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 discredited climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University who wasn't part of this report, said he found the report "very conservative" because it is based on only peer reviewed studies and has to be approved unanimously.
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!
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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.
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translate it to Chinese? I thought not
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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.
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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.
h/t Instapundit
I have no objections to Jeb Bush running for president. He obviously has a wide appeal as a potential candidate. With a Mexican wife, and as a man who speaks fluent Spanish, he would be able to increase the Hispanic vote in the GOP column. On the other hand, many in the Republican base find his position on immigration untenable, and would fight him tooth and nail during primary season. He is also a serious advocate of education reform. His support of Common Core, however, will also find many who are in the conservative ranks objecting, since they fear that Common Core represents educational centralism and having the government ram federal standards down their throats.
What I do object to is that Bush is already being heralded as the obvious candidate, the man to whom the big money must and will flow. As the Washington Post reports:
Many of the Republican Party's most powerful insiders and financiers have begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the 2016 presidential race, courting him and his intimates and starting talks on fundraising strategy.
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Many of the Republican Party's most powerful insiders and financiers...
...who could influence the primaries, couldn't turn out the vote needed for the past two elections. Just as they threw away elements of the base in the two elections, going with a 'dynasty' candidate is going to keep a unacceptable and fatal number of people at home.
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This is from the same two brain trusts that have, at various times, promoted such successful characters as John Kerry and Bob Dole.
The only concern is proprietary, i.e. do they(the bosses) own them.
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I would add that at this point the national election process is being handled a lot like an Olympic Games bid, in that they could care less who wins, as long as they get their time at the trough, and pick up the goody bag on the way out.
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Whatever one thinks of Mr. Bush, this is about the time all serious contenders are getting their ducks in a row. That's all this is, nothing more.
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Whatever one thinks abour Mr. Bush or any of the other contenders, this is about getting rid of the communists.
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Just as they threw away elements of the base in the two elections, going with a 'dynasty' candidate is going to keep a unacceptable and fatal number of people at home.
Not that it would make any difference in California, but I would most certainly either stay home or vote for a third party candidate rather than casting a vote for another Bush or Clinton.
I'm sick of these two families.
It won't matter anymore who is Republican and who is Democrat. They will all be Kleptocrats.
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One day I'll ask one of you Americans to explain to me the diff between your two parties---cause I sure as heck can't see any.
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The only chance Jeb has is if against Hillary as we'd have one royal line against the other. The reverse is true as well. Folks don't want another Bush or Clinton and the only way either has a chance is if they face each other.
Such a matchup would be a perfect time for a third party candidate.
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I'm voting no in the primaries ... general election I'm going to vote 3rd or 4th party if that's all the betters want to let us vote for.. Clintoons or Bushies...
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Did the GOP not learn anything in the last 8 years??? And now, based on the responses across the net, Jeb is out because of immigration, common core, and his name. Next thing we know it will be abortion, or any other bullshit emotional event to derail serious conversation about the matters a president can change. Is he a leader? Will he work to fix our economy? Is he respected globally and with business leaders? Will he lead from the front or follow the pols, like Clinton, or from the rear like our current coward in chief? How does he stand on American exceptionalism? Is he a coward, like Obama or a pedophile and philanderer like Clinton? Last but not least, because I could F%^king care less what his family ties are, can he get the job done and dies he love this country enough to die for it????
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Both will talk to the center and regardless who is elected taxes will increase, GIVERnment will grow and freedoms will be dismissed.
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Jeb is out because of his name period. It's a damn shame tho. He's stone cold do what he said he gonna do. An impressive fellow. Trust me on this one. If by magic he runs, I will work for him. We will probably do a lot worse.
Common Core? The fed Gov has no damned business dictating educational standards - GW Bush screwed it up doing that with No Child Left Behind. And no to rewarding lawbreakers and scofflaws who are here illegally. If they nominate Bush, the GOP is dead - not just to me, but to just about anyone with conservative principles. This will drive a stake thru its heart.
Jeb Bush will become to the GOP what Millard FIlmore was to the Whigs: its last national candidate, and a loser that triggers the formation of a new Republican Party (the party of Lincoln, who left the Whigs for the GOP in the next election).
[10NEWS] LA MESA, Calif. - A local couple called 10News concerned after they received an envelope from the state's Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... website, Covered Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,. Inside was a letter discussing voter registration and a registration card pre-marked with an "x" in the box next to Democratic Party.
The couple -- who did not want their identity revealed -- received the letter and voter registration card from their health insurance provider Covered Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, the state-run agency that implements President B.O.'s Affordable Care Act.
They have lived in La Mesa for years and they have always been registered to vote Republican. Now, they are perplexed as to how the voter registration card pre-marked Democrat ended up in their mailbox.
"I'm an old guy and I never would have noticed it, except I have an accountant that notices every dot and dash on a piece of paper as a wife," said the man who received the mailer.
Covered Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, began mailing out voter signup cards to nearly 4 million enrollees last week after being threatened with a lawsuit by voting rights groups. But that does not explain the pre-filled out voter registration card.
"It's a waste of money because there's an awful lot of people who are going to get this that are already registered and they don't need to. I can see that, but I can't see putting x on the form before it's given to me in a little bitty box that nobody's really going to notice," said the recipient of the mailer.
10News shared what was sent with Covered Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
Spokeswoman Anne Gonzales stated, "We are mailing voter registration material. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the application forms come directly from the Secretary of State's office, with no fields pre-marked. The individual should contact the Secretary of State, which takes these violations of election law extremely seriously, and they will investigate, using the unique serial number."
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And of course the unasked question is... Has his existing registration been changed to Democrat?
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In old Soviet Unionwe use to to do this, you are registered to the "right" party and your votes for the next sixty years are "indicated correctly" for you too. It took the guess work out of the election process.
Good to see America is catching on too. Good for Comrade Obama and his loyal apparatchiks.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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