Posted on 04/01/2007 5:12:27 PM PDT by wouldntbprudent
EQUATORIAL lands that are home to hundreds of millions of people will become uninhabitable as food and water run out due to climate change, scientists will warn this week.
A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to be published on Friday, will warn that the temperature rises of 2-3C predicted by 2050 spell global disaster for both humanity and the environment.
It will say that up to 40% of animal and plant species face extinction as rising temperatures destroy the ecosystems that support them. And it will point out that the 29 billion tons of carbon dioxide poured into the atmosphere each year are acidifying the oceans – threatening to destroy coral reefs, plankton and many commercial fish species.
By the middle of the century, the report will warn, more than 200m people could have been forced from their native lands by rising sea levels, floods and droughts, with many more facing early deaths from malnutrition and heat stress.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Global Warming = Global Climate Change = Taxation (=where all the communists have gone)
This is the ultimate "we need big goverment" scam
The only glimmer of hope is that this is a U.N. shindig. That organization seems an unlikely candidate to get anything organized.
You do realize that, on average, a person exhales 16 tons of CO2 over a lifetime, and that's not even counting the much more potent infrared absorbing methane farts.
200 millipeople, or 0.2 people?
Anyway; wake me up when beachfront property reaches $1/acre because everyone is fleeing the impending flood. Is the UN, home to the IPCC, making plans to move their boggy NY digs before The Next Great Deluge? Didn't think so. In fact, that would be a great question to ask at the next IPCC news orgy. I won't hold my breath...
That means we better eat them now.
Communism created how many refugees?
Communism killed how many people?
The claim that the earth temperature is going to rise 2-3 degrees by 2050 is pure lunacy. They don't even bother to tell us how high the seas are going to rise because they are so full of crap.
Where's the guy with the headache?
My very thought on reading this. Except that I won't cough.
There's an air of desperation now, on the part of those pushing the catastrophe scenario. My general feeling about the solemn pronouncements about species wiped out, refugees from flooding, etc. is that, in truth, these are WAGs (Wild Ass Guesses), even though there may be reams of calculations in support of the figgers.
I'm just not buying. The total hard sell is convincing me that there's no there there.
This is the ultimate "we need big goverment" scam.
The recent new spin on global warming seems to me to be in the direction of increased aid for 3rd world countries. Recent soundbites alledge that these countries will be hurt the most by global warming. With the U.N. involved, I think this is the hidden underlying reason for all the hysteria.
According to CNN, global warming will never happen...
World oil and gas 'running out'
By CNN's Graham Jones
Thursday, October 2, 2003 Posted: 1245 GMT ( 8:45 PM HKT)
LONDON, England -- Global warming will never bring a "doomsday scenario" a team of scientists says -- because oil and gas are running out much faster than thought.
The world's oil reserves are up to 80 percent less than predicted, a team from Sweden's University of Uppsala says. Production levels will peak in about 10 years' time, they say.
"Non-fossil fuels must come in much stronger than it had been hoped," Professor Kjell Alekett told CNN.
Oil production levels will hit their maximum soon after 2010 with gas supplies peaking not long afterwards, the Swedish geologists say.
At that point prices for petrol and other fuels will reach disastrous levels. Earlier studies have predicted oil supplies will not start falling until 2050.
read the rest...
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/global.warming/
An extremely small price to pay as global warming allows enough food to be produced to feed the current 6 billion, and, no doubt, several billion more.
When our current season of warming inevitably returns to the cooler season of the cycle, mankind will then face a crisis.
Yes.
I love animals.
They're delicious.
And I take care of all God's creations.
Right next to the mashed potatoes and peas.
But global warming is caused by George Dubya Bush. Doncha get it? /s
I was wondering about him lately myself. lol
Haven't seen him around. But he's certainly welcome on this thread.
Gore-Bull Warming is a terrible thing to contemplate.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
Really, that was a good catch. Lessee, it's 2007 now . . . world oil and gas should be just about running out, according to CNN, right?
Right?
((crickets chirping))
If this is a bit hard to digest, go here for a simpler explanation:
http://www.hydrogen.co.uk/h2_now/journal/articles/2_global_warming.htm
POST OF THE DAY!!
I don't know about horses and I don't know about cattle, but my Australian cattle dog sure can rattle.
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