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Climate at five minutes to midnight: IPCC head
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Posted on 09/02/2013 5:10:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Climate at five minutes to midnight: IPCC head
AFP 54 minutes ago Nature
Humanity has pushed the world's climate system to the brink, leaving itself only scant time to act, the head of the UN's group of climate scientists said on Monday.
"We have five minutes before midnight," warned Rajendra Pachauri, whose organisation will this month release the first volume of a new assessment of global warming and its impacts.
"We may utilise the gifts of nature just as we choose, but in our books the debits are always equal to the credits," Pachauri told a conference marking the 20th anniversary of the environmental organisation Green Cross International, quoting fellow Indian Mahatma Gandhi.
"May I submit that humanity has completely ignored, disregarded and been totally indifferent to the debits?
"Today we have the knowledge to be able to map out the debits and to understand what we have done to the condition of this planet," Pachauri said.
The IPCC is made up of several hundred scientists worldwide.
It is due to release the first volume of its long-awaited Fifth Assessment Report on September 27.
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Well that's it folks, it's over........
To: Sub-Driver
In the news this week:
Coldest August recorded in central Alaska
First snow in 30 years in the Atacama dessert
Artic sea ice closes NW passage
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:13:47 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: Sub-Driver
In guess Obama won’t need to bomb Syria now.
I think I will go get a chocolate eclair and eat the whole thing.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:13:53 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: Sub-Driver
I was going to write that they will be embarrassed by the coldest winter in 20 years and a blizzard for the Super Bowl, but no. Nothing embarrasses these statists. They just lie.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:14:03 PM PDT
by
henkster
(If the Feds create an unlimited demand for bastard children, you get an unlimited supply of them.)
To: Sub-Driver
Last one out turn off the lights!
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:14:43 PM PDT
by
bramps
(Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: Sub-Driver
It’s five minutes to midnight on a cold winter night.
To: Sub-Driver
You got to love it.
Obama is ready to bomb Syria.
Syria is ready to bomb Israel.
Israel is ready to bomb Iran.
Russia is ready to bomb Saudi Arabia.
Iran is almost ready to bomb everyone.
And these guys are worried the world will end in
a hundred or a thousand years?
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:15:14 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Sub-Driver
I believe IPCC said if something weren’t done by December 2010, it would be too late.
To: Sub-Driver
Dang.
Now I'll never know if Florida State wins tonight.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:16:08 PM PDT
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: Sub-Driver
Rajendra Pachauri,
Seriously, I think he's an engineer...a RAILROAD engineer---as ON A TRAIN!
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:16:12 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: cydcharisse
I wish these morons would just go away already!
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:18:45 PM PDT
by
Jean2
To: Jean2
I wish these morons would just go away already!They're about to.
To: Sub-Driver
Wikipedia:
Pachauri was born in Nainital, India. He was educated at La Martiniere College in Lucknow[4] and at the Indian Railways Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Jamalpur, Bihar. He belongs to the Special Class Railway Apprentices, 1958 Batch, an elite scheme which heralded the beginning of mechanical engineering education in India.[5] He began his career with the Indian Railways at the Diesel Locomotive Works in Varanasi.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:25:08 PM PDT
by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: Sub-Driver
Low information fools gulp this crapola down.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:26:12 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Sub-Driver
No serious person still believes their climate change hoax.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:28:39 PM PDT
by
SUSSA
To: Sub-Driver
That’s fine. Who knows how long a minute is to God.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:29:08 PM PDT
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: Sub-Driver
Not to worry....Obama is on this "like a lazer"
Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....
...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...
....to increase it's magnetic field....
and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.
The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.
Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:31:35 PM PDT
by
spokeshave
(While Zero plays silly card games like Spades - Putin plays for keeps.)
To: Sub-Driver
The IPCC is made up of several hundred communist pseudo scientists worldwide. Fixed that. This press release is a Hail Mary Pass by the commie wackos.
Years ago I pointed out to a true believer the obvious math:
Considering the very small percentage of the atmosphere that is CO2 and the very small percentage of that which can be attributable to human activity, *if* CO2 is indeed the driving force behind a planetary warming (the existence of which simply can't be demonstrated empirically), then wiping out mankind would have no demonstrable impression on anything. Mathematically impossible. Very simple math. My conclusion? If you believe in AGW then party on dude, because you are doomed.
My accurate assessment was not well received. Damned facts screw up everything.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:32:28 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: Sub-Driver
...whose organisation will this month release the first volume of a new assessment of global warming and its impacts.I'll wait for the movie.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:32:29 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: Sub-Driver
Somebody needs to tell this jerk that his clock stopped twenty years ago when Fat Algore sat on it.
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posted on
09/02/2013 5:32:52 PM PDT
by
immadashell
(The inmates are running the asylum.)
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