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.
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
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
Labels: bush, elections, global warming, greenhouse, osama, w.m.d.
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