Warming 'already changing world' {IPCC report}

[eppur_se_muova]

Source: BBC

Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world, a UN report is set to announce.
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The IPCC is to release a summary of its report on Friday but talks on wording have continued late into the night.

Officials said there were differences between various countries on the strength of the language.

"The Europeans want to send a strong signal. The US does not want as much quantification," one official told the French news agency AFP.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6524251.stm

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1/3 of species in danger ... 1 billion people facing increased chance of water shortages ... pretty grim reading.

[Mnemosyne]

1. needs kicked and rec'd. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

2. No problem! Bush has all the pure water in the world under his property

in Uruguay. He'd be happy to share it with the world for $100.00 a gallon.

[Lisa]

3. "adaptation alone is not expected to cope"

Didn't Bush decide that the US was going to pursue an "adaptive" strategy? Way to go, Dubya -- that's yet another thing he's been wrong about, I guess. Not that he'll admit it.

http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2004-12/2004-12-03-voa83.cfm?CFID=118085658&CFTOKEN=47470156

[cascagraphic]

4. kick

[kineneb]

5. Jared Diamond is right, in "Collapse"

the collapse of societies can be analyzed by examining five factors...

the five-point framework (from "Collapse")
1. environmental damage
2. climate change
3. hostile neighbors
4. decreased support of friendly trade partners
5. society's responses to its problems

#5 is the big one.