chemist wrote:
> On Apr 7, 7:39 pm, "V-for-Vendicar"
> <Just...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> American West
>> Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Rest Of World, New Analysis Shows
>>
>> ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2008) -
>>
>> The American West is heating up more rapidly than
>> the rest of the world, according to a new analysis of the most recent
>> federal
>> government temperature figures. The news is especially bad for some
>> of the
>> nation's fastest growing cities, which receive water from the
>> drought-stricken
>> Colorado River. The average temperature rise in the Southwest's
>> largest
>> river
>> basin was more than double the average global increase, likely
>> spelling even
>> more parched conditions.
>>
>> "Global warming is hitting the West hard," said Theo Spencer of the
>> Natural
>> Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "It is already taking an economic
>> toll on
>> the
>> region's tourism, recreation, skiing, hunting and fi****ng
>> activities. The
>> speed
>> of warming and mounting economic damage make clear the urgent need
>> to limit
>> global warming pollution."
>>
>> For the re****t, the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO)
>> analyzed new
>> temperature data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
>> Administration (NOAA)
>> for 11 western states. For the five-year period 2003-2007 the average
>> temperature in the Colorado River Basin, which stretches from
>> Wyoming to
>> Mexico,
>> was 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the historical average for
>> the 20th
>> Century. The temperature rise was more than twice the global average
>> increase of
>> 1.0 degree during the same period. The average temperature increased
>> 1.7
>> degrees
>> in the entire 11-state western region.
>>
>> "We are seeing signs of the economic impacts throughout the West,"
>> said
>> study
>> author Stephen Saunders of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization.
>> "Since 2000
>> we have seen $2.7 billion in crop loss claims due to drought. Global
>> warming
>> is
>> harming valuable commercial salmon fisheries, reducing hunting
>> activity and
>> revenues, and threatening shorter and less profitable seasons for ski
>> resorts."
>> The Colorado River Basin is in the throes of a record drought,
>> shrinking
>> water
>> supplies for upwards of 30 million people in fast-growing Denver,
>> Albuquerque,
>> Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Diego. Most of the Colorado
>> River's
>> flow
>> comes from melting snow in the mountains of Wyoming, Utah and
>> Wyoming.
>> Climate
>> scientists predict even more and drier droughts in the future as
>> hotter
>> temperatures reduce the snowpack and increase eva****ation.
>>
>> To date, the governors of Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico,
>> Oregon,
>> Utah
>> and Wa****ngton have signed the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), an
>> agreement to
>> reduce global warming pollution through a market-based system, such
>> as
>> cap-and-trade. The WCI calls for states to reduce their global
>> warming
>> emissions
>> 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Conservationists say the
>> states should
>> commit to meeting these targets, and that there should also be a
>> firm target
>> of
>> an 80 percent reduction by 2050.
>>
>> A growing chorus of leaders across the political and economic
>> spectrum says
>> more
>> aggressive action is needed at the national level. Sup****ters say the
>> Lieberman-Warner bill, "America's Climate Security Act" (S. 2191),
>> is the
>> strongest global warming bill moving through Congress. The
>> bipartisan bill
>> is
>> the first climate legislation ever to be passed out of a Senate
>> committee.
>> The
>> full Senate is expected to vote on the bill by summer, by which time
>> sup****ters
>> are optimistic about strengthening the bill even further.
>>
>> "We need strong leader****p from western senators to pass America's
>> Climate
>> Security Act," said Spencer. "The longer we wait to put a concrete
>> cap on
>> global
>> warming pollution, the greater the threat to all Americans."
>>
>> The NRDC-RMCO re****t, "Warming in the West," analyzed temperature
>> data from
>> Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
>> Oregon,
>> Utah,
>> Wa****ngton and Wyoming. The re****t is available online
>> athttp://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/west/contents.asp.
>
> Looks like load BS designed to sup****t AGW.
In other words - you have nothing. lol
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