Posted on 02/03/2007 10:02:58 AM PST by melt
PARIS - Fear of runaway global warming pushed 46 countries to line up Saturday behind France's appeal for a new environmental body that could single out — and perhaps police — nations that abuse the Earth.
"It is our responsibility. The future of humanity demands it," President Jacques Chirac said in an appeal to put the environment at the top of the world's agenda.
He spoke at a conference a day after the release in Paris of a grim report from the world's leading climate scientists and government officials that said global warming is so severe that it will "continue for centuries" and that humans are to blame.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report sparked calls for fast, planet-wide action and was embraced by Europeans. A total of 46 countries agreed to pursue plans for the new organization, and to hold their first meeting in Morocco this spring.
But key world polluters — including the United States, China, India and Russia — steered clear.
Without naming the United States directly, Chirac expressed frustration that "some large countries, large rich countries, still must be convinced." They are "refusing to accept the consequences of their acts," he said.
Chirac, 74, is seeking to leave his mark on international affairs before he leaves office, likely in May, though his environmental record over 12 years as France's president is spotty.
Former Vice President Al Gore, whose documentary on the perils of global warming has garnered worldwide attention, cheered Chirac's efforts.
"We are at a tipping point," Gore said in recorded remarks shown at the conference. Friday's report was "yet another warning about the dangers we face. We must act, and act swiftly. ... Such action requires international cooperation
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It doesn't matter, AGW is a growth industry, the nuts have spoken, CO2 is a pollutant, the Sun has nothing to do with warming and that's the end of that!
I guess that we caused global warming on Mars, and that human CO2 emissions also caused the Midevil warming period in 800AD.
Notice also how Al Gore "conveniently" never jets to Saudi Arabia, to tell them to stop producing the greatest source of evil greenhouse gases on Earth--- oil.
Liberals will make sure that algorithm gets an Oscar and the Nobel Prize for Fiction in short order.
I'm learning valuable things today. Thanks.
That's because just about whenever he speaks of "global warming" during the winter, it falls way below freezing region where he is going to spread his lie.
Be my guest. I did.
Ya know.....I'm tired of GLOBAL WARMING PR WEEK.....we here in the Seattle area are also tired of the BELOW normal temps we've been having......
It would be impossible to miss the explosion of global warming articles recently.
It is also impossible to miss the "plugs" for global warming on television. I love the Discovery and Science channels but they (along with Hollywood) rarely miss a chance to mention it.
At least we know how sailors must have felt back when everyone said the earth was flat.
Fiction it is, but he's made convenient mathematical calculations in his algorgebra [ie. another invention he wishes to present to the World]--- to make it look like the "Truth".
He ain't gory alwhore for nothin'!
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