U.S. generals call for action on climate change.
By on Apr 15th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
U.S. generals call for action on climate change.
In a report, 11 former military leaders “say global warming poses a serious threat to national security, as the US could be drawn into wars over water and other conflicts. … They appear to criticise President George W Bush’s refusal to join an international treaty to cut emissions.”
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how much war is already causing climate change what with all the oil fields blown up and DU shells … war is a mess no need for it at all
And yes we already see people being drawn into wars based on lies for oil
BUT BUSH WANTS GLOBAL WARMING TO KILL MANY PEOPLE FIRST
April 15th, 2007 at 3:14 pmAgreed, in the minds of Bushco’s oily masters, the more people who perish due to climate related natural disasters, the better for them.
April 15th, 2007 at 3:22 pmThey are also anxious for the Arctic to melt as quickly as possible, opening up the Northwest passage for shipping, exploration and exploitation of new oil fields.
US could be drawn into wars over water
Lost in the World Bank/Wolfowitz scandal is the fact that the World Bank is a primary mover towards the privatization of water supplies. In the future, water in many countries will be owned by private corporations, and only the wealthy will have access to even the rain that falls on the ground.
Groundwork is being laid to exterminate billions of poor people globally.
April 15th, 2007 at 3:23 pmWe think oil wars are ugly — just wait until the water wars.
April 15th, 2007 at 3:33 pmDamn bunch of Commie pinko leftists!
-GSD
April 15th, 2007 at 3:40 pmComment by Zooey — April 15, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
I think it’s already kicked off in certain parts of the world – Israel / Palestine being the example.
Note to trolls – this isn’t me having a pop at Israel.
April 15th, 2007 at 3:40 pmWe all know that Bush doesn’t listen to generals, so I’m not sure he’ll have any influence.
April 15th, 2007 at 3:41 pmThere are essentially already water wars. The earliest example in modern times of a government using water access to drive our political opponents and “undesirables” is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the Israelis began to push the settlements into the West bank and elsewhere, they made sire that the aquifiers were located beneath the settlements. Today they deprive the Palestintians of access to fresh water as a means of controlling their population.
In the US, private corporations are looting aquifiers and selling the product, bottled water, back to the public. The solution to this is to address the issue which led to the rise of the bottled water industry in the first place, wate quality. That means reining in devlopment in the watersheds of the rivers and the lakes. In North Carolina, where I live, the developers and the realtors have essentially bought the city councils and county boards. With a few exceptions, what they want gets done, and it often gets done with government subsidies.
Enter the Bush adminstration. The Busheviks have actually diverted water from rivers in the west to channel it to segments of the population which support Bushevism, and thus constitute a voting block. When our own government begins using the country’s natural resources to starve political opposition, it is indeed clear that we are circling the drain (sorry, pun not intended).
April 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pmHell, let’s just have a nuclear winter, that will fix it.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:02 pmWho are the 11 military leaders?
April 15th, 2007 at 4:18 pm#9 – Jake for prez
I told my dad yesterday that GWB would fix GW with nuclear winter.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pmHe didn’t think it was funny.
I wasn’t trying to be funny.
3301
April 15th, 2007 at 4:20 pmMeanwhile, dozens of Iraqi policemen demonstrated in front of their Baghdad station Sunday, accusing U.S. forces of treating them like “animals” and “slaves.”
The protest took place at Rashad station in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Mashtal.
Officers chanted “No, no to America! Get out occupiers!” while U.S. troops in two humvees and a Bradley fighting vehicle watched from a distance
April 15th, 2007 at 4:22 pmMelting glaciers=less water?
April 15th, 2007 at 4:24 pmWe’re running out of water!! Buy an SUV, leave your lights on! Melt the glaciers before it’s too late.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:26 pmI told my dad yesterday that GWB would fix GW with nuclear winter.
He didn’t think it was funny.
I wasn’t trying to be funny.
Comment by Zooey — April 15, 2007 @ 4:20 pm
Zooey, do it scare you to know the future?
April 15th, 2007 at 4:27 pmHey, mandolin, you’re right. Let’s bottle seawater and sell it.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:30 pmYou should try some.
Act now before the receding glaciers freeze back our precious water. Global warming is our only hope.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:31 pmZooey, do it scare you to know the future?
Comment by Jake for president
I truly hope I do not know the future.
April 15th, 2007 at 4:32 pm3301
Comment by Tobey Tall
There are no words…
April 15th, 2007 at 4:33 pmmandolin
can you not think in terms of the earth your children and grandchildren will inherit, which requires projecting into the future for a period of time longer than the time between now and dinner, or until “American Idol”, or the or the rate at which you can consume beer until you have to go to the store? Global warming and its consequences will only start in your lifetime. Their maximum impact will be on future generations. I don’t pretend to know what motivates people anymore. but most of the people I know and call friends can at least comprehend that science is predicting our future and also telling us how to mitigate the consequences.
Your actions today, and mine, and the actions of every person on theis planet determime that future. When I see that future being snatched away by people too short-sighted to understand the consequences, or too uncaring to act, it pisses me off. Not just for myself, but for my neices and nephews, and their unborn children, and the ones after that. What legacy do you propose to leave to your heirs?
April 15th, 2007 at 4:46 pm21 / the earth is on loan from your children
April 15th, 2007 at 5:25 pmOur republican mantra; I have mine, piss on you!
April 15th, 2007 at 5:31 pmFunny. Those generals should google and read an article titled:
Washington’s New World Order Weapons Have the Ability to Trigger Climate Change
Investigate yourselves …
globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html
A simulation study of future defense “scenarios” commissioned for the US Air Force calls for:
April 15th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I agree with Raven at #2.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:43 pmThe more people perish through natural disasters, the better it is for Bush and greater the opportunity for them.
Bushies have already been heard to say that they can’t wait for more melting in the far northern latitudes so they can tap the heretofore undrilled area for oil.
I also have the heard predictions that the next global war will be over water, a resource which is rapidly being take over by business interests.
As for those who scoff at this — what kind of world do you expect to leave your children and grandshildren — does the Republican mantra of “I got mine, you can go get your own” apply to your own progeny? Then again, are you of the mind that your offspring will not suffer personally – like the Bush family – who cares not about anyone else in the future because their present day corruption will assure sufficient resources for themselves.
The whole human tragedy in Dafur, Sudan, Chad, and much of Sub Saharan Africa is due to the persistent drought conditions. Climate change has produced a Ranchers vs. Farmers Conflict in Africa that should ring a bell with Americans. Sheep vs. Cattle in the cowboy movies. The generals are right on target, with their concerns. No snow in the mountains means empty rivers in the Spring.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:48 pmFire these scumbags.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:51 pmWell, think about it. If climate change happens as drastically as scientist have projected you bet there could be wars or skirmishes over water and other scarce resources. Worse case scenario you could expect conflict between citizens over resources.
Specifically in the United States where we have a lot of fresh water (like around Michigan)
Maybe now the right wingers can see at least one good reason to be concerned about climate change, security. Since they only speak securitinese.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:53 pmAccording to Al Gore’s movie, melting in the far northern latitudes is not necessarily good for oil exploration. When the permafrost melts, the trucks used to haul the oil equipment get stuck in the Mud. Exploration and production actually go Down.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOne of the Republican candidates for president has made similar arguments. He said that global warming is one of the results of our imperialist foreign policy and that our wars for oil prolong our dependence on oil and exacerbate global warming. I tend to agree with him.
April 15th, 2007 at 5:54 pmIn a report, 11 former military leaders
Fire these scumbags.
Comment by firehead
Apparently reading comprehension isn’t high on the troll recruitment qualifications.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:02 pmAs long as the Bush Regime exists, then nothing can be done about climate change or any other problem for that matter. The severe storm on the East Coast today denotes that it may already be too late now.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:06 pmApparently reading comprehension isn’t high on the troll recruitment qualifications.
Comment by dlet
Maybe the military leaders are supposed to re-enlist now? :-D
April 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pmHey, mandolin, you’re right. Let’s bottle seawater and sell it.
You should try some.
Comment by Jake for president — April 15, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
I’d love to have a bottle.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pmWhere were all the hurricanes last year? I thought global warming was causing hurricanes to be more frequent. At least that is what was said after Katrina. Every time any anomaly happens in the weather pattern the hippies cry global warming is the culprit and they claim we will see more of the same if we do not change our way. So now that we’ve had a weekend of severe weather on the East Coast we will start to here that global warming is the source. So, where were the hurricanes last year?
April 15th, 2007 at 6:18 pmdont forget that the weather has a twelve year delay ??? the weather NOW is for CO2 levels 12 years ago ………were in shit and Bush knows it and loves it , hes a complete moron
tell me whats the harm in using renewable energies ,, I DO
so do 35 million in Europe compared to 1 million in the US
Bush is the biggest moron ever
April 15th, 2007 at 6:21 pmI’d love to have a bottle.
Comment by mandolin
People used to have good clean well water. Then pollution made us move to tap water which was considered safe. Now in many areas people have to drink bottled water shipped in from other places or made clean by companies. People everywhere now buy bottled water at a price higher than gas. Now this suggestion that Global Climate Change is no problem because there is technology to desalinate water which will push the price of water higher. Sad to think that something that people used to collect from their backyard will cost an arm and a leg in the near future due to pollution, greed, (insert own deadly sin), etc.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:22 pmI notice a difference in the weather in Scotland
A lot less snow in winter
much warmer , records breaking hot weather since records began
And the biggest change I see is the wind , I can never remember so many force 5 – 9 gales .
April 15th, 2007 at 6:27 pmTobey > the worst April storm in history is occuring on the East Coast of the US today. I have never seen such wind in Georgia ever before. If this is an indication of changing climatic conditions, then starvation due to massive crop damage is just around the corner.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:33 pmPeople used to have good clean well water. Then pollution made us move to tap water which was considered safe.
Just because water comes from the tap does not mean it doesn’t come straight from the ground. The tap water in many homes still come from their backyard.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:36 pmGood!! More wars!!! /stupidity off
April 15th, 2007 at 6:38 pmSad to think that something that people used to collect from their backyard will cost an arm and a leg in the near future due to pollution, greed, (insert own deadly sin), etc.
Comment by dlet
No doubt that water companies trust in potable water shortages or its bad quality. But, you could built your own solar still in your backyard. It´s cheap and it doesnt require too much maintenance. Companies dont use it because solar stills are economic competitive against other desalination techniques up to 200 m³/day of fresh water. But it has been a proven reality since 1800s. More.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:46 pmGroundwork is being laid to exterminate billions of poor people globally.
Comment by Briseadh na Faire
They are already doing it. Africa.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:48 pmI cannot remember a time during my tender young lifetime…
…to date…
…that we have had so much FOUL weather…
April 15th, 2007 at 7:00 pmAhhh, but let’s keep putting BILLION$ into the Iwreck war. Feed the Military Industrial Complex. Protect America’s Oil Interests in the ME. Don’t you know the surge is working!?
April 15th, 2007 at 7:06 pmIn a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a ” serious problem.” Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no “specific scheduled commitments” for 129 “developing” countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let’s find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year.
Nature designed us as carnivores, but what does nature know about nature? Meat has been designated a menace. Among the 51 exhortations in Time magazine’s ” Global Warming Survival Guide” (April 9), No. 22 says a BMW is less responsible than a Big Mac for “climate change,” that conveniently imprecise name for our peril. This is because the world meat industry produces 18 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, more than transportation produces. Nitrous oxide in manure (warming effect: 296 times greater than that of carbon) and methane from animal flatulence (23 times greater) mean that “a 16-oz. T-bone is like a Hummer on a plate.”
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream might be even more sinister: A gallon of it requires electricity-guzzling refrigeration and four gallons of milk produced by cows that simultaneously produce eight gallons of manure and flatulence with eight gallons of methane. The cows do this while consuming lots of grain and hay, which are cultivated by using tractor fuel, chemical fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides, and transported by fuel-consuming trains and trucks.
Newsweek says most food travels at least 1,200 miles to get to Americans’ plates, so buying local food will save fuel. Do not order halibut in Omaha.
Speaking of Hummers, perhaps it is environmentally responsible to buy one and squash a Prius with it. The Prius hybrid is, of course, fuel-efficient. There are, however, environmental costs to mining and smelting (in Canada) 1,000 tons a year of zinc for the battery-powered second motor, and the shipping of the zinc 10,000 miles — trailing a cloud of carbon dioxide — to Wales for refining and then to China for turning it into the component that is then sent to a battery factory in Japan.
Opinions differ as to whether acid rain from the Canadian mining and smelting operation is killing vegetation that once absorbed carbon dioxide. But a report from CNW Marketing Research (”Dust to Dust: The Energy Cost of New Vehicles from Concept to Disposal”) concludes that in “dollars per lifetime mile,” a Prius (expected life: 109,000 miles) costs $3.25, compared with $1.95 for a Hummer H3 (expected life: 207,000 miles).
The CNW report states that a hybrid makes economic and environmental sense for a purchaser living in the Los Angeles basin, where fuel costs are high and smog is worrisome. But environmental costs of the hybrid are exported from the basin.
We are urged to “think globally and act locally,” as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has done with proposals to reduce California’s carbon dioxide emissions 25 percent by 2020. If California improbably achieves this, at a cost not yet computed, it will have reduced global greenhouse gas emissions 0.3 percent. The question is:
Suppose the costs over a decade of trying to achieve a local goal are significant. And suppose the positive impact on the globe’s temperature is insignificant — and much less than, say, the negative impact of one year’s increase in the number of vehicles in one country (e.g., India). If so, are people who recommend such things thinking globally but not clearly?
From
Fuzzy Climate Math.
Maybe the biggest threats to the climate are hamburgers, ice cream, and hybrid cars!
If you want to have an impact to the climate, eat more salad. And write to your Congressperson to urge them to stop building coal power plants, and to start building nuclear power plants.
April 15th, 2007 at 7:15 pmLISTEN DUDE, GOD ENTRUSTED THE LEADER WITH THE MOST INTEGRITY,
HARD WORK, HONESTY TO
CARE
FOR
MOTHER
NATURE :)
INSTEAD THE MOST SACRED HOUSE IN THE LAND OF COURSE DOES THE
COMPLETE OPPOSITE REGARDING HIS BUDDY KENNETH LAY AND
ALL THE REST OF THE PARASITES/LEECHES AND ALSO SCR***D THE
RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA OR FOR THAT MATTER THE ENTIRE U.S.
YEAH KNOW MERCURY EMISSIONS AND OF COURSE C02.
AND WHAT DOES THE MOST SACRED HOUSE IN THE NATION WITH THE
MOST INTEGRITY DO……… IGNORES AND IMPLANTS CORRUPTED
AGENCY ADMINISTRATORS.
BY THE TIME CLIMATE CHANGE RESOLUTION EVER OCCURS, IT WILL BE
SO DOG GONE CORRUPTED AND WE WILL BE SO HEAVILY TAXED
UNFORTUNATELY…… IT WILL BE JUST MORE OF THE SAME…….
ALL THOSE TAXES WILL END UP IN SOMEBODY’S POCKET FOR A YACHT,
ROLLS ROYCE OR WHATEVER ELSE FOR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CONTRACTS SUPPOSELY TO SERVE US!!
HOPEFULLY THAT WILL NOT BE THE OUTCOME, BUT IT’S GOING TO TAKE
SOME MAJOR REFORM, TRUTH, INTEGRITY TO SERVE THE PEOPLE WITH
ALL THESE SWINDLERS, PARASITES, LEECHES RAH RAHING AND THEY
AIN’T KEEPING THEIR PROMISE.
DUDE
MAJOR ETHICS REFORM DUDE … MAJOR ETHICS REFORM AND IF THEY
DON’T WANT TO DO THAT
THEN
JUST
GO
HOME
AND DON’T COME BACK TO WORK!!!!!!!!
April 15th, 2007 at 7:17 pmIgnore muckdog, he is a professional global warming denier.
April 15th, 2007 at 7:50 pmIgnore muckdog, he is a professional global warming denier.
Comment by VerbalKint
Not just that, he is an empty-headed copy-paster from some bigger idiot than he.
I mean, from the article he posted:
Nature designed us as carnivores
WTF?
April 15th, 2007 at 8:02 pmHey Juan.
How are you?
April 15th, 2007 at 8:05 pmI mean, from the article he posted:
Nature designed us as carnivores
WTF?
Comment by Juan C
Muckdog likes his meat…..
April 15th, 2007 at 8:06 pm*wink*
Nature designed us as carnivores
WTF?
Comment by Juan C
As you probably know, meat actually rots in our stomachs.
Salad, anyone?
April 15th, 2007 at 8:20 pmMeat is eminently more digestable once allowed to age on the side of the road for a few days… the hard part is keeping those pesky crows away from it….
April 15th, 2007 at 8:26 pmdude… jimbo dude juices parsley, kale, and carrots. and as far as
April 15th, 2007 at 8:30 pmprotein, oatmeal and split peas/lentils/beans are complete protein,
anyhow meat is a ripoff…. do you know in the process most of it
contains a whopping 50% water, which means guess what… double
the cost, not only will global warming get corrupted but so is healthcare
and the food industries. dude…. it’s rigged man rigged and jimbo dude
ONLY speaks truth… so yeah lately it seems like there’s lots of swindling
going on, infact so dog gone corrupt…it’s enough to make me keep
chillin dude with the parsley, kale, and carrots dude, just chillin out dude :)
“Vegan with a Vengance” by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
Best home cooking, from scratch recipes I’ve ever tried – and you’ll never notice there isn’t a single animal product (including road kill) in any of it. :)
April 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pmGeorge W. Bush is an extremely short-term thinker whose brain waves don’t seem to project much beyond the length of his administration. Global warming and its consequences don’t affect his base right now, so it doesn’t affect him.
April 15th, 2007 at 8:40 pmActually I am a vegan because I care about the environment and my health. Not because I’m on the “global warming apocalypse” bulk email list. Agree with George Will that the Global Warming indoctrination has been very successful. Al Gore must’ve learned a lot from Joseph Goebbels.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:28 pmLook at muckdog talk about Goebbels. Project much, Muckdog. Too funny. Muckdog the Nazi playing the victim. HaHa. Too funny.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:34 pmHey Juan.
How are you?
Comment by trueblue
Good, true. Just finished some abstract I sent to a Congress in Shangai. Lets hope they accepted.
April 15th, 2007 at 9:58 pmHi, true and Zoo.
How are you, ladies?
April 15th, 2007 at 10:04 pm“11 former military leaders “say global warming poses a serious threat to national security, as the US could be drawn into wars over water and other conflicts”
No. I think that was the movie Waterworld. Idiots.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:09 pmhttp://www.lomborg-errors.dk/
The Bjorn Lomberg story, muckdog. The guy appears to be a fraud, although it isn’t clear whether he intended to be or not. I would like to know where he gets his funding. The guy is not an environmentalist. He seems to be influenced by several right-wing thinkers, especially Simon. Simon’s arguments remind me of a “textbook” written by some fundy whackos in Texas that put forth the idea that there would never be a shortage of resources, becasue God would always show new resources to mankind as needed.
April 15th, 2007 at 10:22 pmIs he a bigger fraud than Al Gore?
Say, is any of that bad East Coast weather hitting Gore’s hood? What’s the pool temp there this weekend at the Gore Estate? Hope this isn’t putting a dent into any of his weekend pool party bbq plans!
April 16th, 2007 at 12:38 amAh muckdog and his laugable sources…..
lets see some of the excerpts from the “sources” he quotes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg
Bjørn Lomborg (born January 6, 1965) is an Adjunct Professor at the Copenhagen Business School and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally-known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist. After the book’s publication, members of the Danish and international scientific community accused Lomborg of “scientific dishonesty”, although Lomborg is not a trained scientist, and does not claim to be.[1] These allegations were investigated by appropriate arms of the Danish government and in the end, no official charges were left standing. However, many scientists[2] — in particular climatologists — remain critical of Lomborg’s work….Another group of Danish scientists collected signatures in support of the DCSD [the group who determined the guys work to be error ridden}. The 640 signatures in this second petition came almost exclusively from the medical and natural sciences, and included Jens Christian Skou (a Nobel laureate for chemistry), former university rector Kjeld MøllgÃ¥rd, and professor Poul Harremoës from the Technical University of Denmark…critics pointed out that Lomborg’s work had not been declared scientifically valid, it merely had not been declared invalid….Scientific American published strong criticism of Lomborg’s book…
Muckdog, any chance you could quote anyone who is either A) a scientist or B) not receiving massive amounts of money from the fossil fuels industry?
YOur quote from the website of the guy who said absestos could have saved the world trade center and that smoking wasnt bad for you is still takes the cake as the most laugable source I’ve ever seen.. haahah
April 16th, 2007 at 12:57 amI’ve provided multiple quotes from multiple scientists the past week. And there are plenty more. I’ll keep bringing them out, day after day and week after week. I know, they do go against the Nazi-like propaganda of the global warming cult. That’s not an arrestable offense just yet.
All you do is attack the scientists rather than debate the issues. Seems like you’re living in the global warming bulk email list. Try a spam filter. Might open up your mind a bit. It’s okay to ask questions. You don’t have to take everything they say as The Truth without verifying the data. Are you just going on faith at this point?
Maybe you should buy guns and canned food, then move to higher ground. Maybe there’s a “camp” for folks like you where you can commune together and worship at the feet of the cult leader. I hear he has a heated pool. I’d recommend avoiding the Kool-aid at his winter swim parties, though.
LOL
April 16th, 2007 at 3:11 amTo Deny Or To Debate. (aka ‘Is my Scientist better than your Scientist’)
The following facts that were taken from a BBC News article regarding the work of the European Project for Ice Coning in Antartica ( EPICA )
The EPICA scientists stated that:
“Experiments conducted on Antartic ice cores indicate carbon dioxide is at its highest level during the past 650,000 years …â€
In addition,
†CO2 is about 30% higher than at any time, … and methane is 130% higher than at any time; ”
And finally,
“The rates of increase are absolutely exceptional: for CO2, 200 times faster than at any time in the last 650,000 years.â€
“BBC News†“CO2 Highest for 650,000 Years”
You will note that Al Gore is not mentioned in the article – not as an author of the article, nor as the subject of the article. So do not waste time whining about Al Gore.
Please can you enlighten us with a scientific explanation as to how a CO2 level that is 30% higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years coupled with a rate of growth that is 200 times faster than any time in the past 650,000 years is not a contributor to global warming.
Professor James White, a geology professor at the University of Colorado says: “CO2 and climate are like two people handcuffed to each other. Where one goes – the other must follow. Our current CO2 levels appear to be far out of balance when viewed through these results, reinforcing the idea that we have significant modern warming to go.â€
And finally, Greenpeace UK spokesman Ben Stewart said “Lomborg’s work is flawed in several aspects but he still continues to travel around, banging it out to right-wing cheerleaders. Take his position on climate change; he accepts it exists and it is a result of human activity, yet he advocates doing absolutely nothing about it.”
April 16th, 2007 at 4:07 amI’ve provided multiple quotes from multiple scientists the past week.
That ARENT being paid big salaries by the fossil fuels industry, thanks.
Word on your reading comprehension…
Don’t you have any more brilliance from the man who said asbestos coudl have save the world trade center? Do you agree with him about that muckdog? How about his assertion that
“cult” hahahah. thats funny dude.. that time I checked., most of the religious nuts are on your side.. you know, those ones that think jesus is going to make all the good people evaporate in a cloud of righteousness ?
Yes, this is all a big cult conspiracy to try to sell books.. yeah.. this wisdom brough to you by the kind philantropists at Exxon and OPEC.. hahah
Dude.. even Gingritch admitted Inofohofoe was way off base. Is Gingritch a cultist too?
April 16th, 2007 at 4:59 amI think that was the movie Waterworld.
Comment by USA
They say life often imitates art…
April 16th, 2007 at 9:15 amProud Dem: Mentioning ‘Waterworld’ and ‘Art’ in the same post – funny ;)
sidenote:
The earths population has grown exponentially since dunno when.
1bn in 1800
3bn in 1960
over 6 bn today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
Basically, what I’m trying to say is: We’re all f*cked.
(and no, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t go and try something to stop climate change…)
.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:39 amThe USA is already postioning in the Water Wars. The big water supplies under Paraguay (maybe the biggest reserve in the world) is already being focused by private nad military interest groups of the USA.
Also, experiments with privatization of the water supplies have been conducted in South America (resulting in poor people not having access to the ultra expensive water compared to their income).
The USA oligarchies are taking postion already, and it’s not a nice position.
April 16th, 2007 at 9:43 amThank you, Evil Spaniard for the post.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:35 am(How close to the Bush family estancia in Paraguay are the wellheads?)
Mentioning ‘Waterworld’ and ‘Art’ in the same post – funny ;)
Comment by jay walker
Well, in the loosest form of the word, anyway.
April 16th, 2007 at 10:53 amRaven, probably GW has his own SPA in his pig farm down there :D
April 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pm