"Global warming is at its all time worst. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the United Nations are collaborating today until Friday to develop a plan for action to solve the climate crisis. It is real and humans ARE the cause of it."

These words echoed throughout the news reports last night as the IPCC and the UN collaborate together. They have all come to a consensus that the climate crisis is undeniable and that something has to be done to help the situation. The matter of dispute now, until Friday, is what exactly to do about it.

Links:
IPCC - http://www.ipcc.ch/
PBS - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features...yoto_11-15.html
NineMSN - http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=64618
International Herald Tribune - http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/...mate-Change.php
Bush's 2001 Response to Climate Change - http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20010611-2.html
"Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics" - United States Senate - http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fus...0a-88824bb8e528

The report draws on research by 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries and has taken six years to compile. It is unlikely there will be major changes between the draft and the final conclusions, diplomatic sources say.

Thirty-five industrial nations have signed up to the UN's Kyoto Protocol, capping emissions of carbon dioxide.

The US pulled out in 2001, arguing Kyoto would cost jobs and wrongly excluded developing nations from goals for 2012. Still, US President George W Bush said last week climate change was a "serious challenge".[/b]
International scientists with the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say human-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from fuel consumption could lead to an increase in global temperature by 1.4 to 5.8 degrees Celsius between 1990 and 2100 if significant action is not taken.

Australia and the United States -- the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter -- are the only two major industrialized countries to reject the Kyoto Protocol. Reading and Discussion Questions
"If they do not sign the Kyoto agreement, they have to act and be in step with the rest of the world, the rest of the industrialized world," said Annan, according to the Australian Associated Press.
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Kyoto is, in many ways, unrealistic. Many countries cannot meet their Kyoto targets. The targets themselves were arbitrary and not based upon science. For America, complying with those mandates would have a negative economic impact, with layoffs of workers and price increases for consumers. And when you evaluate all these flaws, most reasonable people will understand that it's not sound public policy.
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The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming. This latest call to silence skeptics follows a year (2006) in which skeptics were compared to "Holocaust Deniers" and Nuremberg-style war crimes trials were advocated by several climate alarmists. [/b]
The climate is changing. The earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific concensus that it is happening, and human-induced.[/b]
It is about damn time!

I can not wait to hear what Friday's reports bring to the world!

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