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UK Releases Global Warming Report
ben_ writes "The UK Government's Foresight Project, tasked with visualizing the future, has published a hard-hitting report on the flooding consequences of global warming. The story's also on the BBC."
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Who would imagine there would be flooding during global warming?
Go figure.
Water World here we come.
According to an audit performed on the premier data on global warming (MBH98), the 20th century is actually cooler than it was in the 1400s. Remember, these predictions are based on the theory that the earth is warming at an alarming rate and that the Earth is hotter than it ever was. However, this is simply not true based on the data available.
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Check out the audit here:
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/trc.htm
Check out the many articles concerning global warming here:
http://www.globalwarming.org/science.php
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
Keep driving SUVs, gas prices are at an all time high. We'll have more oil coming home from the Gulf.
Burn more coal and oil. Forget more friendly alternatives, BushCo doesn't make money when you don't burn fossil fuels.
How dare you question eugenics, TROLL!
Curb CO2 emissions: Kill yourself today!
I am not denying the Global Warming or anything... I just wish the story was picked up by some reliable news organizations. Anyone has a link to something other than BBC?
Any guest worker system is indistinguishable from indentured servitude.
"There are currently around 200bn worth of assets and 1.7 million properties in flood risk areas in England and Wales,"
What's the big deal? American taxpayers have spent at least that much in Iraq, and we're *just getting started* destroying stuff over there, let alone rebuilding it. OTOH, maybe we should have spent the money buying up the British coastline, as a defense against those French WMDs, just 45 minutes from deployment across the Channel.
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