From the American Chemical Society
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2014 — Yesterday’s release of the third National Climate Assessment (NCA) should serve as a claxon [SIC] call for policymakers and the general public to take action to address and mitigate the observable and documented adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector of the United States.
These impacts, which have been observed and measured, are wreaking havoc with our society. This is a not a theoretical assessment; this report cites changes we are all observing and with which we are living. The future climate trends outlined in the report are even more dire. We should all be deeply concerned.
Of the report’s five major findings, the fifth describes the disturbing probable outcome of climate disruption currently being observed:
“Climate change threatens human health and well-being in many ways, including through more extreme weather events and wildfire, decreased air quality, and diseases transmitted by insects, food and water.”
ACS has long held the position that climate change is real and serious and that our nation needs strong policies and actions to protect against further adverse impacts, and we need to address the impacts we are already observing.
For 14 years, ACS has held a climate change policy position, which has been strengthened and updated routinely as new scientific analyses became available. The current public policy statement can be found by clicking on this link.
To assist its members, policymakers and the general public understand the science behind our climate, the ACS created an online Climate Science Toolkit of scientific information and resources.
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 161,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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I thought only Climate Scientists are authorized to comment.
Better living through alarmist chemistry?
If I were an ACS member, I would resign post-haste. Fortunately, as a retired aerospace engineer, I’m not subject to such nonsense.
WIthout the ACS hacktivists, life itself would not be possible!
oh, wait….
Oh, I wonder if the ACS has been orchestrating its response with the White House?
“ACS {Altogether Climate Society} (a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress) has long held the position that climate change is real and serious… .”
“The King’s New Clothes” — Danny Kaye
“The king is in the altogether… .” Yup. That’s the naked truth.
LOL.
Morons.
Ignore them. 99.99% of the American public will.
Dignify THAT junk with a serious response?
LOL.
What type of chemicals are they on?
‘The ice age commeth’, Janice, and they are hoping the weather will indeed remain warmer and hotter. We’ve had it easy weather wise, but wait till it drops 5C, so don’t throw away your Ugg boots.LOL.
This is hilarious:
“. . . adverse climate disruption impacts being observed in every region and key economic sector . . .”
Wow not a single region nor a single key economic sector spared! Pretty amazing. Thank goodness for this report, without which most people wouldn’t even realize that their region and every key economic sector is being impacted by adverse climate disruption. You’d think with the effects so widespread and felt so deeply it would hardly be necessary to call people’s attention to it.
I really am over this BS.
How come their “expert assessment” differs so much from the IPCC “expert assessment”?
These are just a handful of examples of the IPCC’s own summarys in different sections of the latest report.(SR5)
So who’s got it wrong?
-:”Overall, the most robust global changes in climate extremes are seen in measures of daily temperature, including to some extent, heat waves. Precipitation extremes also appear to be increasing, but there is large spatial variability”
“There is limited evidence of changes in extremes associated with other climate variables since the mid-20th century”
“Current datasets indicate no significant observed trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the past century … No robust trends in annual numbers of tropical storms, hurricanes and major hurricanes counts have been identified over the past 100 years in the North Atlantic basin”
“In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale”
“In summary, there is low confidence in observed trends in small-scale severe weather phenomena such as hail and thunderstorms because of historical data inhomogeneities and inadequacies in monitoring systems”:-
The former president of the ACS was my good old cocky professor Ronald Breslow of Columbia. His whole generation of now age 70+ chemists not only scoffed at soft science startups but were depressed at how the fanatical greenie beurocrats showed up and made then THROW AWAY their near hundred year old large personal libraries of old chemicals we called morgues. Those were libraries of synthetic starting materials, mostly all gone now, that let us Ivy League boys work till 3:50AM on any given holiday or Sunday without running out of ideas and materials too.
Any word from APS??
And so it begins … assorted groups start the rush to create a “popular” movement in a build up to demand action to do something …
I resigned from the ACS. Main reason — just too darned expensive — especially when I retired.
Alexander, ‘what chemicals are they on?’ They might be deficient in Vit D 3, it affects your brain functions or lack of B.12 (vegans and some vegetarians). They don’t deserve an A or B or C for this report, possibly if I were marking it, I would add ‘This essay is incomplete, do not use empty arguments without stating references and an ambiguous conclusion and summary.’ Mark 30/100
I thought scientists were sober realists. Boy was I wrong.
Where do you find a klaxon or a claxon [SIC] these days, other than in a museum ?
…. where this f-kin stupid, thieving, medieval, scare stupid people about the weather meme belongs.
‘The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. ‘
Doesn’t that make it a political organisation?
“The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. ”
That certainly increases it’s credibility and authority—NOT!!!
The shrillness of the warmists rhetoric rises as the time of no-warming approaches a crises for their faith. If the next 18 months doesn’t show a strong increase in global temperatures and a collapse of Arctic ice, they are undone. The public already has dropped climate change as a primary concern, regardless og Bill Nye. The MSM will scent blood in the water if the catastrophe doesn’t show up in the Nation’s bedrooms soon. Obama et al are in their terminal state: it’s either gey some urn witches burnt (and thereby lock the voters into the program) or watch those on the pedestals fall.
We’ve moved into the end times. It can go either way, but the natural citizen’s reluctance to spending his money to benefit strangers suggests the warmists will lose.
Hi, Bush Bunny, #(:)), lol, yes, indeed. Time to invest in companies that make: de-icer, parkas, and video games (what people under 40 will do INSIDE for 8 months out of the year…, heh). Oh, and cocoa and coffee bean futures.
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“You’d think with the effects so widespread and felt so deeply it would hardly be necessary to call people’s attention to it.” (Eric Anderson at 9:45pm)
Good one!
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@ur momisugly Sean — So far, so good. As of about 10:05pm PDT today, APS is ignoring this junk:
APS Home Page: http://www.aps.org/
If I were a Democrat strategist, I would begin to express doubts that man-made global warming is an issue of concern. I would point out the grand solar minimum of solar cycle 24 as being a more influential factor in the climate of our planet.
This should provide for a good distraction covering up the recent hits to Democrats going forward.
They could parade themselves as heroes instead of the villains for who they are.
“… in a museum … …. where this … medieval, scare stupid people about the weather meme belongs.” (Phil in California at 9:59pm) lol
New Press Room of the ACS
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klaxon horn5/7/14 ACS press releaseThere is the familiar CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, long a valued “must have” reference work. It provides just the facts for all.
The American Chemical Society publishes “The ACS Style Guide”:
Thus the ACS has a long history of dictating how to think and present your work if you want any respected science authorities anywhere to at least look at your work. Obey them or be damned to obscurity.
But they do not publish a similar handbook of facts, as facts do not matter. The presentation, and controlling the presentations, is what’s most important.
Hi, Kevin!!
Glad you’re back!