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| 2005-01-24 |
| The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the world - and it is remarkably brief. In as little as 10 years, or even less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming may have been reached. The report, Meeting The Climate Challenge, is aimed at policymakers in every country, from national leaders down. It has been timed to coincide with Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy in 2005 as chairman of both the G8 group of rich countries and the European Union. And it breaks new ground by putting a figure - for the first time in such a high-level document - on the danger point of global warming, that is, the temperature rise beyond which the world would be irretrievably committed to disastrous changes. These could include widespread agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests - with the added possibility of abrupt catastrophic events such as "runaway" global warming, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or the switching-off of the Gulf Stream. Most of all, DON'T PANIC! We know how to spend your money. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #17 Via Bros. Judd, maybe they know the jig is up and trying to grab all they can - and those are his comments, not mine: SAVE CANADA: BURN YOUR (MAPLE) LEAVES. Humans 'may have saved world from ice age': HUMANS may have unwittingly saved themselves from a looming ice age by interfering with the Earth's climate, according to a new study. (John von Radowitz, Irish Examiner, 1/24/05) The findings from a team of American climate experts suggest that were it not for greenhouse gases produced by humans, the world would be well on the way to a frozen Armageddon. . . . The research showed that without the human contribution to global warming, Baffin Island would today be in a condition of "incipient glaciation". "Portions of Labrador and Hudson Bay would also have moved very close to such a state had greenhouse gas concentrations followed natural trends," said the scientists. The experiment had probably underestimated the amount of ice that would exist today in north-east Canada without human interference, they said. This has been obvious for a while to those paying attention (basically, just Harry and me). |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2005-01-24 1:48:02 PM |
| #16 Damn cow farts! Their going to go an mess everything up..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-01-24 12:31:57 PM |
| #15 Did this announcement coincide with a viewing of "The Day After Tommorow", which just came out on DVD? I heard Al Gore was a guest speaker. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-01-24 12:28:33 PM |
| #14 Doom de doom doom doom... Will it be warmer? I'm so cold. |
| Posted by: Gir 2005-01-24 12:19:25 PM |
| #13 Jeepers, if it's that serious, then maybe they ought to get China and India on board their plan now instead of just urging the formation of "a climate group". Re Seantor Snowe: "Snowe is co-sponsor of the McCain-Lieberman 'Climate Stewardship Act of 2003' which calls for mandatory domestic reductions of carbon dioxide. In September 2003, the bill received 43 votes in the Senate, though could likely garner more support should the legislation be revisited in the next Congress." Source: http://snowe.senate.gov/prt_environment.htm Okay, junk science, no India, no China, and only 43 votes in the U.S. Senate. The only warming here is these do-gooders pissing in the wind. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-01-24 12:04:59 PM |
| #12 ". . .why, it could mean the end of life as we know it." "Oh, no! Not that! That's my favorite show!" "Yeah, I know. That Kelli Osborne sure is hot." "Yeah." "Anyway, we need to convene a Plenary Conference to appoint a UN Working Group to flesh out a Preliminary Plan of Action so we can present it at the next Global Impending Doom Conference." "Hey, right . . . and we can hold it in Los Angeles, charge it all to our expense accounts, and have Kelli Osborne be the honorary chairman." "You're a genius!" |
| Posted by: Mike 2005-01-24 11:35:50 AM |
| #11 Anyone here read Michael Crichton's "State of Fear"? Here's George Will's Dec.23 review of Crichton's novel. It's on my to read list. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-01-24 11:19:24 AM |
| #10 What if... Humans 'may have saved world from ice age' |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-01-24 11:03:51 AM |
| #9 Well, they can "feel global warming's pain", by watching the ice melt in their free well drinks. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-24 11:02:26 AM |
| #8 in Aspen? hmmmmm ;-) |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 10:57:10 AM |
| #7 2b---a 3 month conference!!!!! WTF? What do you do at a conference for 3 months? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-01-24 10:54:03 AM |
| #6 And of course Mt Erebus in Antarctica erupting straight up into the "ozone hole" has no effect on things at all. It's spray cans and jet planes, man. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-01-24 10:52:02 AM |
| #5 the switching-off of the Gulf Stream How about switching off these bastards' Gulfstreams? And their SUVs while you're at it. |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-24 10:43:26 AM |
| #4 We know how to spend your money. A multi-million dollar study is being conducted in Aspen, for the leaders of this movement meet for a 3 month conference to further study the impact of decreasing temperatures and ice. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-01-24 10:21:18 AM |
| #3 Idjits. MT Etna spewed as much stuff between October 2002--January 2003 as all human caused emissions for 7 years worldwide. Eruptions 2004-till present here. Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-01-24 10:20:37 AM |
| #2 There have been more tidbits coming out recently on how this stuff is BS, and it seems like the more it gets questioned, the more outlandish these claims get. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-01-24 10:09:25 AM |
| #1 Already, the BS detectors are going off. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-24 10:05:06 AM |