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Author: Oropan |
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Date Posted: 16:46:59 03/04/07 Sun In reply to: jw 's message, "Good bye American gulf coast!" on 21:30:27 03/03/07 Sat BTW, what happened to those warm waters in 2006? They went away in one year? > It is almost certain that there will be another 2 >degrees of global warming, most likely during the next >40 years. The reason we can kill the american gulf >coast good bye is because the hurricane season of 2005 >was powered by atlantic waters that were 2 - 4 degrees >above historic temps. Most recent years have seen >these waters 1 - 2 degrees above historic levels, so >another 2 degrees will make the atlantic waters as >warm as the record hurricane season of 2005 every >year, there will be many more katrinas, ritas, dennis >and wilmas. All the gulf coast states are >red-republican, it will be america's gain! > > >>INTERVIEW-EU likely to miss global warming goal-UN >>expert >>02 Mar 2007 15:05:30 GMT >>Source: Reuters >> >> By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent >> >>OSLO, March 2 (Reuters) - The European Union is >>unlikely to meet the goal of a maximum 2 degree >>Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperatures which it >>views as a threshold for dangerous climate change, a >>leading U.N. climate official said on Friday. >> >>"It clearly seems very, very difficult to limit it to >>below 2 degrees," Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the >>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told >>Reuters in a telephone interview. >> >>"But who knows? It's not beyond the capabilities of >>the human race to come up with actions," he said. >> >>The EU, outsiders such as Norway and many >>environmentalists see a 2C rise in temperatures over >>pre-industrial times as a trigger for dangerous >>changes such as rising sea levels, droughts, heat >>waves and floods. >> >>An IPCC report last month, based on the work of 2,500 >>climate scientists, blamed human activities more >>clearly than ever for global warming. It said >>greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels were mainly >>responsible. >> >>It projected a "best estimate" that temperatures would >>rise by between 1.8C and 4.0C (3.2F and 7.8F) this >>century alone. >> >>Pachauri said temperatures had already risen by 0.74C >>(1.3F) since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th >>century and would keep rising by 0.1C (0.2F) per >>decade for coming decades even if emissions were kept >>at current levels. >> >>An EU Commission proposal on Jan. 10, entitled >>"Limiting Global Climate Change to 2C", called for a >>20-percent cut in EU emissions by 2020 or a 30-percent >>cut if other industrialised countries were willing to >>go further. >> >>ALMOST OUT OF REACH >> >>Former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, who >>issued a report last year concluding that it was far >>cheaper to act to combat climate change rather than >>suffer the consequences, said this week that the 2C >>goal was "almost out of reach". >> >>Pachauri, an Indian, said he would like the world to >>agree what dangerous climate change meant.A 1992 U.N. >>Climate Convention set an overriding goal of averting >>dangerous human interference with the climate system >>but gave no definition. >> >>"The question is 'dangerous for whom?'," Pachauri >said. >> >>"If you look at the most vulnerable regions of the >>world and ask them what dangerous is, they will say >>they have reached that threshold already -- the small >>island states, regions severely affected by droughts >>and floods," he said. >> >>He quoted independence leader Mahatma Gandhi as >>saying: "You must always look at the effect of our >>actions on the most dispossessed, the last man, the >>one who is the least fortunate." >> >>By that yardstick, he said, dangerous had already been >>reached. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| More than 25% america's fault, over 30% per person | jw | 06:05:59 03/05/07 Mon |
| Re: So it's the euros fault! | jw | 06:10:04 03/05/07 Mon |
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