Chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri speaks at an international conference on environment education in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Nov. 26, 2007. Global warming has hit agricultural productivity, particularly wheat production in the country, said Pachauri. The IPCC had shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)
The United Nations MUST take steps to insure every First World country is doing their part. If it takes sanctions then it takes sanctions. But, the USA has to stop this insane denial of the truth and move to limit carbon dioxide. There is no other way. Unless the USA is made to deal with this issue, the worst will happen. The USA, on a good day, looks the other way to any responsiblity for it's 25% global carbon load. Now, it's going to have large volumes of Commercial Airliners increasing the carbon load. What does that do to the other countries sincerely interested and destined to abide by Kyoto. Everytime the global community takes on an initative to stop and reverse Human Induced Global Warming, the Bush/Cheney administration and their Republican House and Senate crank up the emissions even higher. They are human rights abusers. The world know it. The global community needs to take action against the USA !!! No more oil. Sell it to India and China. I live here, the last thing I want is to stop driving my automobile, but, if it gets expensive enough, then I guess I'll have to find another way.
The International Community needs to act. The USA is way out of line and time is running out !
World must fix climate in less than 10 years -UNDP (click here)
Reuters
Tuesday November 27 2007
(Embargoed for release at 7 a.m. EST/1200 GMT on Tuesday, Nov. 27)
By Raymond Colitt
BRASILIA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Unless the international community agrees to cut carbon emissions by half over the next generation, climate change is likely to cause large-scale human and economic setbacks and irreversible ecological catastrophes, a United Nations report says on Tuesday.
The U.N. Human Development Report issues one of the strongest warnings yet of the lasting impact of climate change on living standards and a strong call for urgent collective action.
"We could be on the verge of seeing human development reverse for the first time in 30 years," Kevin Watkins, lead author of the report, told Reuters.
The report, to be presented in Brasilia on Tuesday, sets targets and a road map to reduce carbon emissions before a U.N. climate summit next month in Bali, Indonesia.
Emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere help trap heat and lead to global warming….
