2006-12-12 03:54:33 · 11 answers · asked by evas 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Making it worse.
2006-12-12 03:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by SatanicYoda 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to the UN man (read USA) is not the leading cause of Global Warming.
UN downgrades man's impact on the climate
Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:37am GMT 11/12/2006
Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations report on climate change will claim next year.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there can be little doubt that humans are responsible for warming the planet, but the organisation has reduced its overall estimate of this effect by 25 per cent.
In a final draft of its fourth assessment report, to be published in February, the panel reports that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has accelerated in the past five years. It also predicts that temperatures will rise by up to 4.5 C during the next 100 years, bringing more frequent heat waves and storms.
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The panel, however, has lowered predictions of how much sea levels will rise in comparison with its last report in 2001.
Climate change sceptics are expected to seize on the revised figures as evidence that action to combat global warming is less urgent.
Scientists insist that the lower estimates for sea levels and the human impact on global warming are simply a refinement due to better data on how climate works rather than a reduction in the risk posed by global warming.
One leading UK climate scientist, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity surrounding the report before it is published, said: "The bottom line is that the climate is still warming while our greenhouse gas emissions have accelerated, so we are storing up problems for ourselves in the future."
The IPCC report, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, has been handed to the Government for review before publication.
It warns that carbon dioxid
2006-12-12 12:36:04 · answer #2 · answered by jirwin7211 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
producing a lot of CO2 and Methane, that increase global warming, and cry about the damage from the hurricanes in the Caribbean, that result from global warming.
2006-12-12 12:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Al Gore is presenting twisted evidence, so he can be in the movies. I'm smoking cigars and enjoying my hour long car rides to help raise the temperature and contribute to global warming, because it is cold here right now.
2006-12-12 11:58:00 · answer #4 · answered by Local Celebrity 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's hard to really tell from reading the news. But it's not just the government - it should also be corporate responsibility as well.
2006-12-12 12:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Rob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Ford and GM are building bigger SUV's and sending out manufacturing jobs to countries that don't have any environmental laws.
2006-12-12 12:47:35 · answer #6 · answered by Chuck P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now we're worried about our effect on mars.. You know the robot we sent there is causing the ice caps on Mars to melt..... Was that robot leaded or unleaded??
2006-12-12 12:04:14 · answer #7 · answered by bereal1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Making it worse by continuing to drive enormous cars and grow hoards of cattle to ground up into Big Macs.
2006-12-12 11:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by bradcymru 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There has been a significant reduction in CFC's
2006-12-12 12:03:07 · answer #9 · answered by Tad D 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not much that I can see
2006-12-12 12:09:55 · answer #10 · answered by Paul I 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋