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Bad News From Global Warming Experts

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Posted on Feb 1, 2007

The most authoritative climate change panel, with 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, is expected to project the biggest change in average temperatures in thousands of years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change believes that even if governments manage to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, oceans will continue to rise for at least 1,000 years.

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PARIS (Reuters) - The U.N. climate panel is set to issue its strongest warning yet on Friday that human activities are causing a damaging global warming likely to bring more heatwaves, droughts and rising seas.

The group, the most authoritative on climate change with 2,500 scientists from 130 countries, is also due to say that oceans will keep rising for more than 1,000 years even if governments stabilize greenhouse gas emissions this century.

Scientists and government officials in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have been meeting in Paris since Monday to review the report, including a 15-page summary for policymakers.

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By laura, March 5, 2007 at 7:55 pm #
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i cant believe hoe ignorant u guys are maybey george w bush hasnt done enough on global warming its not all his fault u think its all his blame?and its pretty hard being a prezident the only one whos the moron is the one calling him that.he doesnt control everything if u thinnk u know what ur talking about do something about it!help!write letters speeches...etc. he doesnt control everyones lives and how were damaging our earth.plus u think hes the only one in the govt that does everithing? well think again and dont go insulting people u dont know like his wife!!!!
ok??

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By Jimmy Schiel, February 1, 2007 at 6:09 pm #
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Wow! I don’t believe in “global warming” so I must worship GW Bush? GW Bush is a moron. Everyone knows that. “Slick Willie” is his willing accomplice in this imaginary “War on Terror,” and his old lady (Hillary) is a she devil Nazi. You need to open your minds to the fact you are being lied to. These scumbags think you are stupid. They are using “global warming” to create a Global Government. The most glaring is the “North American Union,” why do you think there are no troops on the Mexican border. You are being played as a fool Stop It. By the way I have researched this mostly from NASA. They seem to believe that the sun has released more radiation than normal, and the increase in sunspots seem to support this theory. Along with ice melting on Saturn the list of evidence marches on and on. Believe what you like and enjoy the new corporate fascist America.

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By trantieungoc, February 1, 2007 at 10:44 am #
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Bush and his stupid gangs are still playing deaf and dumb !

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By osisbs, February 1, 2007 at 9:24 am #
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If Global Warming is a hoax, then why is Swiss RE, the world’s largest reinsurance company, devoting tens of millions of dollars trying to figure out how to weasel out of paying claims?  Well, they’re not really trying to weasel out of paying, but they’re looking into ways to limit their “exposure” to inevitable disasters.  People who think GW is a hoax will be the first ones with their hands out looking for government cheese when their house is swept away by 14 inches of rain as in El Paso or by F5 tornadoes as in Hallam, or by 4 inches of ice as in Saint Louis this year. 
By the way, the global reinsurance business is four times as large as the global petroleum business.  When the insurance companies sneeze, the world catches cold.

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By Charlie Kasnick, February 1, 2007 at 8:39 am #
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If you dont look at your credit card balance ,does that mean it exists?
Im am soooooo tired of living in the new dark age.

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By Russell Einstein Spinoza, February 1, 2007 at 8:30 am #
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Oh...o.k. Jimmy.  We’ll take your word, the word of profiteering corporations, and George Bush’s word too, who helped these corporations take over.  But before we do take your word for it, have you researched the topic?  Do you rely on the same scientist who are trying to validate Intelligent Design and Creationsim?  And if so....you haven’t a clue to the scientific method.  Next subject.....

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By jimmyschiel@gmail.com, February 1, 2007 at 6:03 am #
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Global Warming is an absolute hoax! It is only an excuse for global government, global taxation, population control, slavery, and loss of sovernty. It is hotter on the planet Mercury how many SUV’s are there on that planet? The so-called scientists can’t tell you what the weather will be tomorrow, and now I’m supposed to believe they can see 100 years into the future? Climate change may be real but more than likely it is caused by the sun something beyond our power to control.

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