Blog Flux Directory Subscribe in NewsGator Online Subscribe with Bloglines http://www.wikio.com Blog directory
And, yes, I DO take it personally: Dangerous levels of human-made pollution
Mandy: Great blog!
Mark: Thanks to all the contributors on this blog. When I want to get information on the events that really matter, I come here.
Penny: I'm glad I found your blog (from a comment on Think Progress), it's comprehensive and very insightful.
Eric: Nice site....I enjoyed it and will be back.
nora kelly: I enjoy your site. Keep it up! I particularly like your insights on Latin America.
Alison: Loquacious as ever with a touch of elegance -- & right on target as usual!
"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it."
- Noam Chomsky
Send tips and other comments to: profmarcus2010@yahoo.com /* ---- overrides for post page ---- */ .post { padding: 0; border: none; }

Monday, September 25, 2006

Dangerous levels of human-made pollution



An iceberg from the Portage Glacier is locked in the frozen Portage Lake south of Anchorage, Alaska in this Jan. 6, 2004 file photo. The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

but wait, it gets better...
The warming has been stronger in the far north, where melting ice and snow expose darker land and rocks beneath allowing more warmth from the sun to be absorbed, and more over land than water.

[...]

"This evidence implies that we are getting close to dangerous levels of human-made pollution," Hansen said in a statement [James Hansen of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York].

this puts the old weather report cliche, "record-breaking heat," in a whole new light...
[T]he overall temperature [is] the warmest in the current interglacial period, which began about 12,000 years ago.

Submit To Propeller


And, yes, I DO take it personally home page