Current decade is the warmest
Thursday, 10 December 2009
From Fazle Rashid
NEW YORK: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), whose reticent posture, on the Global Warming issue had surprised many, burst into the scene saying the current decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest in the modern record.
The WMO announcement is likely to be viewed as a rejoinder to renewed challenge from skeptics to scientific evidence for global warming, the New York Times (NYT) in a report said.
A controversy is now raging about the real impact of the global warming. A group of scientists claim that the consequences of the impact of the global warming has been highly exaggerated. Fanciful ideas about the cost that would be required to off-set the impact that have been floated in many countries including Bangladesh are totally divorced from facts. If negotiators reach an accord on climate change, it will cause dislocations everywhere from extraction of oil, to agriculture, forestry and living areas of the people.
In energy infrastructure alone, the transformational ambitions that delegates to the UN climate change are expected to set in, will cost more than $10 trillion ($10 trillion), in additional investment from 2010 to 2030, the NYT in a front page news quoted the International Energy Agency as saying.
Vulnerable poor countries are demanding gigantic transfer of wealth from rich nations. The poor nations are insisting that the rich nations make deeper emissions cuts and contribute more to help the poor nations. The rich nations have agreed to contribute $10 billion a year for next three years to the poor nations to help them to adapt the new measures. But the rich nations are sharply divided over the issue. The United States has committed its " fair share ": but has not specified the amount. The US usually picks up quarter to a third of the tab.
NEW YORK: The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), whose reticent posture, on the Global Warming issue had surprised many, burst into the scene saying the current decade of 2000 to 2009 appears to be the warmest in the modern record.
The WMO announcement is likely to be viewed as a rejoinder to renewed challenge from skeptics to scientific evidence for global warming, the New York Times (NYT) in a report said.
A controversy is now raging about the real impact of the global warming. A group of scientists claim that the consequences of the impact of the global warming has been highly exaggerated. Fanciful ideas about the cost that would be required to off-set the impact that have been floated in many countries including Bangladesh are totally divorced from facts. If negotiators reach an accord on climate change, it will cause dislocations everywhere from extraction of oil, to agriculture, forestry and living areas of the people.
In energy infrastructure alone, the transformational ambitions that delegates to the UN climate change are expected to set in, will cost more than $10 trillion ($10 trillion), in additional investment from 2010 to 2030, the NYT in a front page news quoted the International Energy Agency as saying.
Vulnerable poor countries are demanding gigantic transfer of wealth from rich nations. The poor nations are insisting that the rich nations make deeper emissions cuts and contribute more to help the poor nations. The rich nations have agreed to contribute $10 billion a year for next three years to the poor nations to help them to adapt the new measures. But the rich nations are sharply divided over the issue. The United States has committed its " fair share ": but has not specified the amount. The US usually picks up quarter to a third of the tab.