How Long Can Bush Ignore (or Deny) Global Warming?
by TChris
The president doesn’t think much of the prevailing science that warns of the threat of global warming, choosing to dismiss evidence that his own EPA found persuasive. But he may find it difficult to continue his recent studied silence on the issue in light of increasing hurricane activity and this ominous development:
The floating cap of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean shrank this summer to what is probably its smallest size in a century, continuing a trend toward less summer ice that is hard to explain without attributing it in part to human-caused global warming, various experts on the region said today.
The findings are consistent with recent computer simulations showing that a buildup of smokestack and tailpipe emissions of greenhouse gases could lead to a profoundly transformed Arctic later this century in which much of the once ice-locked ocean is routinely open water in summers.
Even more disturbing:
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