Climate Change Science:
An Analysis of Some Key Questions
"You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe."
"You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
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National Academy of Sciences
(June 2001)
This report was requested by President Bush to determine whether mankind's actions were causing global warming. The answer was a resounding 'yes.' The blue ribbon panel found that "greenhouse gasses are accumulating in earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise." "Temperatures are, in fact, rising," the report adds. The unanimous 11-member panel, which included previous skeptics about global warming, said increasing temperatures posed a problem to humans and ecosystems around the globe. They also said the problem was getting worse. In addition, the panel stated scientific confidence was "higher today than it was 10 or even 5 years ago" that increased greenhouse gas concentrations were to blame for earth's one degree temperature increase over the last 50 years. Human-induced warming and associated sea level rise are expected to continue through the 21st century, the group said, and national policy decisions made now will influence the extent of the damage suffered by humans and ecosystems later in this century.
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