Posted on 07/13/2015 8:26:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The threat of climate change needs to be assessed in the same comprehensive way as nuclear weapons proliferation, according to a UK foreign minister.
Baroness Joyce Anelay, minister of state at the Commonwealth and Foreign Office, said the indirect impacts of global warming, such as deteriorating international security, could be far greater than the direct effects, such as flooding.
The report, commissioned by the Foreign Office, and written by experts from the UK, US, China and India, is stark in its assessment of the wide-ranging dangers posed by unchecked global warming, including:
- very large risks to global food security, including a tripling of food prices
- unprecedented migration overwhelming international assistance
- increased risk of terrorism as states fail
- lethal heat even for people resting in shade
The greatest risks are tipping points, the report finds, where the climate shifts rapidly into a new, dangerous phase state. But the report also states that political leadership, technology and investment patterns can also change abruptly too.
The report concludes: “The risks of climate change may be greater than is commonly realised, but so is our capacity to confront them. An honest assessment of risk is no reason for fatalism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Until that sun going to sleep around 2020 and things will cool down - due to global warming you see.
Well heck yeah. Someone said the oceans are gonna rise 4, 5, maybe 6 feet. Real soon. Somebody else said 20 feet. Better get them water wings out. Or we could just wait 15 years and let the cooling begin. Frozen di-hydrogen monoxide ain’t that much of a problem. Except for growing stuff and things like that.
OH MY , another foreign minister’s brain has turned to Mush
All due to that weird food they eat ...
“The Moral Equivalent of War” makes a comeback.
Actually, I believe climate change must be taken as seriously as a UK minister.
Well, THAT would be stupid!
Nuclear Weapons are real.
Ralph to Norton: Did you do that (put cigarette lighter up to see the red line) when YOU looked at the
thermometer? (Norton had just told Ralph his (Ralph's) temp was "111")
So we should take climate change as seriously as liberals treat the possibility of nuclear war?
Given their recent history, I think I already take climate change more seriously than that and I don’t take climate change seriously at all.
Funny, the FRENCH Foreign Minister clearly stated we have "500 days before climate change crisis"...
That was 400 days ago...
And for added credibility, he said it standing next to John F'n Kerry, who is also very French-looking...
(Did you know he served in Vietnam?)
The old Course at St. Andrews was supposed to be burned to a crisp by now due to the heat and lack of rain, but I hear they are hosting a little golf tourney there this week.
"The climate change problem is the issue of our civilization. It will affect everything about our lives if we don’t do something about it," she [Jane Fonda] says.
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Well, whatta you know, these 3 guys apparently agree(ed) with Jane...
“The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.”
“I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don’t think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, ‘tomorrow could be too late, let’s do now what we need to do’.”
“I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.”
—Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005
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Bin Laden blasts US for climate change
CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.
In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.
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“Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.
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“Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere,” he said.
“The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won’t have air to breathe.
What’s he doing to save the climate?
I am tired of them shoving their religion down my throat. Go away already. I don’t believe in it.
Another idiot con-artist.
Anyone who spouts one word about manmade climate change needs to be immediately locked up on a mental health arrest.
career politicians and their ruling overlords are the most dangerous to this world
Global Warming may cause you to have gigantic toejam footballs!
It may cause hundreds of opossums to live behind your TV set.
Global Warming can be prevented by Sanctuary cities that do not allow warming.
It may cause you to lose your 401K (no, wait, that's the Federal government)
Killer fungus from Plan 9 From Outer Space will come through the TV screen and kill you if you don't believe the Climate Change Hoax!
Santa Clause, the Easter Bunny, and the Great Pumpkin will not like you unless you spread the AGW lie!
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