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Australian scientist warns planet on climate collision course
Oct 9, 2007, 10:51 GMT
Sydney - The UN climate change report to be released next month will show that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already reached dangerous levels, Australia's pre-eminent conservationist said Tuesday.
Scientist and Australian of the Year Tim Flannery said the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed previous research underestimated the danger and that the tipping point on climate change passed in 2005.
'We thought we'd be at that threshold within about a decade,' Professor Flannery told the national broadcaster ABC. 'We thought we had that much time, but the new data indicates that in about mid-2005, we crossed that threshold.'
Flannery said growing economies meant growing greenhouse gas emissions and that meant a growing threat of global warming.
'We've had growing economies everywhere,' Flannery said. 'We're still basing that economic activity on fossil fuels. You know, the metabolism of that economy is now on a collision course, clearly, with the metabolism of our planet.'
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Hi Tonny,
you cry in vain -- this story requires substantive thinking, a clear and alert mind, and a personality with integrity ... none of that is recognizable in this thing that calls itself SP 4. :-(
It can only drivel bullshit, just like the rest of the gang in the White House -- like master, like serf.
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tonny from belgiumOct 9th, 2007 - 18:46:55
We definitely need the neocons to give their overwhelming expertise on this ...SP4 where are you ?
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