OpEdNews - Diary: Is Global Warming A Bad Thing?
Truth be told, for some folks the changes may be good or at least not too bad. Let's face it, if you live in North Dakota or upper Minnesota a little global warming could be a damn good thing come early February. And who can argue with a longer or earlier spring?China confronts global warming dilemma | csmonitor.com
China awoke to climate change with a storm. It was late January 2008, a time when people across the country were busily gathering recipes, stocking fireworks, and preparing to welcome relatives to celebrate the Lunar New Year. But suddenly, severe ice storms brought much of the nation to a standstill. For two weeks, fierce winds, sleet, and snow downed power lines, shuttered businesses, and razed more than 200,000 homes across southern and central China.Remember this guy?: Teacher tackles gulf over global warming
Hundreds of thousands of travelers who had been headed home to see families were stranded on icy rail platforms. Cities struggled to provide power and water to residents, and snow blanketed the Taklamakan desert. Even the bright lights of Shanghai briefly went dark. All told, more than 100 people were killed.
China’s worst storm in decades was, according to United Nations scientists, an illustration of what a changing climate may herald for the future. As such, it was a tipping point in the country’s environmental awareness.
[Greg] Craven: It’s been very disappointing how the book [What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate] has performed in terms of sales or publicity. There was a snafu in the publishing department. My publicist quit without notice just before the publication date. I can’t complain too much because I’m a “nobody author” – I was lucky just to get a book contract. For two years I was perpetually sleep-deprived, consuming really unhealthy amounts of Red Bull and nicotine.U.N. official says leaders want fast climate deal | Green Business | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - World leaders are setting their sights on completing an international deal on combating global warming by the middle of next year, a U.N. official said on Thursday, now that there is broad agreement next month's deadline will not be met in Copenhagen.Peters revels in grassroots politics | New Zealand
About 30 people gathered to hear Mr Peters out and grill him about issues, including his views on electoral boundaries and MMP.
A few questioned the validity of global warming, but Mr Peters reminded them it was now called climate change.
"There ain't no global warming going on here. Most New Zealanders will tell you we've just come out of the coldest October on record," he said.
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Well, I only have to agree about the few conveniences the global warming could bring that you mentioned in the beginning. But mostly this phenomenon is seen as rather undesirable because of it causing melting of the icebergs, therefore increasing the level of the oceans. And that is a huge threat to some lowland coastal areas. I'm really truly scared what more these climate changes are going to bring. And I wonder, whether it's not too late for the world trying to make deals, in order to stop this process from happening. Lorne
What happens if they stop melting?
Well, there will always been some seasonal melting, that's why the rivers have existed for thousands of years. :)
The point is to make sure it doesn't melt faster than it acculates, or at least to make sure the supply can continue for hundreds more years.
I didn't know about the importance of glaciers for China - that's a very interesting information and also an alarming fact considering the impact of the global warming on this particular issue - because I would be worried, that if they keep melting so fast, later there would not be a sufficient mass of glacier to provide Chinese people with water. Lorne
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