When UN report says "90% confident that global warming over last 50 yrs is due to burning of fossil fuels."

Question

Does that mean the 2,500 scientists who arrived at this consensus are all liberals?


"The 21-page summary of the assessment, which is thousands of pages long, concludes that global warming over the last 50 years is "very likely" due to the increase in emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. "Very likely" indicates a confidence of more than 90 percent."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/03/MNGR9NUBLN1.DTL

To Metahook; Got any evidence to back up those two claims?

Answer 1

I agree with the report!!! Absolutely!! I mean its obvious that people today are living in a fantasy world where you can do anything and everything you want and there are no consequences. Well; we are now beginning to see just how irresponsible behavior effects us as a species.

Answer 2

Yes... but scientists have formed a THEORY. To me it is irresponsible to take a statement such as "90% confident" as gospel. A theory is a set of observations that lead a scientist to a belief that something is as they say. This needs to be backed up with hard scientific evidence or through experiment. The only data that is close to showing anything is satellite pictures showing the ever changing ozone layer. But not a shred of hard data exists that fossil fuels do affect the ozone layer. Scientists claiming global warming also seem to ignore existing weather data and the fact archaeologists can prove the many climatic changes that have taken place in the world for the past 6 million years or so.

Are they wrong or right? We don't really know, and neither do they, really. I would assume that 2,500 scientists cannot all be liberal. In fact I would hope they have a high enough education to be above that bunch of liberal/conservative crap.

I can say this we do know the climate is changing. We can not prove exactly why. Impact from fossil fuels is large and could very well be a contributor to global warming.

One thing for certain is we need to find other energy sources before we destroy this planet due to fossil fuels. If not from pollution we may see wars as resources become even more rare.

Answer 3

Not necessarily Liberals, but the vast majority have been widely recognized as being on the Global Warming Bandwagon for a long time. Remember this is a UN Commision. When was the last time the UN actually did anything except what was politically in their best interest or would creat the maximum embarassment for the US?

And for the report. This is not a new report. It is based on controversial science that includes models whose results have a 400% difference in their results and had data from the medievel warming period removed because it cast into doubt the findings. It does not include any new science, just a new consensus on the wording.

Answer 4

No, it means that the UN is completely meaningless and out of touch with reality. Keep in mind these are the same people who apparently find no problem with the Syrian and Sudanese human rights record, yet find panties on terrorists' heads to be the moral equivalent of Auschwitz.

Answer 5

Blowhard politicians speaking, the scientist haven't come out with their conclusions yet, and have been ordered to conform to what the politicians want said. That is the UN for you.