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Environmentalists called today for tougher action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of the publication of new predictions of how climate change will affect the UK in coming decades.
The UK Climate Projections 09 study will outline changes to temperatures, rainfall and sea level in different parts of the country that could occur up to the end of the century.
The research, delayed from last year, looks in detail at what might happen under different levels of emissions, analysing different regions of the country, including river basins and the country's seas.
The scientific research, led by the Met Office Hadley Centre, breaks the country down into 25km squares and makes predictions for what is likely to happen to the climate over a series of 30-year timescales.
It builds on a study from 2002 which concluded the UK will get warmer, with hotter drier summers and milder, wetter winters, and sea levels will continue to rise.
Ahead of the publication of the study, Friends of the Earth executive director Andy Atkins said: "This valuable new research will highlight the damaging impact that climate change will have around the UK and show the need for urgent action to cut emissions.
"The UK Government must take tougher action on climate change - and show real leadership by example ahead of crucial climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December."
He also called on local authorities to take action to cut energy waste and boost renewable power and green transport options.
Alongside the Projections study the Government is publishing a "five-point plan" on the action it is taking to cope with the impacts of climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The strategy includes immediate measures to protect people from climate change, such as the heat wave plan ministers have drawn up with the National Health Service, and long term plans for coping with rising temperatures.
It sets out the need for a new global deal on cutting emissions to be agreed in Copenhagen in December, and says the Government will shortly outline the steps it will take to meet its commitments to move the UK to a low carbon economy.
The five-point plan also pledges to support individuals, communities and businesses to do their bit in coping with the impacts of climate change and reducing their emissions.
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This latest set of 'what if' projections is based on unverified computer models that told us that whilst carbon dioxide levels increased global temperatures would also increase. The model completely failed to predict the decade of levelling off and recent cooling.
This alarmism is all leading to the December meeting in Copenhagen when the UN will attempt to dream up a post Kyoto treaty. Pity China will take no notice and will continue to build a hundred coal fired power stations every year.
Still the BBC is having a field day on these latest predicting the doom and gloom.
In another broadsheet, Hillary Benn is quoted as saying "We should think about our children's and our grandchildren's lifetimes because we don't want to hand on to them a climate that is out of control." When, exactly, was 'climate' under control? We puny humans have never been 'in control' of the climate. I know Labour are a bunch of control freaks but thinking they can control the planets climate is bizarre, even for them.
Our elected - progressive leaders are proposing lethal injection or long incarceration terms for climatologists (and ordinary folk) whose opinion on climate change differs from the orthodox version.
What did Obama want Americans to do last month? Paint their roofs white to save the planet. (which will need doing every two years owing to the use of shingles in American roof construction)
I don't hear the paint companies complaining. Do you? It's a tax. Wake up people.
Read about it yourself: http://www.globalclimatescam.com/
Hey Col(l)in, I thought you were BNP, not KKK..? Are the UK's leaders planning to introduce a death penalty for climatologists?
I looked at your article, it mentioned an anonymous crackpot post on a news website, not unlike your own, which has since been deleted?
Are you implying that this anonymous crackpot post (such a RARITY on the internet) was actually made by one of our "elected - progressive leaders", rather than by some anonymous crank?
Gasp, is obama blogging anonymously? Massive conspiracy! Wake UP people, they'll be kicking down your door and painting it white while you're asleep!
Remember, the Germans created the no1 industry for wind power which got them tens of thousand jobs in a future market, just by some smart and small action by the Gov. GW Bush certainly did not manage to do that, regardless of the tax cuts for his friends and the like.
I'm all for efficiency although I find your mention of wind power and efficiency in the same breath very strange indeed. Wind power has to be one the most inefficient, ineffective and costly forms of power generation ever devised. It it wasn't, governments wouldn't have to give the wind industry the huge subsidies it gets.
The above story isn't about efficiency though is it? It peddles the tired fantasy of global warming with the usual nonsense of see level rises etc, etc, etc. If the government want us plebs to be more efficient then they should say so but please leave out the global warming crap.
It is true that carbon dioxide levels are rising but this can be countered by the planting of billions of trees worldwide. Stopping wars, cleaning industrial waste, investing in waste management, reducing of dependancy on oil and many more besides though the consideration of taxing individuals for the problem is scandalous.
The whole solar system is warming. Check it out for yourselves.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thr
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/newsro
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/newsroom/2
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/plut
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20
http://biocab.org/Cosmic_Rays_Graph.htm
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1978ApJ..
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.htm
http://www.livescience.com/environ
http://www.redicecreations.com/specialr
http://strata-sphere.com/blog/inde
http://www.skepticalscience.com/gl
http://www.infowars.com/articles/scienc
The Mayan calender dateline finishes in 2012, Dec 21. Interestingly, just as the Solar Systems sinusoidal path enters the edge of an anomalous cloud near the central plane of the Milky Way. This the cause of global warming and much better explained than I in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvWzunX7
Note also, when the magnetic poles do their reversal we may witness an ice age in our own time. Recent studies have determined an ice age may impact major parts of the globe not in years but possibly months! Yeah don't you love these researchers. Follow some of the links in the list for explanations.
Now returning to the excess of carbon dioxide, science and technology must bear the brunt of changes in their investments and take full responsibility for the industries, products and services they provide. Eradication of Oil and Carbon fuel Dependency.
Trees and plant life are virtually free and gobble carbon dioxide so instigate massive global planting of sustainable and valued forests and woodlands.
In warmer regions, build desalination facilities and flood whole regions for sustainable growth.
Of course there are debunkers everywhere, though looking at all the evidence it really is hard to refute and I accept that the evidence cited here is speculative.
Al Gore is a liar and propagandist. He seeks personal fortune.
Don't ya just love our global village:-)