posted on June 3, 2005 05:11:59 PM new
Dare someone disprove Craws "Bush's Junk Science" thread, sure looks like it to me.
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Urban dwellers mainly cause global warming, but see little of it
GENEVA - Urban dwellers are mainly responsible for global warming, but see little of the effects because they have their biggest impact in isolated and sparsely populated regions, the U.N. environment agency said Friday.
"Cities use vast amounts of resources like water, food and timber while also producing a large amount of waste," said Klaus Toepfer, head of the United Nations Environment Program, or UNEP.
"People living in San Francisco or London may look at these images of deforestation or melting Arctic ice, and wonder what it has to do with them," Toepfer said. "Their impacts stretch beyond their physical borders affecting countries, regions and the planet as a whole."
FIRST OF TWO PHOTOS The Almeria province along the southern coast of Spain, showing undeveloped land in an image taken from space on Jan. 24, 1974 which was released by the United Nations Environment Program from its new world atlas Friday June 3, 2005. 30 years later the area shows the extensive expansion of agriculture. - (AP Photo/UN Environment Program)
Toepfer made his remarks to commemorate the launch of a new atlas called "One Planet Many People," which compares and contrasts satellite images of past decades with present ones. The atlas is aimed at educating citizens, notably of industrialized countries, on how their lifestyle can destroy the environment.
"An image says more than a thousand words ... The atlas provides evidence of the changes we bring to our environment," said Pascal Peduzzi, an environmental scientist at UNEP.
Using satellite images from the United States Geological Survey and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the pictures highlight dramatic changes around cities such as Beijing, Dhaka, Delhi and Santiago, the destruction of farmland, the clogging of river beds, the draining of water supplies and many others.
The atlas shows satellite images of Las Vegas, the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the U.S., which had 24,000 inhabitants in the 1950s and where today's population of 1 million is expected to double by 2015. As a result, the water level of nearby Lake Meade has dropped by 18 meters (60 feet) from 2000 to 2003 as housing and irrigated golf courses replaced natural desert.
"The images are as awe-inspiring as those of the tsunami, although they don't occur from one day to the next," Peduzzi said, referring to the tsunami that devastated coastal areas of Asia in December.
Other images show the effects from the huge growth of greenhouses in southern Spain, rain forest deforestation or the rise of shrimp farming in Asia and Latin America.
But they also highlight effects from wars and diseases. For example, wars and Saddam Hussein's draining of marshlands in Iraq have contributed to the virtual destruction of the world's biggest date palm forest along the Shatt al'Arab in Iraq and Iran. Satellite images show that more than 14 million trees, or 80 percent of the trees that stood in 1970, are gone along with the livelihoods of millions of people.
The atlas was being launched simultaneously in San Francisco; Nairobi, Kenya; and London.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby
posted on June 3, 2005 10:52:51 PM new
Bear, exactly how does this article disprove global warming?
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posted on June 4, 2005 02:17:18 AM new
Nowhere does it disprove global warming Prof. What it is saying is the urban areas (not as craw wants all to believe "Bush's Junk Science) are the main contributors to global warming.
Craw, still haven't stopped running??????
What, your not lurking on the rt this am?
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby
posted on June 4, 2005 05:29:26 AM new
Well, I'm glad to see you finally realize global warming is a fact !
Old bears CAN learn new tricks!
I'm proud of you bear, in your own sweet way you admitted I was right !
You LEARNED something putting you way above the likes of linduh and Libra.
And Bush does have a lot more to do with it than Clinton.
Now learn some more, big boy, and check out bush's record on pollution control.
As to running away...yuppers, that's me ...you can tell by my posts what a coward I am
Well, I'm running away for awhile now, bear dear, have an auction to attend, but will be back to discuss this further at my convenience
posted on June 4, 2005 03:38:29 PM newI'm proud of you bear, in your own sweet way you admitted I was right !
Admitted you were right, no way, I proved that rational science, not the unfound rantings of a biased left winger, is indicating the true cause leading to global warming.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
- Bill Cosby
posted on June 4, 2005 03:43:56 PM new
Dammitt. Now the UN is going to pass a resolution that people be force marched out of the cities. Of course, since we have more and bigger cities, we have to go first.
posted on June 4, 2005 07:11:54 PM new
I'd heard it was because of cow Flatulence. Here's some more on the subject for you to peruse. This is serious stuff.
