Posted on 11/17/2007 3:32:49 PM PST by CedarDave
In its final and most powerful report, a United Nations panel of scientists meeting here describes the mounting risks of climate change in language that is both more specific and forceful than its previous assessments, according to scientists here.
Synthesizing reams of data from its three previous reports, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the first time specifically points out important risks if governments fail to respond: melting ice sheets that could lead to a rapid rise in sea levels and the extinction of large numbers of species brought about by even moderate amounts of warming, on the order of 1 to 3 degrees.
The report carries heightened significance because it is the last word from the influential global climate panel before world leaders meet in Bali, Indonesia, next month to begin to discuss a global climate change treaty that will replace the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. It is also the first report from the panel since it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October — an honor that many scientists here said emboldened them to stand more forcefully behind their positions.
The full report was embargoed from news organizations until Saturday. But drafts have been circulating for weeks, and descriptions of its findings began to appear on Web sites and in news agency reports on Friday. Bush administration officials held a news conference to discuss the report but insisted that their comments be withheld until after its official release.
“This document goes further than any of the previous efforts,” said Hans Verolme, director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Climate Change Program. “The pressure has been palpable — people know they are delivering a document that will be cited for years to come and will define policy.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
For a more reasoned view of global climate change, based on real science, see:
For the global warming PING! list.
US out of the UN
UN out of the US
Risks of Inaction are as follows:
1) Freedom
2) Prosperity
3) Self-Fulfillment
4) Individual Initiative
The question is ARE YOU WILLING TO TAKE THIS RISK???
Their lies must get bigger and bigger to produce the desired actions, global socialism and wealth redistribution..
Meanwhile, back in reality, northwestern Europe may, in just over a week, get really pounded with a storm from stormsville:
http://www.lowefo.com/pdf/Storm%20update%2015.11.2007.pdf
2 page pdf file.
...residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest November temperature in 90 years. Temperature in the Downtown weather station reached 2.5C. Since records began more than a century ago, only two days had colder lows in November. It was in 1914 (1.6) and 1917 (2.4). And ninety years ago the urban heat island effect was much less pronounced than nowadays. In Brazil's southernmost province Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil temperatures fell to 2.3C. In Sao Joaquim Monday's (Nov., 12) the temperature was -1.2 C with frost.
Turns out there’s not much “global” warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
Global Warming BS
LOL: I hadn’t noticed the exercise bear before.
The problem with the global warming hysteria is the same problem that many other “causes” suffer; hysterical, lying liberals are the ones sounding the clarian call.
If it could be shown to me, by simply telling the truth, that global warming was truly a threat, one that we could actually do something about, I might be more willing to “go green.”
Until the lying stops though, they can all go pound green up their you-know-what.
keeeee yo toh
we coulda solved this whole thing a long time ago if only we da signed that keeee yoh toh...do..trouble is nobody on our side would sign it ....then along comes a jinned up report and keee yoh toh is now suddenly cool again.....i don’t get it....hows this....lets let them other guys try it for awhile and if it looks like it works well then we can wait a 100 yrs just to be sure and then jump right in....everything comes to him whot waits....
Everything I've read (http://www.icecap.us is a great link) is that it is global and the warming is only temporary before the earth cycles back to a global cooling trend. What it is not is anthropogenic; man is not responsible for the changes, though indeed he may cause an increase in atmospheric CO2. Best current thinking is that CO2 historically follows temperature change (on the order of several hundred years), not the other way around.
These guys are my new favorites.
ALL RECOMMENDED ACTIONS IMPLEMENTED:
No effect on Earth's climate
It's not clear to me why it is necessary to fly all of those U.N. folks to Bali.
It would seem if they were really all that concerned about anthropogenic-originated global warming, the last thing they would be doing is hopping on long, long trans-Pacific flights to "work on" this problem in the rather remote (and sumptuous) Bali. Instead, you would think that they might figure out how to leverage lower-impact technology such as the Internet to put together their report.
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