Monday, November 24, 2008

'Brown clouds' stir Asian conspiracy storm
MUMBAI - A controversial United Nations report claiming "atmospheric brown clouds" generated by Asia are harming the world's climate, agriculture and health has created a storm of controversy in India, which has slammed it as part of Western pressure on Asia's efforts to counter global warming.

The brown cloud was more pointedly called the "Asian brown cloud" in an earlier United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report in 2002, before protests from India and China led it to be changed to the politically-correct "atmospheric brown cloud".
And you can trust them--they're doctors
Orlando, Fla. -- Most climate scientists say the Earth is getting hotter and that human activity is speeding up the process. At its Interim Meeting in November, the AMA House of Delegates agreed with the scientific consensus.

The house endorsed the findings of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Delegates also warned that climate change could have dramatic public health consequences, causing heat waves, drought and flooding, cutting potable water supplies, displacing populations and spreading infectious diseases.
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Some delegates objected to the AMA's endorsing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusions.

Daniel J. Koretz, MD, an internist and alternate delegate for the Medical Society of the State of New York, said the IPCC's findings represented "politicized science" that happened "outside the normal peer review process." But the house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new policies on global warming.
Note that although Gore claimed "the science is settled" in 1992, these CO2-fearing medical folks chose to hold their 2007 Interim HOD meeting in Honolulu.

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