Tuesday June 19, 2007

Global warming 'is three times faster than worst predictions'

peakoil.com -> environment.independent.co.uk :

Global warming is accelerating three times more quickly than feared, a series of startling, authoritative studies has revealed. They have found that emissions of carbon dioxide have been rising at thrice the rate in the 1990s. The Arctic ice cap is melting three times as fast - and the seas are rising twice as rapidly - as had been predicted. The study, published by the US National Academy of Sciences, shows that carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing by about 3% a year during this decade, compared with 1.1% a year in the 1990s.

The significance is that this is much faster than even the highest scenario outlined in this year's massive reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - and suggests that their dire forecasts of devastating harvests, dwindling water supplies, melting ice and loss of species are likely to be understating the threat facing the world.

On the ground, a study by the University of California's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows that Arctic ice has declined by 7.8% a decade over the past 50 years, compared with an average estimate by IPCC computer models of 2.5%.

See also :

1. UN climate panel : global warming is man-made
2. Scientists get last say in climate study
3. Global warming could bring hunger, melt Himalayas
4. Melting Greenland ice could raise ocean 7 meters
5. Everest ice forest melting due to global warming

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