The pollution gap - world's poorer countries are forced to pay for the CO2 emissions of the developed nations
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Over 70 million Africans and an even greater number of farmers in the Indian sub-continent will suffer catastrophic floods, disease and famine if the rich countries of the world fail to change their habits and radically cut their carbon emissions.
The stark warning, contained in a private Government document commissioned by Gordon Brown, comes days ahead of an announcement that will show Tony Blair backing away from his promise to "lead internationally" on climate change. The Government has decided to delay setting targets for industry to cut carbon emissions until other EU governments set theirs. Previously, Mr Blair has made a virtue out of leading the way in Europe.
The bleak facts on how climate change threatens the third world were laid out in a briefing paper drawn up this month by the Department for International Development. It pointed out that a quarter of Africa's population lives within 100km of the sea coast. As sea levels rises, when global warming melts the ice pack, the number of Africans at risk from coastal flooding will increase from one million in 1990 to 70 million in 2080.
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Nope.
There is NOT unnatural climate change evident
Untrue.
The RISE in median SURFACE TEMEPRATURE is DIRECTLY correlated to the rise in Human Population, and the SPRAWL of habitat linked to that population rise.
http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/warming-due-to-urban-heat-island.html covers some of this nonsense (but not all).
The 'pollution' gafe?
The reduction of pollution is always good, it would not be however that such has anything to do with floods, or famine, be it involving 70 million Africans or 'greater numbers' of farmers in the 'subcontinent'.
There is NOT unnatural cliamte change evident, it is time those few still attempting to 'scare' others into 'acceptance of opinion' cease propagandering and start understanding, climate change is ever present and not 'stoppable'.
"Carbon emmisions" do NOT play any part in 'unnatural warming'.
What is needed to be distinguished is the difference tween PERMANENCE and PERSISTENCE.
Climate presents persistence only, NOT permanence, and as such Humanity needs to CEASE listening to those platforming 'change is doom' as all that we need do is MOVE away from the ' rising water'. There is no 'catastrophe' to be seen; Humanity IS mobile, so moving is NOT an issue, is it. Such has been done for millennia and will NOT cease.
Humanity will ebb and flow as does all of 'nature', there is no need to 'cry doom' if a 'city' is the only concern, perhaps they should be build with differing needs and concerns to begin with NOW that Humanity is 'smarter'. I can still see those 'Merchant Princes' bemoaning 5000 years ago the need to move those 'Port Facilities' to 'higher ground'. The 'Princes' moved, and the Mediterranean coast is littered with submerged "Port Facilities".
The situation that WE ALL observe NOW is the 'end play' of the warming process that began showing obvious indications about 15,000 years ago.
From that point of time, the snow and ice began to retreat (from just North of what is now Texas), and in general away from the equatorial regions to NOW be seen in the Polar Regions and some 'high places'.
This 'warming process' was, and still is, NATURAL and ongoing, with the Polar Regions reacting IN TURN and LAST within this NATURAL warming process.
The ONLY ISSUE of UNIQUNESS needing to be realised is that all this is happening NOW.
The RISE in median SURFACE TEMEPRATURE is DIRECTLY correlated to the rise in Human Population, and the SPRAWL of habitat linked to that population rise.
*Please refer to:-
http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/348
and
http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/312
for more detail.
The alterations to weather patterning are being affected in an UNNATURAL manner, but NOT by 'greenhouse warming'. By rematerialing the surface, what Humanity IS doing is producing variation in WEATHER PATTERNING by altering the distribution across the surface of Surface produced Kinetic Energy induction (in both regional location and amount/rate).
Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(tm)
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com
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