[Rough Rider]

Well, take it for what it's worth.

Scientist: Humans 'very likely' cause of global warming

11 of the last 12 years have ranked among the 12 warmest years on record with the oceans absorbing more than 80 percent of the heat added to the climate system. Add in the melt-off of glaciers and sea ice and sea levels are rising.

The 2001 report found that the 1990s were "very likely" the warmest decade on record. It also said that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years was "likely due to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations due to human activities."

The authors defined "likely" as between 66 percent to 90 percent probable, and "very likely" as a 90 to 99 percent.

I'd have to say, whoever, or however you want to explain it.. It is no doubt getting warmer and warmer, regardless of a few cold fronts we've had come through here.

Right here in Shreveport, we've seen fewer and fewer ice storms or any significant "Snow" compared to even when I was in highschool in the early 80's.

The ice caps are IN FACT breaking away and melting.. as they do Ocean levels rise, more Water means more absorption of the suns rays.. and as more and more of the ice caps melt and break away, this means less and less of the suns rays are getting reflected back into space. Meaning the warmer it gets, the more ice caps that melt, the faster the temps will continue to rise.

I'm almost of the opinion, that regardless of what we try to do, we have passed the tipping point, past the point of no return.

It's simply gonna get warmer, some places will experience droughts, others will see increasingly stronger and more frequent storms due to the warming oceans.

Then in a few 1,000s and 1,000s of years, as all those ice caps melt into our oceans, all that fresh water will slow down or eliminate the "Gulf Stream" type flows in the oceans.. which will in turn make Europe and north america Colder.. and bring on a whole new Ice Age.. so we got that goin' for us

party on.