Climate report maps out ‘highway to extinction’

A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming with every degree of temperature rise, most of them bad.

It’s likely to be the source of sharp closed-door debate, some scientists say, along with a multitude of other issues in the 20-chapter draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. While the wording in the draft is almost guaranteed to change at this week’s meeting in Brussels, several scientists say the focus won’t.

Despite that dire outlook, several scientists involved in the process say they are optimistic that such a drastic temperature rise won’t happen because people will reduce carbon dioxide emissions that cause global warming.

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I have a problem with the last statement.

I've read, that even if we stopped producing greenhous gasses right
now, and did'nt produce anymore, the global water level would still
rise by about 3 inches, simply because we've put so many green-
house gasses in the atmosphere as it is.

There's nothing wrong with optimism, it breeds ideas. Ignoring the problem or just squawking like chicken little will do no better. Yes it has been shown that the amount of heat trapping gases as well as the other pollutants cutting the ozone and causing destruction on the ground are going to be around a long time even if we turned it all off. In some case nature has a way of recovering from disasters that scientist are not expecting. A number of things could happen that alter the heat transfer that keeps the system in check.

What is alarming at this time is polar melting that is occurring in just a few years. If you think about it, the planet has areas that absorb heat and areas that radiate heat. We also have to consider the polar regions and sinks that absorb extra heat in the warm season for that hemisphere and radiate it during the cool season without warming the cap more than it can cool in the cool season. We all depend on these cyclical events to produce food, maintain temperatures that we can live in and other systems that rely on the constant change to function. If we melt the caps then this vast sink will not be able to sustain the vital cycle. The caps show the strongest evidence that we have borked the system and that something is wrong. Blizzards at a global warming convention being more of a media field day to the unknowing person sounds like a joke and a reason to deny evidence of the problem. What has really happened is a cycle has been thrown off causing the freak late season storm. These incidents can also be caused by solar events that trigger a shift in the jet stream. But is this event is viewed as a precursor to a bigger problem then it may indicate a disruption in geothermal transfer. If the disruption were to happen like that in an El Nine`o year, then we may see one or more growing seasons disrupted in the US while another country that grows little food has one of it's best in centuries. It's these oscillations that we have to watch. Is 85-90 deg weather in October and March going to be the norm! This is like the coastal hurricane parties, they laugh and party until it hits then regret not heeding the warning.