Author: postMigrator

Published on Friday, November 28, 2008 by The Independent/UK

by Elizabeth Barrett

Up to 30,000 climate refugees could be created if plans to build a new coal-fired power station go ahead, a report claimed today.

The findings by the World Development Movement were released as environmental activists prepare to stage a 48-hour protest today as part of their ongoing campaign against the new plant at Kingsnorth power station in Kent.

The group’s report entitled “Carbon Evictions: the UK’s role in the forced migration of climate refugees”, claims 30,000 people – the population of Strood, close to the site – would become refugees worldwide as a result of the new plant.

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We may be looking at a future in which shipping-perhaps even sailing vessels-may make a big comeback. If so-hopefully people won’t clearcut forests in order to do that.

ASW
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“Today’s global road emissions have a strong and long-lasting effect on climate.”

“….for aviation there is a strong short-term warming by aviation-induced contrails and cirrus clouds…. climate effects that decrease relatively quickly over time”

“Current shipping emissions differ from emissions from the road and aviation sectors by having a cooling effect on climate that lasts  30-70 years. This cooling effect results from the very high emissions of SO2 and NOx. However, the warming effect will dominate in the long term because shipping also emits significant amounts of CO2.”

See:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121081355.htm>

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I have the WWF full report as pdf file. Please feel free to ask.
Lance

“Lance Olsen” <lance@wildrockies.org>
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“…early signs of change suggest that the less than 1°C of global warming
that the world has experienced to date may have already triggered the first
tipping point of the Earth’s climate system”

“The reality of 2008 tells us that climate change is causing dangerous
anthropogenic interference at lower thresholds and earlier than expected..”
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WWF
A CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY –
GLOBAL GREENHOUSE REALITY 2008
By Dr. Martin Sommerkorn, WWF International
Arctic Programme, msommerkorn@wwf.no

Summary

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