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Climate chief cites disasters as proof

Published: 2/09/2010 at 09:56 PM
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UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Thursday warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year.

Speaking before some 40 countries were to address finance, an issue that has helped hamstring UN climate talks, Figueres said floods in Pakistan, fires in Russia and other weather disasters had been a shocking wakeup call.

"The news has been screaming that a future of intense, global climate disasters is not the future that we want," Figueres, newly-appointed executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), told reporters.

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AC Robertson

Discussion 2 : 03/09/2010 at 10:33 AM2
The basis of most of the IPCC conclusions on anthropogenic causes and on projections of climatic change is the assumption of low level of CO2 in the pre-industrial atmosphere. This assumption, based on glaciological studies, is FALSE.â€

see (Beck, 2008, â€œ50 Years of Continuous Measurement of CO2 on Mauna Loaâ€ Energy and Environment, Vol 19, No.7.)
AC Robertson

Discussion 1 : 03/09/2010 at 10:04 AM1
AGW is based on the assumption that CO2 levels have increased due to the actions of mankind.

In fact, pre-industrial CO2 levels were about the same as today. see Beck, 2008, â€œ50 Years of Continuous Measurement of CO2 on Mauna Loaâ€ Energy and Environment, Vol 19, No.7.)

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