Earth faces a grim future if global warming isn't slowed, U.N. report says
By Alan Zarembo and Thomas H. Maugh II
LA Times
10:56 AM PDT, April 6, 2007
A new global warming report issued today by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of the Earth's future if temperatures continue to rise unabated: more than a billion people in desperate need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa and elsewhere, a blighted landscape ravaged by fires and floods, and millions of species sentenced to extinction.
The devastating effects will strike all regions of the world and all levels of society, but it will be those without the resources to adapt to the coming changes who will suffer the greatest impact, the report said.
"It's the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who are going to be the worst hit," said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which issued the report today in Brussels.
The report is the second issued this year by the group. The first, released in January, characterized global warming as a runaway train that is irreversible but that can be moderated by societal changes.
That report said, with more than 90% confidence, that the warming is caused by humans, and its conclusions were widely accepted because of the years of accumulated scientific data supporting it.
(Continued here.)
LA Times
10:56 AM PDT, April 6, 2007
A new global warming report issued today by the United Nations paints a near-apocalyptic vision of the Earth's future if temperatures continue to rise unabated: more than a billion people in desperate need of water, extreme food shortages in Africa and elsewhere, a blighted landscape ravaged by fires and floods, and millions of species sentenced to extinction.
The devastating effects will strike all regions of the world and all levels of society, but it will be those without the resources to adapt to the coming changes who will suffer the greatest impact, the report said.
"It's the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who are going to be the worst hit," said Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which issued the report today in Brussels.
The report is the second issued this year by the group. The first, released in January, characterized global warming as a runaway train that is irreversible but that can be moderated by societal changes.
That report said, with more than 90% confidence, that the warming is caused by humans, and its conclusions were widely accepted because of the years of accumulated scientific data supporting it.
(Continued here.)
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This just in - Earth to be destroyed in 6 billion years by expanding sun!
Seriously, people have been predicting a grim future for earth and man ever since the early writings in the Old Testament - probably even before that!
In the 4.5 billion year history of the Earth it has endured ice ages, meteor impacts, cataclysmic floods, volcanic eruptions, techtonic shifts, violent sun activity among other disastrous circumstances that have wiped out life on earth at one time or another. But, the earth is still here and has endured far worse than greenhouse gases have ever done to it...and the earth will endure humanity, as well.
For those of us scientists who are skeptics on the cause of global warming, we look beyond the veil of saving the earth which reveals the true theology of global warming - economics. The Church of Global Warming and its apocalyptic heretics around the world are stealthily promoting economic justice as they see it. The theology is nothing more than a global transfer of wealth program veiled in saving humanity rhetoric because every solution proposed to stop or reverse global warming is aimed at economic injury to The United States.
If you've been duped by the Church of Global Warming and their 'consensus' logic, good luck to you. You are probably incapable of thinking for yourself and drawing your own conclusions because you fear being labeled a 'global warming denier'. I think the phrase 'useful idiot' applies; Lenin would be very proud.
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