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| Daily Times Report Global warming a time bomb ticking awayLONDON 2005: Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new international report highlighted in the British press on Monday. The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force of senior politicians, business leaders and academics. In 10 years or less, they predict, the catastrophic point-of-no-return may be reached, The Independent newspaper reported. The new study, 'Meeting The Climate Challenge', has been timed to coincide with British Prime Minister Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy this year as head of both the G8 group of richest nations and the European Union. The report was assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in Britain, the Centre for American Progress in the US and The Australia Institute. It says the danger point will be signalled when temperatures rise by two degrees centigrade above the average world temperature prevailing in 1750, before the industrial revolution. But it points out that global average temperature has already risen by 0.8 degrees since then, with more rises already in the pipeline &emdash; so the world has little more than a single degree of temperature latitude before the crucial point is reached, the paper said.. The consequences of such a rise could include widespread agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests, the report said. The researchers calculated the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after which the two-degree rise will become inevitable, and say it will be 400 parts per million (ppm) by volume of CO2. The current level is 379ppm, and rising by more than 2ppm annually. "There is an ecological time bomb ticking away," said Stephen Byers, former British transport minister and a close Blair ally, who co-chaired the task force that produced the report with the US Republican senator Olympia Snowe. afp http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-1-2005_pg7_49 Or is it?Some say that it's government scaremongering. There is no major threat. World temperatures naturally rise and fall and, in the Middle Ages, average temperatures were three degrees higher than they are now. They say there's also clear evidence that carbon dioxide does not cause warming. Indeed, records indicate that carbon dioxide levels do rise but only many years after temperatures rise. That's because most carbon dioxide is produced by the sea and it takes decades to warm up the sea. Carbon dioxide has NOTHING to do with warming! The world heats up because of solar activity. It's the sun that causes it and our present climate is not unusual in the history of the earth. Nor is there an imminent threat. The level of temperature rise is very moderate and is unlikely to exceed even ONE degree Celcius by the end of the century. And you can carry on flying to foreign destinations because the clouds formed by aircraft condensation trails actually have a cooling effect! They block the heat of the sun. This was clearly shown after the "nine eleven" disaster. For three days flying was banned in the USA and for those three days the average temperature in America rose by 3 degrees then fell again when flights resumed. Yes, flying and driving vehicles causes air pollution but that's not relevant to this discussion. Vehicles and humans and the well-publicised burping cows make a negligible contribution to warming. The sun's activity is responsible for at least 90% of it. Nothing that we do will have any significant effect on this natural phenomenon. The best thing we can do is to fly more aircraft and create vapour trails. Why would the governments lie to us? For the same reason they lied about Sadham Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction" and the imagined terrorist threat. There was no terrorist threat until the governments created it by making Mulims mad at us. The simple reason is control. Governments can make us do what they want if they convince us that there is a major threat. So they start wars, dream up imaginary terrorist threats and "Global Warming". That way they get to tax us more and increase their control over us. What's next? You already know. Identity cards, vehicle tracking - it's "Big Brother" just a few years later than George Orwell predicted. Here's another newspaper article: Telegraph news 5/11/2006 "This week, I'll show how the UN undervalued the sun's effects on historical and contemporary climate, slashed the natural greenhouse effect, overstated the past century's temperature increase, repealed a fundamental law of physics and tripled the man-made greenhouse effect." Telegraph news 12/11/2006 It's just not that simple - New York Times Melanie Phillips diary: Imagine no global warming, it's easy if you try.. The Winter of Global Warming.. Free eBooks: | |||||
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