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Cancun climate change summit: scientists call for rationing in developed world
The London Telegraph ^ | November 29, 2010 | Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent

Posted on 11/29/2010 11:24:10 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.

In a series of papers published by the Royal Society, physicists and chemists from some of world’s most respected scientific institutions, including Oxford University and the Met Office, agreed that current plans to tackle global warming are not enough.

Unless emissions are reduced dramatically in the next ten years the world is set to see temperatures rise by more than 4C (7.2F) by as early as the 2060s, causing floods, droughts and mass migration.

As the world meets in Cancun, Mexico for the latest round of United Nations talks on climate change, the influential academics called for much tougher measures to cut carbon emissions....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; capandtax; carbontrade; climatechange; criminalconspiracy; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; heplayedonourfears; marxism
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To: BigBobber
I have had a theory for quite a while now that what is driving public policy in the West is not socialism but a reaction by the old money elites to technological advances that allow the middle class to live almost as well as the truly rich.

Brilliant analysis! That sure makes a lot of sense. I am going to have to think about your theory every time something comes out in the "news" denigrating the middle class and their simple pleasures.

41 posted on 11/29/2010 12:16:28 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ("The Constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the people..." -- Patrick Henry)
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To: BigBobber

“a reaction by the old money elites to technological advances that allow the middle class to live almost as well as the truly rich”

Right. But also, it’s “we’re taking THEIR resources”. Us little plebs should be more “sustainable”, and not use too much of THEIR resources. Don’t we realize that all the gold & oil & stuff belongs to them? Who do we think we are, using up THEIR stuff.


42 posted on 11/29/2010 12:23:47 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The leftists know that their little global warming hoax has been exposed and that nothing will be coming of it...so, they feel safe now in openly proposing the socialist ideas that would have come out of a climate change agreement.


43 posted on 11/29/2010 12:31:29 PM PST by NRG1973
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unless emissions are reduced dramatically in the next ten years the world is set to see temperatures rise by more than 4C (7.2F) by as early as the 2060s, causing floods, droughts and mass migration.

The True Believers are still pushing this nonsense? Really?

44 posted on 11/29/2010 12:34:09 PM PST by TheDon (The Democrat Party, the party of the KKK (tm))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Lawyers are the enemy, now more than ever. Every stupid thing that is wrong with the west is due to lawyers. There needs to be no such thing as a professional practitioner of law. And judges should be temporarily drafted from the general population, just like jurors.

The legal class has effectively killed America.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

45 posted on 11/29/2010 12:36:27 PM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Moonbat propagandists are the enemy.


46 posted on 11/29/2010 12:38:06 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Nuke the corrupt commie bastards to HELL!!)
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To: ZULU
*“Global warming is now such a serious threat to mankind that climate change experts are calling for Second World War-style rationing in rich countries to bring down carbon emissions.”

The next thing you know the liberals in the west will decide there are too many bodies in the developed world consuming too much per capita output in world resources and hence we need to eliminate 5 in every ten people in western developed nations to allow “emerging” nations (e.g. third world ) to develop fairly in the face of historical suppression of their societies.*

And we on the Right will be the 5 that must go.
Happens in Communist countries all the time.

Ask the families of the 100 million killed by Communist regimes last century.....

47 posted on 11/29/2010 12:39:38 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: DGHoodini

*World calls for Cancun to use Global Warming retards for shark bait.*

I’d vote for that!

;-)


48 posted on 11/29/2010 12:40:40 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: stefanbatory
why isn’t this conference being held in Copenhagen again????

Too cold in Denmark this time of year.

49 posted on 11/29/2010 12:42:01 PM PST by hattend (The meaning of the 2010 election was rebuke, reject, and repeal. - Sarah Palin)
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To: Surrounded_too
*Legally Binding is a Surrender of National Sovereignty.

The UN and others are a cancer we should have nothing to do with.*

Anything the UN makes as a law is as legally binding as anything a 3 year old writes on a piece of toilet paper.
Countries that go along with the UN are giving up or trying to gravy up.

Dismantle and defund the vile UN!

50 posted on 11/29/2010 12:42:44 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope they’re dumb enough to try this.”

Why do you think SB-510 is on the docket for voting this afternoon in the Senate???


51 posted on 11/29/2010 12:45:20 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

Do they really want a civil war?


52 posted on 11/29/2010 12:47:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Re: Gov. Sarah Palin: Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ~German Proverb)
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To: wac3rd

Why?

They are industrializing and booming to improve the living standards of their people, like America did for much of the 20th Century.

And they aren’t about to do what the West wants.

Good for them.


53 posted on 11/29/2010 12:50:07 PM PST by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They’re going to get increasingly desperate as time goes on and none of the dire predictions come true.


54 posted on 11/29/2010 12:51:46 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Deetes
*Cancun ! Maybe they wont make it out of there ;) Alaska Airlines stopped service to Cancun months ago , because of safety issues.*

Perhaps these flyers should be posted all around Cancun?

NOTICE TO ALL GOONS, THUGS AND DRUG CARTEL MEMBERS:
There is a huge gathering of extremely dimwitted rich Westerners who are very easily fooled coming to Cancun.

They probably want illegal drugs, because they feel that laws and rules do not apply to them like they do to the “little people.” They will most likely buy them from you out in the open because they think they are too good to be arrested. They are flush with cash, while at the same time trying to make the average person feel guilty for what little they have.

Alert your friends!

They are a detriment to our way of life, so it's unlikely they will be missed by sensible people.

55 posted on 11/29/2010 12:54:00 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: The Comedian

“The legal class has effectively killed America”.

They are doing their part, no doubt.

However...

“The Germans and Japanese unsucessfully tried to defeat us during WW II using bombs and bullets. But they had it wrong. All they had to do was to hire PEW (and the other enviro groups)”.

Read into the record by me at the 6/08 South Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting, Orlando, FL


56 posted on 11/29/2010 12:55:19 PM PST by Captain7seas (FIRE JANE LUBCHENCO FROM NOAA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

MINUS 17C! BRITAINS SHIVERS AS COLD SNAP TAKES GRIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kaqk2Il45Q

Check under the video for articles.


57 posted on 11/29/2010 12:55:24 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: VeniVidiVici

Al Gore’s fictional movie Inconvenient “Truth” seemed to have been more popular than “The Day After Tomorrow.”

I couldn’t suspend my disbelief long enough to be drawn into the ridiculous plot of Gore’s movie.


58 posted on 11/29/2010 12:57:55 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: bill1952

YUP. Its working.

Abortion, materialism, the high cost of education, homosexuality - all those things that old time religion warned us against - they were right.


59 posted on 11/29/2010 1:00:21 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

*I have had a theory for quite a while now that what is driving public policy in the West is not socialism but a reaction by the old money elites to technological advances that allow the middle class to live almost as well as the truly rich.

Brilliant analysis! That sure makes a lot of sense. I am going to have to think about your theory every time something comes out in the “news” denigrating the middle class and their simple pleasures.*

My Grandpa used to say that the “big shots” didn’t like that an ordinary man is able to purchase a new Cadillac. They want to feel bigger and better and look down on a man who has to walk while they ride in a large car.

I didn’t get it when I was a teenager.

It’s becoming VERY clear now.

Al Gore is the poster child for the elite that Grandpa was talking about!


60 posted on 11/29/2010 1:02:07 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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