Posted on 05/03/2007 10:06:41 AM PDT by Screamname
US 'biggest culprit' of climate change: WWF
The United States, the world's top belcher of greenhouse gas emissions, is "the biggest culprit" of climate change, the WWF said Thursday, urging Washington to take swift action against global warming.
"They are the biggest culprit and they are the biggest offender of climate," said Stephan Singer, head of the environmental group WWF's climate change policy unit.
"The United States should take climate change seriously," Singer told reporters in Bangkok, where scientists around the world are attending the week-long session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's leading authority on global warming.
While accusing the US of "ignoring science" on global warming, the WWF still urged Washington to lead the world in combating climate change.
"What's happening in the United States is important because it is still the largest emitter" of greenhouse gas, said Hans Verolme, director of WWF's global climate change program.
"The United States should take on economy-wise carbon reduction targets," Verolme said.
The US, the world's biggest economy, consumes around a quarter of global energy and causes nearly 30 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
US President George W. Bush has incurred the wrath of environmentalists by abandoning the 1995 Kyoto Protocol, which aims to reduce the emission of climate change-causing carbon dioxide, saying it would hurt the US economy.
Verolme argued not only the US but other top industrialised nations, notably the Group of Eight (G8) countries, should act to find common ground against climate change.
"I think the G8 should show some leadership. They are collectively the world's largest economy, and they should collectively take action," he said, adding climate change was among key topics at next month's G8 summit in Germany.
But Verolme argued a lack of political will from global leaders continued to hamper progress on tackling climate change.
"We can tackle climate change, but that really depends on political action. We need action from all governments," he said.
"Countries do not promote the use of renewable energy. Given current energy prices, I frankly don't know why," the climate change expert said, but adding that it would take some time for the world to see united political leadership.
"Political systems are very slow to change. It's like steering a super tanker."
Why would wrestlers care about Global Warming ???
"HULKAMANIAC SAYS GOREBULL WARMING MUST BE STOPPED! WE MUST STOP GORE FROM SPREADING THIS HOAX! ARRRGH!"
Is there not even a modicum of shame left in media to prevent them for overtly lying?
Back in 1961 when it was founded, WWF stood for the "World Wildlife Fund". However, as the organization grew over the 70s and into the 80s, WWF began to expand its work to conserve the environment as a whole (reflecting the interdependence of all living things), rather than focusing on selected species in isolation. So although we continued to use our well-known initials, our legal name became "World Wide Fund For Nature" (except in North America where the old name was retained).
More and more, however, to avoid confusion and mixed messages across borders and languages, WWF is known as simply "WWF, the global conservation organization."
Yeah, now they're just confused with the World Wrestling Federation. Much better.
How can the USA be responsible for orbital precession?
Yeah, no mention that the Senate defeated the treaty by 95-0. That would be inconveeeeenient.
Or Solar radiation?
Maybe Chimpy McBushhitler and his Dark Overlord Cheney Halliburton are shipping fleets of SUVs to Mars, just to deceive us all into believing that the recession of the Martian ice caps is natural. After all, nothing natural could cause that...at least not when you suffer from BDS.
Arsewholes.
Just remember that one of the organizations relies upon fakery, while the other produces professional wrestling shows.
According to the most recent UN report, the USA is not even in the Top 10 in the world.
More evidence of the "dumbing down" of the world. My guess is that Stephen Singer is nothing more than a leftist political hack. Why else would anyone claim that anything humankind does causes climate change? Climate change has been going on for millions of years. Climate change is caused by the Sun.
Must be all those sweaty wrestlers raising the temps.
They say we contribute 30% of greenhouse gas emissions; So figure that since the atmosphere is made up of only 0.0383% CO2 (which you can read as ‘zero point zero’) one can tell that what comes from humans must be incredibly small. So what is 30% of basically nothing? This is how insane this whole global warming thing is. It`s like someone taking a grain of sand from a beach and then declaring the beach is “eroding”.
Composition of
dry atmosphere, by volume
ppmv: parts per million by volume
Gas Volume
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) 9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 383 ppmv (0.0383%)
Neon (Ne) 18.18 ppmv
Helium (He) 5.24 ppmv
Methane (CH4) 1.745 ppmv
Krypton (Kr) 1.14 ppmv
Hydrogen (H2) 0.55 ppmv
Jack Kemp likes to point out that better than half of everything ever made by the hand of man has been made in America by Americans. So let’s see...5% of the world’s population making half the world’s stuff, while using only 25% of the resources, and producing 20% of the pollution...not bad at all.
On the other hand, 95% of the population produces less than half the world’s stuff, using 75% of the resources and producing 80% of the pollution... not so good. Oh, and that same 5% also feeds the other 95%.
And India. Neither country had any greenhouse gas limits, and China is about to start producing more than us (with less than 1/4 of the economic output). So much for the "evil, greedy capitalists" argument.
“US ‘biggest culprit’ of climate change”
I don’t think so.
“Culprit” implies somebody who has little concern about the consequences, and goes ahead and does it anyway. The fact is, the US IS doing something about gaseous emissions, not all of which, by the way, are pollutants. Smokestack scrubbers take out virtually all the sulfur dioxide and particulate matter, and almost all of the nitrous and nitric oxides. Carbon monoxide, a poisonous, colorless and odorless gas that would NOT be identified by visual observation of smokestacks, but it is eliminated by catalytic conversion, changing it into carbon dioxide.
And no matter HOW many times assertions are made to the contrary, carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant. It is part of the carbon cycle by which vegetation converts sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen, two things of which are absolutely vital to maintain the life of humanity, among other things.
The US is being at least moderately responsible for cleaning up the atmosphere, land and water as we go, whereas there are other countries (do we HAVE to name them?) that have virtually no conscience about how badly they degrade the environment, and had been doing it for GENERATIONS without exercising the least responsibility for their actions.
Oh, I forgot - and it also uses slave labor, occupies Tibet, supplies nuclear technology and weapons to Iran...its a top-flight nation according to those who hate the US.
The Rovian Weather Machine (Katrinus Max is its code name) could have the side effect of tworking Earth’s orbit- but then how would Malinkovitch written about it at the turn of the 20th century?
The US is ignoring pseudo-science, not science.
Actually, the WWF conservation nuts took the WWF wrestlers to court and forced them to change to WWE (World Wrestling Enterprises). Nice going WWF dorks!
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.
Not to mention, WTF?!
LOL! That too!
Nothing like biting the hand that feeds you...
85% of WWF funding comes from the US.
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