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Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax [a global tax on greenhouse gas....]
VOA news ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at voanews.com ...


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To: Sub-Driver
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.

18 scientists... Wow... What a large number!! (NOT)
61 posted on 02/28/2007 6:39:37 AM PST by AaronInCarolina
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To: Rembrandt
He DID push for it.

But do you get the impression that he was making a token effort for something he knew would never get approved?
62 posted on 02/28/2007 7:56:31 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Sub-Driver

What's wrong with plant food (CO2)?


63 posted on 02/28/2007 8:02:47 AM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thisa is aBSOlutely frigging maddening!!! We have lost this war- we ARE going to be paying through the nose for a natural friggin event that we can't do an frigging thing about no matter how we live- if we all took our cars off the roads, shut down all industry, and huddled together for warmth in the winters, it would change one damn thing!

This is the biggest frigging lie ever perpetrated on this earth, and the greedy lying maggots are pushing this through full speed ahed. Al Gore's 'documentary; was PROVEN to be full of crap, full of lies, and full of innacuracies yet he has known this and yet foistedf it on the world anyways! Yes I'm pissed!!!


64 posted on 02/28/2007 9:35:21 AM PST by CottShop
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To: baubau

yes you will- we are powerless to stand up against this freaking lie called global warming- it will be like refusing to pay your income taxes or property taxes- everyone says they won't pay, but they always do because we're afraid of our government and facing prison- The ONLY way we could get away with not paying is if EVERYONE refused to pay for htis lie- but that isn't going to happen- everyone won't take a stand.


65 posted on 02/28/2007 9:38:09 AM PST by CottShop
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To: Sub-Driver

So Ted Turner is going to be driving the bus?

http://www.unfoundation.org/about/index.asp


66 posted on 02/28/2007 9:58:52 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: CottShop

It sounds like tyranny pure and simple.


67 posted on 02/28/2007 6:45:33 PM PST by baubau (BOYCOTT Bank of America for Issuing Credit Cards to 3rd World Illegal Aliens.)
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To: P-40

"But do you get the impression that he was making a token effort for something he knew would never get approved?"

No, I believe you're engaged in the paralysis of analysis.


68 posted on 02/28/2007 7:30:23 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Rembrandt
No, I believe you're engaged in the paralysis of analysis.

Nope, I've just known a lot of politicians over the years.
69 posted on 03/01/2007 5:27:51 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40

"He DID push for it."
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"But do you get the impression that he was making a token effort for something he knew would never get approved?"
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I'm not into parsing nuances as much as you. He said it.


70 posted on 03/02/2007 8:31:40 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: CottShop

"yes you will- we are powerless to stand up against this freaking lie called global warming- it will be like refusing to pay your income taxes or property taxes- everyone says they won't pay, but they always do because we're afraid of our government and facing prison- The ONLY way we could get away with not paying is if EVERYONE refused to pay for htis lie- but that isn't going to happen- everyone won't take a stand."
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DON'T ever say or assume that you are powerless. You have power! You have your beliefs! You can speak! Go out and organize when the time is right!


71 posted on 03/02/2007 8:35:10 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: Rembrandt
I'm not into parsing nuances as much as you.

It isn't a nuance. It is the difference between what a politician says in public and what he is actually up to. The two are seldom more than kissing cousins.
72 posted on 03/04/2007 8:18:03 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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