ST: Effects of Global Warming "UNSTOPPABLE"
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3 Feb 2007 5am:
Go read the papers today!! (will add ST content later)
Scientists just released a 21-page report at Paris Climate Summit 2007, and the message to the world is clear:
Global Warming is now Real and caused by Mankind
Temperatures will rise by 1.8 deg C to 4.0 deg C
Sea levels could rise between 7 and 23 inches by the end of the century, submerging certain region like Silicon Valley.
Stronger Storms, Dryer Droughts and more Floods expected
If u are concerned, help keep this thread up
and/or forward this page to your friends by email.
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From Paris Climate Summit:
CNN: Global warming real, likely to get worse (with 3 videos (highly recommended)
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/02/climate.talks.ap/index.html
Reuters
Mankind to blame for global warming say scientists
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL0192328420070202
Video: UN: humans blamed for warming
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=5661
Video: China coal fuels global warming
http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=5579
At a glance: IPCC report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6324029.stm
Humans blamed for climate change:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6321351.stm
StopGlobalWarming.Org
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And just as i write this....the following are immediate disasters today!!!
Deadly tornados hit Florida:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/02/florida.storm/index.html
video: http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=6C02468A-E83F-456F-8D42-0CD1532BBEEE
Floods paralyse Indonesian capital
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/256223/1/.html
More:
Sydney could face permanent drought state
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6315885.stm
Malaysia flood is worst in recorded history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006-2007_Malaysian_floods
Polar Bear face Extinction
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-12-27-polar-bears_x.htm
Panel warns on Great Barrier Reef
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6312147.stm
Russia: Siberia's Once-Frozen Tundra Is Melting:
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/2E4E2D37-044C-4051-895D-1443B317B739.html
Nasa: Greenland melting:
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2006/03/now_nasa_says_its_getting_warm.php
Massive Ice Shelf (size of Manhattan) snaps free in Canadian Arctic
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Climate change happening, worst yet to come.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/01/23/tech-warming.html
Hawking: Climate Change threat worse then Terror.
http://www.examiner.com/a-513241~Doomsday_Clock_Now_Gauges_Climate_Change.html
Video Trailer: An Inconvenient Truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiP6dqPynE
Video: Abc 20/20 special on Climate Change (Part 1):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Zk4-JPCdg
The famous 'hockey stick curve' from 1998. Now Proven by other scientists.
Study: Most Arctic sea ice could disappear by 2040:
http://news.com.com/Study+Most+Arctic+sea+ice+could+disappear+by+2040/2100-11395_3-6142705.html
video: http://news.com.com/1606-2-6142733.html
Greenhouse gases' continued rise:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6114250.stm
Global Warming Heats Up (7 pages):
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html
Warning Signs around the world:
http://www.climatehotmap.org/
LifeScience: All About Global Warming (site):
http://www.livescience.com/globalwarming/
Global Warming 101: Human Fingerprints
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/Fingerprints.html
Breathing Earth
http://www.breathingearth.net/
Animated Guide:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/04/climate_change/html/climate.stm
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China: Ranks bottom 20 in world polluter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6306881.stm
Indonesia: BioFuel Backlash (Indonesia become 3rd largest greeenhouse emitter)
http://news.com.com/Once+a+dream+fuel%2C+palm+oil+may+be+an+eco-nightmare/2100-11395_3-6155059.html?tag=nefd.top
Singapore is top 10 CO2 emitter per capital.
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Our Environment Council director Howard Shaw said: "Enough has been done as far as legistration can do, but not enough is done by the people. You need a lifestyle change by the people themselves"
I have this is to reply:
Pls do not blame the people, the market will often tend towards whats cheap and convenient. The Singapore Government can definitely do alot more.
Please allow me to suggest:
1) Lightings: Ban Candlesdant Bulbs (US California State has begin looking into this)
2) Air-Con: Ban Non-Energy-Efficient Air-Conditioners Compressors
(These are obsolete and should be banned indefinitely. Akira and others are still selling them, and even to developing countries)
3) Vehicles:
a) Increase tax on High-capacity/emission vechicles
b) Increase tax on oil.
4) Computers:
a) Ban Non-Energy Compliant PSUs
b) Ban Pentium-4 and Pentium-D Processors.
c) Add tax to high power-consumption gaming pc components.
5) Add "Envormental Tax" to Electricity Bills.
6) Construction Industry: Are we still using old methods that emits alot more CO2 than Europe?? Can we switch to better methods??
7) Waste Material Handling...????
8 ) Power plant and sources: Are we doing enough here???
Have we consider other alternative power sources??? Eg Solar, Wave, Waste?
9) Energy Efficient Buildings. Are we doing enough here???
Feel free to suggest more....
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From user DailyFreeGames.com
For those people who think we can do nothing, I strongly urge you to see the movie "An inconvenient truth" by al gore, and it may just shatter your false sense of security, as well as to remove your false assumptions that we can do nothing. The whole economic market is driven by consumers choice, supply and demand, and if everybody takes responsibility into their own hands and choose to buy more eco-friendly products that attribute to help combat global warming, then do you think industries will still produce products that nobody buys? It's time we need to be more responsible for our actions and to take control. It's extremely easy to say that we can do nothing, so that someone else has to take over your responsibility of doing something, doubly hard, to help save the Earth. -
Prime News
Effects of global warming 'unstoppable'
Chang Ai-Lien & Liaw Wy-Cin
660 words
3 February 2007
Straits Times
English
(c) 2007 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
Humans responsible for conditions that will cause killer heatwaves, floods and drought: UN
THE verdict is out.
That gas-guzzling SUV you drive, the air-conditioner that you leave humming through the night - they are responsible for global warming.
Worse, the damage from such human activities that consume fossil fuels is unstoppable and will last centuries.
The result: Worsening killer heatwaves and floods, devastating droughts, and stronger hurricanes and tropical storms, say 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries.
Global temperatures and sea levels will also continue to rise, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said yesterday in a bleak assessment of the future of the planet.
It predicted that by 2100:
Temperatures will rise by 1.8 deg C to 4.0 deg C; and
Sea levels, an area of particular concern to Singapore because of the threat of flooding here, will rise by 18cm to 59cm.
It could be another 10cm to 20cm more if a relatively recent phenomenon, the melting of polar ice sheets, continues.
The scientists also used their toughest language yet to point the finger for such problems at humans, saying it is 'very likely' humans are the cause of global warming. In scientific language, this means they are at least 90 per cent certain of the cause.
In their previous report in 2001, they had said a link between human activity and global warming was only 'likely' - a 66 per cent possibility.
In fact, some scientists had wanted the phrase 'virtually certain' to be used, implying 99 per cent certainty. But this was toned down after objections from some countries which rely on fossil fuels to power economic growth, including China.
Nevertheless, the report has sounded a dire warning over the impact of greenhouse gases pouring into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels - they are already at their highest levels in 650,000 years.
Temperatures also rose by 0.7 degC in the 20th century, and the 10 hottest years on record have happened since 1994.
UN Environment Programme head Achim Steiner urged governments to revitalise stalled talks on long-term emissions cuts. 'Feb 2, 2007, may be remembered as the day the question mark was removed from whether (people) are to blame for climate change,' he told a news conference.
Leaders, scientists and environmental groups have urged governments and corporations to reduce emissions.
Said French President Jacques Chirac: 'Faced with this emergency, now is not the time for half measures. It is the time for a revolution, in the true sense of the term.'
The Kyoto Protocol - a plan for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases by 2012 - has been severely weakened since the US - the top source of greenhouse gases, pulled out in 2001.
The report is the first of four this year. The next one - due in April - will discuss in depth the effects of global warming.
Responding to the report, Singapore's National Environment Agency said last night that it is commissioning studies to look at the impact of climate change on Singapore.
These studies, on rainfall patterns and the effects of extreme weather, among other things, will help in planning measures to deal with the impact of the changing climate.
Meanwhile, National Institute of Education geography lecturer Chang Chew Hung said the greatest disruptions here from climate changes would come from freak weather conditions such as flash floods - similar to those that have drenched the country over the last two months.
He added, though, that Singapore would not be submerged.
Singapore Environment Council executive director Howard Shaw said: 'Enough has been done as far as legislation can do, but not enough is done by the people. You need a lifestyle change by the people themselves.'
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Something wrong with Sgf server software?!?
My posts got reversed a couple of times.
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Hmmm, must be the effects of global warming.Originally posted by EarthWalker:Something wrong with Sgf server software?!?
My posts got reversed a couple of times. 
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Ah well,be happy,the end is near
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Originally posted by ditzy:Hmmm, must be the effects of global warming.
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The funny thing is, after so many years of freak weathers, they now officially declare humans is the cause, and even that, they could not put in the words 'virtually certain' just because they are afraid of countries like China
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How to stop it when every country is so damn very selfish.
China and India claim Developed country must them with latest technology.
US, China and India won't want to sacrificed their economy for the sake of going green.
Indonesia want the Developed countries to pay them for not clearing up the forest.
So just live happily.
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Originally posted by laurence82:The funny thing is, after so many years of freak weathers, they now officially declare humans is the cause, and even that, they could not put in the words 'virtually certain' just because they are afraid of countries like China
wtf wtf
And the way our Environment Council executive director say...
Singapore Environment Council executive director Howard Shaw said: 'Enough has been done as far as legislation can do, but not enough is done by the people. You need a lifestyle change by the people themselves.'
is like he doesn't want to do any work and just blame the public.
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well, it's unstoppable for a while..
if we do the right thing, it'll stop eventually and reverse itself...
even the blasted scorched earth pounded to hell and back during the world wars gets reclaimed by the forests -
The world is now pressurising China and US.Originally posted by viewquek:How to stop it when every country is so damn very selfish.
China and India claim Developed country must them with latest technology.
US, China and India won't want to sacrificed their economy for the sake of going green.
Indonesia want the Developed countries to pay them for not clearing up the forest.
So just live happily.
Floods, haze and droughts will hit various China regions. They will wakeup.
We will also have our part to play as Singapore is top 10 polluters per capital.
Its now time for Post-Industrial Revolution and True Civilisation.
The world based purely on economy growth simply cannot sustain.
Disasters relief efforts will overwhelm any economic growth. Eg Johor floods.
Economy growth must be sacrificed.
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you know what's really dumb?
China started out not that long ago.. they HAD the chance to use the low emissions technology but they chose the polluting systems?
why it's still beyond me....
now they have poisoned rivers, choked cities and all that..
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its really fxxkup man...Originally posted by the Bear:you know what's really dumb?
China started out not that long ago.. they HAD the chance to use the low emissions technology but they chose the polluting systems?
why it's still beyond me....
now they have poisoned rivers, choked cities and all that..
alas...
now i really hate China, and also US's Bush.
Bush government had been accused of covering up climate news and
hampering research scientist work. And even oil companies had been bribing some scientist to distort the truth.
US Government Suppressing Climate Research Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/investigation-reveals-0007.html
China's Poison for the Planet
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Not unstoppable, their greed makes it so.
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doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure this out..
what is the fortune of the Bush family based on? Big Oil
who does Bush rub shoulders with? Big Oil
who had the money to put Bush in power? Big Oil
what corporation had the most to gain with Bush? Big Oil
who does Bush owe for putting him in power? Big Oil
why did Bush go to war? Big Oil
why did Bush refuse to lower emissions? Big Oil
the list goes on...Originally posted by EarthWalker:Bush government had been accused of covering up climate news and
hampering research scientist work. And even oil companies had been bribing some scientist to distort the truth. -
cont in ur previous thread