Well, I haven't noticed a thread on the current UN summit on climate change.
We all know the arguments, atmospheric CO2 partial pressure is increasing and it's been linked to a year on year increase in global mean annual temperature. This is suggested to be linked with the recent aberations in global weather patterns including (but not restricted to);
Shrinking polar ice caps
Increase in sea level (projected, although there is evidence of a slight rise already)
Increased incidence of tropical stoms and hurricanes
Increased incidences of drought (remember France 2003? 10,00+ deaths)
as well as plausibly in the future;
increased range of malarial mosquitoes (into southern europe principally)
increased desertification.
Strangley, not all nations currently recognise global change as a real phenomenon, and even many of those that do are not bound by the original Kyoto treaty, and it's unlikely that they;ll be bound by any new treaties.
The biggest releasers of CO2 are;
USA (25😵
China (15😵
Russia (7😵
Japan (5😵
India (4😵
Germany (4😵
UK (2😵
Canada (2😵
Italy (2😵
The US has withdrawn from Kyoto, whilst China and India are not required to comply because they are 'developing countries'.
Your thoughts???
Originally posted by scottishinnzThinking why this is in spirituality not debates?
Well, I haven't noticed a thread on the current UN summit on climate change.
We all know the arguments, atmospheric CO2 partial pressure is increasing and it's been linked to a year on year increase in global mean annual temperature. This is suggested to be linked with the recent aberations in global weather patterns including (but not restricted ...[text shortened]... India are not required to comply because they are 'developing countries'.
Your thoughts???
