Posted on 02/27/2007 5:24:12 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax By Peter Heinlein United Nations 28 February 2007
A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.
In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.
The report was issued three weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity. But unlike the IPCC report, this latest document makes policy recommendations.
Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University says the world must be mobilized immediately to avoid catastrophe. "Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly," he said.
The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done.
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I'm all for a warmer climate. It's too darn cold where I live.
UNITED STATES CUTTING GREENHOUSE GASES BETTER THAN EUROPE
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Communist/socialist/marxist Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax (a global tax on greenhouse gas...)
That's because the Clinton years were like so peaceful and serene (Cue Disney music and animated characters)
"...the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "concluded" that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity."
PURE BUNK. That report DID NOT "conclude" anything. You'd think these people would know better.....well, maybe not!
"A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries"
Wow, I am f**king convinced. 18 whole scientists.
"CUTTING GREENHOUSE GASES"
Sounds like Gone_Postal in post #20 has been doing his part "cutting greenhouse gas".
May I recommend 53 degrees F, average.
While they are at it, they can just pass a UN resolution declaring that global warming doesn't exist and solve the whole problem.
Some guy was lecturing to a local radio talk sho host about how that an atmospheric temeprature change of just 2 degrees would cause coral to die couldn't explain how a the coral survived the many ice ages and warming cycles.
Sounds like an info-mercial.
"Act quickly, while supplies last. Don't be disappointed."
*shakes head* The hubris of these folks is breathtaking! They really think that just by SAYING SO, they can control the temperature of the world?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Purchase your carbon credits at the local distribution center, comrade!
Taxing the temperature. That's the ticket. If that doesn't stop it, nothing will.
Why is my head hurting?
I have an idea. Why don't we tax people based on their individual electric usage? For example, if someone uses more electricity in one month for one home than the average American uses in a whole year, we should tax his socks off.
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