Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world

The London Telegraph ^ | November 29, 2010 | Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent

[2ndDivisionVet]

Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of world’s most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford University and the Met Office, agreed that current plans to tackle global warming are not enough.

Unless emissions are reduced dramatically in the next ten years the world is set to see temperatures rise by more than 4C (7.2F) by as early as the 2060s, causing floods, droughts and mass migration.

As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much tougher measures to cut carbon emissions....

[BradyLS]

Naw, these tenured scientists and professors won't be happy until they're the ones at the top of the per capita consumption pyramid. Then they'll say they need to consume more on behalf of the work they're doing for the benighted. It's all very selfless and logical, don'tchaknow.

[ZULU]

I remember these dolts when I was in graduate school.

Any connection between their social opinions and reality was purely coincidental.

[Frank_2001]

Your theory makes sense!:)

[icwhatudo]

In 2060 when the temperature is not 7 degrees warmer but 7 degrees colder instead, they will blame global warming for the decrease and call for more drastic measures.

[snarkpup]

Americans for Prosperity is doing a webcast from down there this Thursday evening. Viewing parties are also being held around the country. For more info, go here:

http://hotairtourcancun.com

[BradyLS]

LOL! Bump

[PeaceBeWithYou]

[Munz]

What about China who dumps more co2 than anyone in to the atmosphere? Will they be slashed too?

[Thunder90]

GW PING!!!

[prairiebreeze]

Cancun, eh? LOL!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Climategate: 30 years in the making.

30 years of deception, manipulation, and secrecy.

[headstamp 2]

“In one paper Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said the only way to reduce global emissions enough, while allowing the poor nations to continue to grow, is to halt economic growth in the rich world over the next twenty years”

These people are certifiable.

[Morpheus2009]

.not enough globalwarming that far north.....

...Such as the Snake River freezing over in Idaho.

...Such as the Idaho Falls temperatures hovering around zero degrees Fahrenheit all week. Rediculous weather, I honestly didn’t have much to do outside because of it.

It is abnormal to get temperatures that far below freezing in Idaho Falls around Thanksgiving, much less for multiple days, I might add.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Doug Kass just made his predictions regarding 2011....says that Global Warming is gonna cause India and China to go to blows over Fresh Water...

China is way short of having enough water and can get more by building a Dam in the Himalayas and diverting water that goes into India....

Kass is the guy that predicted the blowout in the market...in 2007 ....I believe.

Kudlow has him on occasionally.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I hope the Unitas are getting lots of snow,....and Alta too!

[HKMk23]

End the monkey business.
Catch ‘em. Hang ‘em. Done.

[metmom]

The irony is totally lost on the DUmmies.

[metmom]

why isn’t this conference being held in Copenhagen again????

Because it's winter in the northern hemisphere. It's cold up there.

[metmom]

I can’t believe that so many reasonably intelligent scientists got drawn into the hoax of global warming theory.

Meteorologists didn't. We know better....