Mens syndflodsregnet spruter inn gjennom det hullete taket i huset jeg
leier hører jeg at den globale oppvarminga blir dobbelt så ille som
hittil antatt. Dette sier verdens førende meteorologer.
Dette er hovednyheten på BBC i dag. Vent ikke å høre noe om det i NRK.
Aftenpotten har noe vrøvl om at kornproduksjonen vil øke i Norge -
ja det vil den sikkert med all nedbøren! Den er jo SÅ fin for innhøstinga.
Det er mer sannsynlig at det meste vil bli verre også i Norge. Her er
det liten vits i å stole på noen forbryterske "optimister"s vikarierende
argumenter for profitten sin (som det jo heller ikke vil bli noe av).
Dessuten vil matproduksjonen ifølge samme undersøkelse bli kraftig
redusert over det meste ellers i verden. Men pytt-pytt sa desken i
Aftenpotten - bare noen sier det går bra her, så slår vi opp det.
Vi skal jo ha avisa solgt. SÅ dum går det an å bli. Slike folk er så
dumme at de blir forbrytere av det.
Karsten Johansen
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1435000/1435009.stm
Thursday, 12 July, 2001, 04:34 GMT 05:34 UK
Global warming 'twice
as bad'
Many accuse the US of putting the world at risk
By the BBC's Sarah Allingham
Global warming is happening at a much faster
rate than scientists have previously predicted.
A report released on Thursday by the UN's
International Panel on Climate Change warns
that global temperatures will rise by as much
as 5.8C by the end of this century - almost
twice the figure they suggested five years
ago.
A host of recent studies
have predicted
catastrophic
consequences for the
environment because of
global warming.
On Monday scientists
said it would cause large crop failures which
would wipe out up to a quarter of the food
production in the world's poorest countries.
But Thursday's report has the weight of the
world's most distinguished meterologists behind
it.
The IPCC scientists
have given their
unqualified backing to
the argument that
global warming is
happening, and that it
is happening at a much
faster rate than was
expected.
But perhaps one of
their strongest points
is that it is human
activity which has led
to this crisis - that
industrial pollution, and the gas emmisions that
creates, is the top offender.
This heaps scorn on President Bush's reasons
for backing out of the Kyoto Protocol.
Key talks
He has questioned the link between higher
temperatures and pollution.
He argues that it is therefore unfair to expect
the US and other industrialised countries to
bear the responsibility for the problem.
The timing of this
report is important.
Next week politicans
from more than 150
countries will meet in
Germany, to try to
salvage the Kyoto
agreement.
They are trying to coax
the United States back
into the fold.
Some countries, however, have questioned the
point in implementing a treaty which does not
have the support of the world's most prolific
carbon gas polluter.
But the chairman of the Bonn talks says the
agreement cannot be delayed any longer.
If it is, he says, the Kyoto Protocol really will
become nothing more than a dead letter.
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