Posted on 11/17/2007 6:55:06 AM PST by yoe
The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report released Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of extinction for some species.
After five days of sometimes tense negotiations, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted its fourth and final report this year, along with a summary, on the science of climate change and the effects of human-produced greenhouse gases.
It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes - and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.
The document says recent research has heightened concern that the poor and the elderly will suffer most from climate change; that hunger and disease will be more common; that droughts, floods and heat waves will afflict the world's poorest regions; and that more animal and plant species will vanish.
Welcoming the report, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said climate change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet."
The potential impact of global warming is "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do," Ban told the IPCC after it issued the report.
The Summary for Policymakers, and a longer version called the synthesis report, distill thousands of pages of data and computer models resulting from six years of research compiled by the IPCC.
It will be a how-to guide for policy makers meeting in Bali, Indonesia, next month to discuss an agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
The report is important because it is adopted by consensus, meaning countries accept the underlying science and cannot disavow its conclusions. While it does not commit governments to a specific course of action, it provides a common scientific baseline for the political talks.
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
What is so hilarious is that species have been going extinct and new species appearing for millenia, before man ever appeared. Where is the sabertooth tiger? If it went extinct today, the globosocialists would blame “climate change”. Meanwile every planet in our solar system is warming at the same time we are. Yet any stories about the Sun’s role are ignored or ridiculed by the MSM. It really seemed that the backlash against this fraud would have happened by now. When will it occur? Will it?
Three TRUE facts about climate change:
1. Climate HAS changed in the past.
2. Climate IS changing right now.
3. Climate WILL change in the future.
Add this panel's idiotic ramblings to the long list of why the UN is a disaster and we should get the H&!! out of it.
vaudine
countries accept the underlying science and cannot disavow its conclusions
Sounds like some sort of forced propaganda to me !
You can’t disavow conclusions , even if new evidence proves it’s wrong ? This is stupidity!
hahahahhaahaha good one bro!
Muzzle all those who disagree. And they call that science.
It seems that every time the global warming alarmists report some ‘dramatic finding,’ whether it be melting ice caps or islands about to be lost to a rising sea level, their specifics are always thousands of miles away from civilization, and are places so remote from civilization that checking out those alarming reports is virtually impossible. Hmm... I wonder why that is? :)
In my book, either "U.N." or "Nobel-winning" is enough in itself to utterly cancel out the word "scientific."
Add on that an AP writer calls it a "landmark report," and you know it has to be bogus.
It's a threefer loser.
Hmmmmm ..?? I think the country that is experiencing record cold will be happy at this news. I think it’s Bolivia - not sure.
So, if the earth is warming .. it left this country out .. proving once again THIS IS A SCAM.
It’s Brazil.
I think we need more CO2 in the atmosphere to help these loons stop hyperventilating about global warming.
And .. the more people who come out against it - with proof that it’s a SCAM .. the louder the other side gets.
Now 1 % of 3 % of the total amount of all greenhouse gas is not a very significant portion, (.0003% if my mental multiplication is correct, which it may not be) and I have a hard time believing that a minor annual increase in such an insignificant portion of the total amount of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere will cause the world to become virtually unlivable for humans even within the next 1000 years. The earth's biosphere may be fragile, but not that fragile.
~~ AGW™ ping~~
Let’s get naked!
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