What does the UN do on international environmental problems like this?

No doubt our demands, our personal part of stress which we impose on the ecosphere, are much too heavy. But even if they were reduced to a minimum that could not fall the survival limit, the product with the umber of participants in the relevant processes would exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystems vastly (e.g. in Germany by a factor greater than two).

A solution is possible only if demands as well as number of our species are adapted to the limits of the carrying capacity.

For links in all languages all over the earth look
http://www.ecopop.ch

I'm so sorry, in my recent message there is a mistake: I forgot the word "below". I apologise for making this trouble and ask you to use the following version instead:
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No doubt our demands, our personal part of stress which we impose on the ecosphere, are much too heavy. But even if they were reduced to a minimum that could not fall below the survival limit, the product with the number of participants in the relevant processes would exceed the carrying capacity of the ecosystems vastly (e.g. in Germany by a factor greater than two).

A solution is possible only if demands as well as number of our species are adapted to the limits of the carrying capacity.

For links in all languages all over the earth look
http://www.ecopop.ch
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Thank you so much in advance!
Yours truly,
Dietrich Schwägerl

Global warming Turkish site

The indoctrinated global meltdowners are always pointing to warming records to help push "The Theory". Here is more proof that the earth is getting warmer.

Mount Washington, NH, USA - Throughout mid-January, New Hampshire experienced the coldest and most bitter conditions on record (from various sources, just Google it).

Uh, you might have a better arguement if record temperatures in North America were actually getting warmer, not colder. We have set many cold and snow records across the continent this year. Sorry, maybe next year will be more in your favor. I personnaly think that the hole in your "theory" is bigger than the hole in the ozone.

How many of you in the Global Warming Cult have changed your lifestyles to accomodate earth? Surely you are not all hypocrites and are all helping to make the world less warm, right? Have you changed? Has it made a difference? If humans are making the world warmer, than surely even if a small amount of people altering their lifestyles could make a small but noticable difference, right?

Congratualtions, I applaude all of you! Your sacrifice's have not gone unnoticed. Your group has collectively helped us to set new cold and snow records. Good job, but please be careful! Your influence to help change the weather is very powerful, more powerful than mother nature herself. We don't want it to cold.

i completely agree. that is a major problem and something has to be done about it.

A buddy of mine, who is a teacher, came across this company that works with schools to do environmentally friendly fund raisers. Not only do the schools make extra money but they help the environment and make people more aware of global warming as well. They also offer lesson plans for teachers who are interested in teaching their students about the environment as well as lesson plans for An Inconvenient Truth with Vice President Al Gore. Their main product is compact fluorescent light bulbs which save a ton of energy and money compared with incandescent bulbs. They are called One Plant Fund raising and their website is www.oneplanetfundraising.c
om. Definitely worth checking out!

Rich,

As many folks have been doing (esp. in the US, where misinformation about global warming is still quite prevalent) you are confusing weather and climate.

The fact that a particular place on the planet has especially warm or especially cold weather at a point in time is not relevant to the question of whether our climate is changing. Your observations about New Hampshire (I have climbed Mt. Washington, and I know very well how severe the weather can be there) are interesting, but they don't say much about climate trends. The fact that a particular winter is much colder than normal at Mt. Washington does not mean that the global climate is not warming over time - far from it. But it makes for an interesting sound bite on the news!

The fact is that the global climate IS warming. Even Bush admits that. Much as you might like, one cannot dispute thousands of observations from around the world, and the record of temperature trends that is now available from a myriad of sources (ice core studies, ocean sediment studies, satellite observations, etc etc). It is simply fact. But some people don't like it, so they continue to dispute facts. Have at it, dude!

Also a fact is the increase in concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. Again, this observation is based on measurements around the globe, and it shows that CO2 concentrations have increased from about 280 ppm at the dawn of the industrial revolution to 382 ppm right now. The trend of annual emissions increases is accelerating rapidly. But all this is academic, as they say. If you choose to dispute the above, I suggest you contact the flat earth society. They are always looking for new members.

Taking the issue beyond the above requires an open mind to science. That's a radical idea for the politically indoctrinated! The recently released IPCC report is based on a consensus process involving scientists from around the world - several thousand of them, in fact. The consensus process included top scientists from Saudi Arabia and other oil producing states. Since they have a vested interest in minimizing the extent of warming, and since it is a consensus process, it stands to reason that the final document and conclusions are inherently conservative. The IPCC concluded that observed warming is more than 90% likely to be due to human activities, and that the warming will accelerate over the coming decades. Many other scientists believe we have at most a few decades to remake the way we produce energy and use the planet's resources if we want to continue enjoying this little Eden we were gifted some time ago.

Where I live, in the Pacific Northwest, we've seen an average temperature increase of 3 degrees F since 1950. That's significant, to say the least. Assuming it continues (and all the evidence points to the fact that the warming trend is accelerating), I and everyone I know will be living in a very different place within a few decades at the most. And it will not be a better place, I can guarantee you.

I live in a region defined by cool weather, and hotter summers have brought us more and more wildfires that literally threaten to change the face of the region over a short period of time if the warming continues. I am a farmer (I grow winegrapes. The National Academy of Sciences study released last July (yes, I know, they are a bunch of left wing Al Gore lovers) concluded that, given a "business as usual" scenario, nearly all of Northern California and Western Oregon will be too hot to grow winegrapes later this century.

I know, I know, the problems of grape growers are pretty meaningless in the context of a much hotter world. But my story illustrates the real-world impact of global warming on a particular place on the planet, and on the lives that real people lead here.

I hope that everyone (that includes you) wakes up to this reality in time to make the changes necessary to keep this planet livable for my six-year old, as well as everyone else's children. I imagine, however, that some folks will still be arguing about the reality, and causes, of global warming after the Greenland ice sheet melts completely. Will you be one of them? That day is coming much sooner than you think.