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Date Posted: 12:03:58 05/07/07 Mon
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sci guy
's message, "Kyoto will destroy the economy!!!!" on 10:22:06 05/06/07 Sun
of where you are now? More pap from the environmental Left and their willing dupes (think Queenie).
>Oh wait. NO it won't!
>
>Fighting global warming won't ruin economy, climate
>panel says
>04/05/2007 10:56:07 AM
>
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>
>A UN-led climate change report released Friday says
>keeping greenhouse gas emissions near current levels
>would cost only a tiny fraction of world economic
>output, but that more drastic reductions are needed by
>2050 in order to keep global warming in check.
>
>
>
>A Skytrain moves along elevated tracks Friday in
>Bangkok, Thailand, where delegates to a conference
>hailed a policy statement as a key advance toward
>battling global warming.
>(Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press)
>
>The summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
>Change's third report this year said keeping
>greenhouse gas emissions between 445 and 710 parts per
>million by 2030 would cost three per cent of global
>GDP - or 0.12 per cent annually - or less.
>
>Greenhouse gas concentrations are now at about 430
>ppm, but the report warns that, if current trends
>continue, emissions are expected to rise between 45
>and 110 per cent by 2030.
>
>Two earlier reports this year said the continued rise
>in greenhouse gas emissions could be disastrous for
>the planet's health, saying that rising temperatures
>and sea levels could lead to extinction of species,
>coastal flooding and water shortages in arid regions.
>
>"If we continue doing what we are doing now, we are in
>deep trouble," cautioned Ogunlade Davidson, the chair
>of one of the working groups at the weeklong
>conference in Bangkok, Thailand, where the report was
>unveiled.
>
>The report suggests a number of strategies for
>reducing emissions, including:
>
>- Improving energy efficiency in buildings.
>
>- Switching from coal to sources of renewable energy
>like solar power.
>
>- Increasing fuel efficiency in vehicles.
>
>- Improving crop and land management.
>
>- Introducing economic measures, such as energy
>incentives or carbon trading initiatives.
>
>University of Toronto climate change expert Danny
>Harvey, one of the lead authors of the report the
>summary was based on, said the findings are a wake-up
>call for those who think climate change policies are
>economically unachievable.
>
>"There are a lot of people who say that if you start
>reducing emissions you'll ruin the economy," Harvey
>told CBC News Online. "But these are just scare
>tactics."
>
>But to keep global temperatures from rising more than
>two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels,
>emissions would have to stabilize by 2015 and be
>reduced by between 50 to 85 per cent by 2050, the
>report said.
>
>Must reduce fossil fuel dependence
>
>Achieving these drastic reductions may be difficult to
>manage given our current reliance on fossil fuels,
>said Bob Evans, the director of the University of
>British Columbia's Clean Energy Research Centre.
>
>"Worldwide we depend on fossil fuels for 80 per cent
>of our total energy consumption so it will take a long
>time to completely eliminate our use of fossil fuels,"
>he told CBC News.
>
>But while the task seems daunting, Evans said the only
>way to deal with the problem is quickly.
>
>"We need to start working on things now to get to as
>good a position as possible by mid-century, I think,"
>he said.
>
>Contributors to the report were pleasantly surprised
>by how much of it stayed in Friday's document after
>delegates from over 120 countries spent a week of
>wrangling over the wording.
>
>Almost no changes were made, said John Drexhage, the
>director of the International Institute for
>Sustainable Development's climate change and energy
>program, and one of the lead authors of the report.
>
>"It unexpectedly went the way I expected," Drexhage
>told CBC News Online.
>
>Drexhage said now that the scientists have spoken it's
>time for the politicians to establish the regulatory
>framework needed to make these goals achievable.
>
>The report is the third of four to be produced by the
>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this year.
>The first report laid down the scientific foundations
>for the next three, stating that global warming was
>"unequivocal" and very likely caused by man-made
>greenhouse gases produced from the burning of fossil
>fuels.
>
>The second report - which so far has only come out as
>a summary for policy-makers - looked at the
>consequences of global warming, predicting widespread
>extinction of species and water shortages in the
>developing world if temperatures were to rise by even
>two degrees.
>
>A fourth report, summarizing the finding of the
>previous three, is expected in the fall.
>
>With files from the Associated Press
>
>
>
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