OT-Climate Change, It's later than you think!

[Pyramor]

The IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has issued the first installment of its long-awaited report on global warming. It is NOT good news. See http://www.wunderground.com/blog/Jef...?entrynum=2535 for a brief analysis. This is a collaborative effort by many non-paid scientists to vet the data and make a conservative forecast of the world's climate. What was released today is only a summary of their analysis. The data will be released in March.

I live in South Florida and am sure glad I won't be around to see 2100. If we get a 4-6 foot rise in sea level much of Florida south of Palm Beach will be unlivable due to salt water intrusion into wells. The Everglades will become a salt water marsh.

[CunegoFan]

Might need two buckets for this one.

[eddief]

your best bet for survival in this political "climate."

[Benny Profane]

I'd live in South Florida if there were hills. Where do you bike?

[alessandro]

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

I'd live in South Florida if there were hills.

No, you wouldn't. Where would you ski?

Where do you bike?

Probably on the bridges:

[Benny Profane]

Originally Posted by alessandro

No, you wouldn't. Where would you ski?

I'd save so much money on my house and taxes, I'd spend a month or two in the Rockies or Alps.

[tmf]

Originally Posted by alessandro

Probably on the bridges:

I grew up in Miami. That brings back memories of hill repeats on bridges! A constant headwind does offer some added resistance to make up for the lack of elevation change.

[firerescuefin]

Cool bridge

[#campyuserftw]

Originally Posted by CunegoFan

Might need two buckets for this one.

Here is the other bucket of popcorn, as there are two:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09...ikely-in-2007/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-15-years.html

http://www.rtcc.org/2013/09/23/globa...rature-hiatus/

Bonus:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...heer-vest.html

[Hardlyrob]

Something else to consider - apparently many on the panel are not exactly "objective"

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...750537994.html

[Broid]

I'm going to buy property in Tennessee now so I can sell it later as water front...

[ptourkin]

This one's getting locked soon, but until then I'd prefer to read what the 95% of climate scientists who agree with it say than the tiny minority cited by deniers. Let's be smart about this

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...s-ipcc-report/

http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc...confidence.htm

[SPOKE]

AL GORE will make an appearance soon.....to try to separate you from more of your money.

[Louis]

I believe the research funded by the Koch brothers and Big Oil. They know what's best for little guys like me and for future generations, so I trust their judgment.

[93legendti]

"As the gap between models and reality has grown wider, so has the number of mainstream scientists gingerly raising the possibility that climate models may soon need a bit of a re-think. A recent study by some well-known German climate modelers put the probability that models can currently be reconciled with observations at less than 2%, and they said that if we see another five years without a large warming, the probability will drop to zero.

The IPCC must take everybody for fools
What’s more, the U.K.’s main climate modeling lab just this summer revised its long-term weather forecasts to show it now expects there to be no warming for at least another five years. Ironically, if its model is right, it will have proven itself and all others like it to be fundamentally wrong."

http://opinion.financialpost.com/201...getting-mushy/