It's the end of the world as we know it....I feel fine!

Friday morning, coffee and the dog jumping on me and the wife in bed and another story from the objective AP on how we're all gonna die.

Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gasses

By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.
The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.

It is a "monster" increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past.
Extra pollution in China and the U.S. account for more than half the increase in emissions last year, Marland said.

"It's a big jump," said Tom Boden, director of the Energy Department's Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Lab. "From an emissions standpoint, the global financial crisis seems to be over."

Boden said that in 2010 people were traveling, and manufacturing was back up worldwide, spurring the use of fossil fuels, the chief contributor of man-made climate change.

Got it. In a recent blog debate with a science teacher I made the point (he's a believer of the Church of the ALGORE on Global Cooling, err Global Warming, oh Climate Change) where he is pushing what is at best a questionable hypothesis as "settled science". And so is the AP.

Now I find this interesting.

...In 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued its last large report on global warming, it used different scenarios for carbon dioxide pollution and said the rate of warming would be based on the rate of pollution. Boden said the latest figures put global emissions higher than the worst case projections from the climate panel. Those forecast global temperatures rising between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century with the best estimate at 7.5 degrees.

Even though global warming skeptics have attacked the climate change panel as being too alarmist, scientists have generally found their predictions too conservative, Reilly said. He said his university worked on emissions scenarios, their likelihood, and what would happen. The IPCC's worst case scenario was only about in the middle of what MIT calculated are likely scenarios.

Chris Field of Stanford University, head of one of the IPCC's working groups, said the panel's emissions scenarios are intended to be more accurate in the long term and are less so in earlier years. He said the question now among scientists is whether the future is the panel's worst case scenario "or something more extreme."

OK, these overeducated morons who live off of federal/state/rich liberal grant money are putting out propaganda temperatures but conveniently it's more accurate in the "long term", i.e. when they are already dead, the economy is in shambles and the politicians who are really pushing this crap (and paying for it with out tax dollars) are gone.

Hey Seth boy, how about this. Ask one of these clueless academics who know to the degree what the Earth's temperate will be in 2100 one simple question. "What will the high temperature be in Houston on January 14, 2012? I mean if you can get something out a century a few months should be no sweat"

I think we will not hear the question either asked or answered.

Now at the bottom of this waste of electrons article there is a link to a government agency. The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center aka CDIAC. I wonder if any of the Republicans running for president would want to cut this out from the budget? What a waste of oxygen and tax dollars.