Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/30/2009 6:21:24 AM PST by PROCON
MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate scientists has warned.
Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, believes only around 10 per cent of the planet's population – around half a billion people – will survive if global temperatures rise by 4C.
Anderson's warning comes just eight days before global leaders meet in Copenhagen for the most crucial talks on climate change reversal since the Rio summit in 1992. Current Met Office projections reveal that the lack of action in the intervening 17 years – in which emissions of climate changing gases such as carbon dioxide have soared – has set the world on a path towards potential 4C rises as early as 2060, and 6C rises by the end of the century.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.scotsman.com ...
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Braaaaacckkkk!!!! (Alert klaxon)
There is a title with a foregone conclusion!
It should be something like,
Tyndall Centre for Climate Study..."
... or "Measurement" or "Analysis", etc...
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“Wait, wait, you mean that these CFLs in my house are doing nothing?”
No. The CFLs are doing plenty!
Don’t Sit Close To Your CFL Lightbulbs, They May Cause Skin Cancer
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/175201
This is not climate science, it’s “government science”. That is, science paid for by government, with the objective of pushing a government agenda.
Just as Rush coined the term “government schools”, we all need to start using the term “government science”.
Anyway, I'll take global warming any ol' day.
If these nuckleheads would think, they would realize that there is a good 2/3 of the planet that you can't live on, the oceans. And if they would look at the earth at night they would see that probably 80-90% has no lights at all. If they would just read a little they would find out that Mt. Pinatubo spewed more pollution into the air in one belch then we have the entire century. Sun spots are to blame for a lot of our weather. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out. And for heaven sakes, they can't even accurately predict what the weather is going to be like tomorrow, how in the world can they possible tell us with any accuracy what it'll be like in 10, 20 or 100 years from now. To many variables.
Ok, ok I'm done. *getting off soap box* :)
When I lived in Milwaukee, my band would sometimes gig in the UP. Always in the winter! Cold , fur shure!
Well then, it will take care of itself, won’t it - - if most of us evil humans disappear.
Fur sure it’s cold up here...lol What kind of music??? What’s your bands name???
I can understand why Professor Anderson is worried, not for the billions but for himself. No climate change, no academic gravy train. Maybe the centre can change its name to the Tyndall Centre for Climate Stability.
I'll probably tick some people off but this reminds me of the Y2K fraud. After all the dire predictions of the end of life as we know it, the computer consultants patted themselves on the back and proclaimed that it was because of their heroic efforts that the disaster was avoided. The Climate Chicken Littles will do the same thing once the public realizes that the climate isn't changing.
bttt
Oh my gosh...lol That musta been fun....NOT I remember using panty hose when a belt broke. I remember using a string to pull the windshield wipers. I remember using the emergency break as a break, not a hot idea. I remember going a whole winter when I lived in the D.C. with no heater. Ah yes, the good ol’ days(NOT) when I didn’t have anything. You either fixed it yourself, did without, or mickey mouse rigid it so it would work, sorta.
Yup! Those were the days! I’ll never forget that drive back to Milwaukee with the window open. It was about 20 below, and what’s the wind chill at 70 miles an hour on the interstate? Thank goodness it wasn’t snowin’!
No kidding, the cold alone would be bad enough.
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