Human-induced global warming will continue for centuries, U.N. panel warns

[IDemo]

Source: Science Recorder

Global warming hasn’t slowed and the evidence points to human activities as the cause, Michel Jarraud, head of the U.N. World Meteorology Organization (WMO), said Monday.

While the rate of warming on the planet’s surface may have slowed somewhat, ocean temperatures are rising fast.

“There is no standstill in global warming,” Jarraud said as he presented the WMO’s annual review of the world’s climate. The report concluded that 2013 tied with 2007 as the sixth hottest year since the recording of annual temperatures began in 1850.

“The warming of our oceans has accelerated and at lower depths. More than 90 percent of the excess energy trapped by greenhouse gases is stored in the oceans,” Jarraud told a news conference. “Levels of these greenhouse gases are at a record, meaning that our atmosphere and oceans will continue to warm for centuries to come.”

Read more: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news/human-induced-global-warming-will-continue-for-centuries-u-n-panel-warns/

[blackspade]

1. Yep, centuries after we are gone....

[Moostache]

2. That's precisely why the right wing lunatics do not care

They believe the worst effects won't impact the world until they are gone and that its someone else's problem. Sad but true...

[blackspade]

3. Gone to their 'rapture?'

I was thinking more like extinct, sooner than later.

[pffshht]

5. I just don't see human extinction as realistic anytime soon

For most of human prehistory, there have been fewer than 5 million people on the planet. A return to that would seem like extinction compared to our current billions, but it's not even "threatened" in absolute terms.
I think that even in the worst catastrophe, the last few million are going to be hard to get rid of- even if the cause were nuclear winter combined with an engineered perfect pathogen intended to kill every human on Earth; there's still got to be some kind of Dr. Strangelove mineshaft contingency or 12 Monkeys underground society waiting for the surface to become habitable again.
And if their island stays above sea level, the Sentinelese might not even notice that our apocalypse had come and gone.

[defacto7]

4. Actually many take the biblical position

to "subdue the earth". The evangelicals believe there is NO future for the earth and god calls them to use the planet as much as possible before the return of christ... the whole planet is ripe for the picking. No need to conserve it because it's gone when Jesus comes so it doesn't matter.

idiots.