Sunday, February 04, 2007
'Debate about global warming is now over'
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Bloubergstrand, Cape TownPosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Angela Charlton and Seth Borenstein - Mail & Guardian).
Forty-five nations joined France in calling for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet, a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators.
Absent were the world's heavyweight polluter, the United States, and booming nations on the same path as the US, China and India.
Saturday's effort, led by French President Jacques Chirac, came a day after the release of an authoritative, and disturbingly grim, scientific report saying that global warming is "very likely" caused by mankind, and that climate change will continue for centuries even if heat-trapping gases are reduced. It the strongest language ever used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose last report was issued in 2001.
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Bloubergstrand, Cape TownPosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Angela Charlton and Seth Borenstein - Mail & Guardian).
Forty-five nations joined France in calling for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet, a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators.
Absent were the world's heavyweight polluter, the United States, and booming nations on the same path as the US, China and India.
Saturday's effort, led by French President Jacques Chirac, came a day after the release of an authoritative, and disturbingly grim, scientific report saying that global warming is "very likely" caused by mankind, and that climate change will continue for centuries even if heat-trapping gases are reduced. It the strongest language ever used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose last report was issued in 2001.
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