According to a new government report obtained by NPR, it is "extremely likely" that human activities are the "dominant cause" of global warming.
The report states that the last 115 years are "the warmest in the history of modern civilization."
The report "NCA4" is the nation's most authoritative assessment of climate science. The report's authors include experts from leading scientific agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the Department of Energy, as well as academic scientists.
Also at Ars Technica:
The topline conclusion is obviously the degree to which observed global warming is human-caused, and the report pulls no punches: “Many lines of evidence demonstrate that it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. Over the last century, there are no convincing alternative explanations supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”
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We have a recent report by the US government that climate change is almost certainly caused by humans. However, we don't have the same rigor in gun death statistics; instead policy debate can rely only on FBI crime statistics which aren't directly comparable year-over-year due to changing measurement methodology (see "Caution to users").
This is because the NRA put pressure on the CDC through a Republican Congress to halt this research, under the logic that it promotes the cause of gun control.
But how likely is it that this is intentional, to use the US Second Amendment as an ongoing lightning rod for public attention (in a "bread and circuses" sense) while political business continues as usual on the back end (e.g. Paradise Papers)? Obama and a Democratic congress had the opportunity to restart this, which would presumably be just as "common sense" as the actual reforms they have been promoting on this issue, since whoever was actually supported by the facts would presumably have a motivation to set the program back in motion to improve support for their proposals.
(Score: 1, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:34PM (4 children)
NYC is reeling after its worst terror attack since 9-11. And Broadcom Limited, amazing company with $20 billion in revenue, is coming back to the U.S.A. Very important stories being IGNORED so we can discuss this piece crapped out by the deep state. Because administrators here are very biased!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:36PM (3 children)
Those pussy hat protesters, and that annoying march in New York, were the work of Russia. SoylentNews has the scoop, still waiting to get a time slot:
https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=23152 [soylentnews.org]
Before the Senate Judiciary panel, Facebook general counsel Colin Stretch and Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett revealed that Russia was behind the post-election riots. All those "grassroots" protests in NY and DC, with "Not my president!" and the pussy hats, were being pushed into existence by Russia.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/02/growing-evidence-that-russia-using-the-resistance-to-stoke-division/ [dailycaller.com]
Dems always blame others for what they are doing. Mistreating women? Anthony Weiner turns himself in for federal prison on Monday! Hating blacks? The candidate for Virginia governor removed a black person from his campaign material to please his supporters! Chasing a covered muslim girl by vehicle and then killing her, like that Virginia campaign ad suggests? It's been done, and it was hot news until the attacker turned out to be a Mexican illegal! Dirty deals with Russians? The above, plus UraniumOne, plus $9 million or $12 million to create fake news, and we even had a "hot mike" incident with Obama offering "more flexibility" after "his" reelection!
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by captain normal on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:06PM (2 children)
Whoosh....
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:47PM
Ignoring the Russian control over the left, and then protecting this on the right, doesn't make the truth go away.
The history goes back literally a century. This stuff is STILL happening.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 05 2017, @05:31AM
Who ever modded this down just doesn't get that "The Real Donald Trump" is sarcastic take on the great orange one seriously lacks some cognitive capacity.
"It is easier to fool someone than it is to convince them that they have been fooled" Mark Twain
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:54PM (8 children)
Then where are the grapes in Vinland and the grasslands in Greenland?
Oh is "the modern civilization" unobtrusivelly defined as "since the Little Ice Age", isn't it? ;)
(Score: 5, Informative) by fritsd on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:09PM (3 children)
LMGTFY.
Only special, hardy varieties apparently:
Grape growing potential 'wide open' in Newfoundland, says provincial fruit expert (2016-03-20) [www.cbc.ca]
Grape varieties of Newfoundland (2013) [winesofcanada.com]
Århus University studied it for the government of Greenland in 2016. Not much agriculture as of yet, mostly grass for sheep:
There is potential for agriculture in Greenland (2017-07-24) [agro.au.dk]
You're welcome.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:21PM (1 child)
Q.E.D.
Now what was that sob story about "warmest in the history of modern civilization" again? ;)
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday November 04 2017, @08:22PM
Greenland is expected to warm much quicker than most of the rest of the world (being in the Arctic), but I'm doing a wild guess that "the warmest in the history of modern civilization" from TFA referred to GLOBAL warming not GREENLAND warming.
OTOH, parent comment *was* specifically about East Canada ("Vinland", amirite?) and Greenland warming. The Vikings abandoned their settlements on Greenland [wikipedia.org]; it must have gotten too cold for too many years *locally*.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:41PM
And what about the pyramids in Antarctica?
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:04PM (3 children)
The grasslands of Greenland are still there, at least according to the Danish tourist bureau [greenland-guide.dk].
That said, there's been repeated claims that Erik the Red named it "greenland" more as a marketing ploy than anything else.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Funny) by kanweg on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:15PM (2 children)
Are you sure it wasn't Erik the Orange?
....
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by rylyeh on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:55PM
Due to the use of ochre [wikipedia.org] for red in those days, shouldn't it be 'Eric the Ochre'?
"a vast crenulate shell wherein rode the grey and awful form of primal Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss."
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by petecox on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:58PM
That was just her trans/cosplay persona. On weekdays she was just a mild mannered civil engineer named Hilde from Stavanger.
But call yourself Erik, glue a.red beard to your chin, craft a.helmet with horns on it and its pretty easy to blend in and out drink, out rape and out pillage a bunch of scrawny, pasty white Scandi dudes.
(Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:56PM (6 children)
I'm doing my part. Just picked up another case of refried beans the other day. Oh, wait, you guys didn't want it warmer?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:29PM (2 children)
Your application for Superfund site has bean approved.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:23PM (1 child)
I see what you did there:
http://www.homophone.com/h/bean-been [homophone.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:59PM
You must be an acoustic child.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Thexalon on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:05PM
You must be that fellow dating "methane" Rose [soylentnews.org].
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:58PM (1 child)
Well, somebody's gotta do the yardwork.
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 04 2017, @06:13PM
Nah, I appropriated their culture and did my own yard work this year.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @11:55PM (1 child)
Are these the same government types who gave us baseless nutrition advice? The same universities whose professors supported eugenics in the early part of the 20th century? This global warming scare will be another feather in their cap.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 05 2017, @10:31AM
I'd say that's pretty darn unlikely. You know, scientist have a field of study. If you don't like science, what the hell are you going to trust? An ouijaboard and magic mushrooms? Or do you just suggest we call collectively bury our heads in the sand and wish the problems of the world away?