White House Releases Global Warming Report
Prepared at a cost of over $20 billion in research alone, the report Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States, is a product of the White House's National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), together with the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Analyzing current and future trends in climate for the United States, the report assesses the present understanding of the impacts of climate change on key sectors of the Nation, such as water resources, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, and human health.
In a larger sense, the report also answers the question of whether the Bush Administration would or would not acknowledge the existence and negative impacts of global warming, largely driven by greenhouse gas emissions. So, did they?
"Studies that rigorously quantify the effect of different external influences on observed changes (attribution studies) conclude that most of the recent global warming is very likely due to human-generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.""Discernible human influences also extend to additional aspects of climate, including the recent decreases in Arctic sea ice extent, patterns of sea-level pressure and winds, and the global scale pattern of land precipitation." -- Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States
The report seems to contradict Sec. of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne's May 14 statement that current scientific data did not allow a connection between greenhouse gas emissions and the reduction of polar sea ice, forcing the Polar Bear onto the endangered species list.
Release of the report comes days before the Senate's pending consideration of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036), requiring a nationwide reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 70 percent of the 2005 level by 2050. The Act would funnel billions of dollars to state and federal resource management agencies for monitoring, reacting to and reducing the impacts of global warming.
Also See:
Warming Endangers Polar Bear, but Arctic Drilling to Go On
Gasoline Prices Reducing Greenhouse Gas Spew
Bush Proposes "Better Alternative" to Kyoto Protocol (2002)
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The insidious method by which the governments introduce all their so called safety measures put us all at risk.
The whimsical arguments they continually adopt and adapt all seem to be heading towards the common goal of total population control.
England feeling more like a police state every week that goes by - with cameras everywhere on our roads and in our streets monitoring us, fines and penalties for those who occasionally speed 5mph over the 30mph speed limit once in a blue moon, scaremongering on almost every topic - a family was recently fined £250 for filling his dustbin 4″ too high - the argument from the council was that the family were not recycling enough - now the precident has been set I expect this to become commonplace - crisis after crisis.
Diesel at £5.35/gallon (£1.17/liter) which is insane - other governments buffer the price by reducing the tax but not here in the UK! - Among the highest fuel prices in the world!!
RFID tags in passports have been pushed forward after Brown said last month that the idea would be shelved, with “processing centers” being set up in prime locations throughout the country and we will have to pay the extra costs for the new passports and the National ID database is underway (also supposedly shelved) - in conjunction with the one in the US.
So whats next with the so called global credit crunch & food shortages?
Why should we have to pay for the banks losses in investments that didn’t work out.
We have no recession looming, manipulative rubbish from the banks and their controllers are creating a crisis to not only remedy their losses from buying into the sub prime market but to maintain a state of fear where we are all easier to mainipulate - Brown made sure that the banks would have full control in 1996 when he gave up governmental control of the Bank of England (and the royal mint) over to the banks.
Brown on his US visit mentioned the need for new technology when referencing the 3rd world and the scarcity of foodstuffs - which means GM - on a global scale which many feel is the most serious threat to life on this planet apart from a total nuclear catastrophe.
AGW is not just part of the scam to justify the new policies being introduced by think tanks like the COR, the IMF, WHO, the UN, CFR, the bilderberg, the IPCC and many others like the rockerfella foundations in their many guises who are taking control and pushing national and international policies through that make not just GW but AGW central to their cause.
It ties in so conveniently with the conventional theory of peak oil and we will have to pay through the nose for these lies for generations.
I am certain that the only real threat that Life on earth has to contend with is genetic modification.
All food stuffs when ingested affects us at a genetic level. The research in Aberdeen where rats were fed GM potato and developed thickened intestinal tissue illustrate this perfectly. Other GM researchers have stated they were unable to eradicate GM oilseed rape seeds after 10 years and that once GM crops were released into the environment they were not containable.
I would guess that any bacteria, parasites, fungi, animals that feed on GM crops at will at some stage mutate. Whole eco-systems will be effected wherever GM is used and the knock on effect will be so far reaching that our environment will change completely.
Who knows what the real effects will be or how fast the changes will take place - the research into GM has been so finite and completely profit based so a biased view is all we ever hear.
The double edged sword that third world countries face from so called global warming and the restrictions that are placed on their methods as a consequence are what may really cause the food shortages - salvation from the west’s so called new technologies will leave them far worse off than before but will inevitably happen as these governments are easily corrupted.