Political Panic Around The Globe

We are introducing a new feature here at Skeptic's Corner-Political Panic around the globe. Our global leadership is bound and determined to screw......uh take care of us so it is important to note their panic..... uh concerns. We will attempt to track their righteous leadership.

Australia

'World has 6 years to act' on climate change

The Government's chief scientist wants the country to set the toughest possible targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, warning that action must begin now against climate change....

...."We also know that if we want to maintain that level of climate change which we could measure by the increase in global average temperature to 2 degrees then we have six years to reverse the trend from increasing CO2 emissions to decreasing CO2 emissions.

"It's not long, which is why we need to begin to act now."

Last week two scientists told a Senate inquiry that there was no evidence to suggest that global warming was caused by human activity.

But Professor Sackett says she is surprised a debate over the science of climate change still exists.

"There is no doubt the evidence is very clear that [climate change] is under way and it is also clear that the largest portion of that change is due to human action through deforestation and emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," she said.

United States

Energy Secretary Offers Dire Global Warming Prediction

..Caribbean nations face "very, very scary" rises in sea level and intensifying hurricanes, and Florida, Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water levels due to global warming triggered by carbon-based greenhouse gases, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Saturday....

....So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out," Chu said.

"I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent -- I remember this number -- one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will -- some of them will disappear," he added.

Chu said the United States would not be spared, either.....