Report: Some climate damage already irreversible

January 26, 2009 By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID , AP Science Writer
Report: Some climate damage already irreversible

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President Barack Obama caps his pen after signing an executive order after speaking about jobs, energy independence, and climate change,Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, center, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lisa Jackson look on. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

(AP) -- Many damaging effects of climate change are already basically irreversible, researchers declared Monday, warning that even if carbon emissions can somehow be halted temperatures around the globe will remain high until at least the year 3000.


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GrayMouser
Jan 27, 2009

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Panic! Now!
mikiwud
Jan 28, 2009

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What a load of crap! There have been greater changes in, well, everything in the past and none of it stuck.
Pure unadulterated propaganda. It's panic time for the Gori. Stay in the headlines even if you look foolish, and you do!
GrayMouser
Jan 28, 2009

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Is all changes due to climate change "damage"? When isn't it damage?

Who's responsible for the damage done over the previous 4 billion years?
GrayMouser
Jan 30, 2009

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I had a thought.. Since all climate change is damage and climate change is responsible for the rise of the mammals...

Humans are the product of a damaged environment!
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