Word: ipcc
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...Since its last meeting five years ago, the IPCC says it has discovered immutable evidence that human beings are the root cause of global warming, and that we've been particularly harmful in the past 50 years, spewing exhaust and industrial toxins into the atmosphere at breakneck speed...
...While the IPCC report won't be officially available until after the members meet early next year, ripples could be felt immediately in this year's presidential campaign. Al Gore, who adopted global warming as a pet project many years ago, may take the report's dire warnings to the trail, reflecting on his own record as an environmentalist and hammering his opponent's perceived weakness on the issue...
...should trust Gore. Since he's actually written a book on the subject, he is familiar with all the relevant data. He has surely heard of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), sponsored by the UN itself. And he must have seen Bert Bolin, chair of the IPCC, admit in debate that the vast majority of warming this century took place before 1940. Aaah, the good old days--so many cars on the road that Henry Ford even let you "choose between black and black...