| Experts: Global Warming Is Real | 08 March 05 |
 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 February 17, 2005.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. "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. View the February 18, 2005 Wired News article View the Scripps Institution of Oceanography News page View the February 19, 2005 Common Dreams article View the February 17, 2005 BBC article Sources: Reuters, Wired News |
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