Climate Change May 2008 Round Up

As there is a constant flow of climate change news, keeping you scared and in a panic, I don’t report on it daily. Instead I will do monthly round ups of some of the more interesting events.

Things started off by some German scientists telling us the last 10 years of cooling is down to natural climate cycles and things will be getting hotter again by 2020.

We also heard news that the UN has wasted 10 billion dollars in paying industries in developing countries to reduce climate change emissions, who should not of qualified.

Exxon, the oil company, is to cut funding to climate change denial groups. If there is no one looking at the possibility that there is no man made global warming then there is only going to be one point of view looked at. I thought science was about finding truth and not about backing the current political ideology.

The current food crisis is being blamed on climate change too, when other factors are to blame. Food is being grown for bio fuel and green policies have been forcing farm land to go fallow, so the amount of food to eat has decreased. Also, China is demanding more food to feed its growing middle classes.

Below are some the new things that are “affected by climate change”.

The Australian islands of the Torres Strait are slowly being submerged
Force 1 billion people from their homes by 2050
Tropical insects will be the first to go
Plate tectonics could shut down
Extinction for butterflies in Scotland
French truffle threatened
Lead the poor to 'barbarisation'
Rising ocean to submerge part of South Florida
One in eight of the world's birds are at risk of extinction
Sea life at risk from rapid acidification
Threat to US crops and water
Reindeer herders face extinction
The narwhal, a whale with a long spiral tusk, is at risk

We are being told to do the following to help to combat climate change.

Eat insects. A group of experts endorse bugs as a nutritious and sustainable food source
The halting of logging in the world's rainforests is the single greatest solution to climate change, Prince Charles has said
Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them. Stop making fat people
Become a vegetarian, as growing livestock is more damaging to the environment
Cultivation your own fruit and vegetables
Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry 'carbon ration cards'
World must cut CO2 to India levels

This constant stream of fear is the real global threat. Forcing people to do the will of others in order to “save the planet” and make a quick buck or gain power at the same time.