Eugene Robinson: Global Warming Just Got Hotter

[babylonsister]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/global_warming_just_got_hotter_20111024/

Global Warming Just Got Hotter

Posted on Oct 24, 2011

By Eugene Robinson



For the clueless or cynical die-hards who deny global warming, it’s getting awfully cold out there.

The latest icy blast of reality comes from an eminent scientist whom the climate-change skeptics once lauded as one of their own. Richard Muller, a respected physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, used to dismiss alarmist climate research as being “polluted by political and activist frenzy.” Frustrated at what he considered shoddy science, Muller launched his own comprehensive study to set the record straight. Instead, the record set him straight.

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We know that the rise in temperatures over the past five decades is abrupt and very large. We know it is consistent with models developed by other climate researchers that posit greenhouse gas emissions—the burning of fossil fuels by humans—as the cause. And now we know, thanks to Muller, that those other scientists have been both careful and honorable in their work.

Nobody’s fudging the numbers. Nobody’s manipulating data to win research grants, as Perry claims, or making an undue fuss over a “naturally occurring” warm-up, as Bachmann alleges. Contrary to what Cain says, the science is real.

It is the know-nothing politicians—not scientists—who are committing an unforgivable fraud.

[ClassWarrior]

1. K&R

NGU.

[opihimoimoi]

2. KnR for the most important post of the Month.....we dither while our Earth Flounders

CO2 at 400 ppm

was at 260 or less for the past 180000 years

at 1500 CE CO2 started climbing as human pop grew.

The record is there,,,we Humans caused it and now....


we must fix it

[Blue_Tires]

3. this should be stapled to the foreheads of all those anti-science assclowns