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A Countdown To Global Catastrophe?

Posted by Hemos on from the you-said-crossing-the-streams-was-bad dept.

An anonymous reader writes "From The Independent: The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already. For the full story, see this article."

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  1. here we go again... by CAIMLAS · · Score: 1, Troll

    Fanatical alarmist proclimations of doom in 3, 2, 1... oh. Too late!

    So-called scientists have been saying that the end of the world is right around the corner since as early as the 1960's. Crazy nonsense, like that by 1980 the world would be massively over-populated requiring "population control" (eg. forced abortion/genocide/what have you), and that the entire world would either be starving to death or rationed on food.

    "But this is different!" you say. Then tell me, how is it so different?

    This seems like nothing more than more scare tactics by the likes of the Earth Day foundation and the Sierra Club. Granted, I've not tied the connections together myself, but if it fits the trend...

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  2. Risk analysis? by cdrguru · · Score: 1, Troll
    You need to stop and think what the risk of "stopping now" might be.

    OK, if the worst-case scenarios pan out for global warming a lot of people could die.

    Let's say we implement at a bare minimum the kind of strategies required to make Kyoto a reality. Not just window-dressing, but actually enforce upon the population of North America a cutback in energy use. How many people will die? Perhaps worse, how many people end up in basically third-world living conditions with no access to health care because there isn't any transportation available?

    Those are the kind of tradeoffs that need to be considered. And that is assuming that global warming is a fact.

  3. These stories come out every couple of months by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Troll

    The punchline is always the same: send us more money.

    Catastrophe is always around the corner, only time and more research (ie. grants) will tell.

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  4. Re:Original Study? by 1010011010 · · Score: 1, Troll


    Most "Environmentalists" are fanatics that wish to use the environment as an excuse for seizing control of society. For our own good, of course -- just like all other authoritarian reformers claim.

    Seriously, science is one thing, but religion is another. An "Environmentalism" is the worst sort of theocracy-peddling nonsense.

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