Too Bad Hacked e-mails Have Not Stopped Global Warming
A group of climate scientists released "The Copenhagen Diagnosis" on Tuesday, saying that global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate, Arctic sea ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than forecast.
Meantime, controversy continues over thousands of e-mails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. Climate change skeptics say excerpts from the e-mails show climate scientists are trying to dupe the public.
The diagnosis, a year in the making, comes two weeks before United Nations-led climate change talks begin in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The report concludes that global emissions must peak then decline rapidly within the next five to 10 years for the world to have a reasonable chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
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Not all of the media, just most decided that President Obama's recent Asia tour was a failure. Manufactured failure: press coverage of Obama in Asia. One of the momentous things Obama was able to accomplish that Bush ( in two terms) could not was to get China to support an IAEA censure of Iran.
