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UN warns of 70 percent desertification by 2025

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Sunday, 4 October 2009


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(AFP) -

Drought could parch close to 70 percent of the planet's soil by 2025 unless countries implement policies to slow desertification, a senior United Nations official has warned.

"If we cannot find a solution to this problem... in 2025, close to 70 percent could be affected," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, said Friday.

Drought currently affects at least 41 percent of the planet and environmental degradation has caused it to spike by 15 to 25 percent since 1990, according to a global climate report.

"There will not be global security without food security" in dry regions, Gnacadja said at the start of the ninth UN conference on the convention in the Argentine capital.

"A green deal is necessary" for developing countries working to combat drought, he stressed.

The next meeting on the convention is scheduled to take place in South Korea in 2010.

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growth, whatever the cost.
[info]someofusknow wrote:
Sunday, 4 October 2009 at 01:31 am (UTC)
'Drought could parch close to 70 percent of the planet's soil by 2025'. And the meltdown of Greenland and Antarctica will start to inundate the other 30%.

No worries. The Copenhagen mob will agree to 20% cuts in emissions by 2050, aybe 2025 even After all, we MUST have economic growth, whatever the cost.


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Drought
[info]pete_in_crete wrote:
Sunday, 4 October 2009 at 06:49 am (UTC)
in 2025, close to 70 percent could be affected," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

He cannot say otherwise or he is out of a job. He is not citing any authoritative research, just a global climate report. Which global climate report? Statements like this completely ignore common sense and usually pick the worst scenario that a flawed climate model will throw up even though most of the results show no change. Is there an executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat flooding too?
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Oh dear
[info]kodak321 wrote:
Sunday, 4 October 2009 at 12:50 pm (UTC)
Strange...drought affects 41 per cent of the Planet...when only 30 per cent of it is land based...so much for accurate reporting....
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Re: Oh dear
[info]pozac wrote:
Monday, 5 October 2009 at 07:35 am (UTC)
That's approx...13.333% of the total land mass...now what's left...oh, lots of salt water.
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No, wetter
[info]raybeds wrote:
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 at 07:03 am (UTC)
If the planet is to warm as predicted by the alarmists it will result in a wetter planet due to the increased evaporation from the oceans. The geological evidence shows a colder climate results in a drier world. But don't let facts get in the way of an unproved hypothesis.
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