– “Climate study confirms what skeptics scoffed at: global warming is real”

“A new climate study [Oct. 22, 2011] shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming – in fits and starts – since around 1900.

Most climate scientists attribute warming since the mid-1950, at least to some degree, to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities – burning coal, oil, and to a lesser extent gas, and from land-use changes.

The latest results mirror those from earlier, independent studies by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research in Britain, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

These previous efforts, however, came under fire from some climate-change skeptics who said they had detected serious flaws in the analytical methods and temperature records the three groups used.

The new research, which has yet to be formally published but which appears in four papers posted on BerkeleyEarth.org, uses new analytical techniques and a much larger set of records than the previous studies did,”  quoting Pete Spotts Staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor.

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– “Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real”
“A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly,” quoting Seth Borenstein on MSNBC.

– Texas sets US heat record – Summer, 2011.
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– Ramtha & JZ on climate change 4+ years ago

“The climate change and its catastrophic results have been created by humanity.

Never before in human reckoning have we stood upon the precipice of our own demise.

Global warming is here today — no longer fiction, but fact.

It is not too late to change our choices.”

– JZ Knight, 2007

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UPDATE ON CHANGE
Date: 14 April 2007

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UPDATE: December 8, 2011
– “US adds more billion-dollar disasters to 2011 list”
“Just last August the federal officials who track weather disasters said 2011 would go down as a record year with 9 events topping $1 billion in damages. On Wednesday, those same authorities upped the number to 12 events — totalling $52 billion in damages –and said there’s still a chance for one or two more to be added to the list,”
by Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com.
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