Posted on 10/17/2011 10:18:21 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
LONDON (AlertNet) - Climate change will be “catastrophic” to global health and could foster global instability and insecurity, a group of prominent scientists, environmental health experts and government officials warned Monday.
They urged governments around the world to tackle climate change, and asked that the EU immediately adopt a 30 percent CO2 greenhouse reduction target by 2020.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne asked governments around the world to focus on preventative climate change solutions to create a “cleaner, healthier and safer future for us all.”
A statement released by the group warns that dealing with climate change will further burden the world’s militaries and have “enormous” human and economic costs. These include more frequent extreme weather events, water and food shortages, the spread of diseases, potential ecosystem collapse and threats to livelihoods.
Such problems could trigger mass migration and conflict within and between countries.
“Climate knows no frontiers,” said Lord Michael Jay, chairman of Merlin, an international health charity. Even in difficult economic times, “we must not fail to take tough measures ... There is a real need for more commitment and more action at a national, international and industrial level,” he said.
In a phone interview, Anthony Costello, a global health expert at University College London, argued that the most pressing impact of climate change is crop shortages and resulting increases in food prices.
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From Rahm Emmanuel's "Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste!" file.
GW PING
This is very true - When the next ice age (climate change) hits I’m moving to Florida.
Like everything else liberal, this fraud goes on and on, no matter how laughable it gets.
"Blah, blah, blah, OMG, blah, blah, hopeless, blah, blah, sky is falling, blah, blah, we're all gonna die, blah, blah."
I’m more worried about the catastrophic threat from Obama!
Yeah. Unless we do something now those glaciers will result in the deaths of about 95% of the people on earth.
Just substitute ‘humans’ for ‘CO2 greenhouse’ and you get the true intention. It is the stated objective of the UN’s Agenda 21 to eliminate most of the world’s population.
these people are not going to go away ,until they get their cut
Bump
I think the "experts" don't even realize they're beating a dead horse.
I think the biggest threat to human life right now is global communism/fascism.
This is truly the Glorious Age of Hyperbole. Every day the Drama Queen(s) of the Apocalypse mount up and sally forth. Sheesh...
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