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Holiday In Wales Over 700 U.S. climate scientists from all regions of the U.S. stated in a letter delivered to the U.S. Senate Tuesday that greenhouse gas emissions will have to be reduced even faster now that two years of no-action on reducing them have elapsed since publication of the most recent reports by the IPCC and NRC.

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Holiday Wales The scientists claim that "the longer emissions increase, the faster they will ultimately have to be decreased in order to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system".

Particularly, wide planning and the " fit of climate adaptation measures to existing buildings and infrastructure". The consequences of climate change are both visible and far reaching. Ice and permafrost is disappearing during summer months across the Baring Strait and worldwide instances of dangerous heat waves and forest fires are growing. The primary human impact on climate change can be identified as our continued emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

Cottage Holiday In Wales The letter was delivered in time for the Senate to debate amendments to "The Energy Policy Act of 2003" (S-14), expected to address the issue of climate change/global warming. A copy of the letter follows.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales THE STATE OF CLIMATE SCIENCE: JULY 2003 -- A LETTER FROM U.S. SCIENTISTS

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Camping Holiday Wales July 29, 2003
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510

St. Director of Tourism Since 1998 Mr. Peter Hilary Modeste has served, as the Director of Tourism of the St. Lucia Tourist Board. President of the St. Lucia Hotel & Tourism Association, Mr. Modeste has been employed within the tourism sector for a number of years. He was educated at the University of Wales and is married with three children. A former Minister of Education, Mr. Modeste has served on a number of national organizations including the St. Lucia Development Bank.

Accommodation Holiday Wales Dear Senators Frist and Daschle:

Holiday Last Minute Wales Two years have elapsed since the publication of the most recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the National Research Council (NRC) on the state of the science of climate change and its impacts on the United States and the rest of the world. As scientists engaged in research on these subjects, we are writing to confirm that the main findings of these documents continue to represent the consensus opinion of the scientific community. Indeed, these findings have been reinforced rather than weakened by research reported since the documents were released.

Catering Holiday Self Wales In brief, the findings are that:

Holiday Wales Walking 1) Anthropogenic climate change, driven by emissions of greenhouse gases, is already underway and likely responsible for most of the observed warming over the last 50 yearsthe largest warming that has occurred in the Northern Hemisphere during at least the past 1000 years;

Family Holiday Wales 2) Over the course of this century the Earth is expected to warm an additional 2.5 to 10.5 F, depending on future emissions levels and on the climate sensitivitya sustained global rate of change exceeding any in the last 10,000 years;

Holiday Riding Wales 3) Temperature increases in most areas of the United States are expected to be considerably higher than these global means because of our nation's northerly location and large average distance from the oceans;

Adventure Holiday Wales 4) Even under mid-range emissions assumptions, the projected warming could cause substantial impacts in different regions of the U.S., including an increased likelihood of heavy and extreme precipitation events, exacerbated drought, and sea level rise;

Holiday Park South Wales 5) Almost all plausible emissions scenarios result in projected temperatures that continue to increase well beyond the end of this century; and,

Cottage Holiday Wales 6) Due to the long lifetimes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the longer emissions increase, the faster they will ultimately have to be decreased in order to avoid dangerous interference with the climate system.

Holiday In Wales Evidence that climate change is already underway includes the instrumental record, which shows a surface temperature rise of approximately 1F over the 20th century, the accelerated sea level rise during that century relative to the last few thousand years, global retreat of mountain glaciers, reduction in snow cover extent, earlier thawing of lake and river ice, the increase in upper air water vapor over most regions in the past several decades, and the 0.09F warming of the world's deep oceans since the 1950's.

Holiday Wales Evidence that the warmth of the Northern Hemisphere during the second half of the last century was unprecedented in the last 1000 years comes from three major reconstructions of past surface temperatures, which used indicators such as tree rings, corals, ice cores, and lake sediments for years prior to 1860, and instrumental records for the interval between 1865 and the present.

Cottage Holiday In Wales On the subject of human causation of this warmth, the NRC report stated that, "The IPCC's conclusion that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations accurately reflects the current thinking of the scientific community on this issue." Indeed, computer simulations do not reproduce the late 20th century warmth if they include only natural climate forcings such as emissions from volcanoes and solar activity. The warmth is only captured when the simulations include forcings from human-emitted greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere.

Caravan Holiday In Wales In summary, the main conclusions of the IPCC and NRC reports remain robust consensus positions supported by the vast majority of researchers in the fields of climate change and its impacts. The body of research carried out since the reports were issued tends to strengthen their conclusions.

Camping Holiday Wales Sincerely,

Accommodation Holiday Wales [names of 725 scientists, from 43 states] See also:

Holiday Last Minute Wales http://www.ucsusa.org
http://madison.indymedia.org/feature/display/13537/index.php

Catering Holiday Self Wales Union of Concerned Scientists - 7/31/2003

Topic: Climate Change

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