The effects of global warming are visible in quite a few places around the world now. Glaciers have retreated worldwide, and the Arctic sea ice is getting thinner and not extending so far. Measurements indicate average temperatures have risen, and there are of course increased levels of atmospheric CO2. Since I am not an expert I have to trust those who are, such as the World Meteorological Organization. Their latest report says the planet "experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes" in the ten years from 2001 to 2010, the warmest decade since the start of modern measurements in 1850.
Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global warming, with more national temperature records reported broken than in any previous decade. Sea levels rose about twice as fast as the trend in the last century. A WMO report, The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes<http://library.wmo.int/opac/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15110>, analyses global and regional temperatures and precipitation, and extreme weather such as the heat waves in Europe and Russia, Hurricane Katrina in the US, tropical cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, droughts in the Amazon basin, Australia and East Africa, and floods in Pakistan. Obviously they could all be politically motivated or in the pay of mysterious socialist organisations, and it's always possible that their modelling is wildly inaccurate, but unless someone is actually making up the data and the measurements then *something* is going on which is causing the world to warm. It appears to be an observational fact, and it's one which has potentially dire consequences for the human race, since it can wipe out swathes of the easy argicultural life we've enjoyed since the start of the last interglacial. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
