My Climate Change Experiences verified by IPCC

  I use my personal experiences and the Climate Scientists 

vouch for and uphold my observations.

I can remember when I was young growing up on the Family Cattle Ranch in North Missouri.  
The Winters were long and the Snow Drifts were Huge (way over my head creating perfect 

opportunities for Snow Forts and Tunnels in the Back Yard).  

The Bad Winter Weather I experienced growing up, started in November and Lasted 
until the month of March and into April it was 4-5 months of Brutal Winter Weather.
Winters were so cold that Farm Equipment wouldn't start even though they were plugged
into heaters all night. 

Circa year 2000- The Weather now (since the early
 to mid 80's) I do not feel we have had extended 
periods of cold temperatures in Missouri that keep 
the snow that falls during the Winter months from thawing 
out within a few days. Scotty

It also seems to me that, "the precipitation we now get has more Ice with less Snow 

and seems to melt within weeks- nowadays it seems faster melting times than ever
before in my memory. I can actually say I haven't seen any snow last longer than a 
week per my daily observations and mental notes.

We now know Global Warming ie: Climate Change caused by "Exhaust Gases or 

GHG's Emissions" from using Fossil Fuels from Coal and Oil called CO2 is the major 

cause of the warmed temperatures that are causing the: Extreme Weather Patterns-

Droughts, Floods, Increased Summertime Temperatures, etc

Read the new IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published 
September 27,2013

So I asked myself- 

"Why don't the Governments and Politicians of the World 

act to reduce these GHG Emissions?" 

I can't speak for the other countries in the World, but 

I will point out some facts I have been preaching now for months.


The Rich and Powerful Fossil Fuel Industry supports Politicians both Democrat and 
Republican, which keep the Politicians in-line and in the Pockets of the Coal and Oil 
Industries- through Donations for Re-Elections, Pet Projects, etc. 

Read and Research for yourself at: Dirty Energy Money 
http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?type=congress

Global Warming and Climate Change is Science the GOP 

can't wish away- Politicians need to: "Step away from the 

Monetary Feed Trough filled by Big Oil and Big Coal"  

The National Academy reports concluded that 

"scientific evidence that the Earth is warming-is now overwhelming." 

Party affiliation does not change that fact. 

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Sep27 2013 Statements via UN ClimateChange Panel

The following report is as copied from the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and plainly shows that CO2 created by Human Activities is affecting the Worlds Climate.

STOCKHOLM, 27 September - "Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident in most regions of the globe, a new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes".

1. View the press release on the latest IPCC Sept 27 Climate Change Press Release by viewing this pdf at http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/press_release_ar5_wgi_en.pdf
2. Renewable Energy Resources and Mitigating the Effects of Climate Change Summary for Policy Makers and Technical Information via Google Cloud https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1gFp6Ioo3akeGxneEJCejQxdzg/edit?usp=drive_web

• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. The atmosphere and ocean have warmed, the amounts of snow and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased. 

• Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth’s surface than any preceding decade since 1850. In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years. 

• Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010 (high confidence). It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0−700 m) warmed from 1971 to 2010, and it likely warmed between the 1870s and 1971. 

• Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent (high confidence). 

• The rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the mean rate during the previous two millennia (high confidence). Over the period 1901–2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] m.

• The atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. CO2 concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industrial times, primarily from fossil fuel emissions and secondarily from net land use change emissions. The ocean has absorbed about 30% of the emitted anthropogenic carbon dioxide, causing ocean acidification. 

• Total radiative forcing is positive, and has led to an uptake of energy by the climate system. The largest contribution to total radiative forcing is caused by the increase in the atmospheric concentration of CO2 since 1750. 

• Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system. 

• Climate models have improved since the AR4. Models reproduce observed continental-scale surface temperature patterns and trends over many decades, including the more rapid warming since the mid-20th century and the cooling immediately following large volcanic eruptions (very high confidence). 

• Observational and model studies of temperature change, climate feedbacks and changes in the Earth’s energy budget together provide confidence in the magnitude of global warming in response to past and future forcing. Approved SPM Headline Statements 27 September 2013 

• Human influence has been detected in warming of the atmosphere and the ocean, in changes in the global water cycle, in reductions in snow and ice, in global mean sea level rise, and in changes in some climate extremes. This evidence for human influence has grown since AR4. It is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. 

• Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in all components of the climate system. Limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. 

• Global surface temperature change for the end of the 21st century is likely to exceed 1.5°C relative to 1850 to 1900 for all RCP scenarios except RCP2.6. It is likely to exceed 2°C for RCP6.0 and RCP8.5, and more likely than not to exceed 2°C for RCP4.5. 

• Warming will continue beyond 2100 under all RCP scenarios except RCP2.6. Warming will continue to exhibit interannual-todecadal variability and will not be regionally uniform. 

• Changes in the global water cycle in response to the warming over the 21st century will not be uniform. The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will increase, although there may be regional exceptions. 

• The global ocean will continue to warm during the 21st century. Heat will penetrate from the surface to the deep ocean and affect ocean circulation. 

• It is very likely that the Arctic sea ice cover will continue to shrink and thin and that Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover will decrease during the 21st century as global mean surface temperature rises. Global glacier volume will further decrease. 

• Global mean sea level will continue to rise during the 21st century. Under all RCP scenarios the rate of sea level rise will very likely exceed that observed during 1971–2010 due to increased ocean warming and increased loss of mass from glaciers and ice sheets. 

• Climate change will affect carbon cycle processes in a way that will exacerbate the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere (high confidence). Further uptake of carbon by the ocean will increase ocean acidification.

• Cumulative emissions of CO2 largely determine global mean surface warming by the late 21st century and beyond. Most aspects of climate change will persist for many centuries even if emissions of CO2 are stopped. 

This represents a substantial multi-century climate change commitment created by past, present and future emissions of CO2.

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaption can also be viewed via: Google Cloud



Added 9/28/13
While browsing through my Google News Feed on Climate Change I found that numerous reporting agencies have used the above report in citing information for their organizations.  Here are few of the articles from credible sites:

• The world's best scientists agree: On our current path, global warming is ...

Quartz

- ‎5 hours ago‎

In a landmark report, a global panel of leading scientists again called the evidence for climate change “unequivocal” and for the first time said humans are “extremely likely” to be the dominant cause.

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  UN climate change report points blame at humans

CNN

- ‎Sep 27, 2013‎

(CNN) -- The world's getting hotter, the sea's rising and there's increasing evidence neither are naturally occurring phenomena.

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  Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown

The Guardian 20 hours ago

Written by George Monbiot

Climate change and global warming are inadequate terms for what it reveals. The story it tells is of 

climate breakdown.

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  Top scientists urge cap on carbon emissions to limitclimate change

NBCNews.com

- ‎19 hours ago‎

“Continued emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further global warming and changes in all components of the climate system,” the IPCC report said.

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  Friday's Big Global Warming Report: 5 Takeaways

National Geographic

- ‎Sep 27, 2013‎

“Many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia,” begins the report, which summarizes the worldwide changes worldwide wrought by climate change and its likely future effects. “Each of the last three decades has been ...

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  IPCC: Despite hiatus, climate change here to stay

Nature.com

- ‎Sep 27, 2013‎

Without drastic emission reductions or controversial technical climate fixes, global warming is more than likely to continue throughout the 21st century and might severely alter our planet's natural environments and the living conditions of billions of ...

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World CO2 Level- Warning

Scenario to Cap World Emissions by 2020 Is Fading Fast, Warns IEA Economist

From his perch as chief economist for the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol is virtually shouting his global warming predictions from the Paris rooftops.

 

Unless the United States, Europe, China, India and the other emerging economies get on a crash course to slash greenhouse gases, Birol contends, world leaders can simply forget about one of their oft-talked-about goals: stabilizing the average global temperature rise at 2 degrees Celsius.

"As we stand now," Birol said on Friday, "we're only a few meters away from saying goodbye to the 2-degree target."

In speeches in London and Abu Dhabi last week, and in an interview with ClimateWire, Birol said he's trying to reach the energy markets. Oil prices are heavy on the minds of the world's largest oil consumers. The U.S. economy is picking up, and China is lapping up as much oil as it can, as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries considers, once again, the prospect of $100 crude and faces pressure to boost production. Crude prices in Africa and Asia topped $100 a barrel Friday.

As economies churn, the push to limit emissions is faltering.
"The later we move, the more difficult it will be, especially in the United States," Birol said. "There is a lot of infrastructure being built, lots of power plants. The later we move, the more expensive it will be."

Birol is the latest high-level figure in international energy and climate circles to warn that pledges to cut emissions made under the Copenhagen Accord don't go nearly deep enough to stem rising temperatures. As an economist, Birol is looking at the unflagging demand for fossil fuels that produce the carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere and tepid investment levels in zero-emissions energy projects.

National policies don't keep up with rhetoric

"When I look at the next 10 years," he said, "even if I take into consideration the pledges made after the Copenhagen meeting, the best case is that this could put us on a trajectory in line with 3.5 degrees Celsius."

To hit that 2-degree target and remain there, he said "decarbonization" needs to increase by 400 percent, "and mainly in the countries where climate change is not high on the agenda."

"Almost all the energy infrastructure that we'll be using in 2020 is either in place now, or in the final investment stage," he said.

National policies have not kept pace, but it's also about energy economics, pure and simple. Utilities, which usually either are closely regulated or subsidize electricity, are geared toward buying the cheapest sources of electricity.

Birol pointed to natural gas as an example. The U.S. boom in unconventional natural gas development has dampened investment in renewable energy, he said, because gas has remained a cheap source of electricity. With big oil and gas producers hoping to duplicate that boom in Europe, China and other parts of Asia, gas could remain cheap enough, and for a long enough time, to put the kibosh on any surge in wind and solar power projects.
Yet, from Birol's vantage point, there's no time left to delay the rollout of zero-emissions technology to replace coal-burning plants. Wind and solar need the power contracts to build out systems, drive down costs and compete effectively with coal and gas as nations replace aging power plants.

"The push for renewable energies is not as strong as one needs to see for 2-degree target," he said. "If natural gas is cheap and available, this would be a problem for the competitiveness of renewable energy."

'Decarbonization' weakened by lack of resolve

So much of the problem is in the scale of decarbonization since U.N. member countries signed on to the Copenhagen Accord after December 2009 talks. The electric car industry is gearing up to make major inroads, as all the major car companies jump on the bandwagon. Still, he said, if you put together all the electric vehicle sales estimates in all of the countries establishing electric vehicle markets, it accounts for about 8 percent of car sales through 2020 and 2 percent of the global fleet.

By JOEL KIRKLAND of ClimateWire

Published: January 24, 2011