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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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