Al Gore and Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre present their global report on melting ice at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Also with Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Møller and Greenland Premier Kuupik Kleist and Dorthe Dahl-Jensen. Dr. Bob Carell presents the summary of the report.
Bio
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland was the prime minister of Norway in 1981, 1986-1989, and 1990-1996. From 2007-2009, she served as the UN special envoy on climate change. Dr. Brundtland was secretary general of the World Health Organization from 1998-2003. In 1983, the UN Secretary-General invited her to establish and chair the World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission), which published its report, Our Common Future, in April 1987. Before she began her political career, Dr. Brundtland spent ten years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system. She attended medical school at the University of Oslo and earned her master’s of public health from Harvard University.
Bob Corell
Robert W. Corell, Vice President, is on a leave of absence from the Heinz Center through January 2010. He joined the Center as Global Change Director in December 2006. Before coming to The Heinz Center, Dr. Corell served as a Senior Policy Fellow at the Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society and an Affiliate of the Washington Advisory Group. He recently completed an appointment that began in January 2000 as a Senior Research Fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Corell is actively engaged in research concerned with the sciences of global change and the interface between science and public policy, particularly research activities that are focused on global and regional climate change, related environmental issues, and science to facilitate understanding of vulnerability and sustainable development. He co-chairs an international strategic planning group that is developing a strategy designed to harness science, technology, and innovation for sustainable development, serves as the Chair of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, counsels as Senior Science Advisor to ManyOne.Net, and is Chair of the Board of the Digital Universe Foundation. Dr. Corell was Assistant Director for Geosciences at the National Science Foundation where he had oversight for the Atmospheric, Earth, and Ocean Sciences and the global change programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF). He was also a professor and academic administrator at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Corell is an oceanographer and engineer by background and training, having received Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. degrees at Case Western Reserve University and MIT.
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen is professor of ice physics at The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. She is head of the Centre for Ice and Climate, where researchers focus on ice core data as the key to understanding the climate of the past, present and future. She also manages Danish International Polar Year's ice core drilling programme NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) on the Greenland ice sheet, a programme involving researchers from 14 nations. Dorthe Dahl-Jensen's research concerns reconstructing climate on the basis of ice core data and developing ice flow models with special focus on the development of the ice cap during previous warm climate periods.
Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton.
Before that, Vice President Gore served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977-85) and the U. S. Senate (1985-93), representing Tennessee.
A prominent environmental activist, he shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change."
Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 election in which he won the popular vote by a plurality. A legal controversy over the Florida election recount, ultimately settled in favor of George W. Bush by the Supreme Court, made the election one of the most controversial in American history.
Today, Gore is chairman of the American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., an unofficial adviser to Google's senior management, and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection.
He recently joined venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to head that firm's climate change solutions group.
Kuupik Kleist
Jakob Edvard Kuupik Kleist is a Socialist and Left-wing Greenlandic politician. He became the fifth Prime Minister of Greenland in 2009.
Per Stig Moller
Per Stig Moller is the current Foreign Minister of Denmark. He has been a member of Folketinget (the Danish national parliament) for the Conservative People's Party since 1984, and was Minister for the Environment from December 18, 1990 to January 24, 1993 as part of the Cabinet of Poul Schluter IV and Foreign Minister from November 27, 2001 as part of the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I, II and III.
Jonas Gahr Store
Jonas Gahr Store is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, having been appointed to Jens Stoltenberg's third cabinet on 20 October 2009. He represents the Norwegian Labour Party.
Increase in the global average surface temperature resulting from enhancement of the greenhouse effect, primarily by air pollution. In 2007 the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecasted that by 2100 global average surface temperatures would increase 3.2–7.2 °F (1.8–4.0 °C), depending on a range of scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions, and stated that it was now 90 percent certain that most of the warming observed over the previous half century could be attributed to greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activities (i.e., industrial processes and transportation). Many scientists predict that such an increase in temperature would cause polar ice caps and mountain glaciers to melt rapidly, significantly raising the levels of coastal waters, and would produce new patterns and extremes of drought and rainfall, seriously disrupting food production in certain regions. Other scientists maintain that such predictions are overstated. The 1992 Earth Summit and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change attempted to address the issue of global warming, but in both cases the efforts were hindered by conflicting national economic agendas and disputes between developed and developing nations over the cost and consequences of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
(born March 31, 1948, Washington, D.C., U.S.) U.S. politician. He was the son of Albert Gore, who served in the U.S. Senate from Tennessee. After graduating from Harvard University, he briefly attended divinity school before serving in the Vietnam War as a military reporter (1969–71). He worked as a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville (1971–76) while attending first divinity school and then law school at Vanderbilt University. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and later the Senate (1985–93). A moderate Democrat, he was Bill Clinton's vice presidential running mate in 1992 and served two terms (1993–2001) as vice president under Clinton. As the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, he won over 500,000 more popular votes than Republican George W. Bush but narrowly lost the electoral vote (271–266). Gore subsequently devoted much of his time to environmental issues, and his 2006 film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, won an Academy Award for best documentary. For his environmental work, he received, with the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace. In 2007 he also earned an Emmy Award for creative achievement in interactive television for Current TV, a user-generated-content channel he cofounded in 2005.
When are you going to get it right, John and Jane Q...climate Change,is a definite reality, but the CO2 contribution by industrialized societies,is a debatable issue; take a hard look at the data and charts. Make a critical interpreation of what they demonstrate, without others telling you what they think they mean! However, that's not saying there isn't a problem, with CO2 levels worldwide that are contributing toward harmful and unhealthly levels, particularly within urban areas. If nothing is done, it certainly may not melt the polar ice cap, but could shorten the lives of your grand children and the elderly! International concerted action, is a necessary requirement to resolve this problem for future generations.
1. Gore did NOT say the ice caps will disappear--he said that Dr Maslowsky feels that there is a 75% chance that within the next 7 years the North Polar icecap will be Ice Free.
2. EVEN IF the data for Global Warming is questionable, ie, does not paint a simple Black and White picture that so many would like (like: Smoking causes cancer), the corollary FACTS are unambiguous:
A. Air pollution is NOT conducive to health.
B. Water pollution kills life in the foodchain.
C. Humans are a dependent life form in the web of life on earth.
D. Pesticide and "antibiotic" resistance is growing in species.
E. Arctic habitats changing more radically today than in ANYONE's memory.
These facts are to be ignored at OUR peril. Discharge of air and water pollutants CANNOT continue unabated, anymore than printing money is the cure to inflation.
All this Climate change hype is confusing us further. We first of all have to get rid of the Isostatic Rebound theory. That is what is causing all the sea level rise confusion. The Isostatic Rebound Theory is wrong and has mislead us all for over two hundred years. The land is not rising from the sea the sea is receding from the land. So no matter how much of the ice caps melt the sea levels will only continue to decline and fall in level. They will not rise. The other half truth is that the polar ice will melt. There will always be polar ice. The Ice and Glaciers that are melting will make absolutely no difference to sea levels. The rate of sea level decline is much greater than any decline that is forcasted by ice melt. In recent times the sea level worldwide had dropped over 2000 millimeters or over 6 feet. This means that the sea will have to rise 1000 years before it can catch up with the todays, forcast of sea level rise. This is just to show how rediculous the whole forcast is. Isostatic Rebound has to go,. When we realize the truth we will see that sea level rise is a myth. We will also learn that sea level is a myth. We dont know sea level so we cant forcast a rise or fall level. We just have to know that the sea level is falling at a greater rate than Ice melt can ever replenish. So wake up Geologists and get rid of Isostatic Rebound and Sea level datum and you will be very happy. It will solve many of the enigmas that now puzzle you. Get rid of Isostatic Rebound and set yourself free. Richard Guy www.widemargin2000.com. email: richard_guy72@yahoo.com. Tel; 347-275-5616 for speaking engagements.
The evidence is conflicting and confusing. It is comprised of a series of half truths. Gore says that in five years the ice caps will disappear in summer. It is conjecture based on fallacy. Other, so called, authorities speak of sea level rise of 2 millimeters per year: others say that we will have a meter rise in sea level before the end of the century. A millimenter of sea level rise is a rediculous. Sea level is not measured in millimeters thats an impossibility. Sea level is measured in feet e.g. the difference between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean is 22 feet. I challenge any expert to interpolate 2 millimeners of sea rise in either the Caribbean and or the Pacific. The Tsunami in southeast Asia on boxing day 2004 dropped sea level on foot. that is 308 millimeters. The earthquake recently off the coast of Indonesia dropped the sea level a further 2 feet. that is 616 millimeters. The earthquake of the coast of Mexico as recent as two m onths ago dropped the sea level eight inches. that is
200 Millimeters. In Alaska earth tremors have dropped the ocean level three feet in recent times and the sea is still receding without any signs of abating. So if we equate 3 feet to millimenters and add up all the sea fall anomalities I have listed we have a sea level drop worldwide of 80 inches which is 6 feet 8 inches. If we equate this to millimeters we have 2040 millimeters of sea level decline in recent times. Are you going to tell me that at that rate of earthquake activity and falling sea levels we will have sea level rise due to ice melt. I think the possibility is not only remote it is rediculous. Think for yourselves and see the forest from the trees. We are being hoodwinked because we are hung up on the falsity that sea level is a constant. It is not. Sea level is receding faster than any precidted sea melt. Darwin was wrong the land is not rising from the sea the sea is receding from the land. We have to overturn the Isostatic Rebound Theory and let the light of science shine again.,QED Richard Guy: www.widemargin2000.com. tel; 347-275-5616 email; richard_guy72@yahoo.com
We don't produce CO2.
CO2 is part of the atmosphere.
We breath it in and exhale the amount of it that we don't need.
CO (carbon monoxide) can be poisonous if inhaled in large amounts CO2 isn't a poison.
“The sea ice around the (Antarctic)continent is far above average (ref. UIUC). Also, note the colder than average sea surface temperatures around Antarctic (ref. NOAA). If the media is going to discuss the Wilkens Ice Shelf, they should also discuss this other data. The expansion of the sea ice coverage implies a cooling.”
More than 30,000 scientists worldwide have dissented "anthropogenic" climate change.
The Copenhagen Conference is no more than than an attempt at a "world political governance" complete with blame and taxes. Pay attention, sheeple.
When reviewing the science it would seem the hypothesis of human caused global warming falls apart. Over the last 30 years there has been no statistically significant change in size of the arctic ice cap.
Difficult to hear but its a message that must be heard. Everyone must act and pressure those in power and in industry to enact policies and develop technology to allow CO2 levels to be reduced to 350 parts per million. Thank you for acting. Call your friends and elected officials!
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