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Obama needs lots more tax revenue to completely subjugate the country, so he’s released a paper detailing all those horrible things that are happening “right now!” from climate change. Rainfall! Ohmygawd, climate change causes torrential rainfall! Nobody ever had torrential rainfall before climate change. Or not enough rainfall. Oh, wait, yes they did. California has suffered from droughts lasting 200 years, but don’t let little things like “facts” get in the way of activism. Apparently the politicians and “environmentalists” think that we’re as stupid as they are.

WASHINGTON(AP) — Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama’s presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House.

Global warming has already caused more heavy downpours, the rise of temperatures and sea levels, rapidly retreating glaciers and altered river flows, according to the document released Tuesday by the White House science adviser and other top officials.

Dogs and cats sleeping with each other….it’s the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine…..

“There are in some cases already serious consequences,” report co-author Anthony Janetos of the University of Maryland told The Associated Press. “This is not a theoretical thing that will happen 50 years from now. Things are happening now.”

The White House document — a climate status report required periodically by Congress — contains no new research. But it paints a fuller, more cohesive and darker picture of global warming in the United States than previous studies and brief updates during the George W. Bush years. Bush was ultimately forced to issue a draft report last year by a lawsuit, and that document was the basis for this new one.

One administration official, Jane Lubchenco, called the new report a game changer that would inform policy but not dictate a particular solution.

“This report provides the concrete scientific information that says unequivocally that climate change is happening now and it’s happening in our own backyards and it affects the kind of things people care about,” Lubchenco said at a White House briefing. Her agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, was among the key contributors to the document.

The “major disruptions” already taking place will only increase as warming continues, the authors wrote. They project the average U.S. temperature could rise by as much as 11 degrees by the end of the century.

These f***ing clowns can’t predict what temperature it will be on Monday of next week, so why in the hell should they be considered some kind of experts on what temperature it will be after they’re dead? The temperature trend is DOWN, you morons! Somebody’s momma didn’t slap the shit out of ’em near enough when they were little and look what happens. Shit spilling out everywhere.

“Thresholds will be crossed, leading to large changes in climate and ecosystems,” the study said in one of its key findings, adding that it could affect the survival of some species.

Species have thresholds? Which species? Where are the thresholds? Who is crossing them?

For example in the past few decades, winters in parts of the Midwest have warmed by several degrees and the time without frost has grown by a week, according to the report.

Which parts? Seems to me that in the past few years frosts have been much earlier in the fall and later in the spring, so much so that planting and harvest is affected. Georgia lost a lot of the blueberry crop due to unprecendented cold weather in the spring, for cryin’ out loud. Brazil’s grapes froze on the vine!

Shorter winters have some benefits, such as longer growing seasons, but those are changes that require adjustments just the same, the authors note.

Yeah, that whole “having longer planting seasons with the ability to double crop and produce more food from the same land” has GOT to be stopped! It causes obesity or something.

“We’re already seeing impacts across the nation,” said co-author Virginia Burkett, coordinator of global change science at the U.S. Geological Survey. “The evidence is much stronger than it has been.”

Sounds like there wasn’t any evidence before and lots and lots of data falsification has been going on because they know that the Democrats aren’t actually going to check the facts. Hell, they won’t even bother to read the paper. They’ll just have somebody give them a synopsis using one syllable words. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that somebody whose job title is “coordinator of global change science” would find evidence of impacts from climate change. For the sarcasm challenged, yes, that is sarcasm dripping off the keyboard and pooling on the floor in a large, glowing puddle.

White House science adviser John Holdren said in a statement that the findings make the case for taking action to slow global warming — both by reducing emissions and adapting to the changes that “are no longer avoidable.”

Wait a minute….I thought it was climate change, not global warming. Now we’re back fighting global warming when there’s global cooling going on. Get with the program, dumbass!

“It tells us why remedial action is needed sooner rather than later,” Holdren said.

Yeah, it DOES. A couple more cold years and even the morons that stay inside staring at their computer models instead of venturing outside into actual weather will realize that the jig is up.

Jerry Melillo, one of the report’s authors, said at a White House briefing Tuesday afternoon that if action is taken soon to reduce heat-trapping gases, chances improve for avoiding some of the effects detailed in the report.

Translation: “Please, oh please let this thing pass so that nobody knows that it is the sun that controls the weather, we can take credit for it, and we can continue sucking off the taxpayer teat! Amen.”

“There are a lot of things that are potentially possible if we don’t bring climate change under control, and we would like to see them avoided,” said Melillo, a biologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.

Well, potentially I could win the lottery. Even better, potentially I could actually develop a singing voice, go on to win American idol, and be worshipped as a goddess incarnate everywhere I go because my angelic singing voice causes an immediate end to strife with world peace occurring wherever it is heard. Then I would be showered with money because shithole countries everywhere will be buying my CDs and playing them 24/7. The world economy would immediately leap into overdrive because no nation would have to fund their police, prisons, or military. I could take all my trillions, use it to fund a cure for death, and live forever. Potentially.

The report compiles years of scientific research and updates it with new data. It was produced by the interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program, relying on government, academic and research experts.

Water — too much or too little — is a dominant theme through much of the report, which says that resource will continue to be a major problem in every region of the country.

“Water permeates this document,” Burkett said. She said the U.S. Southwest will get drier and hotter and that will be a crucial issue.

Oh, shit! A drought in the desert? Who the hell could see that one coming?

The nearly 200-page report has chapters examining the effects of global warming in each region — from coastal zoning officials who must consider sea rise to Midwestern farmers recalculating their planting seasons.

Oh God NOOOOOO! Don’t make the farmers recalculate their planting seasons! How could they possibly be competent enough to add or subtract a week on either end of the season?

Federal law requires comprehensive reports on global warming’s effects every four years. An environmental group sued to force the Bush administration to issue an early draft of this report last summer because one had not been written since 2000. Since that time, the language has become stronger, but mostly because of fresher research, scientists said.

Guess that “fresher research” didn’t reveal that we were getting colder, not warmer.

No wonder we’re in such a freakin’ budget mess with the Federal government spending so much money on incredibly stupid studies from environmental activists who would like nothing better than if people would just die already.

“The emphasis has shifted from just looking at the physical climate science to adapting to change,” Burkett said in an interview.

How about if you adapt to change when the government cuts you off the Federal teat? What in the hell do you idiots think will happen when people are starving because they can’t afford food and freezing because they can’t afford fuel? Do you *really* think that they’re going to say “oh, my, I guess we’ll just have to let mom and the kids die because it’s good for the environment”?

I’m all in favor of renewable fuels, of course. Somebody go harpoon a damn whale already. Or the authors of this ridiculous paper.

*sigh* I could make fun of this stupidity all day but I have other things I need to do. Y’all give it your best shot and post your views later.

Update: I consulted the weather report yesterday and, upon being assured that the rain chance was 20% for afternoon thundershowers and the temperature would be 99 or 100, I woke at the buttcrack of dawn. I needed to get the feeding out of the way so I could concentrate on mowing grass before the temperature got too high.