File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9711, message 461


Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 16:09:30 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: M-I: Poisoned Lands, part one
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 12:38:21 -0800
From: Mark Jones <Jones_M-AT-netcomuk.co.uk>
Subject: M-I: IPCC statement


Brent Blackwelder, the American
chairman of Friends of the Earth:
"Global warming is affecting everything that lives
and breathes upon the planet. Severe storms,
hurricanes, tornadoes, huge amounts of rainfall
coming down, floods . . . some nations will entirely
disappear. This is what is going to confront us,
worse than we imagine, unless we start getting
smart."

Sir John Houghton, highly respected
co-chairman of the United Nations
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change:
"Nearly all the relevant scientists around the world
have contributed to the work of the IPCC. More
than 600 were involved in preparing our last report,
from 50 countries, and a clear consensus view
emerged, without dissent.

"That view is that the rate of change in
temperature by the end of the next century,
expressed as a global average, will be in the order
of two to three degrees Celsius - greater than at
any period for the last 10,000 years.

"Remember, to go from an ice age to a period of
warmth requires a change of just five to six
degrees. The rise in the sea level over the same
period will be half a metre, enough to inundate
Bangladesh and pose a real threat to the Nile delta,
parts of China and much of the South Seas. Floods
and droughts will occur in different parts of the
world due to changes in the hydrological cycle.

"All the models we have produce this same, robust
result, and to suggest that nothing will happen is
quite simply unreal."

Sunday Times




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