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In Science We Trust. Pray to Your God!

You mean people like this guy:

“I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you’re a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I-concerned.”

—George W. Bush, Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 2005

• An estimated 50% of surface permafrost will melt by 2050, and 90% by 2100.

• Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2-the sudden release of just 35 billion tons of methane would be like doubling the CO2 in the air.

Massive amounts of methane from melting permafrost ice will soon flood the air-far outpacing human greenhouse gas pollution.

• The effect of methane flooding the air is runaway global warming-this disastrous positive feedback loop has occurred before.

• Ocean bottom ice will start to melt-releasing some of the estimated 10,000 billion tons of methane trapped in it.

• A potential bottleneck for mankind-an existential threat to nations.

• The only solution is biological sequestration-removing the CO2 from the air after it is emitted.

Benny Peiser?
You must be kidding.
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/03/peiser_admits_to_making_a_mist.php
http://timlambert.org/2005/05/peiser/

John Christy?
You must be kidding.
He still cannot get over the fact that the MSU, just like the surface data, proves global warming. The guy is a joke.
http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2003/wigley2.html

Who else do you have?
Tim Ball who said that global warming stopped in 1940?
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/tim_ball_global_warming_stoppe.php

Tim Patterson, Bob Carter who lie like other people breath?
http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/06/an_embarrassment_to_australian.php
http://timlambert.org/2005/04/bobcarter/

Ross McKitrick, who is more creative than the Grimm brothers?
http://timlambert.org/category/science/mckitrick/

Give up. Gore won the debate.
After more than two decades of Lindzen-type denial from wingers and corrupt scientists you are the losers and you know that your days are numbered.
Bush leaves the White House and the next president will regulate CO2, like it or not.

By the way, this is my favorite wingnut attack on Gore which clearly illustrate why
Ann Coulter-fans are just unable of getting the science of global warming:

From the New York Post:
“The final shot of Gore shows him bravely silhouetted against the cosmos, a lone figure tenderly surveying the firmament.”
http://www.nypost.com/movies/66485.htm

David Roberts’ response:
“No. The final shot of Gore does not show him silhouetted against the cosmos. That’s a hurricane, dumbass.”
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/6/4/223644/8563

Jesus.

Pulled out of the Kyoto agreement on global warming, which was agreed upon by 178 other countries.

Proposes to legalize the release of inadequately treated sewage into waterways while cutting funding for water quality investments(32%) and infrastructure (40%).

Doctored the EPA’s Draft Report on the Environment so it wouldn’t include any mention of the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding the global warming threat.

Proposes to remove regulations on mercury pollution.

Proposed weakening the New Source Review regulation of the Clear Air Act. The changes allow older coal-fired power plants and other facilities to avoid installing pollution controls when they expand or repair existing facilities. According to environmental advocates, just 51 of the power plants subject to new source review enforcement helped cause the premature deaths of 5,500 to 9,000 people each year many from respiratory diseases, and could cause 30,000- pollution related deaths over the next 20 years.

Clear Skies allows more than twice as much S02 for nearly a decade longer (2010 – 2018), than the Clean Air Act currently allows. The plan also allows more than one and a half times as much NOx for nearly a decade longer (2010-2018). This act also allows power plants to emit triple the amount of mercury into the environment.

Bush took steps to abolish the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Opened 191 million acres of public lands to increased commercial logging (The Health Forest Initiative). After this, he proposed to reverse a federal regulation to protect 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.

Cut $500 million from the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget.

Bush proposed a bill to prevent groups from suing to have an animal placed on the Endangered Species List.

Came out against international efforts to restrict the use of sonar anywhere in the world, especially by the U.S. Navy, even though the sonar poses a threat to ocean wildlife. This decision puts the administration at odds with many European nations as more evidence emerges linking the use of active sonar and the beaching of whales and other ocean mammals.

Revoked rule to reduce the acceptable level of arsenic in drinking water. Proposed to cut $35 million from the national lead poisoning prevention program and refused to regulate mercury (while secretly altering scientific findings as to its danger) through the same tough approach used for other hazardous air pollutants (Bush adopted industry supported rules).

Requested Congress to exempt the Pentagon from environmental laws pertaining to air pollution, toxic waste dumps, and endangered species.

Bush refused to federally fund the continued clean up of a uranium-slag heap in Utah.

Proposes building 63 new nuclear power plants ($4.7 million increase in nuclear power funding), increasing funding in the Coal Research Initiative by $69 million and the Clean Coal Power Initiative by $109 million (60 percent), and seeks to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The AP reports that Bush’s top energy priority as he enters his second term is to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling.

On October 7, 2002, Bush stated “We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”

Proposes energy industry tax breaks and subsidies costing $23 billion over the next 10 years. Cut funding for renewable energy resources in 2002 by $190 million, by $35.8 million in 2003, by $137 million in 2004, and the 2005 budget will cut overall energy efficiency and conservation by more than $2 million. Proposes cutting solar energy programs by more than $3 million and biomass by $14 million.

Bush pushed the deadline up indefinitely for automakers to develop prototype high mileage cars.

Had his administration manipulate the 2005 cattle grazing report in order to loosen regulations for cattle grazing on over 160 million acres of public lands.

Alcoa, the third largest contributor to the Bush campaign, was allowed by Bush (as governor) to work a loophole into the Texas environmental regulations which allowed Alcoa to emit 60,000 tons of sulfer dioxide each year.

Failed to protect three million acres of the Tongass National Forest from logging. The Tongass has the highest concentration of bald eagles on earth and has already lost 700 square miles to logging with 33 more longing permits pending.

Bush eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

Eliminated the Wetland Reserve Program. It was designed to encourage and reward farmers for maintaining a wetlands habitat on their property.

Abolished rules mandating energy-saving regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.

Bush plans to have nuclear waste stored at the volcanic Yucca Mountain facility.

Proposes cutting core energy efficiency line items for building by $1.5 million and industrial technologies by $35 million (38 percent).

Bush nominated Linda Fisher – an executive for Monsanto – to the Environmental Protection Agency. Monsanto is one of the largest farming and pesticide biotechnology companies in the world.

Bush cut 28% of government funding for researching cleaner, more efficient automobiles.

Cut government funding to research renewable energy sources by 50%.

Who are the freaking IDIOTS who would rather believe Stossel and Crichton over literally THOUSANDS of qualified scientists?

The same people who believed that Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks

Once again, George W. proved himself to be America’s Liar-in-Chief by repeating the same old mantra justifying Gulf War 2.

This time he did it during his taped interview with Larry King. Asked CNN’s TV softball talk show host, “If you had it to do over again, knowing the WMDs weren’t there [in Iraq], you’d still go in?

Replied Dub-ya brashly, “We removed a tyrant [Saddam Hussein], who was a weapon. He was an enemy of the United States who harbored terrorists and who had the capacity, at the very minimum, to make weapons of mass destruction.”

The published CNN transcript showed how dishonest Bush could be.

First, prior the April 2003 invasion, Iraq did not harbor Al Qaeda terrorists. They entered the country after the attack.

Second, virtually every intelligence expert in America has said that Saddam Hussein was not capable of producing WMDs in 2003 or for years afterwards.

If those two assertions by President Bush weren’t falsehoods, then he didn’t know what the hell he was talking about, which is not very comforting when you consider his predisposition to launch preemptive first strikes.

For the truth about Herr Bush and his goose-stepping goons, visit http://www.FreedomCentralUSA.com.

Hugh E. Scott — author, investigative journalist, Vietnam veteran, ex-USAF pilot, lifelong registered Republican, Goldwater conservative, Ronald Reagan fan and rabid neocon-hater with a family history of honorable military service going back to 1776.

Let me clarify by asking a more specific question: What alarmism? Can you define the term for me, and then point me to any examples of it? That global warming caused by humans is rapidly changing our climate has been agreed upon within the scientific community for nearly ten years now. Certainly all meaningful debate on this conclusion ended by 2000. So where is the alarmism? It took the MSM until this year to even discover global warming as a major issue, or for that matter to realize that the scientific debate ended a long time ago (and some of them still don’t seem to get it). Has the government done anything at all about it? Imposed energy taxes, CAFE standards, carbon taxes, anything? So we have this huge story, ignored by the press until over 80% of Americans had concluded it was true, and basically denied as even existing by the federal government. I don’t see nearly enough alarmism.

Please explain your reasoning for agreeing with Lindzen’s article. Certainly this reasoning can’t be the product of critical thought applied to the best available evidence, so I am wondering how people do arrive at this kind of conclusion.

Who are these people? Who are the freaking IDIOTS who would rather believe Stossel and Crichton over literally THOUSANDS of qualified scientists?