Thread: Any doubts about Climate Change?

They don't want to talk about der spiegels article about how the greens and left with crooked big business scammed 25 billion euros.

Originally Posted by pulvarien

They don't want to talk about der spiegels article about how the greens and left with crooked big business scammed 25 billion euros.

Fourteen of the warmest years on record, since scientists began compiling data on the climate in 1850, have been measured in the first 15 years of this millenneum.

The polar ice on the North Pole, the inland ice of the Antarctic and mountain glaciers are melting. And when glaciers thaw and melt water flows into the sea, it causes ocean levels to rise and creates a greater danger of storm surges.

Entire parts of the planet today -- areas that include the Mediterranean region and West Africa -- are frequently plagued by droughts.

Extreme weather of the type that can cause billions in damage and have deadly consequences has become an increasingly frequent phenomenon, including in Germany. Tens of thousands of people died during the heatwave that plagued the Central Europe during the summer of 2003.

Things are likely to get even worse. If we continue to spew the same amount of emissions from coal, oil and gas combustion into the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns the climate could warm by three or four degrees Celsius or even higher by the end of the century. This would make parts of our planet uninhabitable through extreme droughts, famine, floods or simply because human beings are incapable of enduring sustained temperatures of 60 degrees Celsius (140 degrees Fahrenheit). The consequences of climate change could intensify conflicts in fragile countries and drive more people into flight. Climate change "is a threat to lives and livelihoods everywhere," United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon wrote this week. He's right.

And who wrote that?

Der Spiegel