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  The Weekly Report

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   WEEK 26 June 16th to 22nd 2003

   RED HOT WORLD

   The world is turning from hot to red-hot. This realization is dawning 
on even the slowest of cupcakes.
   In general most scientists have agreed upon the IPCC�s 
(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) estimates of between five 
and six degrees Celsius rise in average worldwide temperature within 
2100. There have been several groups of Japanese scientists, though, 
predicting a far higher rise, on an accelerated rate, as high as ten 
degrees Celsius within 2050 and even as early as 2020. Now, scientists 
all over the world, among them Paul Crutzen and Swedish Bert Bolin are 
recognizing that they probably have been right. The release of Sulphur 
to the atmosphere has slowed down the increase, delayed it, but as 
models show it won�t stop it. Climate gases stay in the atmosphere for a 
hundred years or more. Aerosols do not. And when the rise is getting 
into high gear the rise will be faster than previously believed.
   - We have been getting off easy, Paul Crutzen says to New Scientist. 
- So far.
   A result of a rise of ten degrees Celsius, it�s pointed out, is 
�beyond imagination, when considering the consequences�. And the fact 
is, it won�t stop there. It will continue to grow hotter, as long as 
humanity is straight out producing enormous amounts of climate gases, 
like CO2 and Methane. The stop in the rise of the use of climate gases 
agreed on in the Kyoto Protocol isn�t even remotely sufficient. A 
reduction of ninety percent of current use won�t cut it. �The truth of 
the matter is�, as a scientist, who insists on being anonymous, insists, 
�we would have to reduce the use to pre-industrial levels to even make a 
dent�.
   The world is changing. Clouds are thickening. The desert is 
spreading, from south to north, north to south, on both sides of the 
Equator. In America, Africa and Asia areas that not long ago were 
fruitful are now nothing but sand and dust. One billion people are 
already affected directly, according to UN-expert Arba Diallo, and the 
numbers are increasing rapidly. There are more droughts. And in other 
areas there are more floods. Storms are increasing, in numbers and 
strength. In governmental circles around the globe there is a lot of 
talk about adapting �to the increasing threat�, to ride it out, rather 
than doing useless attempts to stop it�. But this talk about adapting 
never really goes skin deep. No plans are made to change our current way 
of life, �the way of life as we know it�, as some puts it. It�s more 
along the lines of preparing a defense, drawing a line against the 
approaching enemy.
   Nature is the enemy, and we are drawing a line in the sand, on the 
beach of life� awaiting the tsunami.


  Amos

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