🚀 go-pugleaf

... so am I to assume you think that civilization is coming to an end??


"DonQuijote1954" <nolionnoproblem@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4e4a3f58.0411250629.53bd54e@posting.google.com...
> "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
> intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
> -Charles Darwin
>
> If it were to be an animal it would be doomed. But wait, maybe it is,
> what, a warmongering lion, a hungry dinosaur?
>
> Keep the SUVs rolling and the war going so the beast is fed. What an
> unromantic way for humanity to end, huh? :(
>
> Deep is space, in the Twilight Zone...
> http://pub36.bravenet.com/forum/3021914257/fetch/330301/
>
>
> Group Passes on Addressing Global Warming
>
> By BART CAMERON, Associated Press Writer
>
> REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Although faced with fresh evidence of global
> warming, the United States and other members the Arctic Council on
> Wednesday failed to make any recommendations to combat a problem most
> scientists say is causing sea ice to melt and temperatures to rise.
>
> The council met to consider a new scientific report suggesting the
> Arctic is warming up much faster than the rest of the planet.
>
> Some delegates on the council, a respected international panel that
> advises governments on Arctic issues, seemed to blame their group's
> inaction on America's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol (news - web
> sites), which requires industrial nations to reduce emissions of
> greenhouse gases. The Bush administration prefers voluntary measures
> to save the environment.
>
> "We no sooner leave the science proper than we enter into politics,"
> said Bryndis Kjartansdottir, speaking on behalf of the Icelandic
> ministry which chaired the one-day meeting.
>
> The study, compiled by 300 scientists and released earlier this month,
> said the Arctic is particularly vulnerable to warming from industrial
> greenhouse gases. One reason is that when snow and ice melt, the
> exposed, bare ground absorbs more heat.
>
> It projects that some animals could become extinct and people living
> in the region could be threatened by the thinning sea ice, melting
> glaciers and thawing permafrost.
>
> Sea ice in the Arctic has already decreased about 8 percent in 30
> years, resulting in the loss of 386,100 square miles of sea ice,
> according to the report.
>
> Delegates said the findings will help inform governments about global
> warming, but declined to make any specific recommendations in a
> declaration adopted Wednesday.
>
> Paula Dobriansky, the U.S. under secretary of global affairs, told the
> council's closing news conference that she was happy with that
> decision. She said America's participation in the council is just one
> part of the Bush administration's $5.2 billion spent for environmental
> projects such as renewable energies.
>
> But anger from other delegates over the U.S. position on global
> warming seemed evident during the news conference, particularly the
> Bush Administration's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001.
>
> The U.N.-sponsored accord, which was negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto,
> Japan, requires industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse
> gases below 1990 levels.
>
> When Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said, "It is the best
> possible declaration that could be adopted today," other delegates
> exploded in laughter.
>
> The council is comprised of eight nations --Canada, Denmark, Finland,
> Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States-- and six
> indigenous peoples of the Arctic, including the Saami Peoples of
> Norway and Finland and the Inuit Circumpolar Conference.
>
> http://committed.to/justiceforpeace