Ask Obama and Daschle about global warming.
By on May 1st, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Ask Obama and Daschle about global warming.
Former Sen. Tom Daschle and Sen. Barack Obama hold a townhall conversation tonight to discuss energy and climate change. If you have a question, email it to townhall@campusprogress.org. The event will be webcast beginning at 6:30 pm EST. Watch it here.
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NO!…..let’s talk about IMPEACHMENT instead and then we CAN do something about global warming.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:05 pmugh…the live stream doesnt seem to be working for me…maybe it’ll take a couple more minutes.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:30 pmSenators Daschle and Obama,
Are we ever going to hold Corporate America accountable for its part in global warming? Or are we going to follow the advice of the Republican Party and give corporations a free pass to pollute the environment every which way that suits them?
May 1st, 2006 at 6:33 pmis the video working for anyone?
May 1st, 2006 at 6:36 pmokay, it’s working now.
May 1st, 2006 at 6:38 pmclimate change may not (or may) turn out to be as bad as some of the predictions,but it seems fairly shortsighted to not address the issue. Yet under the current adminsitration, there has been a lot of posturing and rhetoric about the economy and the need to study the matter futher, which really bear little relevance to the actual issue. There has also, more disturbingly, also been evidence of an attempt at times to control the outflow of information on the issue, more disturbing for an open democracy, and consistent with a highly secretive, closed administration.
May 1st, 2006 at 9:12 pmI believe that the evidence for global warming is amazing, even to the untrained eye or with the slightest inclination toward research! The springs/summers are coming earlier & warmer; tornados & hurricanes are more numerous & stronger; New Orleans is the 1st of potentially a dozen cities who could be in the same predicament with widespread flooding…Now I read that several populations of Arctic/Antarctic species are being stressed/dying because ice melts are making it too far for the animals to find food from their breeding grounds! How can the President, or even congress willingly ignore these signs? Are they just hoping to slither through the remainder of the term and dump the problems on the next guys? Two years may be longer than we have even now before a catastrophic event due to warming that is left to grow unchecked-let alone halted or improved…I have a 20-yr-old daughter who’ll be having her own children someday soon…I pray for the world to still be even a little better for them, for us to have preserved it for their futures…Sincerely, Jennifer
May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pmThe nuclear waste that is spilling in Washington state should be a major priority for our govt.
We’re talking major disaster and both pugs and dems are doing nothing.
Google spilled nuke waste in WA, you’ll be appalled at the incompetence of the Energy Dept.
Yes, global warming is happening and thats only the “tip of the iceberg”.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:29 pmDaschle who was for the bankruptcy bill. And Obama who voted for Rice. Perfect pair.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:56 pmOh good…another town hell meeting. Talk, debate, posture. The evidence is known by every third grader. When will our leaders do something constructive…I mean for for the average tax payer? Bullshit!
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:25 amWHAT GLOBAL WARMING?In the northeast Winter 2004-2005 was cold as hell and terribly snowy. winter 2005-06 was much milder. NO ONE repeat NO ONE knows what next winter will be. The arrogance of man is to think that anything we do has a real effect on nature. Like the dinosaur before us when mother nature is done with us, she will be rid of us. If you want to discuss our pollution of water and air I’m with you there.But the damage WE do only affects OUR quality of life. We as a people have no lasting effect. If we do, show me how to melt a glacier or rip the ozone. We cant do it, and we cant slow down the melting or close the hole. Yet the ozone hole lessened after a volcano erruption. Again mother nature at her best.
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:18 am*cough* we get some smart people here..
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:20 amThe most important aspect of global warming is methane released from melting permafrost ice. This has lead to runaway global warming in the past. Instead of a rise of a couple of degrees C by the end of the century, we could be looking at an 8 C rise (like Dr Lovelock predicts). That would result in a bottleneck for humanity.
This isn’t so preposterious a senario, because there is an est. 400 billion tons of methane locked up in permafrost ice, and an est. 10,000 billion tons of methane locked up in the ocean bottom. This positive feedback loop means that the earth could well emit much more greenhouse gas than humans before the end of the century.
May 2nd, 2006 at 2:45 amAfter NO got sunk, after 2 years of record breaking hurricanes, we still get to argue over global warming. I would say that the evidence for it is pretty damn persuasive right now.
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:41 amIt’s funny how people living at any particular time in history are so nearsighted that they think thier life-time is when “everything” happens. I think I heard the weather guys say that last year was the most active hurricane season since 1800-something. Well, doesn ‘t that mean that in 1800-something there was a hurricane season just as bad, if not worse? What made that happen? Was there global warming back then?
It’s a bunch of hype *cough* and there needs to be just a little more common sense around here.
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:44 am#15 They only cite statistics going back to when they started keeping records, which was in 18-something. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the hurricane season then was as bad as or worse than now. It simply means that there is a point at which the official records stop and all the stories from before that time become apocryphal.
The Earth is indisputably getting warmer overall, and human activity is definitely playing a part in hastening that warming trend.
But, of course, the Earth will go along just fine without us humans on it.
May 2nd, 2006 at 5:32 pm