Game Over?

I missed it when it first came out, but Some Assembly Required has just highlighted an interesting story from Britain's Independent, which notes that

the Hadley Center reports that no natural phenomenon, from volcanoes to sun spots, can explain the significant and persistent warming of the planet over the last 50 years.  Game over.

Here is a brief snippet from the article:

"The observations cannot be explained by natural factors," Dr Stott said. Since 1980, the Earth has warmed by about 0.5C and is now warming at a rate of about 0.16C per decade, with even higher rates at higher latitudes such as in the Arctic.

"The fingerprint of human influence has been detected in many different aspects of observed climate change. We've seen it in temperature, and increases in atmospheric humidity, we've seen it in salinity changes. We've seen it in reductions in Arctic sea ice and changing rainfall patterns," Dr Stott said. "What we see here are observations consistent with a warming world. This wealth of evidence we have now shows there is an increasingly remote possibility of climate change being dominated by natural factors rather than human factors."

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Comments

[roger]

Given the constant fluctuation of material reality,science is not an absolute
but it is the best tool we have to increase our knowledge For the layman like
me,observation is key and one thing is certain,erratic weather patterns are
becoming the new norm,not a good omen.Dump yards have become globalized.
Increased production followed by an orgy of consumption is over.
Plato took note in Critias how the human destructiveness and lack of respect
for nature was destroying the ecology around Athens, the dialectic of change
can be very slow but is unstoppable. Yes I'd say: the game IS OVER!

[dearieme]

"is now warming at a rate of about 0.16C per decade": or there has been no statitically significant warming since 1995, according to whom you read.