Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says
Source: Washington Post
Climate scientists agree the Earth will be hotter by the end of the century, but their simulations don’t agree on how much. Now a study suggests the gloomier predictions may be closer to the mark.
“Warming is likely to be on the high side of the projections,” said John Fasullo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., a co-author of the report, which was based on satellite measurements of the atmosphere.
That means the world could be in for a devastating increase of about eight degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, resulting in drastically higher seas, disappearing coastlines and more severe droughts, floods and other destructive weather.
Such an increase would substantially overshoot what the world’s leaders have identified as the threshold for triggering catastrophic consequences. In 2009, heads of state agreed to try to limit warming to 3.6 degrees, and many countries want a tighter limit. . .
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How much more must the alarm be sounded? It's real, and it's here, and it's time to cut the crap. Leaving our kids and grandkids a deficit is nothing compared to this.
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...regardless of which party they're in.
How many more super-storms, until it finally "interrupts" business-as-usual?
EVERY model is TOO CONSERVATIVE....it is not surprising that every couple months the scientists come out and say, "by the way, it's happening faster/more/worse that we thought."
and I hate the fact that I am not surprised by this anymore, i hate the fact that I see it as a given. I hate the fact that my kids will grow up in a very different world than ANY of us can imagine ... 
