Climate Change - Can't Be Bought Off

Climate change is real and we may be in deeper shit than anybody thought.

Climate Change Predictions Not Exaggerated, Analysis Says

John Roach for National Geographic News
February 1, 2007

Tomorrow the United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release a major report with grim predictions for the coming decades, according to journalists who have seen draft versions of the paper.

If the IPCC's recent track record is any indication, the predictions will be no exaggeration, according to an analysis posted today on the Web site of the journal Science.

The Science study compared actual climate measurements with the predictions of computer models in a 2001 IPCC report.

In recent years actual concentrations of carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas linked to global warming—have followed almost exactly the projections of the 2001 IPCC report. ...(full article)

But for the sake of a little more profit (at the cost of who knows how many lives), ExxonMobil is looking for a few bad apples to lie about climate change. Muddying the (ever rising) waters could slow the political process necessary to respond.

Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study

Ian Sample, science correspondent
Friday February 2, 2007
The Guardian

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). ...(full article)