[cia-drugs] Fwd: #1 on the Endangered Species List: Homo Sapiens
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: August 11, 2008 2:26:33 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: #1 on the Endangered Species List: Homo Sapiens No amount of 'adaptation' to drastic climate change can keep life from becoming unbearable for most of the world's population, and even for the lucky few in urban-industrial centers it'll be pretty damned nasty On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy Oliver Tickell The Guardian, Monday August 11 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, the end of living and the beginning of survival for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction. The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would undoubtedly die. Watson's call was supported by the government's former chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, who warned that if we get to a four-degree rise it is quite possible that we would begin to see a runaway increase. This is a remarkable understatement. The climate system is already experiencing significant feedbacks, notably the summer melting of the Arctic sea ice. The more the ice melts, the more sunshine is absorbed by the sea, and the more the Arctic warms. And as the Arctic warms, the release of billions of tonnes of methane – a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than carbon dioxide over 20 years – captured under melting permafrost is already under way. To see how far this process could go, look 55.5m years to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when a global temperature increase of 6C coincided with the release of about 5,000 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, both as CO2 and as methane from bogs and seabed sediments. Lush subtropical forests grew in polar regions, and sea levels rose to 100m higher than today. It appears that an initial warming pulse triggered other warming processes. Many scientists warn that this historical event may be analogous to the present: the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth. But what are we to do? All our policies to date to tackle global warming have been miserable failures. The Kyoto protocol has created a vast carbon market but done little to reduce emissions. The main effect of the EU's emissions trading scheme has been to transfer about €30bn or more from consumers to Europe's biggest polluters, the power companies. The EU and US foray into biofuels has, at huge cost, increased greenhouse gas emissions and created a world food crisis, causing starvation in many poor countries. So, are all our efforts doomed to failure? Yes, so long as our governments remain craven to special interests, whether carbon traders or fossil fuel companies. The carbon market is a valuable tool, but must be subordinate to climatic imperatives. The truth is that to prevent runaway greenhouse warming, we will have to leave most of the world's fossil fuels in the ground, especially carbon-heavy coal, oil shales and tar sands. The fossil fuel and power companies must be faced down. Global problems need global solutions, and we also need an effective replacement for the failed Kyoto protocol. The entire Kyoto system of national allocations is obsolete because of the huge volumes of energy embodied in products traded across national boundaries. It also presents a major obstacle to any new agreement – as demonstrated by the 2008 G8 meeting in Japan that degenerated into a squabble over national emission rights. The answer? Scrap national allocations and place a single global cap on greenhouse gas emissions, applied upstream – for instance, at the oil refinery, coal-washing station and cement factory. Sell permits up to
Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: #1 on the Endangered Species List: Homo Sapiens
Whoa. What propaganda. Global warming is a propaganda ingeniously promoted by members of the evil elite who are hell bent in every way and manner on fully establishing a New World Order. Al Gore and Co. are laughing their as off. They know that nothing like the like of global warming will ever occur, and it never hasn't. It's about fear and control. They want to instill fear this way in the masses and control them. I bet the black pope(wears black) Adolpho Nicholas is laughing his ass off too along with the white pope(who obviously wears white) Benedict XVI. Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 I run for the presidency because I want the United States to stand for hope, instead of despair, and for the reconciliation of men instead of the growing risk of world war- Senator Robert F. Kennedy, during his presidential campaign stop in Oregon for the Oregon Primary. - Original Message From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cia-drugs Cia-drugs Cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:11:30 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] Fwd: #1 on the Endangered Species List: Homo Sapiens Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Date: August 11, 2008 2:26:33 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: #1 on the Endangered Species List: Homo Sapiens No amount of 'adaptation' to drastic climate change can keep life from becoming unbearable for most of the world's population, and even for the lucky few in urban-industrial centers it'll be pretty damned nasty On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction There's no 'adaptation' to such steep warming. We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy * Oliver Tickell * The Guardian, Monday August 11 2008 * http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/2008/ aug/11/climatech ange We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C riseis absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke,the end of living and the beginning of survival for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction. The collapse of the polar ice caps would become inevitable, bringing long-term sea level rises of 70-80 metres. All the world's coastal plains would be lost, complete with ports, cities, transport and industrial infrastructure, and much of the world's most productive farmland. The world's geography would be transformed much as it was at the end of the last ice age, when sea levels rose by about 120 metres to create the Channel, the North Sea and Cardigan Bay out of dry land. Weather would become extreme and unpredictable, with more frequent and severe droughts, floods and hurricanes. The Earth's carrying capacity would be hugely reduced. Billions would undoubtedly die. Watson's call was supported by the government's former chief scientific adviser, Sir David King, who warned that if we get to a four-degree rise it is quite possible that we would begin to see a runaway increase. This is a remarkable understatement. The climate system is already experiencing significant feedbacks, notably the summer melting of the Arctic sea ice. The more the ice melts, the more sunshine is absorbed by the sea, and the more the Arctic warms. And as the Arctic warms, the release of billions of tonnes of methane – a greenhouse gas 70 times stronger than carbon dioxide over 20 years – captured under melting permafrost is already under way. To see how far this process could go, look 55.5m years to the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when a global temperature increase of 6C coincided with the release of about 5,000 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, both as CO2 and as methane from bogs and seabed sediments. Lush subtropical forests grew in polar regions, and sea levels rose to 100m higher than today. It appears that an initial warming pulse triggered other warming processes. Many scientists warn that this historical event may be analogous to the present: the warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth. But what are we to do? All our policies to date to tackle global warming have been miserable failures. The Kyoto protocol has created a vast carbon market but done little to reduce emissions. The main effect of the EU's emissions trading scheme has been to transfer about €30bn or more from consumers to Europe's biggest polluters, the power companies. The EU and US foray into biofuels has, at huge cost, increased greenhouse gas emissions and created a world food crisis
