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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (18075)	12/8/2007 1:57:54 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Plants, animals feel the heat of global warming, already 7 Dec, 2007, 0020 hrs IST, AGENCIES BALI: More than 3,000 flying foxes dropped dead, falling from trees in Australia. Giant squid migrated north to commercial fishing grounds off California, gobbling anchovy and hake. Butterflies have gone extinct in the Alps. While humans debate at UN climate change talks in Bali, global warming is already wreaking havoc with nature. Most plants and animals are affected, and the change is occurring too quickly for them. “A hell of a lot of species are in big trouble,” said Stephen E Williams, the director of the Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change at James Cook University in Australia. “I don’t think there is any doubt we will see a lot of (extinctions),” he said. Globally, 30% of the earth’s species could disappear if temperatures rise 2.5 degrees Celsius and up to 70%, if they rise 3.5 degrees Celsius, a UN network of scientists reported last month. There have been five major extinctions in the past 520 million years, and four of them have been linked to warmer tropical seas, according to a study published last month in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a British scientific journal. The hardest hit will include plants and animals in colder climates or at higher elevations and those with limited ranges or little tolerance for temperature change, said Wendy Foden, a conservation biologist with the World Conserva-tion Union, which catalogs threatened species. economictimes.indiatimes.com.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (18075)	12/8/2007 4:33:16 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36917

Gore the Nobel Hypocrite: Friday's adoring Associated Press piece concerning Nobel Laureate Al Gore's noble decision to take the train from the Oslo airport rather than the traditional motorcade to his hotel neglected something else besides the huge amount of carbon dioxide being emitted by the Global Warmingist-in-Chief: his luggage! After all, Gore and wife Tipper aren't going to wear the same clothes this entire trip they wore on the plane, right? So, where was all their baggage as the couple took the train? Well, according to the Norwegian website VG Nett, Gore's luggage went by Mercedes van (h/t NB reader in Norway Trond Ruud who supplied the following translation): Headline: Here the climate conscious Al Gore takes the public train, but his luggage is transported in a Mercedes Picture caption: Peace Prize laureate Al Gore and his wife Tipper are having a nice trip on the airport express train. On the motorway, their luggage is being whisked to Oslo in a Mercedes van. Together with the Leader of the Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad and the Nobel Committee Leader, Ole Danbolt Mjoes, they took the Airport Express train from Gardermoen airport to the National Theatre station in Oslo. Never before, has a Peace Prize laureate chosen this mode of travel. I was told that the Express Train, was both faster and more comfortable, so it was an easy choice. And trains are symbols of environmental consciousness, a vigourous Gore, told the press corps. Much Luggage Leader of the Nobel Ceremony arrangements, Sigrid Langebrekke from the Norwegian Nobel Institute, said they had to use a Mercedes van to handle all the luggage. She says, that all cars being used during the Nobel Ceremony have high environmental standard. Do you think his luggage bought carbon credits to offset the greenhouse gases emitted on the trip from the airport? Honestly, would it have been too much like journalism for the AP to inquire about where Gore's luggage was, or might that have interfered with the agenda? —Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.