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PM warns of global warming disaster
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0%2C%2C-6180105%2C00.html
PM warns of global warming disaster
Press Association
Monday October 30, 2006 10:53 AM
The consequences for the world if global warming continues unchecked will be "disastrous", Prime Minister Tony Blair has warned.
Mr Blair was speaking as the Government launched the report of Sir Nicholas Stern's review of the likely impact of climate change, which warns that rising temperatures could cut economic growth by as much as one-fifth.
The report, which argues that taking action could cost 1% of global GDP, is thought likely to pave the way to large increases in green taxes.
Speaking at the report's launch in London, Mr Blair said: "This is the most important report on the future published by this Government in its time in office."
The prospect of global warming is "frightening", but the scientific case that it is taking place is now "overwhelming", said the Prime Minister.
"What is not in doubt is that the scientific evidence of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions is now overwhelming.
"It is not in doubt that if the science is right, the consequences for our planet are literally disastrous."
Mr Blair added: "This disaster is not set to happen in some science fiction future many years ahead, but in our lifetime.
"Unless we act now... these consequences, disastrous as they are, will be irreversible.
"There is nothing more serious, more urgent, more demanding of leadership - here, of course, but most importantly in the global community." |
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| Melting of Greenland's ice sheet 'is the turning point'
Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:06 am
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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1940797.ece
Melting of Greenland's ice sheet 'is the turning point'
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
Published: 30 October 2006
The world's target for stopping global warming should be based on the point at which the melting of the great Greenland ice sheet becomes irreversible, says the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King.
The loss of Greenland's ice would be a global catastrophe, raising sea levels by more than 20ft, swamping vast regions of low-lying land from East Anglia to Bangladesh.
The international community must limit the atmospheric level of the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (C02), to below the point where the Greenland ice begins to melt in a runaway manner, Sir David said. This figure is not yet precisely known - but much scientific effort is being expended on finding it out.
Sir David is one of the world's most influential voices on climate change and his suggestion may provide a basis for eventual agreement on one of climate change's thorniest questions: exactly where must the rise in atmospheric C02 - which has gone from 315 parts per million in 1958 to 382ppm today - be halted?
The world community now agrees that the waste gas from motor vehicles and power stations is causing the atmosphere to warm rapidly. But it cannot agree on a precise figure which should be the absolute limit allowable to prevent global disaster.
Some commentators have suggested the C02 level must be halted at 400ppm - but that is now likely to be reached within 10 years and seems impossible to achieve in practice. Sir David has previously suggested 550ppm as "realistic" - but drew criticism for not being more ambitious.
His new suggestion, however, takes a different approach, pinpointing an undeniable disaster level and making that the target - whatever it turns out to be.
Greenland's "tipping point" is not yet known in terms of atmospheric C02 levels, although in terms of temperature it is assumed to be somewhere beyond a global rise of 3C above the level pertaining before the industrial revolution. (Global temperatures currently stand at about 0.7C above pre-industrial, and are steadily climbing). Scientists are seeking it with supercomputer mathematical models of the climate and of the ice mass.[/b] |
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| A Global Catastrophe of Our Own Making
Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:27 am
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1031-04.htm
A Global Catastrophe of Our Own Making
by Steve Connor
Average global temperatures have increased by less than 1C since the Industrial Revolution, but they are projected to increase by up to 5C over the coming century if carbon dioxide levels continue to rise without restraint. With each 1C rise in average global temperatures, the Stern Review portrays progressively more serious scenarios.
The five degrees of disaster
1C: Smaller mountain glaciers disappear in Andes, threatening water supply of 50 million people. More than 300,000 people extra die from increase in climate-related diseases in tropical regions. Permafrost melting damages roads and buildings in Canada and Russia. One in ten species threatened with extinction, 80 per cent of coral suffers regular bleaching.
2C: Water scarcity increases in southern Africa and the Mediterranean. Significant decline in food production in Africa, where malaria affects up to 60 million more people. Up to 10 million extra people affected by coastal flooding each year. Arctic species, such the polar bear, face extinction along with 15-40 per cent of world’s remaining wildlife. Gulf Stream begins to weaken and Greenland ice sheet begins to melt irreversibly.
3C: Serious droughts in southern Europe occur once every ten years. Between 1 and 4 billion people suffer water shortages and a similar number suffer from floods. Many millions of people at risk of malnutrition, as agricultural yields at higher latitudes reach peak output. More than 100 million people are affected by the risk of coastal flooding. Mass extinction of animals and plants accelerates.
4C: Sub-Saharan Africa and the southern Mediterranean suffer between 30 and 50 per cent decrease in availability of water. Agricultural yields decline by 15-35 per cent in Africa. Crops fail in entire regions. Up to 80 million extra people are exposed to malaria. Loss of around half of the Arctic tundra. Many nature reserves collapse. Giant West Antarctic Ice Sheet begins to melt irreversibly, threatening catastrophic increases in global sea levels.
5C: Possible disappearance of the large glaciers of the Himalayas, affecting the water supply of 25 per cent of population of China and hundreds of millions more in India. Ocean acidity increases with threat of total collapse in the global fisheries industry. Sea levels rise inexorably, inundating vast regions of Asia and about half of the world’s major cities, including London, New York and Tokyo.
Arctic sea ice: current computer models suggest that floating summer sea ice of the northern hemisphere could disappear completely by the year 2070. Some experts believe that this summer polar ice could disappear even earlier this century with accelerating warming trends - making the polar bear extinct.
The Asian monsoon: In India the monsoon provides between 75 and 90 per cent of annual rainfall. Global warming is projected to increase the severity and possibly the unpredictability of the monsoon, increasing the risk of severe flooding or even monsoon failure at the time of year when it is needed most.
West Antarctic ice sheet: as global average temperatures rise then so does the risk of crossing a threshold beyond which the world’s biggest ice sheets being to melt irreversibly. This would commit sea levels to a rise by between 5 metres and 12 metres over the coming centuries. Currently 270 million people live in coastal areas threatened by a 5 metre rise in sea levels.
Sub-Saharan Africa: this region will bear the brunt of climate change. Scientists predict a 30 per cent decline in annual water availability. Droughts will increase crop failures and malnutrition. Many tens of millions of extra people will be exposed to lethal tropical disease such as malaria.
Australia: many regions of the world will become too hot for cereal crops if average global temperatures rise to 4C. Vast tracts of Australia’s richest agricultural land will become no-go areas for arable farming.
Amazon rainforest: continued deforestation of the tropical rainforests increases the amount of carbon dioxide circulating in the atmosphere. As temperatures continue to rise, scientists fear that local droughts and soil erosion could cause the complete collapse of the remaining rainforests.
Siberian permafrost: as temperatures rise, the permanently frozen tundra of the northern hemisphere begins to melt, releasing its vast store of methane - a greenhouse gas which is 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Buildings and roads built on the permafrost collapse - but this is one area of the world that could otherwise benefit from warmer temperatures and a longer growing season.
Gulf Stream: The thermohaline circulation is like a conveyor belt in the North Atlantic Ocean bringing huge amounts of heat from the tropics to north-western Europe. As sea temperatures rise, there is a risk that the cold, salty “engine” of the circulation slows down or even stops, blocking the flow of the warm Gulf Stream that keep British winters mild.
Malnutrition: Around 800 million people (12 per cent of the global population) are currently at risk of hunger and malnutrition. Temperature rises of between 2C and 3C could increase this number by between 30 million and 200 million. A further 1C rise would add an extra 500 million to the number of people at risk of malnutrition.
Ocean acidification: Extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere dissolves in seawater causing an increase in ocean acidification. The predicted increase in acidification over the next century have not been experienced for hundreds of thousands of years. One outcome could be the death of many marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs. More than 1 billion people worldwide currently rely on fish as their primary source of animal protein.
Flooding: A rise in average temperatures of 3C or 4C is projected to cause an increase in sea levels of between 20cm and 80cm. This means that between 20 million and 300 million extra people will be flooded out of their homes each year. South East Asia is particularly vulnerable because of poor coastal defences.
Mass extinction: Species living in vulnerable regions, such as alpine ecosystems and tropical mountain habitats, are likely to disappear with even quite modest increases in global temperatures. A increase of 3C could threaten between 20 and 50 per cent of animals and plants with extinction - the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on Earth and the only one to be caused by another species, man.
Extreme weather: A warmer world is expected to increase the frequency and severity of heatwaves, storms and hurricanes. Winds speeds of tropical storms for instance increase by between 15 and 20 per cent for a 3C increase in tropical sea temperatures. More violent winds and storms will significantly increase the damage to buildings and other valuable infrastructure. |
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| Scientists say White House muzzled them
Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:56 am
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061102/ap_on_go_co/global_warming
Scientists say White House muzzled them
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and censor their research, a senator said Wednesday.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg (news, bio, voting record), D-N.J., said he was informed that the inspectors general for the Commerce Department and NASA had begun "coordinated, sweeping investigations of the Bush administration's censorship and suppression" of federal research into global warming.
"These investigations are critical because the Republicans in Congress have ignored this serious problem," Lautenberg said.
He said the investigations "will uncover internal documents and agency correspondence that may expose widespread misconduct." He added, "Taxpayers do not fund scientific research so the Bush White House can alter it."
Messages left Wednesday at the offices of the inspectors general, which serve as the agencies' internal watchdogs, were not immediately returned.
Kristen Hellmer, a spokeswoman for the White House Council for Environmental Quality, said Wednesday night that the administration has supported the scientific process in its approach to studying climate change.
"We have in place the most transparent system of science reporting, and claims that the administration interfered with scientists are false," Hellmer said. "Our focus is on taking action and making real progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The nearly $2 billion worth of climate science we publish annually leads the world and speaks for itself."
Carbon dioxide and other gases primarily from fossil fuel-burning that scientists say trap heat in the atmosphere have warmed the Earth's surface an average 1 degree over the past century. The White House has committed to reducing the "intensity" of U.S. carbon pollution, a measure of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted per unit of economic growth.
But the total U.S. emissions, now more than 7 billion tons a year, are projected to rise 14 percent from 2002 to 2012.
In February, House Science Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., and other congressional leaders asked NASA to guarantee scientific openness. They complained that a public affairs officer changed or filtered information on global warming and the Big Bang.
The officer, George Deutsch, a political appointee, had resigned after being accused of trying to limit reporters' access to James Hansen, a prominent NASA climate scientist, and insisting that a Web designer insert the word "theory" with any mention of the Big Bang.
A report last month in the scientific journal Nature claimed administrators at the Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration blocked the release of a report that linked hurricane strength and frequency to global warming. Hansen had said in February that NOAA has tried to prevent researchers working on global climate change from speaking freely about their work.
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| Greenhouse gases hit record high
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6114250.stm
Greenhouse gases hit record high
The steady rise in atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change shows no signs of abating, a UN agency has announced.
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about half a percent in 2005, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.
It said levels were likely to keep rising unless emissions of CO2, methane and nitrogen oxides were slashed.
The announcement comes on the eve of UN climate negotiations in Nairobi.
"There is no sign that N2O (nitrous oxide) and CO2 are starting to level off," Geir Braathen, a senior scientist at the WMO, told reporters.
"It looks like it will just continue like this for the foreseeable future."
Scientists say the accumulation of such gases - generated by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas - traps energy coming originally from the Sun, causing global temperatures to rise.
This is expected to lead to melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels and more extreme weather events such as storms and floods.
'Drastic measures'
The WMO said concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) were measured at 379.1 parts per million (ppm), up 0.53% from 377.1 ppm in 2004.
Concentrations of nitrous oxide (N2O) reached 319.2 ppm in 2005, an annual increase of 0.2%.
Levels of methane, another greenhouse gas, remained stable, it said.
The trend of growing emissions from industry, transport and power generation is set to continue despite international agreements on regulating them, the UN agency warned.
"To really make CO2 level off we will need more drastic measures than are in the Kyoto Protocol today," Geir Braathen explained.
"Every human being on this globe should think about how much CO2 he or she emits and try to do something about that."
Compulsory caps
The Kyoto Protocol sets limits for emissions of six greenhouse gases for the richer countries of the world which have ratified it. The period for which targets exist runs until 2012.
The US and Australia have rejected the compulsory cap. China has ratified the Protocol, but as a developing nation, it is not required to reduce its emissions - despite its booming economy.
A report by former World Bank economist Sir Nicholas Stern this week warned of severe problems if global warming was ignored.
Governments involved in the United Nations climate convention and the Kyoto Protocol are due to meet in Nairobi from Monday to examine their future path in combatting global warming.
The latest data were gathered from monitoring stations, ships and aircraft around the world and are published in the WMO's second annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
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| Study Sees ‘Global Collapse’ of Fish Species
Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:35 pm
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/science/03fish.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
Study Sees ‘Global Collapse’ of Fish Species
By CORNELIA DEAN
Published: November 3, 2006
If fishing around the world continues at its present pace, more and more species will vanish, marine ecosystems will unravel and there will be “global collapse” of all species currently fished, possibly as soon as midcentury, fisheries experts and ecologists are predicting.
The scientists, who report their findings today in the journal Science, say it is not too late to turn the situation around. As long as marine ecosystems are still biologically diverse, they can recover quickly once overfishing and other threats are reduced, the researchers say.
But improvements must come quickly, said Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, who led the work. Otherwise, he said, “we are seeing the bottom of the barrel.”
“When humans get into trouble they are quick to change their ways,” he continued. “We still have rhinos and tigers and elephants because we saw a clear trend that was going down and we changed it. We have to do the same in the oceans.”
The report is one of many in recent years to identify severe environmental degradation in the world’s oceans and to predict catastrophic loss of fish species. But experts said it was unusual in its vision of widespread fishery collapse so close at hand.
The researchers drew their conclusion after analyzing dozens of studies, along with fishing data collected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and other sources. They acknowledge that much of what they are reporting amounts to correlation, rather than proven cause and effect. And the F.A.O. data have come under criticism from researchers who doubt the reliability of some nations’ reporting practices, Dr. Worm said.
Still, he said in an interview, “there is not a piece of evidence” that contradicts the dire conclusions.
Jane Lubchenco, a fisheries expert at Oregon State University who had no connection with the work, called the report “compelling.”
“It’s a meta analysis and there are challenges in interpreting those,” she said in an interview, referring to the technique of collective analysis of disparate studies. “But when you get the same patterns over and over and over, that tells you something.”
But Steve Murawski, chief scientist of the Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the researchers’ prediction of a major global collapse “doesn’t gibe with trends that we see, especially in the United States.”
He said the Fisheries Service considered about 20 percent of the stocks it monitors to be overfished. “But 80 percent are not, and that trend has not changed substantially,” he said, adding that if anything, the fish situation in American waters was improving. But he conceded that the same cannot necessarily be said for stocks elsewhere, particularly in the developing world.
Mr. Murawski said the Bush administration was seeking to encourage international fishery groups to consider adopting measures that have been effective in American waters.
Twelve scientists from the United States, Canada, Sweden and Panama contributed to the work reported in Science today.
“We extracted all data on fish and invertebrate catches from 1950 to 2003 within all 64 large marine ecosystems worldwide,” they wrote. “Collectively, these areas produced 83 percent of global fisheries yields over the past 50 years.”
In an interview, Dr. Worm said, “We looked at absolutely everything — all the fish, shellfish, invertebrates, everything that people consume that comes from the ocean, all of it, globally.”
The researchers found that 29 percent of species had been fished so heavily or were so affected by pollution or habitat loss that they were down to 10 percent of previous levels, their definition of “collapse.”
This loss of biodiversity seems to leave marine ecosystems as a whole more vulnerable to overfishing and less able to recover from its effects, Dr. Worm said. It results in an acceleration of environmental decay, and further loss of fish.
Dr. Worm said he analyzed the data for the first time on his laptop while he was overseeing a roomful of students taking an exam. What he saw, he said, was “just a smooth line going down.” And when he extrapolated the data into the future “to see where it ends at 100 percent collapse, you arrive at 2048.”
“The hair stood up on the back of my neck and I said, ‘This cannot be true,’ ” he recalled. He said he ran the data through his computer again, then did the calculations by hand. The results were the same.
“I don’t have a crystal ball and I don’t know what the future will bring, but this is a clear trend,” he said. “There is an end in sight, and it is within our lifetimes.”
Dr. Worm said a number of steps could help turn things around.
Even something as simple as reducing the number of unwanted fish caught in nets set for other species would help, he said. Marine reserves would also help, he said, as would “doing away with horrendous overfishing where everyone agrees it’s a bad thing; or if we banned destructive fishing in the most sensitive habitats.”
Josh Reichert, who directs the environmental division of the Pew Charitable Trusts, called the report “a kind of warning bell” for people and economies that depend on fish.
But predicting a global fisheries collapse by 2048 “assumes we do nothing to fix this,” he said, “and shame on us if that were to be the case.” |
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| Carbon turning oceans acidic, experts warn
Sat Nov 11, 2006 2:23 am
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15654293/
Carbon turning oceans acidic, experts warn
Climate conference told of 'major threat to marine organisms'
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 10:20 a.m. PT Nov 10, 2006
NAIROBI, Kenya - The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, German researchers told delegates at a U.N. conference on climate change.
Oceans have already absorbed a third of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from forming properly.
"The oceans are rapidly changing," said professor Stefan Rahmstorf. "Ocean acidification is a major threat to marine organisms."
Fish stocks and the world's coral reefs could also be hit while acidification risks "fundamentally altering" the food chain, he said.
"Acidity is causing a major threat to coral reefs, on top of the bleaching effect that comes with warming," he said.
Reefs get bleached when warm water forces out tiny algae living in them, giving reefs nutrients and their vivid colors. Without algae, corals whiten and eventually die.
In a study titled "The Future Oceans — Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour," Rahmstorf and eight other scientists on Thursday warned that the world is witnessing, on a global scale, problems similar to the acid rain phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s. |
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| Global growth in carbon emissions is 'out of control'
Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:53 am
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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1963236.ece
Global growth in carbon emissions is 'out of control'
By Steve Connor Science Editor
Published: 11 November 2006
The growth in global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels over the past five years was four times greater than for the preceding 10 years, according to a study that exposes critical flaws in the attempts to avert damaging climate change.
Data on carbon dioxide emissions shows that the global growth rate was 3.2 per cent in the five years to 2005 compared with 0.8 per cent from 1990 to 1999, despite efforts to reduce carbon pollution through the Kyoto agreement.
Much of the increase is probably due to the expansion of the Chinese economy, which has relied heavily on burning coal and other fossil fuels for its energy.
Dr Mike Raupach, chair of the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of researchers who compiled the latest figures, warned yesterday that emissions were spiralling out of control.
"This is a very worrying sign. It indicates that recent efforts to reduce emissions have had virtually no impact on emissions growth and that effective caps are urgently needed," he said.
Current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are 380 parts per million (ppm), about 100ppm higher than before the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago. Some computer models predict damaging and irreversible climate change if carbon dioxide levels rise above 450ppm or 500 ppm.
The rate of increase of emissions suggests it may soon be impossible to avoid some of the worst-case scenarios, said Josep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project. "On our current path, we will find it extremely difficult to rein in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration at 450ppm, and even 550ppm will be a challenge," he said. "At some point in the near future, we will miss the boat in terms of achieving acceptable levels."
Based on current trends, carbon dioxide concentrations are likely to increase to 500ppm this century. The last time the planet experienced levels as high as 500ppm was about 20 or 40 million years ago, when sea levels were 100 metres higher than today.
The Stern report earlier this month warned that the uncontrolled release of greenhouse gases could lead to a rise in average global temperatures of up to 5C by 2100 - about the same temperature difference between now and the last ice age.
Scientist have warned that global temperatures will continue to rise for many decades after carbon dioxide concentrations have stabilised due to the environmental inertia of the world's climate system.
Dr Peter Falloon, a climate impact scientist at the Met Office's Hadley Centre, said the latest findings did not augur well for attempts at averting climate change.
"It's not what we want or hope to see. The concern comes from the fact that the greater the emissions are now, the harder it will be to bring them down in the future," he said. "It takes 30 or 40 years to realise the change in carbon dioxide emissions. It highlights how important it is to take quick and effective action now."
Professor Bill McGuire, director of the Benfield Hazard Research Centre in London, said: "This is more very bad news. We need a 60 to 70 per cent cut in emissions, but instead, emission levels are spiralling out of control. The sum total of our meagre efforts to cut emissions amounts to less than zero." |
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| Global warming causing disease to rise
Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:18 am
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15717706/
Global warming causing disease to rise
Malaria, dengue fever increasing as temperature heats up, experts warn
Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya - A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, health experts reported Tuesday, citing surges in Kenya, China and Europe of such diseases as malaria, heart ailments and dengue fever.
“Climate affects some of the most important diseases afflicting the world,” said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum of the World Health Organization. “The impacts may already be significant.”
Kristie L. Ebi, an American public health consultant for the agency, warned “climate change could overwhelm public health services.”
The specialists laid out recent findings as the two-week U.N. climate conference entered its final four days, grappling with technical issues concerning operation of the Kyoto Protocol, and trying to set a course for future controls on global greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists attribute at least some of the past century’s 1-degree rise in global temperatures to the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases, byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel-burning sources.
The Kyoto accord requires 35 industrial nations — not including the United States, which rejects the pact — to reduce such emissions by an average 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. President Bush says such emissions cuts would harm the U.S. economy and complains that poorer countries also should be covered.
Plan for emissions reductions
In Nairobi, the Kyoto parties are discussing what quotas and timetables should follow 2012 and how to draw the United States into a plan for mandatory emissions caps.
Britain’s environment secretary, David Miliband, an early arrival for high-level talks here, said participation of the United States, the world’s biggest emitter, was “essential.”
“I can’t think of a greater legacy for the last two years of the Bush presidency than to work on a bipartisan basis with Democrats as well as Republicans” for a deal to cut emissions, Miliband said.
Besides disrupting normal climate zones, continued temperature rises will “increase threats to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical-subtropical countries,” a U.N. network of climate scientists has projected.
Those problems are arising in parts of the world that have contributed little to global warming, Campbell-Lendrum noted.
“It’s a global issue and a global justice issue,” one that demands action by the industrial north to alleviate the disease burden on the south, the WHO scientist said.
Increase in mosquitoes
In Kenya, where temperature increases have tracked the global average, malaria epidemics have occurred in highland areas where cooler weather historically has kept down populations of disease-bearing mosquitoes, said Solomon M. Nzioka, a Kenyan Health Ministry consultant.
Research shows that even a seemingly small rise in temperatures can produce a 10-fold increase in the mosquito population, he said.
“Highland malaria seems to be on the increase in the rainy season and when temperatures are high,” Nzioka said.
The WHO’s Dr. Bettina Menne said malaria, which two decades ago was present in only three southeastern European countries, has spread north to Russia and a half-dozen other nearby countries. Russian news media reported in September that larvae of the anopheles mosquito, the malaria carrier, had been found in Moscow. |
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| Re: Escape Hatch eons closer to the Truth
Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:08 pm
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I found a couple websites that make a lot more sense than this place does ever since all the moderators quit.
Megasprayer
Gastronamus Cafe
I wouldnt join Gastronamus Cafe. Swamp Gas ridicules those who dont agree with him. I posted a couple responses on a global warming thread saying that I thought global warming was being caused by a cylical cycle of the sun, and that chemtrails and Co2 emmissions were agitating the problem. But I stated that I still think were damaging the planet and that we should stop burning fossil fuels. And that I thought Al Gore was a Fear monger.
So Swamp Gas e-mailed me, after he banned me. I responded, and this is what he wrote to me.
Typical little boy. You were always a problem. Now you can wait for the
"Aliens" to save your sorry, paranoid ass. LOL!!!!
yup that place has its share of pretentious tools, which is why I deleted my account after 3 months . Initially I joined because I thought you could discuss a variety of off-mainstream topics, without getting railed on. Turned out not to be the CasE.. But...there's nice folks too& good info there also... I just went in there for the first time in months , & this is what they 're saying about us,
mmmb.
"I think the mmmmbarium, Greenman infiltrations were token efforts at disrupting this forum. If Gastro and Megasprayer actually take off and someday compete with the big boards for the hearts and souls of the chemtrail aware, then I believe such infiltration efforts would be greatly increased.
"They may have the power of fake numbers, yet we the people have the real power of numbers. The more society becomes aware of the disinfo techniques, the more likely the internet will become a force for positive social change. "
Infiltrations? Sorry Trollcrates/FUI, but methinks you're suffering a touch of the vapors! Delululusional! Out to Lunch at a Tin Foil Tea Party! Anybody can look at my posts here or there & see I'm on not a disruptor or psy-operative or anti-chemtrail disinformant. Nor am I a double/triple/quadruple agent ! Just look at my GD photo thread for cripes sakes. Sorry to go off topic, but I'm annoyed!
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I agree with you Greenman. Sorethroat is nothing but a mouthpiece for the UN global hysteria crowd. My God, Ted Turner and Lord Carrington are on the bandwagon of Global Warming along with Mikhail Gorbachev and Maurice Strong. These Elitist's have their own private fleet of Lear Jets to buzz them all around the world, especially China, their favorite nation, that, of course will be EXEMPT from the Kyoto Protocol. And, all of their family members work for the UN as well as the NGO's and tax exempt Foundations that are funding all these great scientists. This is not a "conspiracy theory" but a "fact". While they wallow in every conceivable luxury known to mankind, use more energy in a day than the average person uses in a year, most of the population of the world suffers without even the basics. Now, disease spreading will be blamed on global warming, despite the fact that the World Bank and IMF will not allow the African nations to spray to kill the TseTse flies which were irradicated 10 years ago. Today, 5,ooo Africans die each day of malaria, needlessly. The WHO organization wasn't created to help people. The spraying is causing the mayham of global warming and wicked weather. They have completely blanketed the US which has SO LITTLE INDUSTRY LEFT, it's ridiculous. During the late 1800's to the early 1900's when factories were spewing out pollution, unregulated and the cities were filthy environments, visibility was a whole lot better than it is today - now it is 10 miles or less, in every city, town and hicksville, USA, 365 days a year. THAT IS NOT NORMAL and has only occurred since the spraying was stepped up in the late 90's.
Keep posting your BS Sorethroat, you're nothing but a shill for the Elite. |
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greenman
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:35 am
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No no , I wasn't talking about Sorethroat!! Socrates/FUIwontdowhatyoutellme is the one bashing me.
As for the global warming issue, is it possible that there could be both natural forces AND manmade influences (greenhouse, HAARP,CTS etc.) causing it? I mean, cutting back on greenhouse gasses can't hurt for sure, even if its not the sole cause of global warming, decreasing pollution of this type can only be a good thing. ..Of course, if you're right and greenhouse isn't the sole cause like they're telling us then we're in some deep deep doooo |
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PAK
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:42 am
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Hi Greenman,
Well FUI also called me a Troll. Whatever. Get the facts. Global Warming is being pushed by the BIG BOYS. I'm not for indiscriminate polluting but the US isn't doing anywhere near the polluting it did at the turn of the century (late 1800's),. Just get yourself some old photos of Chicago or Pittsburg or NY. In case people haven't noticed, industry has been leaving the US and our cars burn clean compared to most of the World. And yet, OFFICIALLY, in I think 1998 or so, our visibility across the US was reduced to 10 miles or less, in any city, town, hicktown, 365 days a year. When I was a kid in the 60's I could fly across the country and see the whole world. In fact, the Pilots would talk like tour guides and point out all the landmarks, you could see everything in vivid color. The last 5 years have been horrible since the spraying has been unbelievably heavy. I rarely can see the Earth below and I fly pretty often on business. Now, the whole US is covered with a blanket of these flat, gridded, unnatural clouds and if you can see the ground it's only a very limited area and it is gray and unnatural looking. The visibilty sucks and it's not from cars or factories.
By the way, despite the fact that in WWII the Germans had tanks that could get over 100 miles to the gallon, the great scientists can't design a car that way. Are we being offerred an alternative travel mode to cars? Not that I know of. We don't even have a monorail system despite the increasing taxes we pay. Where does all the money go? I have Russian friends who have been witnessing the spraying their whole lives. Their hot water and heat are "centrally controlled" and turned off, in Siberia, in March. Do you want to live that way in America? The Elite want you to give up everything and push us back to the third world like Africa where everyone is dying and starving to death. Do you think David Rockefeller, or Maurice Strong, or Mikhail Gorbachev or George Bush or Al Gore are going to give up their luxuries to save the planet? Their fleets of lear jets? Their energy guzzling manisions and limos? How about Kofi Annan in this $5000 suit? I think not. |
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FUIwon'tDoWhatUTellMe
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Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:39 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by PAK
Hi Greenman,
Well FUI also called me a Troll. Whatever. Get the facts. Global Warming is being pushed by the BIG BOYS....
Ha, You don't think you're trolling Sorethroat????
Posted by Pak:
"I agree with you Greenman. Sorethroat is nothing but a mouthpiece for the UN global hysteria crowd.....Keep posting your BS Sorethroat, you're nothing but a shill for the Elite."
Perhaps the reading over at Rense.com is turning you into a wingnut.
So if man-made global warming is being pushed by the "Big Boys", why are these same folks behind the propaganda that there is no man-made global warming? Or are they both part of some illuminati scheme you read about over at Alex Jones, Rumor Mill News, or Tom Flocco?
Sorethroat does a service by providing hard science. |
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