BOSTON (AP) — A state-mandated report on global warming and Massachusetts, released Tuesday, predicts more ice storms and droughts and endangered coastal development in the decades to come, but also details ways the state can prevent or adapt to predicted changes.
The Massachusetts Climate Change Adaptation Report was required under a 2008 law aimed at sharply curbing the state's greenhouse gas emissions, a major factor in global warming. The law requires the state to make an 80 percent reduction in total emissions by 2050, compared to 1990 levels.
The 129-page report sums up how rising temperatures would hit various sectors, including the ecology, business and local infrastructure. A 34-member advisory committee of scientists, environmentalists, local and regional planners, and medical and business groups helped prepare the report.
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Here's what some of our readers had to say about the possibility of environmental change due to global warming
Isn't it also true that they all in unison reject the rational theory of creationism and advocate blindly a hideous theory that remains to be proven even today as "evolution???" Reputable scientists who do not consider creationism while at the same time refusing to co-sign "evolution" due to the many inconsistencies, outright reject global warming. You list the United Nations as somehow "credible" but they are by far part of the major problems of this world! You do not need to convince me about global warming. You need to question your intentions and those of the people you actively support. Global Warming is a door by which the government hopes to create and carry out their sinister plans of a one world government! You may think, what does one have to do with the other? Well, the age old way of thinking....."In order to create change, you must first create chaos!" Just look at 911....
To Mr_Miagi: Sir, Thank you for being concerned and participating, but you should examine your arguments and review the several points which do not follow logically.
Of course all competent scientific institutions reject "Creationism", because it is a belief based on faith; It is not science. Anyone who tells you differently is pulling your leg, and you should be sure to have a god grip on your wallet when they are around. It is no more science than belief in the Tooth Fairy. Science as a discipline requires initial doubt and confirmation of provisional theories based on evidence. Both evolution and 'human-caused' climate change are such theories, best apparent answers to the question of what is going on. Creationism is not a comparable theory. There is no more evidence for God creating the world in seven days than there is for the Tooth Fairy rewarding you for putting your tooth under the pillow at night. Comparing these ideas is not useful, and you are not persuading anyone, nor actually working to combat the increasing governmental coercion you appear to be actually concerned about.
If you are really concerned about people potentially using concern about climate change to justify governmental coercion, perhaps you should focus not on the idea that human actions may have consequences, which is obviously true (As in what goes up must come down - We all know that this is true), but instead on the high level of imprecision in climate science, which is illustrated even in the wide ranges of the predictions in the report, not to mention the high level of mistakes in weather reports. If people cannot tell if impacts are 11" or 79", how can they make recommend specific policies?
Another area you may wish to look at is people and firms using climate change to sell "Green" technology and write mandates for their services and products into laws and regulations. Is this a conflict of interest? Are the consequences of using these technologies really known?
Working on these areas would allow you to have an impact on the "Sinister Plan" you are decrying.
Lies, lies, lies and more lies. They can't call it global warming anymore because of Manbearpig so they are forced to call it climate change. Everyone should research climate gate, hide the decline, carbon taxes, sea levels decreasing and the fact that trees breath C02 and release oxygen so us humans can live and breath. Without C02 the biosphere would die. We are supposed to believe one of the key building blocks of life is now a toxic gas?!?! Please.....grow up people!!! When breathing becomes a crime, thought and speech will soon follow......WAKE UP!!!!!
Ron Paul 2012!!!! SAVE OUR REPUBLIC!!!!
Without water, the planet would die, too, but you don't want every summer to flatten your property with mega storms like Irene.
Too much CO2 in the atmosphere leads to runaway greenhouse effects. The planet Venus is a case study in how too much of the gas traps solar heat and makes the surface completely uninhabitable. (It's hot enough under the clouds of Venus to melt lead).
Not saying that this is Earth's fate, but it wouldn't take too much to upset things enough to produce another mass extinction. Doesn't matter how 'natural' it would be.... Humankind would suffer greatly along with the rest of the planet.
The trends have been that the world is getting warmer. The north polar ice cap gets smaller and more broken up every year. This is measurable and increasing at an alarming rate. To fail to prepare for the consequences of this warming is just daft.
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