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UN LINKS PAKISTAN FLOOD TO CLIMATE CHANGES!!
What does the bible say about climate change @ the end of this age?
The Bible makes it quite clear that there will be a definite end to life as we know it. Earth's governmental systems, economic and trading systems, animal kingdom, and even geology will all be changed at the Second Coming of Christ. Our current age is coming to a dramatic end as God deals with rebellious nations. During a brief period at the end of this age God will exact a series of judgements on the nations, and this includes changes to earth's climate! Isaiah 24-27 is sometimes called 'Isaiah's Apocalypse' since it describes God's judgement upon the entire world for its sin (it also correlates well with judgements on the earth described in Revelation).
UNITED NATIONS (Aug. 20) -- Pakistan is awash with the worst flooding in more than a century; Russia fights wildfires stemming from unprecedented high temperatures; China faces mudslides of an intensity unseen in decades. For many scientists and political leaders, the confluence of these weather catastrophes amounts to tragic evidence that climate change is not just a future concern but a present danger.
"Climate change with all its severity and unpredictability has become a reality for 170 million Pakistanis," Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. "The present situation in Pakistan reconfirms our extreme vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change."
Noting that climate change also "complicates the reconstruction and rehabilitation scenario in Pakistan," Qureshi added that "nature has made a graphic endorsement to strengthen the case for a fair and equitable outcome" in now stalled climate change negotiations.
Khalid Tanveer, AP
Trucks are stranded on a flooded highway in Baseera, Pakistan, on Friday.
The U.N.'s unanimous resolution to strengthen emergency relief to Pakistan noted that the unprecedented floods reflected "the adverse impact of climate change and the growing vulnerability of countries to climate change."
Scientists are generally more circumspect than politicians on that link, given the very real distinction between extreme weather and climate change. As AOL News' weather reporter Paul Yeager has pointed out, "Global warming cannot be refuted by a year of widespread record cold or proven by a year of widespread record warmth."
In its 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body created by the U.N., concluded that "it is very likely that hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent."
IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri told Inter Press Service that while it would be scientifically incorrect to link any single set of events with human-induced climate change, "the floods of the kind that hit Pakistan may become more frequent and more intense in the future in this and other parts of the world."
Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization made a similarly qualified assessment. "While a longer time range is required to establish whether an individual event is attributable to climate change, the sequence of current events matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming," it said.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, WMO director Ghassem Asrar said that higher Atlantic Ocean temperatures contributed to the intense monsoon rains that precipitated the flooding in Pakistan. "There's no doubt that clearly the climate change is contributing, a major contributing factor," Asrar said.
"Climate change with all its severity and unpredictability has become a reality for 170 million Pakistanis," Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan's foreign minister, told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. "The present situation in Pakistan reconfirms our extreme vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change."
Noting that climate change also "complicates the reconstruction and rehabilitation scenario in Pakistan," Qureshi added that "nature has made a graphic endorsement to strengthen the case for a fair and equitable outcome" in now stalled climate change negotiations.
Khalid Tanveer, AP
Trucks are stranded on a flooded highway in Baseera, Pakistan, on Friday.
The U.N.'s unanimous resolution to strengthen emergency relief to Pakistan noted that the unprecedented floods reflected "the adverse impact of climate change and the growing vulnerability of countries to climate change."
Scientists are generally more circumspect than politicians on that link, given the very real distinction between extreme weather and climate change. As AOL News' weather reporter Paul Yeager has pointed out, "Global warming cannot be refuted by a year of widespread record cold or proven by a year of widespread record warmth."
In its 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific body created by the U.N., concluded that "it is very likely that hot extremes, heat waves and heavy precipitation events will continue to become more frequent."
IPCC chief R.K. Pachauri told Inter Press Service that while it would be scientifically incorrect to link any single set of events with human-induced climate change, "the floods of the kind that hit Pakistan may become more frequent and more intense in the future in this and other parts of the world."
Earlier this month, the World Meteorological Organization made a similarly qualified assessment. "While a longer time range is required to establish whether an individual event is attributable to climate change, the sequence of current events matches IPCC projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming," it said.
In a recent interview with The New York Times, WMO director Ghassem Asrar said that higher Atlantic Ocean temperatures contributed to the intense monsoon rains that precipitated the flooding in Pakistan. "There's no doubt that clearly the climate change is contributing, a major contributing factor," Asrar said.
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