic of the global warming frenzy.

    Here is a letter written by John Coleman on the day of his retirement from KUSI, April 10th, 2014, his 20th year with the station:


    Thank you and goodbye.


    Nothing is forever. The universe, the galaxy, the solar system, the sun, Earth... every species fades away in time. We individual people are very small and very temporary parts of the big picture.


    Now is the time to wind down the professional working part of my life and make the most of my private time in the years I have left.


    Thanks to my fellow team members, you have been very kind and patient with me and helped me along when the going got tough.


    I'm grateful to you all. I wish you all every success and happiness.


    Most of all, thank you to the San Diego viewers who have been kind enough to watch me and support my efforts through thick and thin. I owe everything to you!


    And now, goodbye!


    John Coleman


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