This Is The Story That Did It For Me, Re: Global Warming

[WillyT]

"LONDON -- A photo of Mount Kilimanjaro stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000 years will be used as dramatic testimony for action against global warming as ministers from the world's biggest polluters meet on Tuesday."


Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0314-10.htm

Any particular story or event that convinced you that global warming is real???

:shrug:

[Warpy]

1. Take a very close look at the second photo

and notice the thick glacier still clinging to the rim while the crater is nearly bare.

Part of the glacier melt within the crater may be due to the fact that magma lies only 400 meters below.

However, the ice down the slopes has certainly had a dramatic decrease in the last few years.

The crater isn't convincing. The sides of the mountain are.

[WillyT]

2. Yep...

Pretty amazing.

[mb7588a]

3. Katrina...

[magellan]

4. Was already convinced, but this article in April's Scientific American brought it home

Conservative Climate; April 2007; Scientific American Magazine; by David Biello; 2 Page(s) (there's more to the article, for purchase.)
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=333F2116-2B35-221B-6B80944A8A3FD09F

Paris--The signs of global climate change are clear: melting glaciers, earlier blooms and rising temperatures. In fact, 11 of the past 12 years rank among the hottest ever recorded. After some debate, the scientists and diplomats of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued their long-anticipated summary report in February. The summary describes the existence of global warming as "unequivocal" but leaves out a reference to an accelerated trend in this warming. By excluding statements that provoked disagreement and adhering strictly to data published in peer-reviewed journals, the IPCC has generated a conservative document that may underestimate the changes that will result from a warming world, much as its 2001 report did.

More than 2,000 scientists from 154 countries participated in the IPCC process, which will release three more reports this year. This first report examined only the physical science of climate change. Scientists drafted as lead authors prepared chapters on subjects ranging from a historical overview of climate change science to regional projections. Governments and other reviewers then submitted more than 30,000 comments. Finally, the lead authors and diplomats gathered in Paris to review the final document word by word, changing an emphasis here ("unequivocal" triumphed over "evident") or leaving out a controversial finding there.

(Emphasis mine.)

[skids]

5. Can't remember a time when I wasn't convinced...

...and I'm not too horribly young either. Been a believer since I was old enough to understand the science of it. You just don't take massive amounts of stuff out of the ground, put it in the air, and expect it all to get soaked up by some magical vacuum cleaner. Nature doesn't work that fast.

(Though actually as it turns out the ocean has done a pretty good job of sweeping our problem under the rug by dissolving a lot of it, and is worse for the wear acidity-wise, and ready to spit it back out at us as it warms.)