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60 MINUTES: SCIENTIST SAYS GLOBAL WARMING HAS CAUSED MORE INTENSE HURRICANES LIKE KATRINA
Thu Feb 16 2006 12:27:11 2006
Rising ocean temperatures have increased the intensity of hurricanes like the one that decimated New Orleans, says a scientist in a 60 MINUTES report on global warming. Bob Correll, one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change, appears in Scott Pelley’s report to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Feb. 19 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“The oceans in the Northern Hemisphere are the warmest they’ve been on record,” says Correll. “When they get up in that temperature, they spin off hurricanes….The one thing we can say with a fairly high degree of confidence is the severity of the storms…these cyclonic events like hurricanes and cyclones…they’re going to be more severe,” he tells Pelley.
Correll is interviewed in Greenland above the Arctic Circle, where the rising temperature has caused the glacial ice in place for eons to steadily recede for the last few decades. “This is bell weather, a barometer….the warning that things are coming,” says Correll, who also predicts lowlands will be inundated by waters from the melting glaciers in the future. “In 10 years here in the Arctic, we see what the rest of the planet will see in 25 or 35 years from now,” he says. “The entire planet is out of balance,” says Correll.
Correll says the sooner we curb the emissions, the better for the generations to come. Even total cessation of the burning of fossil fuels will not stop the warming immediately and to continue burning them will affect the planet into the distant future – perhaps thousands of years. “I try to tell [policymakers] exactly what we know scientifically. The science is, I believe, unassailable,” Correll tells Pelley.
Thu Feb 16 2006 12:27:11 2006
Rising ocean temperatures have increased the intensity of hurricanes like the one that decimated New Orleans, says a scientist in a 60 MINUTES report on global warming. Bob Correll, one of the world’s foremost authorities on climate change, appears in Scott Pelley’s report to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Feb. 19 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
“The oceans in the Northern Hemisphere are the warmest they’ve been on record,” says Correll. “When they get up in that temperature, they spin off hurricanes….The one thing we can say with a fairly high degree of confidence is the severity of the storms…these cyclonic events like hurricanes and cyclones…they’re going to be more severe,” he tells Pelley.
Correll is interviewed in Greenland above the Arctic Circle, where the rising temperature has caused the glacial ice in place for eons to steadily recede for the last few decades. “This is bell weather, a barometer….the warning that things are coming,” says Correll, who also predicts lowlands will be inundated by waters from the melting glaciers in the future. “In 10 years here in the Arctic, we see what the rest of the planet will see in 25 or 35 years from now,” he says. “The entire planet is out of balance,” says Correll.
Correll says the sooner we curb the emissions, the better for the generations to come. Even total cessation of the burning of fossil fuels will not stop the warming immediately and to continue burning them will affect the planet into the distant future – perhaps thousands of years. “I try to tell [policymakers] exactly what we know scientifically. The science is, I believe, unassailable,” Correll tells Pelley.
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60 Minutes was very selective with their reporting on Paul Mayewski's (the very scientist they interview in the report) research into global warming.
They left out this (http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=868):
"A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth's climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine's Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and UMaine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an association between the waxing and waning of zonal wind strength around Antarctica and a chemical signal of changes in the sun's output...
...Researchers in the UMaine Climate Change Institute (http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/) have focused on the relationship between solar variability and climate, particularly the use of isotopes in tree rings and ice cores to provide an indication of the sun's strength. The ice core data reported in the paper demonstrates a direct atmospheric consequence associated with changing solar radiation."
For more see: http://porkopolis.blogspot.com/2006/02/60-minutes-on-melting-ice-caps-on.html
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They left out this (http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=868):
"A team led by University of Maine scientists has reported finding a potential link between changes in solar activity and the Earth's climate. In a paper due to be published in an upcoming volume of the Annals of Glaciology, Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine's Climate Change Institute, and 11 colleagues from China, Australia and UMaine describe evidence from ice cores pointing to an association between the waxing and waning of zonal wind strength around Antarctica and a chemical signal of changes in the sun's output...
...Researchers in the UMaine Climate Change Institute (http://www.climatechange.umaine.edu/) have focused on the relationship between solar variability and climate, particularly the use of isotopes in tree rings and ice cores to provide an indication of the sun's strength. The ice core data reported in the paper demonstrates a direct atmospheric consequence associated with changing solar radiation."
For more see: http://porkopolis.blogspot.com/2006/02/60-minutes-on-melting-ice-caps-on.html
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