IPCC WG2 Report: Impacts, Adaptation & Vulnerability (4of6)

Webcast of the IPCC Working Group 2 "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability"

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[vsizemore]

The decision was not viewed in that light, it was viewed in the light of DDT being bad, not on the potential effect of not using it. It was the same case with the ban on chloro-fluoro-carbons, the ban resulted in less refrigeration worldwide causing food shortages and starvation, but the ozone was safe at least, human cost be damned.

[calvinjones]

You have made quite a few assertions that i dont agree with, but beign a skeptic and therefore open to new ideas i might believe some of this if you backed it up. Both cfc's and ddt if in large scale use today would be disasterous.

[vsizemore]

Is he talking about disease borne through mosquitoes? Wouldn't this have been solved and 50 million lives saved if the environmentalist hadn't had the short sighted plan to ban DDT?

[calvinjones]

I`m not sure about the answer to your question, i have a feeling that in some of the seriously infested areas they deed keep using DDT as the problem was so dire, however most mosquitos are now DDT resistent.

[vsizemore]

Not true, the US policy was to stop all aid to countries who used DDT, malaria was basically eradicated at the time. With no evidence that DDT actually caused cancer in humans, this policy caused nearly 50 million deaths from the resurgence of malaria. DDT is now being used again to fight this major problem that was once solved.

[calvinjones]

I wonder where you get your information from? I am against use of DDT in most cases but i would agree that it is a ballance decision, if there are not viable alternatives and human health implications are severe. I dont think that any environmentalist would put wildlife before human health which is what you are saying if you have information to the contrary i'd like to see it.

[valcat9]

Yeah, coming from a guy like you -- who has viewed (and SPAMMED) over 23,000 videos -- that means nothing. You're a pathetic broken record of lies.

[JonThm]

The IPCC exists to doel out research grants on 'GLOBAL WARMING' THEY SHOULD LOOK UP THE MEANING OF 'INDEPENDANT' IN A DICTIONARY, BECAUSE THETY ARE SO NOT!

[vsizemore]

I guess links don't work here, but look into 3billionandcounting dot com/index2.php for statistics about the effect of ddt ban on Africa. Some think it was racism in disguise.

[vsizemore]

How disastrous? There was no proof behind these disastrous effects, but the facts are there that over 50 million people have died from preventable malaria since the banning of ddt.