Greenhouse gas emissions hit danger mark

[Lone_Star_Dem]

Source: Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The global economic boom has accelerated greenhouse gas emissions to a dangerous threshold not expected for a decade and could potentially cause irreversible climate change, said one of Australia's leading scientists.

Tim Flannery, a world recognized climate change scientist and Australian of the Year in 2007, said a U.N. international climate change report due in November will show that greenhouse gases have already reached a dangerous level.

Flannery said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report will show that greenhouse gas in the atmosphere in mid-2005 had reached about 455 parts per million of carbon dioxide equivalent -- a level not expected for another 10 years.

"We thought we'd be at that threshold within about a decade," Flannery told Australian television late on Monday.

"We thought we had that much time. But the new data indicates that in about mid-2005 we crossed that threshold," he said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071009/ts_nm/greenhouse_australia_dc

[WCGreen]

1. So long, Farewell....

auf Wiedersehen, good night...

I hate to go and leave this pretty sight...

Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu...

The sun has gone code red and so must I...

[Vegasaurus]

2. It was over 85 in New York City yesterday

Most bizarre October 8th weather ever.

[Melynn]

12. 90 in Ohio yesterday

And the right wing says there is no Global Warming. Yeah right.

[The Doctor.]

13. "It snowed already this year in Canada!!! There's no warming!"

Yeah... that actually say that shit.

OTOH, 'Weather' and 'Climate' are not the same... even though we're seeing the weather trending right along.

[alfredo]

3. Venus is an example of runaway greenhouse gases.

Could that be our future?

[Whoa_Nelly]

4. K&R

Our nation in crisis. Our planet in peril. :cry:

[Whoa_Nelly]

5. K&R

Our nation in crisis. Our planet in peril. :cry:

[hatrack]

6. Oops!!

nt

[pscot]

7. Bummer

If technology is going to save us, it better shake a leg.

[Magleetis]

8. Looks like

those voluntary decreases by the polluters aren't working. Told ya so.

[lovuian]

9. Mother Nature is going to kick some serious butt

she has to defend herself

The World is changing

[ronnie624]

10. "Flannery suggested

the developed world could buy "climate security" by paying villages in countries like Papua New Guinea not to log forests and to regrow forests.

"That 200 gigatonnes of carbon pollutant, the standing stock that's in the atmosphere, is there courtesy of the industrial revolution, and we're the beneficiaries of that and most of the world missed out," he said.

"So I see that as a historic debt that we owe the world. And I can't imagine a better way of paying it back than trying to help the poorest people on the planet."


Sounds good to me. We'd better get started.

[truthisfreedom]

11. Daytime temp in Minneapolis has been alternating between high 80's and low 50's.

It's ridiculous. I wonder what kind of winter we have in store.

[Megahurtz]

14. Great. Just Great.

:(

[defendandprotect]

15. They crossed it in 2005 -- and they know it now in 2007 -- ????

Obviously, the problems are being compounded enormously and they are unpredictable