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| "You are all gonna DIEEE!" IPCC report says... |
| 2014-03-31 |
| YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) -- If the world doesn't cut pollution of heat-trapping gases, the already noticeable harms of global warming could spiral "out of control," the head of a United Nations scientific panel warned Monday. And he's not alone. The Obama White House says it is taking this new report as a call for action, with Secretary of State John Kerry saying "the costs of inaction are catastrophic." Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that issued the 32-volume, 2,610-page report here early Monday, told The Associated Press: "it is a call for action." Without reductions in emissions, he said, impacts from warming "could get out of control." One of the study's authors, Maarten van Aalst, a top official at the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, said, "If we don't reduce greenhouse gases soon, risks will get out of hand. And the risks have already risen." You are all gonna DIE! Just like in the middle ages when the earth was even warmer! Twenty-first century disasters such as killer heat waves in Europe, wildfires in the United States, droughts in Australia and deadly flooding in Mozambique, Thailand and Pakistan highlight how vulnerable humanity is to extreme weather, according to the report from the Nobel Prize-winning group of scientists. The dangers are going to worsen as the climate changes even more, the report's authors said. Nobel Peace Prize Winning isn't that much of a ringing endorsement anymore... "We're now in an era where climate change isn't some kind of future hypothetical," said the overall lead author of the report, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in California. "We live in an area where impacts from climate change are already widespread and consequential." Translation: Give US money and power or you will all DIE! Nobody is immune, Pachauri and other scientists said. After all New York city is already underwater! Only financially... "Things are worse than we had predicted" in 2007, when the group of scientists last issued this type of report, said report co-author Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development at the Independent University in Bangladesh. "We are going to see more and more impacts, faster and sooner than we had anticipated." The problems have gotten so bad that the panel had to add a new and dangerous level of risks. In 2007, the biggest risk level in one key summary graphic was "high" and colored blazing red. The latest report adds a new level, "very high," and colors it deep purple. Let me know when they come out with an 'Insanely high and we really, really mean it this time." color. You might as well call it a "horrible" risk level, said van Aalst: "The horrible is something quite likely, and we won't be able to do anything about it." The report, the fifth on warming's impacts, includes risks to the ecosystems of the Earth, including a thawing Arctic, but it is far more oriented to what it means to people than past versions. After all you have to scare the sh*t out of the rubes so they will give you money and authority over their lives! Tol, who is in the minority of experts here, had his name removed from the summary because he found it "too alarmist," harping too much on risk. Michael Mann, now famous for the 'Hide the Decline video' a There is still time to adapt to some of the coming changes and reduce heat-trapping emissions, so it's not all bad, said study co-author Patricia Romero-Lankao of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado. Just give us money and power over your lives and it'll all be better. (at least for us) "We have a closing window of opportunity," she said. "We do have choices. We need to act now." People are catching onto the Climategate scam fast! We have to act now! |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #9 No proof of anthropogenic global warming. Period. It simply isn't there. Fact: we have had CO2 increase the past 20 years, yet, we have not had appreciable warming, but steady temperatures. Unlike the predicted rise. SO something is wrong, yet they will not admit it. Its not science, its religion at this point. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-03-31 22:50 |
| #8 In my corporate world job we almost never GO to out-of-town meetings - we have 'virtual' meetings/teleconferences. Been that way for 20 years. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-03-31 19:29 |
| #7 "I'll start believing it is a crisis when they stop flying their private jets to every meeting and walk." FTFY, Darth. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-03-31 15:45 |
| #6 It is painfully obvious that the only way to stop Global Warming/Cooling is a massive transfer of power to the right people in washington and an even more massive transfer of money to the third world dictators. Nothing else will save the planet. I'm curious what the next thing will be if they did ever get their wishes. Probably decimate the population for the sake the planet. Certainly vegan diet and spade/neutering the population. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-03-31 15:36 |
| #5 Reminds me of this guy (hence the headline): |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-03-31 13:28 |
| #4 translate it to Chinese? I thought not |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-03-31 13:17 |
| #3 I remember when they called it Global Warming. But then it got cold and nobody believed them. So now they start screaming like Chicken Little every time there's a drought or a hurricane (or no hurricanes, either way) and call it Climate Change. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2014-03-31 12:41 |
| #2 I'll start believing it is a crisis when they stop flying their private jets to every meeting and take the bus and carpool. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-03-31 11:23 |
| #1 OOps - headline should read IPCC not ICCC. Fixed. Getting so you need a program to know all the corrupt U.N. panels anymore. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-03-31 10:38 |