The reality of Global Warming is climate change.
Adverse climate change.
This is not only an issue for environmentalists, it needs to be a major concern for all people, especially Americans. It effects every aspect of life by the presence of water alone in everything we do. We can't get away from it.
Responsible climate management is a mandate and not a political priority.
We must all move past the politics to the reality we have to success with responsible policy to facilitate benevolence of Earth's climate. This is a challenge people and their governments must achieve. No backing down, no side stepping the issue. Human Induced Global Warming is a reality that leads to adverse climate change. It's a moral issue our government leaders must confront with enthusiasm leading to policies of benevolence. I dearly want to leave this Earth in far better condition than it was given to me. We must rise to this challenge and succeed.
Tuesday April 3, 2007 7:16 AM
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court rebuked the Bush administration Monday for its inaction on global warming in a decision that could lead to more fuel-efficient cars as early as next year. The court, in a 5-4 ruling in its first case on climate change, declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
The Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to regulate those emissions from new cars and trucks under the landmark environment law, and the ``laundry list'' of reasons it has given for declining to do so are insufficient, the court said.
``A reduction in domestic emissions would slow the pace of global emissions increases, no matter what happens elsewhere,'' Justice John Paul Stevens said in the majority opinion. ``EPA has offered no reasoned explanation for its refusal to decide whether greenhouse gases cause or contribute to climate change.''
The USA has never carried so much responsibility toward international harmony and life since our entrance into World War II. The Actions of the USA are vital to the survival of nation's of people globally. I don't know of a greater moral commitment in all my life.
The US is being blamed for not (REFUSING) participating in the fight against climate change
April 03, 2007, 12:15
The European Union (EU) accused the United States and Australia yesterday of hampering international efforts to tackle climate change. Governments' experts on climate change and scientists are set to meet all week at a United Nations-sponsored conference to review a report on the regional effects of rising global temperatures.
Scientists and officials from more than 100 countries are reviewing a 21-page summary for policymakers which predicts climate change will cause glaciers in the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range, to melt away. Efforts to launch negotiations to extend the UN Kyoto Protocol on climate change beyond 2012 have floundered as nations resist committing to targets for cutting greenhouse gases.
The 27-nation EU agreed last month to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, challenging industrialised and developing countries to go further with a 30% cut which the EU would then match. Howwever, so far other nations have not responded to that call, a fact which Dimas blamed largely on US reluctance to cap its own emissions.
US inclusion paramount
"It's obvious that the importance of the United States is paramount because they are emitting one, about one fourth emissions of greenhouse gases and also they have a very high per capita income, and they have contributed historically to the creation of the greenhouse phenomenon more than any other region in the world, with the exception of the European Union countries. So they have a duty to, to come along in international agreements after 2012," Stavros Dimas, the environment commissioner, said repeating a message to delegates at a United Nations-sponsored meeting to review a report on the regional effects of rising global temperatures.
George W Bush, the US president, pulled Washington out of Kyoto in 2001, saying it would harm the US economy and unfairly excluded developing nations from emissions targets. - Reuters
I don't know about you, but, I don't require my friends to beg for help.
The New Anatolian with wires / Ankara
03 April 2007
A new report this week by a United Nations panel is set to list the causes and consequences of global warming with greater certainty than ever.
Experts on the panel warn that the global warming will raise death rates for the world's poor from global warming-related illnesses, such as malnutrition and diarrhea.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), which laid out scenarios of temperature rises over 1990 levels of 1.1-6.4 Celsius by 2100, will meet for three days starting today to lay out the regional impacts of climate change, such as a drying of the Amazon basin or a sharp contraction of vast Himalayan glaciers that feed rivers in Asia.
The report, due for release on Friday, foresees ever-worsening damage to the planet as temperatures go up, including rising seas that could swamp low-lying Pacific island states or declining crop yields that could mean hunger for millions.
The report assesses the latest scientific, environmental and socioeconomic literature on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems, what the impact will be in the future and how far adaptation and mitigation can reduce these impacts. The report also contains chapters on specific systems, sectors and regions.
Scientists cite how in 2003 more than 70,000 people died due to a heat wave in Europe.
Climate experts warn that the effects of global warming will not be same everywhere and people will be affected differently. "Climate change will hit the African continent most," said one expert. "Climate change and its effects in the Arctic may be the most serious environmental issue threatening the Arctic environment.
"Besides environmental threats, experts warn of health problems due to drought.
Global temperature growth for the past 50 years was been twice as high as during previous 100 years. The arctic has warmed twice as fast as the global average. Eleven of the past 12 years were among the 12 warmest since records began in 1850.
The IPCC has calculated six scenarios. In the best case, the average temperature over the current century would rise 1.8 degrees Celsius (with a range of 1.1 to 2.9 degrees) by 2090-2099 time period, compared to the 1980-1999 time period. In the worst case the rise would be 4 degrees Celsius (with a range of 2.4 to 6.4 degrees).
It is forecasted that if the land ice on Greenland were to melt completely, sea levels could rise six or seven meters, if global temperatures would have to rise by 1.9 to 4.6 degrees Celsius.
Heat waves frequency is expected to increase over most land areas, while heavy precipitation is likely to occur. The proportion of total rainfall from heavy falls will increases over most areas.
Consumer attitudes towards global warming ACNielsen, the world's largest market information company, recently conducted a global online survey on consumer attitudes towards global warming.
Some 25 million internet users from 46 countries in Europe, Asia, North America, Middle East and Africa took part in the online survey.
In Western Europe, including Turkey, Middle East and Africa, 95 percent of consumers say they are aware of global warming and 57 percent consider it a very serious problem.
The survey showed that the most aware and most concerned people are Latin Americans and Europeans. Latin Americans, who live in a region that scientists predict will be one of the worst hit by global warming in the next 20 years, are the most aware and concerned group about global warming.
The three lowest countries globally in terms of awareness were the United Arab Emirates, where 16 percent of respondents said that they had not heard of global warming, followed by the U.S. at 13 percent and Malaysia at 11 percent.
The survey found that global warming awareness in Turkey is 96 percent, while 68 percent call it a "very serious problem.
"While worldwide 57 percent of the participants consider global warming a "very serious problem," 34 percent consider it "considerably serious."
France's recent experience with global warming three years ago prompted French consumers (80 percent) along with Brazilians (81 percent) to top the world for thinking that global warming is a "very serious problem."
Half the world's population, or 50 percent, said global warming is a result of human actions, and 43 percent believe it's a combination of both natural changes in the climate and human actions.
