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Rich must pay bulk of climate change bill: Oxfam [The US must foot 44 percent of the $50 billion
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Posted on 05/28/2007 4:42:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Rich must pay bulk of climate change bill: Oxfam

By Jeremy Lovell 37 minutes ago

Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.

The call, barely 10 days before a crucial Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany which has climate change at its core, is likely to make already tense negotiations even tougher.

The United States, which Oxfam says must foot 44 percent of the annual $50 billion bill, is rejecting attempts by German G8 presidency Germany to set stiff targets and timetables for cutting carbon gas emissions and raising energy efficiency.

"G8 countries face two obligations as they prepare for this year's summit in Germany -- to stop harming by cutting their emissions to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius and to start helping poor countries to cope," said Oxfam researcher Kate Raworth.

"Developing countries cannot and should not be expected to foot the bill for the impact of rich countries' emissions," she said, echoing the position of the developing world.

Scientists say average temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century due to carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport, causing floods and famine and putting millions of lives at risk.

The United States is the world's biggest producer of carbon emissions -- although experts predict that boom economy China will probably overtake it within a year as it builds a coal-fired power station every four days to feed demand.

GLOBAL WARMING INDEX

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; doomage; ecofascism; eeevilusa; etc; globalmarshallplan; globalwarming; gordonbrown; oxfam; progressives; religionofgore; socialism; spiritual; usaisevil; wearedoomed
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take a long hike down a short pier........
1 posted on 05/28/2007 4:42:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
"The United States, which Oxfam says must foot 44 percent of the annual $50 billion bill, is rejecting attempts by German G8 presidency Germany to set stiff targets and timetables for cutting carbon gas emissions and raising energy efficiency."

Pound sand.

2 posted on 05/28/2007 4:44:03 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: Sub-Driver

He is a rat trying to get more of the cheese....

Meadow MUffin


3 posted on 05/28/2007 4:44:28 PM PDT by rwgal
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To: Sub-Driver

How many Divisions does Oxfam have?


4 posted on 05/28/2007 4:48:30 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Sub-Driver
Scientists say average temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century due to carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport, causing floods and famine and putting millions of lives at risk.

They can't tell us what the weather will be like next week.

5 posted on 05/28/2007 4:48:59 PM PDT by SouthTexas
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To: Sub-Driver; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...

FReepmail me to get on or off


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6 posted on 05/28/2007 4:49:23 PM PDT by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: Sub-Driver

and here is the “reason” for Global Warmint: EXTORSION

Socialist scum do not give up!


7 posted on 05/28/2007 4:49:45 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (ffffFReeeePeee!)
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To: Sub-Driver

well, you got hand ‘em this: they sure stick to what works.


8 posted on 05/28/2007 4:52:56 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday.

Since, based on history, any benefits from global warming will greatly outweigh any disadvantages, shouldn't the rest of the world then pay US, if we're the major contributor? And since continued anthropogenic warming could offset the coming of another ice age which would have devastating consequences for the entire world, shouldn't the world pay US to keep the CO2 chugging out?

Of course, the CO2/warming link proposed by Algore is completely bogus. The current uptick in atmospheric CO2 was caused by solar-driven global warming of the the Medieval Climate Optimum. The current warming will have its CO2 effects noticed sometime about 2600AD.
9 posted on 05/28/2007 4:53:01 PM PDT by aruanan
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Hey! Agency Oxfam! Here’s yer reply!!!

Visulize a collective right arm with clenched fist bent slightly at the elbow thrust upward rapidly as the left arm comes across to slap an open palm into the inside bend of the elbow.

Got the picture??? Good,... then you know the response message!!!


10 posted on 05/28/2007 4:53:09 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: Sub-Driver

No.


11 posted on 05/28/2007 4:53:36 PM PDT by DB
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They’re getting pretty bold. Kyoto was designed to suck money from us in a fairly roundabout way, now they’re just demanding the money up front.


12 posted on 05/28/2007 4:54:35 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s pretty obvious this guy doesn’t really think it’s an “end of the world” situation coming up. Otherwise, he’d know that it would be worth spending everything on solutions ~ after all, if that was not done it would be the “end of the world”.


13 posted on 05/28/2007 4:54:38 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Leo Carpathian

“Coping with the ravages of global warming will cost $50 billion a year, and the rich nations who caused most of the pollution must pay most of the bill, aid agency Oxfam said on Tuesday. “

And of course what the MSM or any media outlet has conveniently forgotten to ask this lefty is, pay the bill to whom?


14 posted on 05/28/2007 4:54:56 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (If your representative will not vote for Term Limits, vote for the candidate who will.)
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To: SandRat

With perhaps an extended social finger?


15 posted on 05/28/2007 4:55:42 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Scientists say average temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century due to carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport, causing floods and famine and putting millions of lives at risk.

I say have the scientist flip 100% of the bill when their wildass predictions prove to be wrong.

16 posted on 05/28/2007 4:57:32 PM PDT by Always Right
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I’ve got a better idea. Those morons who believe the man-made global warming myth can pick up the tab. the rest of us can continue to enjoy our Hummers.
17 posted on 05/28/2007 4:57:39 PM PDT by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

Un-needed as that is the (Universally Euro-Weinie Understood) Italian hand and arm gesture for the extended finger.


18 posted on 05/28/2007 4:57:58 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat

Please excuse this southerner.


19 posted on 05/28/2007 4:59:40 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I Relieve Myself In Islam's General Direction While I Deny Global Warming.)
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“...Oh, and did you know that there are people who are going to therapists to get treated for eco-anxiety? One therapist says she sees 40-80 patients a month for this serious global warming fear...”

http://grasstopsusa.com/sh040907.html


20 posted on 05/28/2007 5:06:51 PM PDT by OK
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