Posted on 04/08/2007 12:03:42 AM PDT by Red Steel
UN report says poor will suffer most unless measures taken to cut greenhouse gases
BRUSSELS (AP)-- As the world gets hotter, millions of people will suffer from hunger, thirst, floods and disease unless drastic action is taken, the bleakest report yet on global warming said yesterday.
"Don't be poor in a hot country, don't live in hurricane alley, watch out about being on the coasts or the Arctic, and it's a bad idea to be on high mountains with glaciers melting," Stephen Schneider, a Stanford University scientist and study co-author, said.
All regions of the world will change, with the risk that nearly a third of the Earth's species will vanish if global temperatures rise just 2 C above the average temperature in the 1980s and '90s.
FIERCE DEBATE
Yet those grim predictions were toned-down from the scientists' original wording -- a compromise brokered in a fierce debate. Researchers accused governments -- namely China, Russia and Saudi Arabia -- of ignoring science and watering down the report to avoid action.
In the end, 120 nations in the UN climate panel agreed to a final text in the clearest scientific statement to date on the impact of global warming and the strongest warning ever that the world must cut back on greenhouse gases.
The report on how global warming is changing life on Earth is the second of four coming this year from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN network of 2,000 scientists.
Africa by 2020 is looking at an additional 75 to 250 million people going thirsty. Deadly diarrhea diseases associated with floods and droughts will rise in Asia.
LONGER HEAT WAVES
"Many millions more people are projected to be flooded every year due to sea-level rise by the 2080s," the report says.
North America can expect more hurricanes, floods, wildfires and droughts. Heat waves will last longer and become more frequent and intense.
First global food supply will increase; then it will plunge.
An increase of just 1 C could mean "up to 30% of the species at risk of extinction."
"The poorest of the poor are going to be the worst hit," panel chairman Rajendra Pachauri said.
Yet not all of the effects are locked in, the report said. Humans can stave off many by reducing greenhouse gases. "We can fix this," Schneider said.
Polution
- acid rain
Population explosion
Nuclear power - the China Syndrome
Global Cooling
Ozone depletion
Y2K
And now it's Global Warming.
They left out “women and children.”
Hope these politicians, I mean scientists, are young enough to live to witness their humiliation.
Guns
Bird Flu
EM fields from electric towers
Aids
Asteroid Impact
Head-rot from cell phones
Peanuts
Christians
Men
Deforestation
Mold in houses
Television
Barney the Purple Dinosaur [should be #1]
Second-hand smoke
Suntanning
Aspartame
Food irradiation.
BHT
Ozone Hole...
They will never be humiliated. That’s what is nice about their particular sciences, they have endless possibilities. Carl Sagan never was humiliated for believing the ice was coming back in the late 60’s, he saw the warmth!! LOL
Oh, right--it's the animals and plants they're worried about.
But people peeing their second-hand medications into the groundwater is an up-and-comer!
Meat
“Don’t be poor in a hot country, don’t live in hurricane alley...”
Don’t tug on Superman’s cape...
Tobacco.
“Women and minorities hardest hit”
BS!
Get ready for stage two of the shakedown. Images of starving children, failed crops, floods, volcanoes and hurricanes...dead dogs/dead frogs/drowning bears/tigers and lions on the verge of extinction/elephants without enough to eat and everywhere sea levels rising, drowning islands...we haven’t seen the worst of it yet!
On every front page and with every ‘news’ broadcast! The UN has 750,000 ‘employees’ to keep in the comfort they have become accustomed to and that money has to be extorted FROM US!
Don’t eat, don’t sniff, don’t smoke.....DON’T EVEN MOVE!!!!
I JESS LUV MORONS : )
KILLER BEES!!!!
OK get a job and you'll be fine.
Jeez...there's so many!
Don’t spit into the wind.
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