Report Has 'Smoking Gun' on Climate
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 @ 21:08:07 UTC
Topic: General
(AP) -- Human-caused global warming is here, visible in the
air, water and melting ice, and is destined to get much worse in the
future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn next week.
"The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table as
we speak," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed
all 1,600 pages of the first segment of a giant four-part report. "The
evidence ... is compelling."
Andrew Weaver, a Canadian climate scientist and study co-author,
went even further: "This isn't a smoking gun; climate is a batallion of
intergalactic smoking missiles."
The first phase of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change is being released in Paris next week. This segment,
written by more than 600 scientists and reviewed by another 600 experts
and edited by bureaucrats from 154 countries, includes "a significantly
expanded discussion of observation on the climate," said co-chair Susan
Solomon, a senior scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. She and other scientists held a telephone
briefing on the report Monday.
That report will feature an "explosion of new data" on observations of current global warming, Solomon said.
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