GLOBAL WARNING!

[Kerb Crawler]

"UN chief issues climate warning"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6149340.stm

Mr Annan told delegates the phenomenon was as grave a threat as conflict, poverty and the spread of weapons.

He said sceptics were "out of step, out of arguments and out of time".

Meanwhile...

"White House Sued Over Global Warming"

http://abcnews.go.com/US/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=2653962&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Environmentalists have accused the administration of trying to suppress dissemination of the previous assessment, issued in 2000, which predicted a dramatic rise in catastrophic storms, floods, droughts and heat-related deaths.

While the US responds to Annan's criticism:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2006/11/16/us_backs_its_global_warming_record/

"The United States is committed to addressing the serious global challenge of climate change," said Paula J. Dobriansky, a US undersecretary of state and head of the American delegation to the UN climate conference in Nairobi.

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Elsewhere, in Alaska (and, Cassie, you might want to pay attention to this):

"Polar bear survival rate falls as climate warms: study"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061116/sc_nm/environment_polarbears_survival_dc_1

The falling survival rate comes as a warming climate has melted much of the sea ice off Alaska's northern coast, limiting polar bears from hunting for food at the ice's edge, Amstrup said.

and "Gravity reveals shrinking Antarctic ice"

http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925424.700&feedId=climate-change_rss20

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Mankind is responsible for a large percentage of these changes. What is to be done? And how will we agree on turning it around? Hell, the rhetoric and emotional responses alone will probably cost millions of dollars.

"Major report shows man’s impact on world climate"

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2006/11/14/news/02climate14.txt

A long-awaited report by an international scientific network will offer “much stronger” evidence of how man is changing Earth’s climate, and should prompt reluctant governments into action against global warming, the group’s chief scientist said Monday.

This report, according to Rajendra K. Pachauri, an Indian climatologist,

will offer significantly more evidence on sea-level rise, the melting of glaciers and the growing scarcity of water. He didn’t discuss those details, since the Fourth Assessment Report is still in the draft stage. But it is likely to cite such recent research findings as:

* World temperatures have risen to levels not seen in at least 12,000 years, propelled by rapid warming the past 30 years.

* Greenland’s ice mass has been melting at what NASA calls a “dramatic” rate of 41 cubic miles per year, far surpassing the gain of 14 cubic miles per year from snowfall.

* The levels of oceans, expanding from warmth and from land-ice runoff, have risen at a rate of about 2 millimeters a year between 1961 and 2003, and by more than 3 millimeters a year in 1993-2003.

It's been a long time since the earth has had a magor global catastrophe, and the next will be the first in our modern history.

We know the world goes through intense catastrophic changes every few thousand years or so. And bad shit happens. History and geologic evidence proves this: Everything from the reversal of magnetic polarity, to ice ages, to meteor strikes, to mass extinction, etc. If you believe the hype, we're overdue. How will we survive? Are you prepared for the economic and societal collapse when it comes?

The fish and the fatties will be the first to perish.

 

[Tyrant]

Lip service from the USA won't be enough. Brazil and China would also have to accept changes.

 

[Atlas_Collins]

Global Warming, Schmogal Borming!

I'll start giving the slightest shit about global warming on the day Al Gore sells his Occidental Petroleum stock.

fucking idiots!

 

[Starship Coyote]

The UN chief is a spear-chunking nigger who wants to bring the rest of the civilized world down to his level. Fuck him.

 

[Kerb Crawler]

 

[Ogami]

Media Yawn as Climate Center Reports Continued Global Cooling
Posted by Noel Sheppard on November 16, 2006 - 02:13.

At roughly 11:00AM Eastern Time Wednesday, the National Ocean & Atmospheric Administration announced that for the second straight month, America saw below-average temperatures. As a result, regardless of how warm July was, it now appears unlikely that 2006 will surpass 1934 as the hottest year on record. Yet, a Google News search suggested that not one news agency bothered to report this announcement. Not one.

For those not in the media who might be interested (emphasis mine throughout):

For the second consecutive month, temperatures across the continental United States were cooler-than-average, according to scientists at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Drought conditions improved in some areas, but large parts of the nation remained in moderate to extreme drought. October ranked as the 12th wettest October when compared with historical precipitation records for the month.

The announcement continued:

The October 2006 temperature for the contiguous United States (based on preliminary data) was 0.9 degrees F (0.5 degrees C) below the 20th century average of 54.8 degrees F (12.7 degrees C). After a record warm January through August period, this was the second consecutive month of below average temperatures.

The combination of a cooler-than-average September and October dropped the year-to-date national temperature from record warmest to third warmest for the January through October 2006 period. The record warmest January through October occurred in 1934.

http://newsbusters.org/node/9116

 

[Ogami]

This just in, ABC News wins the "Silliest Global Warming Headline of the Year Award":

Weather Is Not Climate
Cooler Weather and Fewer Hurricanes Do Not Lessen Global Warming Trends, Say Scientists
By CLAYTON SANDELL and BILL BLAKEMORE

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2655929