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Climate Change To Drive Weather Disasters, Say UN Experts
mdsolar writes "Climate change is amplifying risks from drought, floods, storms and rising seas, threatening all countries, but small island states, poor nations and arid regions in particular, UN experts warned on Tuesday. In its first-ever report on the question, the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said man-made global-warming gases are already affecting some types of extreme weather. And, despite gaps in knowledge, weather events once deemed a freak are likely to become more frequent or more vicious, inflicting a potentially high toll in deaths, economic damage and misery, it said."
Can't wait for all the AC right-winger and libertarians to pile in -- who will rail against the science because they disagree with the policy implications of climate change.
Funny how the Right love science when it produces weapons to bomb brown people, or enriches multinational corporations. But go NUTS if it means that their rich friends endure more regulation.
There is nothing to learn from pseudo-science. This isn't the "Law of Man Made Global Climate Change" ... it’s a theory at best. Having some politicians claim that it is anything more than theory-status just adds fuel to the fire and makes real scientists that accept the idea that ANY THEORY can be wrong not want to get involved. Instead you have a field of activist-scientists on both sides that are just trying to confirm their bias instead of using the accepted method to support or disprove the theory.
I can dispute it.
It takes 1 acre of forest or 2 acres of grass to sequester the gas produced by 1 American adult. It takes 1/8th acre to produce the vegetables needed to feed a family of 4.
So, what is the global population density and how many acres are there per person in the world? 10 acres per man, woman, and child on the planet!
That means that an average American family would have 45 acres (2 adults and 2.5 children on average) and only need a max of 4 acres to sequester the carbon they produce.
That is just the land mass and it is 1/3 of the planet and the other 2/3rds can sequester carbon as well due to plankton content.
More doom and gloom. Doom and Gloom.
There will always be climate change. The problem being, each agency seems to have its own criteria for determining what constitutes an issue, what contributes to the issue, and what examples there exist of the problem.
Sorry, but I come to realize anything coming out of the UN requires increased scrutiny. Just look at the wording, they refuse still to be locked down. They have learned their lesson after the fear mongering following spectacular events like Katrina. Words like "likely", "hard to gauge", "extreme", and more.
Its a FUD festival.
Yes there is climate change. Is that bad? Depends on where you are and what change you experience. We do know it has been hotter before. We certainly cannot know the types of rain storms across major portions of this world much over a hundred years ago, let alone hurricane/typhoon frequency simply because no had the ability to find them all.
Still it makes great press. It gives people who an agenda leverage. Most important it allows some groups to extort money from others while ignoring those groups who would tell them to bugger off.
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