Warning from Gore on future - Global warming called an emergency

[Kadie]

Warning from Gore on future
Global warming called an emergency
Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, June 5, 2005


When former Vice President Al Gore gave a long list of doom-and- gloom statistics Saturday about global warming -- warning people that rising sea levels could drown out parts of Florida, Louisiana and Manhattan -- there were no loud gasps or headshakes of disbelief from a roomful of Bay Area environmentalists.

At the World Environment Day conference in San Francisco -- a five-day U. N. gathering dedicated to adopting sound environmental practices for urban centers -- he was preaching to the choir.

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"There are a lot of people, some in less responsible oil and utility companies, who say, 'Hey, what's the big deal,' " Gore said. "If we allow this to happen, it is deeply ethically immoral in every way."

He showed photos of rapidly melting glaciers in Antarctica and said that if half of Greenland and half of west Antarctica melted away, it would have a devastating effect on rising sea levels. Parts of Florida would be covered in water, he said. New Orleans would be virtually nonexistent and the future World Trade Center memorial in New York would be under water.

"Is it only terrorists that we're worried about? Is that the only threat that is worth our attention?" Gore said. "We are witnessing a collision between our civilization and the Earth."

more...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/05/GORE.TMP

[Chipper Chat]

1. Cherry or Blueberry Kool-aid?

The red-koolaid repub half of 'Murka goes along with Rush that global warming is a bunch of hooey. And for those of us on the left - well - we are so numb and sick of 5 years of boosh that the blue-berry koolaid (mega-bashed by rightwing talk radio) has been contaminated and brings out our lethargic state. No one cares (except President Gore - bless him).

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. here's a video you must watch.....friggen to your soul scary

http://mistakesweremade.com/vid/haarp-advanced_tesla_technology.ram

REALPLAYER NEEDED

[NMDemDist2]

6. that's quite a library you've assembled there n/t

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2. "Changing planet revealed" - World Environment Day June 5th

An atlas of environmental change compiled by the United Nations reveals some of the dramatic transformations that are occurring to our planet.

It compares and contrasts satellite images taken over the past few decades with contemporary ones.

These highlight in vivid detail the striking make-over wrought in some corners of the Earth by deforestation, urbanisation and climate change.

The atlas has been released to mark World Environment Day.

The United Nations Environmental Programme (Unep) produced One Planet Many People: Atlas of our Changing Environment in collaboration with other agencies such as the US Geological Survey and the US space agency (Nasa). <more>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4607053.stm

Also:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/05/sci_nat_how_the_world_is_changing/html/1.stm



Also started a thread in Environment:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x25007

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3. Pentagon · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us

· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
· Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
· Threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
Sunday February 22, 2004
The Observer

Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters..

A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

The document predicts that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The threat to global stability vastly eclipses that of terrorism, say the few experts privy to its contents.

'Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,' concludes the Pentagon analysis. 'Once again, warfare would define human life.'<more>

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1153513,00.html

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On the one hand - with the Pentagon saying this - it's like everyone has something to be afraid of (If you're not afraid of terrorists - you can be afraid of global warming). On the other hand - have you noticed how many places have been having record setting temps - high or low extremes lately?

Lots of articles on climate, etc.:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=115

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. you MUST watch this entire video...

http://mistakesweremade.com/vid/haarp-advanced_tesla_technology.ram

[DS1]

7. I'm going to miss Manhatten

and that's all I have to say about that.

[ananda]

12. geez

There won't be much of Louisiana left at all; no Galveston either.

There was an article today about geological evidence that the land is sinking under the Gulf of Mexico, subsiding that is, on its own.. meaning that Louisiana, Galveston, and coastal Texas is going to disappear anyway, with or without GW.

Some days you know you just can't win no matter what you do or think.

Sue

[lonestarnot]

8. Shitworld coming to a neighborhood near you!

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9. Kick for " World Environment Day" June 5th

:kick:

[MelissaB]

10. God bless President Gore!

:kick: back to the first page.

[gordianot]

11. I have sympathy for Manhattan except for their Mayor they vote right.

The Missouri and Mississippi River Valley are also in jeopardy where I live in Missouri that's too bad. I have little to no sympathy for Florida and Louisiana.