Panel: Earth Is Rapidly Getting Warmer

I'm willing to bet against the Nobel-prizing winning, UN panel on this one. If we can find any concrete numbers, or falsifiable claims, I will wager any amount that ten years from now their doomsday predictions will be proven wrong.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071117/D8SVD6JG0.html

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species.

After five days of sometimes tense negotiations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted its fourth and final report this year, along with a summary, on the science of climate change and the effects of human-produced greenhouse gases.

It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes - and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.

The document says recent research has heightened concern that the poor and the elderly will suffer most from climate change; that hunger and disease will be more common; that droughts, floods and heat waves will afflict the world's poorest regions; and that more animal and plant species will vanish.