The Continuing Saga, March Toward STEALING Your Money. Two

Hey folks,

I’m back. Still thinking about that concept. I hope you are also. "Dollar for dollar, capital invested in greenhouse gas reduction would accomplish more if used to improve the efficiency of Chinese power plants than if spent in the United States." Op-Ed piece in the New York Times on March 9,2007, by GREGG EASTERBROOK , who is a fellow of the Brookings Institution and the author of "The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse."

Then you have THIS piece by the AP. This is laughable folks. Here’s the doom and gloom.

The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won’t have enough water, top scientist will say next month at a meeting in Belgium

At the same time, tens of millions of others will be flooded out of their homes each year as the Earth reels from rising temperatures and sea levels, according to portions of a draft of an international scientific report obtained by The Associated Press.

Tropical diseases like malaria will spread. By 2050, polar bears will mostly be found in zoos, their habitats gone. Pests like fire ants will thrive.

For a time, food will be plentiful because of the longer growing season in northern regions. But by 2080, hundreds of millions of people could face starvation, according to the report, which is still being revised.

The draft document by the authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change focuses on global warming's effects and is the second in a series of four being issued this year. Written and reviewed by more than 1,000 scientists from dozens of countries, it still must be edited by government officials.

STOP!! Notice the wording here. Remember when the last report came out? It was promoted as being WRITTEN by a thousand scientist. It wasn’t so. Now they worded it this way, "Written and reviewed by more than 1,000 scientists from dozens of countries, it still must be edited by government officials."

What exactly does, "It still must be edited by government officials." mean? So did 5 or 6 scientists write it, and 995 other scientists REVIEWED it? Did they all accept it? Any disagree? Which one of our government officials will be editing it? WHAT are they editing? Are THEY a scientist? {Sigh}

But some scientists said the overall message is not likely to change when it's issued in early April in Brussels, the same city where European Union leaders agreed this past week to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Their plan will be presented to President Bush and other world leaders at a summit in June.

The report offers some hope if nations slow and then reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but it notes that what's happening now isn't encouraging.

"Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent," the report says, in marked contrast to a 2001 report by the same international group that said the effects of global warming were coming. But that report only mentioned scattered regional effects.

"Things are happening and happening faster than we expected," said Patricia Romero Lankao of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., one of the many co-authors of the new report.

WHAT is many? How many?

The draft document says scientists are highly confident that many current problems — change in species' habits and habitats, more acidified oceans, loss of wetlands, bleaching of coral reefs, and increases in allergy-inducing pollen — can be blamed on global warming.

For example, the report says North America "has already experienced substantial ecosystem, social and cultural disruption from recent climate extremes," such as hurricanes and wildfires.

Bunk! These are natural occurrences.

But the present is nothing compared to the future.

Doom and gloom! Doom and gloom!

Global warming soon will "affect everyone's life ... it's the poor sectors that will be most affected," Romero Lankao said.

Yes because they have no money to give you morons.

And co-author Terry Root of Stanford University said: "We truly are standing at the edge of mass extinction" of species.

Unless we pay YOU, or Gore, whichever the case. Get this,

The report included these likely results of global warming:

_Hundreds of millions of Africans and tens of millions of Latin Americans who now have water will be short of it in less than 20 years. By 2050, more than 1 billion people in Asia could face water shortages. By 2080, water shortages could threaten 1.1 billion to 3.2 billion people, depending on the level of greenhouse gases that cars and industry spew into the air.

And cows farting.

_Death rates for the world's poor from global warming-related illnesses, such as malnutrition and diarrhea, will rise by 2030. Malaria and dengue fever, as well as illnesses from eating contaminated shellfish, are likely to grow.

{Laughing}

_Europe's small glaciers will disappear with many of the continent's large glaciers shrinking dramatically by 2050. And half of Europe's plant species could be vulnerable, endangered or extinct by 2100.

Bunk

_By 2080, between 200 million and 600 million people could be hungry because of global warming's effects.

More Bunk.

_About 100 million people each year could be flooded by 2080 by rising seas.

These people are nuts folks. Or maybe they are flooded because they didn’t pay.

_Smog in U.S. cities will worsen and "ozone-related deaths from climate (will) increase by approximately 4.5 percent for the mid-2050s, compared with 1990s levels," turning a small health risk into a substantial one.

_Polar bears in the wild and other animals will be pushed to extinction.

AGAIN with the Polar Bears? After the picture, of Polar Bears "stranded" on a broken off glacier, all over the place, was proven to be from the past of Polar Bears PLAYING! They were not stranded. They swam out there. They can swim you know.

_At first, more food will be grown. For example, soybean and rice yields in Latin America will increase starting in a couple of years. Areas outside the tropics, especially the northern latitudes, will see longer growing seasons and healthier forests.

Do, do, do , do, doo. X-Files theme.

Looking at different impacts on ecosystems, industry and regions, the report sees the most positive benefits in forestry and some improved agriculture and transportation in polar regions. The biggest damage is likely to come in ocean and coastal ecosystems, water resources and coastal settlements.

The hardest-hit continents are likely to be Africa and Asia, with major harm also coming to small islands and some aspects of ecosystems near the poles. North America, Europe and Australia are predicted to suffer the fewest of the harmful effects.

AND WE ARE TO BLAME! Right? Setting you up to start PAYING money to send to China and others.

"In most parts of the world and most segments of populations, lifestyles are likely to change as a result of climate change," the draft report said. "Net valuations of benefits vs. costs will vary, but they are more likely to be negative if climate change is substantial and rapid, rather than if it is moderate and gradual."

This report — considered by some scientists the "emotional heart" of climate change research — focuses on how global warming alters the planet and life here, as opposed to the more science-focused report by the same group last month.

{Laughing hard} The "emotional heart?" {Laughing} The last report didn’t work. So now they are trying to scare you. Along with play with your emotions to try to shame you into believing YOU are responsible, and make you want to give them YOUR money.

"This is the story. This is the whole play. This is how it's going to affect people. The science is one thing. This is how it affects me, you and the person next door," said University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver.

He is right. This is a story. A play. It’s not science. It’s Science fiction.
Peter

Sources;
AP-Climate report warns of drought, disease
NYT-Al Gore’s Outsourcing Solution