Nothing wrong with donating money & time to important causes
And global warming is not a "whacko" problem. Its real and we should be doing something about it.
Consensus grows on climate change
By Roger Harrabin
Environment Correspondent, BBC News
The global scientific body on climate change will report soon that only greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.
Simultaneous changes in sea ice, glaciers, droughts, floods, ecosystems, ocean acidification and wildlife migration are taking place.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had previously said gases such as CO2 were "probably" to blame.
Its latest draft report will be sent to world governments next month.
A source told the BBC: "The measurements from the natural world on all parts of the globe have been anomalous over the past decade.
"If a few were out of kilter we wouldn't be too worried, because the Earth changes naturally. But the fact that they are virtually all out of kilter makes us very concerned."
He said the report would forecast that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere would bring a temperature rise of 2-4.5C, or maybe higher.
This is an increase on projections in the last IPCC report, which suggested that the rise could be as little as 1.5C.
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Snowfalls not replenishing melting Antarctic ice sheets
By Robert Lee Hotz
Los Angeles Times
The ice sheets of Antarctica — the world's largest reservoir of fresh water — are shrinking faster than new snow can fall, scientists reported Thursday in the first comprehensive satellite survey of the continent.
Researchers at the University of Colorado determined that between 2002 and 2005, Antarctica lost its ice at a rate of 36 cubic miles a year, rather than growing from heavier snowfalls as previous research had predicted. That amount of ice is equivalent to about 30 times the fresh water used by Los Angeles every year.
"It is the first time we can say that if you look at the entire ice sheet, it is losing mass," said geophysicist Isabella Velicogna, whose findings were published online Thursday by the journal Science.
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The whackos are the idiots like you who want to ignore the fact that this is actually happening.