Originally published March 6 2005
Scientists says rapidly melting ice caps prove global warming is real
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Studies examining ocean temperatures and the Arctic ice cap have determined that global warming is real and it is definitely caused by humans. Scientists have built models of other possible explanations for global warming, but all of them have proven to be insufficient to produce climate comparable to the current scale. Furthermore, these climate changes will cause massive changes in ocean currents, possibly causing wholesale changes in worldwide weather.
A parcel of studies looking at the oceans and melting Arctic ice leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer, people are to blame, and the weather is going to suffer, climate experts said on Thursday.
New computer models that look at ocean temperatures instead of the atmosphere show the clearest signal yet that global warming is well underway, said Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Speaking at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Barnett said climate models based on air temperatures are weak because most of the evidence for global warming is not even there.
"The real place to look is in the ocean," Barnett told a news conference.
His team used millions of temperature readings made by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to calculate steady ocean warming.
"The debate over whether or not there is a global warming signal is now over, at least for rational people," he said.
The report was published one day after the United Nations Kyoto Protocol took effect, a 141-nation environmental pact the United States government has spurned for several reasons, including stated doubts about whether global warming is occurring and is caused by people.
His team used U.S. government models of solar warming and volcanic warming, just to see if they could account for the measurements they made.
And the effects will be felt far and wide.
"The debate is what are we going to do about it."
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