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The authors argue that "the purpose of this report is to imagine the unthinkable - to push the boundaries of current research on climate change in order to better understand the possible implications for the national security of the United States."
See this article surrendered today and the surprising scenario that is being realized
This report was commissioned by the Pentagon, led by Andrew Marshall, influential adviser to Donald Rumsfeld. Its authors are Peter Schwartz, CIA consultant and former head of planning at Royal Dutch / Shell, and Doug Randall of Global Business Network, a consulting firm based in California.
The report had been "betrayed" in October 2003 but its disclosure outside the military spheres has been hampered by the American authorities because its findings ran counter to the arguments usually defended by the Bush administration. This controversy was partly overshadowed the substance of the report, paradoxically, there was little discussed his findings in the major media.
Firstly it must be stressed there is a completely original authors: it is not a question of whether the earth is warming, or how, but ask the question of the consequences for the national security of the United States, United abrupt climate change. No philanthropy here, but a political act, in the sense that it is better to anticipate act. |
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The conference was held in Davos, Switzerland, from 1 to 3 October 2007 and was attended by 400 participants from nearly one hundred countries. Placed under the auspices of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), United Nations Programme for Environment (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), it followed a first conference that was held in Djerba in 2003. Placed under the auspices of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), United Nations Programme for Environment (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), it followed a first conference that was held in 2003 in Djerba.
It was recalled that CO2 emissions related to tourism (1307 Mt in 2005, 3 million tons in 2035 if nothing is done) represented 4.95% of total emissions, and particularly in the transport (75%) . It was recalled that CO2 emissions related to tourism (1307 Mt in 2005, 3 million tons in 2035 if nothing is done) represented 4.95% of total emissions, and particularly in the transport (75%).
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Tourism is both an actor, but also a victim of global warming. Tourism is both an actor, but also a victim of global warming. This dual interaction translates directly and indirectly in the form of extreme weather events, lasting and substantial deterioration of the environment in tourist areas, behaviour change and shift of tourist flows, higher transportation costs. This dual interaction translates directly and indirectly in the form of extreme weather events, lasting and substantial deterioration of the environment in tourist areas, behaviour change and shift of tourist flows, higher transportation costs. |
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The prospect of the entry into force of the Kyoto Protocol and its potential for mobilizing resources in the order of several tens of billions of dollars per year, part of which could be used to the Mechanism for Clean Development, has demonstrated the importance of formalizing a mechanism in the Government to direct those resources to national development priorities.
Then there is the need to intensify the measures already undertaken by the Ministry of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Ministry of Environment concerning 'fulfillment of the commitments into force for Brazil, under the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change. Given the importance of this topic in the field of international relations, the complexity and multiple feature themes related to climate, the treatment of this subject calls for the joint actions of different government bodies.
The creation of an Interministerial Commission on Climate Change has been proposed, given that there was no specific organization in the structure of the Administration of the State to coordinate and articulate actions deemed appropriate for the setting implement the necessary measures.
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The issue of global warming linked to human activities has been identified long before the phenomenon began to materialize. Since 1896, a Swedish scientist, Svante Archeries which will later Nobel laureate, noted that industrial civilization was based on extensive use of fossil fuels, resulting in carbon dioxide emissions. It had examined the carbon cycle and concluded that these emissions were at relatively short term, cause twice the concentration of this gas in the atmosphere and, therefore, greenhouse effect, an increase in average global temperature of 'about 4 degrees. Work Archeries constituted a development of Joseph Fourier remarks that he made in 1826 on the role of the atmosphere over the temperature of our planet. Beginning in the late 1950's, scientific and technical advances have enabled geophysicists and geochemists to model the behavior of carbon and the influence of atmospheric composition change on the global climate. Starting in 1958, they began to carefully measure the content of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In 1967 the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), in collaboration with the International Council of Scientific Unions (now known as International Council for Science), the largest non-governmental scientific organization that brings together the science academies of almost all countries and major international scientific unions covering all scientific disciplines, have established the Global Programme of Atmospheric Research (GARP). In 1980, ICSU and WMO jointly created the World Programme for Research on Climate (WCRP), a programme which later joined the International Oceanographic Committee. In 1986, the ICSU initiated the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). They are essentially those programmes which have been the source of numerous scientific publications that constitute the basic material which was relied scientists concerned for alerting public opinion that they were a danger only to understand, but there is a twenty years. |
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