Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Helpful dietary advice from a UN bureaucrat

See the whole juicy thing here.

Excerpts:
PARIS (AFP) — Don't eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper -- that's how you can help brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said Tuesday.

The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), issued last year, highlights "the importance of lifestyle changes," said Rajendra Pachauri at a press conference in Paris.

"This is something that the IPCC was afraid to say earlier, but now we have said it."
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Since the Nobel was awarded in October to the IPCC and the former US vice president Al Gore, Pachauri has criss-crossed the globe [on a bike?] sounding the alarm on the dangers of global warming.
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Pachauri also sees cause for optimism in the fact that, for the first time since the world's nations began meeting over the issue of global warming in 1994, "nobody questioned the findings of the IPCC."

1 comment:

John M Reynolds said...

"nobody questioned the findings of the IPCC."

It is often said that the debate is over, but this implies that the debate never started.