Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report, What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say

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Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report, What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say
Don Beck


Scientists involved in writing the report said recently that it is already out of date and that its predictions are too conservative.

Here are some very important scientific findings (not modeling) from this past year that were not allowed into the report because of a deadline of a year and a half ago for the input of scientific data.

This wasn't a dastardly conspiracy, just a rather stupid rule that proved to be quite tragic in light of the alarming scientific data of this past year.

Moreover, the political contingent showed up as each report was written by the scientific community, and the political hacks softened up the language every where they could, so the report is not even close to what it should be.

The sea level rise forecast is the most notably skewed. Dr. James Hansen says a more accurate forecast for 2100 is more than 5 meters without measures to reduce CO2 substantially.(1) He, and many others, have said that the report was written without the very recent knowledge of glacial acceleration feedbacks that have surprised the scientists with the rapidity of the melting and flow, making the report's forecasts much too low.

Consequently, the level of urgency that is understood by policy makers around the world will be out of touch with reality and the chance to slow the warming of the planet disastrously diminished.

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http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/12/09/un_nerving_update_to_recent_climate_repo

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1. We will see nations go under water

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-5tm3RPGkfU