Woh, its getting hot in here!

[Lerkot]

Yeah a little topic about the climate changes would perhaps fit well today. Not because its that hot today, but because some kind of UN report has been released on the subject.

If you dont know what im talking about then I have a quote that sums it up pretty good:

"The contents of the IPCC report have been an open secret since the Bush administration posted its draft copy on the internet in April. It says there is a 90% chance that human activity is warming the planet, and that global average temperatures will rise by another 1.5 to 5.8C this century, depending on emissions."

The big problem in the climate question is the big country country in the Northwest that wouldnt sign the Kyoto Protocol because it would hurt their economy. The big country who is gonna kill us all someday. The big country who only cares about their on wealth, ignores the UN and definetily doesnt care about the world, the people or about anything else than their own wallet. Luckily, some of the people leading the country into that direction will soon be gone.

But first it is interesting to see their methods.

From The Guardian:

"Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered.

The UN report was written by international experts and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive review yet of climate change science. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012. World governments were given a draft last year and invited to comment.

The AEI has received more than $1.6m from ExxonMobil and more than 20 of its staff have worked as consultants to the Bush administration. Lee Raymond, a former head of ExxonMobil, is the vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.

The letters, sent to scientists in Britain, the US and elsewhere, attack the UN's panel as "resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent and prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work" and ask for essays that "thoughtfully explore the limitations of climate model outputs"."