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Posted by: Aidenag 2 years, 8 months agoTo head off the worst of climate change, governments must pour tens of billions of dollars more than they are into clean-energy research and enforce sharp rollbacks in fossil-fuel emissions, an expert scientific panel reported to the United Nations on Tuesday.
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HealthDoctor
Feb. 27, 2007, 12:05 p.m.Oh, come now. Tens of billions sounds like such an overwhelming amount of money - enough for people to think it can't or shouldn't be done. Just ask how much money the U.S. is spending PER WEEK in Iraq, and you'll realize that the money for construction is there - once we stop spending it on destruction. The U.S. is the major polluter per capita, and we have the resources to make the major difference in global warming. Just shift the money from Iraq.
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OldRusty
Feb. 27, 2007, 8:32 p.m.Now just give that tens of billions to Al Gore, and he will save the world,. NOT.
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Tyron
Feb. 27, 2007, 9:25 p.m.It is giong to take more than 10 plus billion to cut down CO2 emissions around the world sence China alone plans to build MANY coal fired plants to power their new industries.
Just handing over money to the UN is not going to work. Our only hope is that other countries can be convinced to follow our example.
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TheTruthIsHere
Feb. 27, 2007, 10:48 p.m.Here it comes...these leftist leeches who are already sponging tens of billions off governments, NGO's, Universities and the public are now scamming for more......we knew it all along....
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utahdem
Feb. 27, 2007, 10:51 p.m.TENS OF BILLIONS???
That's chump change in comparison to DICK AND GEORGE'S SUICIDE ROMP IN IRAQ.
Imagine a TRILLION or so being pumped into research instead of funding a military to secure all that oil for the pricks!
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braveone
Feb. 28, 2007, 12:05 a.m.aren't they a little early to be passing the plate???
or is this going to make it to the evening news?
KYOTO, is ALL about the money,
global warming is just the mantra.
if you are worried about greenhouse gasses,
cut back or eliminate your use of fossil fuel,
and hey, you'll save money, and feel better.
then send your savings to Al Gore and crew,
but please... leave the taxpayer out of it.
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truthiness
Feb. 28, 2007, 12:55 a.m.clean air
clean water
non-toxic food
whether or not you believe in human enhanced global warming, these are good things you must agree. developing an ecologically sound energy source, and attempting to clean up after ourselves will preserve those essential resources for us and the future of our species.
I hope its not asking too much for people to consider that far ahead
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Cullcull93
Feb. 28, 2007, 1:15 a.m.The only way to stop Global Warming is to stop and reduce the human growth rate and world population. So, what are the best things we have now that can do this? Diseases, aren't slowing us down enough, AIDS takes too long and will be cured soon. Bird Flu could potentially take out a 1/4 of the world population, that would be a good start. When that epidemic begins, WWIII can start, and that can further reduce our population and our impacts on the planet. When there is less than 2 billion people on this planet Global Warming will no longer be a threat.
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DeltaX
Feb. 28, 2007, 1:50 a.m.FTA: "...Group of 77, an organization grouping 132 mainly developing countries and China."
Global Warming Math in a nutshell.
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THOMNH62
Feb. 28, 2007, 2 a.m.now what do we do about the cow farts, how do we reduce them. Since the UN has concluded that they contribute more to global warming than all the humans combined. Cork it???
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rwrnae
Feb. 28, 2007, 2:56 a.m.Waste of time and money. Buy some sunscreen and live with it. We can starve our economy, China and India will just pick up the slack and burn whatever we save. Instead of corking the cows, how about we cork Algore, the largest source of hot air on the planet?
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bill2936
Feb. 28, 2007, 9:53 a.m.Will any of the money go to the #1 cause (>99%) of the global warming? Natural sources?
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Bkumm
Feb. 28, 2007, 9:47 a.m.Quit spreading lies! What is it with you people? The scientific community in the 70's agreed that there was global cooling, that was a prelude to increasing global temperatures. The majority of the scientific community agreed with this. Why do you conservatives INSIST upon following the fringe of scientific consensus?
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evilliberals
Feb. 28, 2007, 8:58 a.m.Nothing more pathetic than functionally retarded right wingers becomming science experts in seconds. Let us come to grips with right wingers, they are morons. Just look at one of their idols, Ronald Reagan, a man who destroyed American industry, sold America to cheasp Chinese goods and wrecked unions, yet the right wing calls him a hero.
They are functionally retarded, their whole purpose in life is to shriek "lib lib lib " blame others for the things they have destroyed in this country.
Who do you trust?
Science or shrieking right wingers?
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DPittman
Feb. 28, 2007, 9:19 a.m."Separately, a powerful group of developing nations on Tuesday said wealthy nations must take responsibility for causing climate change instead of laying blame on others."
This is the key phrase of the story! This is not about global warming, any idiot that thinks man creates global warming should take a class. This is about making America weaker.
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contrast
Feb. 28, 2007, 9:37 a.m."Dr. Faust have you any conclusive hard core evidence?"
"No sir, but we need LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY!!!!!!!"
This sounds a little too suspicious folks but if you wanna throw your money at some anonymous staff and cross your fingers be my guest and incidentally I have started a new "Get me a bigger house" fund it'll help the environment and all I need is tens of billions. What? NOW it seems stupid?
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bill2936
Feb. 28, 2007, 9:49 a.m.Will the tens of billions stop the global warming from natural sources? That does account for over 99% of the global warming gases every year.
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the2thdoctor
Feb. 28, 2007, 10:15 a.m.Someone stated that people who voted for bush have learned that it was not wise to vote for him...nonsense--if they voted for him they are too stupid to realize that
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dartsdoc
Feb. 28, 2007, 10:21 a.m.FOLLOW THE MONEY !!!!! Tens of billions of dollars. The easiest way for people with influence (access to the media) is to create a public scare and cah in. Remember the Y2K crisis? The world has not kept enough accurate records to determine weather patterns over the last - what - billion years. These scientists are under the new world order of PUBLISH OR PARISH.
If they do not publish, they are fired from their positions. Medical field also. The easiest way to to publish is to contradict what is commonly accepted. Vitamins are good for you. Vitamins are bad for you. Christ is God. Christ was a literary tool. Coffee is bad for you. Coffee is good for you. In the meantime, people made fortunes manipulating the facts and us. FOLLOW THE MONEY. Watch the new green hollywood and see who still flies in private planes, have private limos, multiple homes. etc. FOLLOW THE MONEY. It is all just a trade show.
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UBCONFUSE
Feb. 28, 2007, 10:40 a.m.If you think this article is the answer to global warming you are an idiot. Cow farts (methane gas) does far more damage to than you think. Kill all the cows and every other creature with three stomachs (Ungulates in Africa included) and our green house gas problem is history.
However, the left would never be in favor of harming animals, but would easily vote to exterminate all Republicans, people with religious beliefs and all white males with more than $250,000 in net worth.
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JustJim
Feb. 28, 2007, 11:09 a.m.Then we're all doomed because there's so many ignorant people out their that don't even think humans are to be blamed for Global Warming. I post fightglobalwarming.com at sites telling people just to take the simple steps on the page if they want to save the world they live in. All I get is an immature and ignorant response.
If you go to the site, the steps in fighting global warming aren't that hard but people are too self-centered to even give back to the world. So yes we are all doomed. There's simply not enough people that believe in it. If they do most of them just think "oh well I don't be around when it happens". If not you your kids might be so just stop arguing and go to the site and see what you can do. It's not that hard.
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LABELDUDE
Feb. 28, 2007, 11:16 a.m.Same old tired sequence. Starts out "...United Nations...Blah, blah..." Then, "... the world's nations "...(must join together)...Blah, Blah". And finally, as always, "...a powerful group of developing nations on Tuesday said wealthy nations must take responsibility..." Of course these losers mean the Good old U.S.A. whom they hate.
O.K. I give up. I'm calling for all of us to empty our wallets and 401K plans and send the cash to Uganda and Zimbabwe along with a nice note saying we'd like them to use the proceeds to combat Al Gore's Global Warming.
"Developing Nations" my Ass. DEVOLVING NATIONS is more like it.
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artists-and-writers
Feb. 28, 2007, 12:06 p.m.Scientists, eh? WHAT scientists? I want names, numbers, and curricula vitae--and I want them NOW.
There's an old saying out here in the Old West: "Water flows uphill--towards money". Now, simply substitute the two words "environmental legislation" for the one word "money" and you'll have a far clearer idea of the personality of our predicament.
If you want global warming, come out to my citrus grove in Borrego Springs (that's the San Diego desert to you and me) and you can have all the global warming your little environMENTAL heart desires.
We've been lied to and we've been had, and we must check this insanity--now.
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