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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Poor Nations to Bear Brunt as World Warms |
| 2007-04-02 |
| World Ends. Women, minorities effected most. The world’s richest countries, which have contributed by far the most to the atmospheric changes linked to global warming, are already spending billions of dollars to limit their own risks from its worst consequences, like drought and rising seas. But despite longstanding treaty commitments to help poor countries deal with warming, these industrial powers are spending just tens of millions of dollars on ways to limit climate and coastal hazards in the world’s most vulnerable regions — most of them close to the equator and overwhelmingly poor. Next Friday, a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations body that since 1990 has been assessing global warming, will underline this growing climate divide, according to scientists involved in writing it — with wealthy nations far from the equator not only experiencing fewer effects but also better able to withstand them. More whiney mewling at link... |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #12 It put me to sleep. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-04-02 23:37 |
| #11 "...in the one hour that I watched there were no fewer that 3 references to the decline and possible extinction of some Arctic / Antarctic species due to 'global warming.'" Heh. I think I switched over to Court TV after the second one. Enough is enough. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2007-04-02 17:33 |
| #10 I resent the characterization of all this bleating and moaning as "mewling." |
| Posted by: Felix Cat 2007-04-02 17:12 |
| #9 ANd just last night I tuned into the Discovery Channel to wathc their 'Planet Earth' series; in the one hour that I watched there were no fewer that 3 references to the decline and possible extinction of some Arctic / Antarctic species due to 'global warming.' Not just 'climate change.' The photography was excellent, but I'll take mine w/out any editorializing, thank you very much. (personal favorite: when the endangered polar bear was stabbed by a walrus, and the voice over said the he "would not survive." not "would die, but "not survive") |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-04-02 14:56 |
| #8 And just a few weeks ago it was noted that all the efforts proposed by socialists to stop global warming would hurt poor nations the worst. My, what a coincidence. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-04-02 09:47 |
| #7 "World ends: women, minorities hardest hit" |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-04-02 09:04 |
| #6 Yes, I remember when these places were paradise on earth. Then came...global warming! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-04-02 07:37 |
| #5 Smells like socialism... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-04-02 07:21 |
| #4 I thought that the polar bears were hardest hit... |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2007-04-02 01:09 |
| #3 ..are they in the playoffs |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-04-02 00:57 |
| #2 what 'bout the penguins |
| Posted by: Captain America 2007-04-02 00:56 |
| #1 I thought that women (tm) and children (tm) would be hit hardest? I mean, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2007-04-02 00:18 |