Global Warning
I love running across stories like this on a Monday morning.....fitting, as we had one of the warmest January's on record this year.....
Global warming boosting Greenland glacier flow
Scientists predict that global average temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees Celsius this century unless urgent action is taken now to cap and reduce carbon emissions.
Even a rise of three degrees could result in cataclysmic species loss, melting polar icecaps raising sea levels by many meters and wholesale famine and disease.
Greenland is only part of the picture, and there is also evidence of local warming and melting on the giant Western Antarctic ice sheet.
Scientists said on Monday the world had to halt greenhouse gas emissions and reverse them within two decades or watch the planet spiraling towards destruction.
The first phase of the global Kyoto protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions runs until 2012, and negotiations have only just started on finding a way of taking it beyond that.
The United States, the world's biggest polluter, has rejected both the protocol in its current form and any suggestion of expanding or extending it.
Oh joy. This of course comes on the heels of Bush's 2006 Budget proposal which focuses mostly on....yep, you guessed it, increasing military spending and the war on terror. Two thumbs up for our biggest projected deficit. Knowing the Democrats, we'll win in 2008 and get stuck with the bill. Figures.
Global warming boosting Greenland glacier flow
Scientists predict that global average temperatures will rise by between one and six degrees Celsius this century unless urgent action is taken now to cap and reduce carbon emissions.
Even a rise of three degrees could result in cataclysmic species loss, melting polar icecaps raising sea levels by many meters and wholesale famine and disease.
Greenland is only part of the picture, and there is also evidence of local warming and melting on the giant Western Antarctic ice sheet.
Scientists said on Monday the world had to halt greenhouse gas emissions and reverse them within two decades or watch the planet spiraling towards destruction.
The first phase of the global Kyoto protocol on cutting greenhouse gas emissions runs until 2012, and negotiations have only just started on finding a way of taking it beyond that.
The United States, the world's biggest polluter, has rejected both the protocol in its current form and any suggestion of expanding or extending it.
Oh joy. This of course comes on the heels of Bush's 2006 Budget proposal which focuses mostly on....yep, you guessed it, increasing military spending and the war on terror. Two thumbs up for our biggest projected deficit. Knowing the Democrats, we'll win in 2008 and get stuck with the bill. Figures.
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