Statements on Global Warming
From Science Besieged
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Science Professionals
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Kevin E. Trenberth
There are very good reasons to believe that the current U.S. heat wave is at least partly caused by global warming.
-- Kevin E. Trenberth, chief of the climate-analysis branch of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, August 2006.[1]
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Public Figures
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Al Gore
Questions of fact that are threatening to wealth and power become questions of power. And so the scientific evidence on global warming — an inconvenient truth for the largest polluters — becomes a question of power, and so they try to censor the information."
-- Former US Vice President Al Gore, speaking at the International Television festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2006.[2]
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Rupert Murdoch
Some of the presumptions about extreme weather, whether it be hurricanes or drought, may seem far-fetched. What is certain is that temperatures have been rising and that we are not entirely sure of the consequences. The planet deserves the benefit of the doubt.
-- Rupert Murdoch, speaking at an international summit in Nairobi examining the future of the Kyoto Protocol on 6 November 2006.[3]
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Organizations
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The Weather Channel
These two paragraphs were excerpted from "The Weather Channel Position Statement on Global Warming", dated December 2005:
More than a century’s worth of detailed climate observations show a sharp increase in both carbon dioxide and temperature. These observations, together with computer model simulations and historical climate reconstructions from ice cores, ocean sediments and tree rings all provide strong evidence that the majority of the warming over the past century is a result of human activities. This is also the conclusion drawn, nearly unanimously, by climate scientists. Any meaningful debate on the topic amongst climate experts is over.
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The bottom line is that if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, a significant warming trend is expected to also continue. The ability to adapt will be crucial. Potential outcomes range from moderate and manageable to extreme and catastrophic, depending on a number of factors including location and type of effect, and amount of greenhouse gas emissions. Not every location and its inhabitants will be affected equally, but the more the planet warms, the fewer "winners" and the more "losers" there will be as a result of the changes in climate. The potential exists for the climate to reach a "tipping point," beyond which radical and irreversible changes occur.
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Notes
- ^ Juliet Eilperin, "More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming: U.S. and European Researchers Call Long Hot Spells Likely Washington Post, 4 August 2006. [Accessed on 4 August 2006.]
- ^ Quoted in Jill Lawless, "Gore lashes out at media consolidation",Associated Press via Yahoo! News, 26 August 2006. [Accessed on 28 August 2006.]
- ^ Quoted in "Rupert Murdoch changes mind on global warming", Zee News, 6 November 2006. [Accessed on 7 November 2006.]
