Re: ...to save the earth from global warming .
As I said, that whole IPCC ecofest is actually a Bilderberg scheme(*) to rekindle the Transatlantic alliance into a new crusade against the rise of East Asia, particularly China. Therefore, it's no surprise that both China and Saudi Arabia were branded the whipping boys by IPCC spin doctors.... The whole ploy boils down to an attempt to slow down the rise of corporate Asia under a veneer of ecological awareness. That's why you didn't hear any of these climatologists, glaciologists and geekologists mention the ecological cost of the (US-led) Iraq War --both in terms of logistics (catering to 150,000 troops) and in terms of environmental damages (oil spills,...). That's also why you didn't see them pang over the destruction of the earth's main "lungs", namely, the rainforests of Brazil, Central Africa, and Siberia's forests(**). Brazilian leader Lula is buddy-buddy with EU supremo José Manuel Barroso, and Africa's precious timber make up a profitable trade for Europe (just ask French tycoon Vincent Bolloré)....(***)
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Global politics shift as experts say warming is setting in
By James Kanter and Andrew C. Revkin International Herald Tribune, The New York Times
Published: April 6, 2007
BRUSSELS In a sign of shifting politics over global warming, leading scientists said Friday that China was among a group of nations that had sought to water down a major report on climate change, while they credited the United States, long a skeptic about climate change, with sometimes playing a helpful role.
Capping four days of debate between scientists and representatives from more than 100 governments, Martin Parry, co-chairman of the team from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said the effects of climate change were widespread and measurable, with much more to come.
"We're no longer arm-waving with models," said Parry. "This is empirical information on the ground." He added that the areas most affected were likely to be the Arctic, sub-Saharan Africa, and small islands and Asia's sprawling, crowded, flood-prone river deltas.
In February the panel, which has tracked research on human-caused global warming since it was created under UN auspices in 1988, released a report that for the first time concluded with 90 percent certainty that human actions were the main cause of warming since 1950.
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Many delegates said they were disappointed to see parts of the report toned down under pressure from countries including Russia, Saudi Arabia and particularly China, which argued that some of the findings in the main study - based on 29,000 sets of data - were not solid enough to form part of the summary.
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