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Germany To U.S.: Cut Emissions or Face Disaster (It came true)

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Jome:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1184469,00.html

Article is dated 2004, zee Germans saw this one coming.. and it may happen again.


--- Quote ---Trittin: We want to save the U.S.

If the U.S. does not take action to reduce its emissions, Trittin warned, parts of the East Coast and nature reserves like the Everglades in Florida could be covered with water in several decades due to the melting of glaciers, which threaten to the sea level worldwide.

"We, from the other side, want to save these areas of the U.S.," Trittin said. "We love the Everglades, for example. And this is the reason why we think the Kyoto Protocol must enter into force."

Trittin read out a laundry list of celluloid nightmares of global warming, from Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" to Roland Emmerich's latest movie, which depicts the Earth falling into an overnight ice age as a result of global warming.

"We have a challenge," he said. "The challenge is that the reality of 'The Day After Tomorrow' should not become reality, the picture should not become reality. Therefore, the next 15 years are key for preventing polar ice caps from melting. And this is the reason why we think the Kyoto Protocol must enter into force."
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The same Jürgen Trittin recently told German TV-station ZDF: "Americans have themselves to blame. Germany have reduced emissions with 18.5% since 1990, but in U.S., emissions are rising and rising. It shows on the environment."

According to Trittin, the average American is responsible for 2.5 times as much emissions as the average European, and he is very skeptical to George Bush for declining the Kyoto Protocol, and says it will most likely happen again.

7even:
It's not the first time. We warned them before 9/11, we still warn them about stuff now and then, and in a couple years there will be the consequences we predicted. Right now we try to cut atomic energy and work on using wind energy and shit, we might see somebody crying in 50 years because they didnt.

mauzip:

--- Quote from: 7even the Opinion Maker on August 31, 2005, 07:43:42 AM ---Right now we try to cut atomic energy and work on using wind energy and shit

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Yeah, Germany is unique in that.

mauzip:

--- Quote from: Trauma on August 31, 2005, 08:19:59 AM ---OH, I get it!  Bush caused the Hurricane.  You are fucking pathetic.  There's people dead over here and you see it as political. 

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The point is that the US has been warned about this and didn't do anything with the information.

Jome:

--- Quote from: Trauma on August 31, 2005, 08:19:59 AM ---OH, I get it! Bush caused the Hurricane. You are fucking pathetic. There's people dead over here and you see it as political.

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^^ Who are you referring to ?

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