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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."
When they say "climate change" it's code for "bullshit excuse for more regulations, taxes, and you feeling guilty for being Homo sapiens sapiens."
Can we take the political clout away from the self-haters yet?
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.
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.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
We just have to pay Al Gore his copy right claim for inventing global warming and it will all go away.
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Complete Bullshit.....everything the political org IPCC says is BS
Europe lost maybe 20 million people or more to the effects of a multi-decade cooling due to lack of sunspots starting in the time of Galileo who discovered the spots. Snow and ice in summer and ruined crops & created massive starvation.
Until you can accurately predictall the phases of the Sun's output, you are not going to be able to predict long term climate effects. We know the earth has a MASSIVE ice age cycle that occurs every 110,000 years or so due to cyclical orbit changes around the sun. We know for sure that Canada, northern US & Europe and Siberia will again be icebound at some point.
Come up with the predictive models that can show when all the orbit and sun variations actually have occurred and then when they will occur again and we will truly have a basis to judge what is going on.
Right now, all this "climate change" discussion is political to support a particular deindustrialization agenda, as if that will overcome the changes in the Sun which DWARF everything else. The Sun will always rule everything...to the bitter end of life on Earth as a cinder.