Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/13/2008 7:17:22 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WARSAW (AFP) – Ecologists raised the alarm Monday over global warming as environment ministers from more than 30 states met in Warsaw ahead of December's UN Climate summit focused on slashing greenhouse gases.
"We're ringing alarm bells -- the UN summit in Poznan must deliver a deal that will keep global warming below two degrees Celsius to the end of this century," Kaisa Kosonen from the global environmental group Greenpeace told reporters.
"Five years from now will be too late," she said as activists rang bells outside of the Warsaw hotel where ministers were gathered.
"We are currently on a pathway that implies temperatures could increase up to seven degrees (by the end of the century)," Kosonen said at an earlier press conference. "There is no more time for small steps."
Greenpeace and the Global Climate Initiative want the UN Poznan summit to agree on binding carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions cuts of 25-40 percent -- from 1990 levels -- by 2020.
Emissions of greenhouse gases like CO2 are believed to be the main culprits causing global warming.
European Union leaders are currently working on a package to cut CO2 emissions by 20 percent -- compared to 1990 emission levels -- by 2020.
Environmentalists insist the consequences of failure to agree on terms to deeply limit carbon dioxide emissions could include widespread flooding from rising sea-levels as polar icecaps melt and increased morbidity from heatwaves, floods and droughts.
Switching to green energy technologies based on solar, wind, biomas and hydro power as well as increasing energy efficiency makes both environmental and economic sense, Kosonen said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
We’re all gonna die....
Methane gas has increased 150% in the atmosphere since the mid 1700’s. (During the same time period, carbon dioxide has increased only 30 %.) A gram of methane gas has more than 25 times as much greenhouse gas impact as a gram carbon dioxide. As many know, flatulence, “farts,” are composed almost entirely of methane gas.
Therefore, Al Gore has developed a new program to combat this obviously increasing peril to our planet, and make a little money for himself at the same time.
It is called Fat Al’s Recycle Technology.
Everyone will be required to wear a “F.A.R.T. meter,” (Cost $75, available only from Al Gore) which will record and automatically transmit to a new government agency (the Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department) the occasion of each fart and the volume thereof.
For an additional fee of $4,500, interested parties can purchase a fart capture device (available only from Al Gore). This 25 pound device can be conveniently worn under the special clothing available also from Al Gore in attractive shades of brown.
When full, the interested consumer can present his fart capture device to Al Gore’s recycling center, where for a fee of $0.10 per fart, the captured farts will be recycled into the US natural gas distribution system. Al Gore also will receive a modest fee of only $0.015 per fart for the energy content of the gas.
The interested consumer will also receive “fart credits” for the number of farts he recycles. These “fart credits” can be traded to other consumers, who elected not to purchase a fart capture device, through Al Gore’s Fart Trading Exchange. Al Gore will extract only a small commission of $0.01 per fart for each trade.
All Consumers will be required to be “fart neutral” by a “Cap and Trade” regulation, administered by the new Federal Automatic Recording Technology Department.
Legislation is being developed as we speak, by the concerned Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and her erstwhile compatriot in the Senate, Harry Reid.
Get ahead of the mandated stampede to control this growing threat to our planet. Get you fart capture device now.
Simply contact Al Gore and follow his instructions.
Oh yeah, we’re all gonna die, again ;)
How 'bout you letting me ring the GD bells and you pay my damn heating bill moron! I'm in ARIZONA and freezing my ass off!
Note to Kaisa Kosonen: The Earth has been in a cooling trend for 10 years STUPID.
Does anybody care anymore?
Nevermind the oceans, volcanoes and the sun - it's all our fault. There's nothing cosmic about it. No! [sarcasm]
The Green thing is so over. It’s just hype dreamed up by communists, and I’ve had quite enough of it.
You have to act now to give us money and political power, before it gets too freaking cold outside for anybody to credibly say that Earth is getting hot.
If she's referring to an O presidency and the loss of our Republic to communism, I couldn't agree more.
Stupid slut. doesn't she know Paul Erhlich said the same thing forty years ago?
Emissions of greenhouse gases like CO2 are believed to be the main culprits causing global warming.
No kidding, though in the Wild West the phrase is, "no s***, Little Beaver! ... you betch'em, Red Ryder!"
IAC, in five years, EVERYBODY will know it's a scam, and no more grant money will be available.
Whenever anyone says I have to act right now, I check on my wallet, wife, and kids - then I'm outta there. These guys are selling a sack of ****, pure and simple.
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