UN official warns of ignoring warming(ignoring urgency of global warming "criminally irresponsible")

AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/12/07 | Arthur Max - ap

[NormsRevenge]

VALENCIA, Spain - The U.N.'s top climate official warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible."

Yvo de Boer's comments came at the opening of a weeklong conference that will complete a concise guide on the state of global warming and what can be done to stop the Earth from overheating. It is the fourth and last report issued this year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, co-winner of this year's Nobel Peace prize.

Environmentalists and authors of the report expected tense discussions on what to include and leave out of the document, which is a synthesis of thousands of scientific papers. A summary of about 25 pages will be negotiated line-by-line this week, then adopted by consensus.

Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Prize-winning panel, said scientists were determined to "adhere to standards of quality" in the report. It was indirect barb at the government representatives, who have been accused by environmentalists of watering down and excluding vital information from the summaries of earlier reports to fit their domestic agendas.

The document to be issued Saturday sums up the scientific consensus on how rapidly the Earth is warming and the effects already observed; the impact it could have for billions of people; and what steps can be taken to keep the planet's temperature from rising to disastrous levels.

The IPCC already has established that the climate has begun to change because of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans, said de Boer, director of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Everyone will feel its effects, but global warming will hit the poorest countries hardest and will "threaten the very survival" of some people, he said.

"Failing to recognize the urgency of this message and act on it would be nothing less that criminally irresponsible" and a direct attack on the world's poorest people, De Boer said.

The report will provide the factual underpinning for a crucial meeting next month in Bali, Indonesia.

That conference will begin exploring a new global strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions after the 2012 expiration of the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, the landmark agreement that assigned binding reduction targets to 36 countries.

According to an early draft obtained by The Associated Press, the report will be the first to include a brief chapter on "robust findings and key uncertainties," in which the authors pick out what they believe are the most relevant certainties and doubts about climate change.

There was no guarantee the chapter would be accepted, however. One of the report's 40 co-authors, Bert Metz, said in an interview last week that he expected the section on uncertainties to be an issue of contention.

Among the uncertainties cited in the early draft: the lack of data from key areas of the world, conflicting studies on the effects of cloud cover and carbon soaked up by oceans, and projections on how planners in developing countries will factor climate change into their decisions.

The IPCC has already been criticized for the selectivity and language of the policy summaries, which have been softened on several points because of objections by countries including the United States, China and some big oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia.

On Monday, WWF International, one of several environmental groups invited to observe the process, said "governments cut vital facts and important information" during the negotiations.

Without naming them, the WWF accused governments of "politically inspired trimming" of facts from the summaries, which it said diluted the urgency to make deep cuts in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

De Boer said getting governments to sign off on the summaries is a critical element of the IPCC's value.

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On the Net:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch

[NormsRevenge]

Chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Rajendra Pachauri, right, from India and Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega, left, arrive to the IPCC XXVII session opening ceremony at the City of the Arts and Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain. Monday, Nov. 12, 2007. The IPCC opens a weeklong conference that will complete a concise guide on the state of global warming and what can be done to stop the Earth from overheating. (AP Photo/Fernando Bustamante)

[NormsRevenge]

In other words, it’s gonna slow down the process of a lot of his buddies getting rich quicker as they foist this latest boondoggle on the unwitting masses..

[milwguy]

the document, which is a synthesis of thousands of scientific papers.............The document, which because it is a snythesis, will say whatever the writers want it to say, and since the writers have a political, not scientific agenda, it will be a political document, not a scientific one. As for the thousands of scientific papers it is ‘synthesized’ from, I wonder how many will used that dispute the notion of manmade global warming?

[blackdog]

I’ve never seen the UN move on an issue in such speed. By that fact alone it’s proof that their positions are based on something other than fact and more on fleecing the world economy for an endless stream of cash to enrich themselves.

[Argus]

Having failed to impose their program on the United States any other way, the international socialists are determined to shove it down our throats via the global warming hoax.

[rottndog]

...warned policymakers and scientists trying to hammer out a landmark report on climate change that ignoring the urgency of global warming would be "criminally irresponsible."

Not only is criminalizing the opposition a Marxist tactic, it's also very Hitleresque.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s hard to say what the potential “market” for trading emissions could be,, Certainly easily into the many billions..

a whole new industry based on vapors, most of them naturally occurring, wow.. or should I sayy,, bbaa-aa-aaa

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

“criminally irresponsible.”
what’s criminally irresponsible is how the left is ignoring the real threat from 1 billion individuals who have promised to kill us.

[SaxxonWoods]

I feel so irresponsible, so criminal.

No I don’t. (((((Muhuhahahaha))))

[steelyourfaith]

~~ AGW™ ping~~

[rightinthemiddle]

This crap is getting old. The Left has an issue which they don’t have to prove.

If “Global Warming” doesn’t happen, they can take credit for the success. If it does (naturally), they can say “We told you so. We should have done more.”

All for the sake of the anti-capitalist secular global community.

[DoughtyOne]

the United Nations
demonstrating what can go wrong with global governance for over 70 years

Join us in our quest to bring non-representative oppression to all the peoples of the world

We're anti-religion
We're against any national borders
We support the movement of peoples across borders at will
We stand in support of non-representative governance, like the EU and AU
We stand in support of the non-representive governance of the FTAA
We reserve the right to supercede any nation's laws on a whim
We reserve the right to embezzle funds for our leaders family and friends
We reserve the right to treat states that sponser terrorism with respect
We reserve the right for our peacekeeping forces to rape and kill at will
We reserve the right to determine what is a crime against humanity
We reserve the right to try nations and thier leaders for crimes against humanity

We answer to no one!

[Berlin_Freeper]

...and a direct attack on the world’s poorest people, De Boer said.

Then they should defend themselves and earn some money.

[drpix]

"I’ve never seen the UN move on an issue in such speed. By that fact alone it’s proof that their positions are based on something other than fact and more on fleecing the world economy for an endless stream of cash to enrich themselves."

Just like a Nigerian Cash Scheme... and the UN crowd must have some background in that sort of thing.

[ronnie raygun]

SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN! Since when do we take advice from a criminal organization!

[BenLurkin]

[Shermy]

“”A summary of about 25 pages will be negotiated line-by-line this week, then adopted by consensus.””

That’s some rigid science!

[SandRat]

[sergeantdave]

I always ignore the words of fat, stupid UN communist stuffing their faces with caviar and lobster at some Marxist cult meeting, while guards armed with machineguns protect the dumpsters from local poor citizens who might snatch a plate of half-eaten European sausages.

(In that picture, did someone stick a whistle in his left ear to entertain the participants as air wheezes from his head?)

[DoughtyOne]

Hmm, them’s my kind of people.