fredag, februar 02, 2007

quotes

chirac, president of france

"Soon will come a day when climate change escapes all control. We are on the verge of the irreversible,"

"Faced with this emergency, the time is not for half measures. The time is for a revolution -- a revolution of our awareness, a revolution of the economy. A revolution of political action."

inspiring, but he's not saying anything about reducing actual pollution is he?...

"Our international political organisation is inadequate for dealing with the vital challenge of the 21st century -- the question of the environment,"

true, true, and how are you going to fix it?


David Miliband, British Environment Minister
"concerns that the window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought".

-that was certainly, conservative

The debate over the science of climate change is well and truly over,"

well that's fine then, so...



James Leape, WWF International director general.

"The IPCC report embodies an extraordinary scientific consensus that climate change is already upon us and that human activities are the cause,"

"It is a clarion call to governments to act urgently to slash emissions,"



US National Academy of Sciences( in 1979)

"a wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late".



Greenpeace (now)
"There's a clear message to governments here, and the window for action is narrowing fast. If the last IPCC report was a wake up call, this one is a screaming siren."


fools, the window for action closed at least ten-twenty years ago, (when greenpeace was to busy saving whales to see the real problem) we are into an age of consequence managment now.

All we can do is weather the storm, we can't stop it. We could, you know, some years ago.


the IPCC report

-- Carbon emissions this century "will contribute to warming and sea-level rise for more than a millennium", due to the timescale required for greenhouse gases to degrade.


Jan Kowalzig, Friends of the Earth

(a 30% reduction of greenhouse gases) "which would be just enough to avert the worst of climate change."



The citizens of america meanwhile, are stupid:

from spacedaily.com

"The Guardian reported Friday that a right-wing US thinktank was offering $10,000 to scientists and economists to dispute the IPCC findings.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which receives funding from oil giant ExxonMobil according to the daily, sent letters to scientists in the United States, Britain and elsewhere offering the payments in exchange for articles emphasising the shortcomings of the report."

They should die, cause they are not only stupid, but also evil, and they are not some strangers in a foreign land that does not concern me. They have attacked me directly and in person. They have made me breath their poison, they have destroyed my home and soon the world. We should put a price on their heads and hunt them down one by one. Cause the cavemen believe in an eye for an eye don't they?



Summary of the report,

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb2007.pdf


co-author Kevin Trenberth, director of climate analysis for the US-based National Centre for Atmospheric Research

"This is just not something you can stop. We're just going to have to live with it,"

"We're creating a different planet. If you were to come up back in 100 years, we'll have a different climate."


co-author, Jonathan Overpeck, University of Arizona

"The point here is to highlight what will happen if we don't do something and what will happen if we do something,"
"I can tell if you will decide not to do something, the impacts will be much larger than if we do something."


Anote Tong, president of Kiribati
(a group of 33 Pacific coral atolls threatened by rising seas)

The question is, what can we do now? There's very little we can do about arresting the process,"



Then ofcourse there are professional liers, like this girl(clearly, and adult can't be that stupid, so she must be a child)

Sharon Hays, associate director of the White House office of science and technology policy.

"The president has put in place a comprehensive set of policies to address what he has called the serious challenge of climate change,"

no he hasn't and you don't know or don't want to know what you're talking about. mr. Bush will go down in history as the worst polluter on record and people will piss on his grave.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2002485,00.html

you know, stupid people.



Oh, and there just was that posh little thing in Davos, here a comment by William Keegan, columnist in the guardian,

"Or perhaps you have been warmed. At all events, I cannot resist concluding by noting that in the keynote discussion on the prospects for the global economy in 2007 there was not, during some 90 minutes, one reference to the subject of global warming, which was on everybody else's lips."



and that is what this is *really* about...

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