US climate policy bigger threat to world than terrorism

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"Tony Blair's chief scientist has launched a withering attack on President George Bush for failing to tackle climate change, which he says is more serious than terrorism.



Sir David King, the Government's chief scientific adviser, says in an article today in the journal Science that America, the world's greatest polluter, must take the threat of global warming more seriously. . . Results of a major study showed yesterday that more than a million species will become extinct as a result of global warming over the next 50 years. Sir David says the Bush administration is wrong to dispute the reality of global warming. The 10 hottest years on record started in 1991 and, worldwide, average temperatures had risen by 0.6C in the past century.



Sea levels were rising, ice caps were melting and flooding had become more frequent. The Thames barrier was used about once a year in the 1980s to protect London but now it was used more than six times a year."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=479418

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2. He has got it right.

The death toll from the climatic upheaval we are likely to see over the coming decades and centuries will make terrorism look like a walk in the park. Floods, droughts, heatwaves, cold snaps, massive storms in seasons and places they haven't been seen before. There is plenty of evidence to indicate that massive atmospheric upheaval has accompanied previous shifts in the average global temperature.