[Devil]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4495463.stm

The group describes its results as "the smoking gun that we were looking for", removing any doubt that human activities are warming the planet.

The results are published in the journal Science this week.

[aldente]

That's what I tried to communicate today in a post with an extreme article of Dale Allen Pfeiffer which is essentialy the final nail in our grave:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/w ... ate3.shtml

[Devil]

I tried to access the original Science material, but one has to pay for it (and I'm a Scotsman!) - even the Abstract is protected. However, there is one open link to supplementary material at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1110252/DC1 with a downloadable PDF 4 page doc. This includes a link to a site where the scientific data is available, as it will be used by the IPCC in their 2007 report and a number of change maps including observations and modelling.

[EnviroEngr]

Here's the Fair Use portion of that Abstract:

Our climate model, driven mainly by increasing human-made greenhouse gases and aerosols among other forcings, calculates that Earth is now absorbing 0.85 ± 0.15 W/m2 more energy from the Sun than it is emitting to space. This imbalance is confirmed by precise measurements of increasing ocean heat content over the past 10 years. Implications include: (i) expectation of additional global warming of about 0.6°C without further change of atmospheric composition; (ii) confirmation of the climate system's lag in responding to forcings, implying the need for anticipatory actions to avoid any specified level of climate change; and (iii) likelihood of acceleration of ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise.

The authors:

James Hansen 1*, Larissa Nazarenko 1, Reto Ruedy 2, Makiko Sato 1, Josh Willis 3, Anthony Del Genio 4, Dorothy Koch 1, Andrew Lacis 4, Ken Lo 2, Surabi Menon 5, Tica Novakov 5, Judith Perlwitz 1, Gary Russell 6, Gavin A. Schmidt 1, Nicholas Tausnev 2

1 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA; Columbia Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA.
2 SGT Incorporated, New York, NY 10025, USA.
3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
4 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA; Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USA.
5 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
6 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY 10025, USA.


* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
James Hansen

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