PM warns of climate ‘catastrophe’ 
Brown: ’50 days to save world’
The UK faces a “catastrophe” of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has warned. Gordon Brown said negotiators had 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the “impasse”.   He went on to say, “  Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice “.

He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was “no plan B”.  World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty.

‘Rising wave’
The United Nations (UN) summit will aim to establish a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto treaty as its targets for reducing emissions only apply to a small number of countries and expire in 2012.

Mr Brown warned that negotiators were not reaching agreement quickly enough and said it was a “profound moment” for the world involving “momentous choice”.  “In Britain we face the prospect of more frequent droughts and a rising wave of floods,” he told delegates.  “The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths.

Grim warning
“On current trends, such an event could become quite routine in Britain in just a few decades’ time. And within the lifetime of our children and grandchildren the intense temperatures of 2003 could become the average temperature experienced throughout much of Europe.”

The costs of failing to tackle the issue would be greater than the impact of both world wars and the Great Depression combined, the prime minister said.  The world would face more conflict fuelled by climate-induced migration if a deal was not agreed, he added.

He told the forum, on the second day of talks in the capital, that by 2080 an extra 1.8 billion people – a quarter of the world’s current population – could lack sufficient water.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8313672.stm

Face Fwd Comments:
Hopefull somone will tell Mr. Brown that the planet is actually cooling down. They (the left) nust know how stupid they sound.

Analysis: Miles to go on long road to climate deal, (especailly since there is no need)
     
AP – President Barack Obama addresses the Summit on Climate Change at the United Nations Tuesday, Sept. 22, … .By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent  – It happened in Rio, in 1992: The world officially woke up to the fact it was getting warmer outside. Seventeen years later in New York, the U.N. gathered presidents and premiers to talk about serious steps to turn down the heat. But the political climate may still be too cool for conclusive action.

In inviting President Barack Obama and other world leaders to Tuesday’s summit on climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged them to “act as global leaders rather than national leaders,” to push climate negotiations forward.

With a mere 76 days to go before a pivotal diplomatic conference, it appeared an interim agreement might be the most that can be expected this December, leaving difficult details for later talks.

Ban’s bid to build momentum for a new climate accord was the latest effort in a long, cumbersome process dating back to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Leaders converging on the Brazilian city signed on to something unprecedented, a treaty committing them to work “to protect the climate system for present and future generations.”

Scientists had produced persuasive evidence the carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases that industry, transport and farming were pouring into the atmosphere were trapping heat and raising global temperatures, with potentially damaging effects — droughts, floods, rising sea levels — from a changing climate.

Then-President George H.W. Bush called on fellow summiteers to “join in a prompt start on the convention’s implementation.”

Not promptly, but five years later the world’s nations agreed to add the Kyoto Protocol to the treaty, with its first, modest reductions in emissions by industrialized countries.

The U.S. Senate repudiated the pact, however, and the process entered an eight-year slowdown as a second Bush administration, of President George W., resisted global pressure for deeper concerted action.

The U.S. opponents complained emissions reductions would crimp the American economy, and objected to Kyoto’s excusing of China, India and other poorer countries from having to reduce their energy use.

For the rest of the story please go here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090922/ap_on_sc/un_un_climate_analysis

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What BS..,.every knows that the planet has been cooling since ’97.  Due to the lack of sun spots they now say we can expect another 15 years of dramatically cooler temps.  As of today September 22, a huge snow storn has broken out in the front range of the Rockies.  Early, even for there.

I hate to break the tax bubble but, Hey Al Gore, I guess the planet fever, broke

GENEVA — British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday.

The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan.

The song entitled “Beds’r Burning”, which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s, can be downloaded from the Internet for free and will be presented to the public at a launch in Paris on October 1.

“If we do not stop the (greenhouse gas) emissions today, global warming will be still be with us in 40 to 50 years,” warned Walter Fust, director of the Forum, at a press conference in Geneva.

The media campaign featuring the song is aimed at putting pressure on world leaders to reach an agreement on tackling climate change at a UN-sponsored conference in Copenhagen in December.

Some of the other popular artists who add their voices to the anti-global warming song include French ‘Piaf’ actress Marion Cotillard, Senegalese star Youssou N’dour, Irish singer/composer Bob Geldorf, Chinese singer Khalil Fong, and even a Nobel peace laureate, South African archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Face Fwd Comments: (sarcasm alert)

I think I have a tear welling up in my eye.  If I had only known that musicians cared about the environment so much…….well, I would have…..hmmm I would have…., hold on I’m thinking about it.  Let me get back to you on what I would have done after we go through some of the things musicians are famous for saying:

This is the most fun I’ve had with my pants on. Now if I’d said this is the most fun I’ve had while wearing women’s underwear, we’d be having an entirely different conversation…

Simon Le Bon Duran Duran

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey

I’m sitting there with my parents, my mom’s sobbing after she finds out that I don’t have the gene (for Cancer) , and I’m like, “Guess what, Mom and Dad, I got my nipples pierced!”

Cassandra Ventura Singer and someone’s girlfriend

“I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon?but I want to stay alive.”

Madonna

“The only reason in the world that I bought a computer was to look up UFO sites.”

Tom DeLonge from Blink 182

 “Punk is no longer a four-letter word. It’s a three-letter word now.”

“All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.”

Mike Dirnt from Green Day

“Bands don’t do what we used to do. Bands don’t have the theatrics. We were lighting ourselves on fire. I had a chainsaw and cut a nun’s head off. You don’t see that shit at all anymore, which is kind of sad.”

 Vince Neil  Mötley Crüe frontman

 “From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms,” he explained to the Guardian. “Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis. They all had killer uniforms. I mean, the SS uniform is f***ing brilliant! They were the rock stars of that time. What’re you gonna do? They just look good.”

Lemmy Kilmeister Motörhead’s

After reading that, never mind.

Frigid 2010 Forecast: How Cold will the Winter Weather Be? Old Man Winter doesn’t want to give up his frigid hold just yet, but his hold will mostly be in the middle of the country.

According to the 2010 Farmers’ Almanac, this winter will see more days of shivery conditions: a winter during which temperatures will average below normal for about three-quarters of the nation.

A large area of numbingly cold temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to west of the Appalachians (see map). The coldest temperatures will be over the northern Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. But acting almost like the bread of a sandwich, to this swath of unseasonable cold will be two regions with temperatures that will average closer to normal—theWest Coast and the East Coast.

What about snow/rain/ice? Near-normal amounts of precipitation are expected over the eastern third of the country, as well as over the Pacific Northwest and Northern Plains, while drier-than-normal conditions are forecast to occur over the Southwest and the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes.  Only the Central and Southern Plains are expected to receive above-average amounts of precipitation.

Blizzards?  While three-quarters of the country is predicted to see near- or below average precipitation this winter, that doesn’t mean there won’t be any winter storms! On the contrary, significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone. For the Middle Atlantic and Northeast States, for instance, we are predicting a major snowfall in mid-February; possibly even blizzard conditions for New England (indeed, even shovelry is not dead).

Thanks to the Farmers Almanac for their information.  If you would like more information on weather or for information on the Farmer’s Almanac click on the following link:

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/weather/a/could-this-winters-weather-add-to-economic-woes

Face Fwd Comments:

If you have been following the Sunspots in the news you know that there is a huge correlation between our sun’s activity and the weather.  Sunspot activity over the last 18 months has largely abated which has brought on last years cold weather and this years predicted cold winter.  Does it surprise anyone that Sunspot Activity over the last 400 years and that the weather patterns (yes Al, there is no human induced global warming) including the warmer weather during period between the industrial revolution and now almost perfectly are in sync.  Check out this graph:

If you are interested in learning more about how sunspots impact our weather you will want to look up information on the Maunder Minimum.  You might be surprised to see what all of the hub bub is about. 

 In my opinion the science has now become undeniable that the sun is the villain (or hero depending on your stance) in climate change.  I firmly believe that the only thing stopping Al Gore/the Obama administration and the United Nations from embracing this science, is that they have not figured out how to tax the sun.   Don’t worry America…….Al is working on it.