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Friday, January 05, 2007

Bush Swelters, We Simmer!

If some old guy (like me!) tells you how cold the winters were when he was a kid..... believe him!

The world's 10 warmest years have all occurred since 1994 in a temperature record dating back to 1850, according to the United Nations weather agency.

A UN report issued two months ago said greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached record levels in 2005 and were expected to increase in 2006.

High levels of greenhouse gases and the reappearance of the cyclical warming trend El-Nino make it likely 2007 will go down as the world's hottest year ever recorded, British climate scientists said Thursday.

“There is no sign that [the greenhouse gases] are starting to level off," said World Meteorological Organization climate specialist Geir Braathen. "It looks like it will just continue like this for the foreseeable future."

"This new information represents another warning that climate change is happening around the world," the office said.

"Because of the warming due to greenhouse gases, even a moderate warming event is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones, director of the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia.

(Me on a hot day!)

One of the UK's best-known scientists, Professor James Lovelock, says only a catastrophe will prompt the world to tackle the threat of climate change.

Professor Lovelock won acclaim for developing the Gaia Hypothesis, which suggests the Earth functions as a single organism which maintains the conditions necessary for its survival.

Professor Lovelock said global warming was "the response of our outraged planet", and "the consequences for humanity were likely to be far worse than any war!"

"We are at war with the Earth itself", he said. "We are Gaia's target now." Professor Lovelock added that we had still to wake up to the seriousness of our plight, with some people continuing to deny that global change exists.

The Bush government, meanwhile, is still telling everyone that "Global Warming" evidence is "inconclusive!"

We have to remember that these are the same people who went on about W.M.D. and get Osama,etc. etc! Plus, they are still pissed at, and keep going on about the Dixie Chicks, even though that is four year old news.

The Presidential elections in the good old U.S. of A. can't come soon enough!

Your "summer in the city" type scribe;
Allan W Janssen

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5 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

The evidence that man is the cause of global climate change is indeed inconclusive. Read my True Inconveance.

Friday, January 05, 2007 1:16:00 p.m.  
Blogger Allan W Janssen said...

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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:41:00 p.m.  
Blogger Allan W Janssen said...

Dale I can't believe your not doing this just to get a response, which is exactly what your getting.
Even if you discounted all the reports and studies about global warming haven't you ever just looked at the sky and said to yourself, "Jesus Christ, all that shit's got to be doing SOMETHING!"
I live in London, Ontario and if I look to the east I see dirty brownish-yellow crap on the horizon from Toronto and Buffalo. If I look south to Lake Erie I see shit from Cleveland and Toledo. If I look west there is filth from Detroit and Chicago.
The only place it is clear is north towards Georgian Bay but if I went up there, then I would see the deposits from Sudbury and Sault St. Marie. Help!

Friday, January 05, 2007 1:43:00 p.m.  
Blogger Allan W Janssen said...

Dale, or Chuckie as some people call you, I finaly found your piece on Global Conservative and yes, you are being a good little Conservative all right.
Now I myself, am neither a Liberal or Conservative, but rather speak out on stuff that catches my eye.
Just the same I have to agree with a lot of the points you make and don't expressly agree with everything Al Gore says.
BUT, looking at the Bush governments opposition to stem-cell research, support of the far right, lying about the reasons you guys are in Iraq and the generally arrogant foreign policy they espouse I think I will go with the majority of scientists and not them. Sorry to ruin you day but this is one time I can't agree with you! (Although one thing I do agree with is the dislike of the French so it's not all bad!!!)

Friday, January 05, 2007 2:13:00 p.m.  
Blogger Buffalo said...

Sure. Take the easy way out. Blame the USA. We have broad shoulders.

Friday, January 05, 2007 3:39:00 p.m.  

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