FASTER AND WORSE

Forget the manufactured news stories about the errors in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report and all those stolen emails. Focus instead on the scientific consensus that human activity is driving global warming. Studies conducted after the 2007 IPCC report have found that climate change is happening faster than previously expected with maybe more dire consequences than previously projected.

“According to a backgrounder on the latest science by the Union of Concerned Scientists, more carbon dioxide is staying in the atmosphere as the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide has diminished; sea levels are rising faster than the IPCC's best estimate, which was based on an average of several climate models; and the Arctic ice sheet is diminishing more rapidly than scientists expected at the time the IPCC released its 2007 report. The December 2009 "Copenhagen Diagnosis," a report by 26 independent researchers (about half of whom were IPCC authors) based on more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, many of which were published after the IPPC's 2007 report, draws similar conclusions.” Click here for more.

The secret word is Worry