Climate
Criminals And
Climate Genocide
By Gideon Polya
02 July, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) Fourth Assessment Report
(2007) warns of the following disasters this century if mankind does
not respond urgently to anthropogenic climate change: possible temperature
increases of up to 4 degrees Centigrade, sea level rises of up to 0.6
metres, massive damage to agriculture and serious threat to huge populations,
especially in Asia and Africa. Further, the IPCC warns that “anthropogenic
warming and sea level rise would continue for centuries due to the timescales
associated with climate processes and feedbacks, even if greenhouse
gas concentrations were to be stabilized” (IPCC, Climate Change
2007: the physical science basis. Summary for policy makers: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf
).
Now a recent scientific paper
by top American climate change experts, NASA’s Dr James Hansen
and colleagues, and published by the prestigious UK Royal Society, says
that the IPCC warnings are actually UNDER-estimated and warns of an
impending “cataclysm”. Dr Hansen and colleagues conclude:
“Palaeoclimate data show that the Earth's climate is remarkably
sensitive to global forcings. Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows
the entire planet to be whipsawed between climate states. One feedback,
the 'albedo flip' property of ice/water, provides a powerful trigger
mechanism. A climate forcing that 'flips' the albedo [light reflection
capacity] of a sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm.
Inertia of ice sheet and ocean provides only moderate delay to ice sheet
disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse
gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate
change that could run out of our control, with great dangers for humans
and other creatures. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest human-made
climate forcing, but other trace constituents are also important. Only
intense simultaneous efforts to slow CO2 emissions and reduce non-CO2
forcings can keep climate within or near the range of the past million
years” (Dr James Hansen et al, Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society, vol. 365, 1925-1954 (2007), “Climate change and
trace gases”: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/
ontent/l3h462k7p4068780/fulltext.html ).
Professor James Lovelock
FRS goes even further. In his recent book “The Revenge of Gaia”
(London, 2006) Dr Lovelock says that it may already be too late, that
the control systems regulating the global temperature may be too severely
damaged already. A gloomy summation of Dr Lovelock’s position
by Commondreams.( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0116-06.htm
) is blunt: “Environment in crisis: “We are beyond the point
of no return’”.
Urgent global action is demanded
by the IPCC, the US National Academy of Science, the UK Royal Society,
former World Bank Chief Economists Sir Nicholas Stern (UK) and Economics
Nobel Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz (US) and an overwhelming international
scientific consensus. Thus Sir Nicholas Stern believes that urgent action
now will enable stabilization of the Earth’s atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) to about 500 ppm (parts per million) and that acting NOW
will be far cheaper economically than leaving it till later (see: The
Stern Review: the economics of climate change (2006):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/
shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/30_10_06_exec_sum.pdf ). Professor Stiglitz has
stated that Sir Nicholas Stern’s position is actually conservative.
Indeed in “The Revenge
of Gaia” Professor Lovelock states that at 500 ppm CO2 the Greenland
ice shelf goes and so does the ocean phytoplankton system that is vital
for global temperature homeostasis (balance) through sequestering CO2
and generating dimethyl sulphide (that helps nucleate the formation
of sunlight-reflecting clouds).
Recent summaries by the prestigious
New Scientist shows that the atmospheric CO2 concentration is currently
about 380 ppm (parts per million) but is increasing at a rate (3.3%
per year) corresponding to the WORST scenario envisaged by the IPCC
i.e. of unaddressed carbon pollution (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10507
-carbon-emissions-rising-faster-than-ever.html ).
However the US Bush Administration
and the pro-Bush Australian Federal Government refuse to sign the Kyoto
Protocol or to constrain CO2 pollution as revealed by the following
statistics for “annual per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution”
(tonnes CO2 per person per year) (2004): 19.2 (for AUSTRALIA; 40 if
you include Australia’s “world’s biggest” coal
exports), 19.7 (the US), 18.4 (Canada), 16.4 (Netherlands), 11.9 (Russia),
10.4 (Germany), 9.9 (Japan), 9.7 (UK), 8.5 (Italy), 6.7 (France), 4.2
(the World), 3.6 (China), 3.6 (Argentina), 2.0 (Egypt), 1.8 (Brazil),
1.0 (India), 0.7 (Pakistan), 0.7 (Nigeria), and 0.25 (for Bangladesh)
(US Energy Information Administration (2006):
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/
Notes%20for%20Table%20H_1co2.html ).
Who are the climate
criminals (climate terrorists) and who are the climate victims?
The major climate criminals
are clearly the Western countries with the HIGHEST annual per capita
fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution, most notably the stand-out Kyoto
Protocol NON-signatories Bush America (the world’s worst greenhouse
gas polluter) and Bush-ite Australia (the world’s biggest coal
exporter and the world’s big country with the world’s highest
“annual capita greenhouse gas pollution” if coal exports
are included ) (see the World Bank report:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTDATASTA/
64199955-1178226923002/21322619/LGDB2007.pdf and http://www.kab.org.au/_dbase_upl/KABWeekFactsheet.pdf
and http://www.greenhousegases.gov.au/
about_greenhouse_gases/australia's_emissions.html ).
In contrast, the major “climate victim” countries threatened
by climate criminal-impelled global warming, drought and inundation
through sea level rises (climate genocide) are African, South American
and Asian countries with major river delta systems and with “annual
per capita fossil fuel-derived CO2 pollution” (tonnes CO2 per
person per year) (2004) BELOW that of the World (4.2), notably China
(3.6), Argentina (3.6), Egypt (2.0), Brazil (1.8), India (1.0), Pakistan
(0.7), Nigeria (0.7) and Bangladesh (0.25).
What can decent and
responsible people do?
We cannot ignore this mounting
threat to humanity – we cannot walk by on the other side. Already,
in 2006 a Bengali island, Lohachara Island, once home to 10,000 of our
fellow human beings, finally disappeared under the waves. We are obliged
to (a) inform others about gross abuses of humanity and (b) to take
peaceful action against those complicit in such atrocities. Sanctions
and boycotts worked against the racist atrocity of Apartheid South Africa
and may well help constrain the implicitly racist atrocity of climate
genocide being foisted on the world by climate criminal Bush America
and Bush-ite Australia.
It has recently been estimated
that the ACTUAL price of coal-based electricity (taking into account
the environmental and human cost) can be about 4 times higher than the
present commercial cost. However this Canadian estimate was conservative
and may have UNDER-estimated the additional environmental cost due to
climate change by a factor of TEN (10) (see: http://www.evworld.com/news.cfm?newsid=8836
). Nevertheless this ACTUAL COST estimate indicates that a number
of renewable options (notably wind power and concentrated solar power,
CSP) are ALREADY competitive on current costings with the TRUE cost
of coal-based electricity i.e. for economic reasons the coal should
stay in the ground. Those greedy, corrupt, intrinsically racist climate
criminals (climate terrorists) that IGNORE the science, the technology
and economics and remain committed to fossil fuel-based energy to the
cost of Humanity will eventually get the BILL for the full COST of their
racist irresponsibility and the consequent climate genocide.
However the Western world
is dominated by lying, racist, Bush-ite media who are still giving the
climate criminals a free run to pollute the planet at the expense of
the Developing World. The WORDS of the world’s most eminent scientists,
technologists and economists are FAILING under the weight of corporate
Mainstream media lies and spin.
However when Words Fail you
can say it in Pictures – and I have attempted to do this in relation
to anthropogenic global warming by creating a HUGE painting “TERRA”
(the Earth) and widely disseminating the image (for an EXPANDABLE IMAGE
see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15671/42/
).
“TERRA” is a
HUGE PAINTING that involves an ecumenical, amity-promoting fusion of
Islamic and Western styles like its HUGE, pro-Peace, pro-Humanity sister
paintings “ISFAHAN MATISSE” (http://mwcnews.net/content/view/14417/26/
), “ALHAMBRA POLLOCK” (http://mwcnews.net/content/view/9547/26/
) and “QANA” (http://mwcnews.net/content/view/9547/26/
). “TERRA” has been created to help save Spaceship Earth
(and Bengal, India and South Asia in particular) from what an overwhelming
international scientific consensus agrees is a dire threat from greenhouse
gas-driven global warming.
Both water-deficient and
river delta (deltaic) regions around the world (notably those of South
Asia e.g. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan) are acutely threatened by
global warming. Already about 16 million people die avoidably around
the world each year (3.7 million in India alone) (see: “Body Count.
Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne,
2007): http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/
). Please inform all your associates and please feel free to reproduce
“TERRA” and its attendant message with attribution in the
interests of our Planet and Humanity.
Dr Gideon Polya published
some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge
pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive
Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London,
2003). He has just published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality
since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/
).
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