Scientists Warn Of "Uninhabitable" Areas Of Australia @ Climate Conference

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ANNE BARKER: It sounds like a doomsday scenario - an Australia so hot that some towns could become almost uninhabitable, with longer heatwaves than ever before and less rainfall. That's the prediction in a CSIRO study that warns if global warming continues, by 2070 the number of days above 35 degrees will soar, with many inland towns facing well over 100 days a year of extreme heat. The New South Wales Premier, Bob Carr, presented the report to the International Taskforce on Climate Change

BOB CARR: This is deadly serious and it's upon us. Global warming has got New South Wales in its grip as much as any other part of the world. We face these terrible increases in average climate. Parts of our State are already very hot, but if you look at where they're going to be by 2012 and then after 2030, is really going to be living in an oven.

ANNE BARKER: Taskforce members from 16 countries are meeting in Sydney this week to draw up the most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change since the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions. Their challenge is to bring on board Australia and the US, as well as key developing nations, like China and India, something the Kyoto protocol failed to achieve. The taskforce co-chairman, and former British minister, Stephen Byers says no country can afford to underestimate the dangers of global warming.

STEPHEN BYERS: Unless action is taken by governments across the whole of the globe, then we're going to face droughts, we're going to face really extreme weather conditions. We know in the UK we've had floods this year that we've never seen before. Last year in Europe we had a heatwave which led to the loss of tens of thousands of lives. In America we've seen hurricanes hitting the coast of Florida and Louisiana. Wherever you look in the world, we're seeing the consequences of global warming."

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http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1244186.htm

[oscar111]

1. Orbital Sunshade doesnt need Kyoto:Kyoto slow, if ever

so hard to get many nations to work together.. many cheat.. especially since it slows factories. bypass kyoto, build orbital sunshade.

google "orbital sunshade" TO find a page from NBC or CBS with engineers report on it.

build it now or billions streaming north will destroy the US and europe. Tornadoes will multiply and be huge. Heat will roast crops in the field. Food will disappear.

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2. As fundies begin to take over the world,

at some point critical mass will be attained, at which time there will no longer be any scientists or rational politicians around to save us from ourselves. For those of us 'left behind' there literally will be hell on earth.