Those mad scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have held a stream of press conferences this year announcing their findings that the burning of fossil fuels cause global warming.
Yeah, right.
What next:
- Evolution is a scientific fact?
- The sun is not the center of the universe?
- DNA carries genetic information to biological offspring?
Won't they admit that global warming is a fraud and liberal propaganda spread by George Soros?
Fortunately, the science is now becoming accepted by all but the most fringe of citizens; unfortunately part of that fringe element occupies the White House.
As a Times editorial this morning reads:
The world’s scientists have done their job. Now it’s time for world leaders, starting with President Bush, to do theirs. That is the urgent message at the core of the latest — and the most powerful — report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 2,500 scientists who collectively constitute the world’s most authoritative voice on global warming.
Released in Spain over the weekend, the report leaves no doubt that man-made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels (and, to a lesser extent, deforestation) have been responsible for the steady rise in atmospheric temperatures.
If these emissions are not brought under control, the report predicts, the consequences could be disastrous: further melting at the poles, sea levels rising high enough to submerge island nations, the elimination of one-quarter or more of the world’s species, widespread famine in places like Africa, more violent hurricanes.
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