Climate Armageddon!

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

Climate Armageddon

Philip F. Harris

June 20, 2009

Is Climate Armageddon upon us? Well, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is yes, I believe that it is. The good news is that while we cannot stop it, we still have a little time to prepare for it. I am not trying to be an alarmist, that bell has been rung by others. And, while I am not a climatologist, you do not have to be one to read the message in the bottle. From all that I have read, the climate tipping point has been reached and we cannot stop the rising tide, pun intended, of major climate change impacts. The best we can do is to prepare and brace for impact, and, take immediate actions to try to lessen the duration of the climate event that has already begun.

By know, you have hopefully heard about the just released White House Report on Climate Change. I do not base my conclusions on the report but it does put it all into some level of perspective in terminology for the layman. The hi9ghlights of the report, and its website, are as follows:

“Climate Change Impacts

Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: Report Home Page, The most comprehensive, authoritative report on Global Climate Change (http://globalchange.gov/)

1. Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced.

2. Climate changes are underway in the United States and are projected to grow.

3. Widespread climate-related impacts are occurring now and are expected to increase.

4. Climate change will stress water resources.

5. Crop and livestock production will be increasingly challenged.

6. Coastal areas are at increasing risk from sea-level rise and storm surge.

7. Threats to human health will increase.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/106716

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WINTER TO BE MILD PREDICTS MET OFFICE

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

This one is worth repeating – all winter long.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/

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Romm Shocked By Neutral Reporting At Fox News

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

Why hasn’t the Ministry Of Information brought this rogue news service under control? Democracy and capitalism must be destroyed if we are to save the planet.

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Cancun – “Restored Hope” For Another Boondoggle Next Year

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

I doubt the US Congress will fund this crap next year.

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Global Warming To Thrash US Economy

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

It will also unfairly hit poor countries.

Paying big time

Written by Luis Feliu

Thursday, 16 December 2010

While the international climate change negotiators dithered at the conference last week in Cancún, Mexico, a Met Office report published last week concluded that, even as public and political resolve to tackle global warming has waned since Copenhagen, the evidence that humanity is heating up the planet has become ‘even stronger.’

The consequences of global warming were starkly outlined in the recently-launched Climate Vulnerability Monitor (http://daraint.org), developed jointly by humanitarian organisation DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum. The Monitor shows the susceptibility to short-term climate change of 184 countries, assessing the estimated effects of climate change on each country’s health, weather disasters, human habitat loss and economic stresses.

According to DARA, half of all economic losses fall on industrialised countries, with the United States worst hit by overall damage costs. Climate change will also seriously worsen global inequalities. Says DARA Director General Ross Mountain, who has headed large UN field operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq, ‘If we let pressures more than triple, or worse, no amount of humanitarian assistance or development aid is going to stem the suffering and devastation. Highly fragile countries will become graveyards over which we pour billions of dollars. Low-lying islands will simply not be viable anymore, then disappear. We will all pay and we will pay big time.’

http://www.tweedecho.com.au/

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It Is Hot Out There – Somewhere

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Tony Heller

Snow does not mean end to global warming

Published on Thu Dec 16 10:53:24 GMT 2010

DEAR John Curry – your latest letter (Global warming solutions) continues to trouble me.

You refer to “wacky conferences which neutralised acid rain and plugged the hole in ozone layer.”

This puzzles me. I was always under the impression that acid rain had been prevented by desulphurising the flue gases in coal-fired power stations. Cause and effect.

I also read that the ozone layer was, er, plugged, by the phasing-out of CFCs and HCFC gases in refrigeration and as propellants. Cause and effect.

Now it is true that there were ‘wacky conferences’ in the run-up to these actions, but I think it’s more sensible to conclude that the conferences agreed the action which dealt with the problem. As should have happened in Cancun – although only limited agreement was reached. So climate change will continue.

Incidentally, if you think snow in north Northumberland suggests we’ve fixed global warming you need to get out more. There is a whole world out there and 2010 is expected to be around the third warmest year since 1850, globally.

So I still wonder why you think these problems just go away after a ‘wacky conference’. Might you be able to share your evidence through the pages of the Gazette? Or could it be that you are perhaps talking a load of ignorant rubbish?

David Farrar,

Swansfield Park Road,

Alnwick

http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/

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