Fox News: Global Warming’s ‘Indisputable’ Effects Mean Oil Is ‘More Accessible’
Fox News: Global Warming’s ‘Indisputable’ Effects Mean Oil Is ‘More Accessible’
This past July, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films released “Fox Attacks: The Environment.” The short film documented Fox News’ assault on global warming science. Watch it here.
In a new series billed by Fox News as the “Race for the Arctic,” the network has responded by sending a reporter to Greenland to document first-hand observations of glaciers receding, icebergs breaking off, and other drastic climate-changing effects.
But if you think that Fox’s “race for the arctic” is a race to educate and inform the public about global warming, you are mistaken. In fact, from Fox’s perspective, the “race” is actually a race for oil. Fox News reporter Jonathan Hunt explained:
The melting ice cap is making the Arctic’s resources much more accessible. Now that is vital. Because beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists estimate there may be a full 25 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves. There is now a race on to get to those reserves.
Watch it:
In its report, Fox News wasn’t quite willing to concede the science behind global warming. Hunt reported:
Whatever you think of global warming, most of the scientists say that is the cause of this. Other people insist that this is just a cyclical phenomenon. But one thing is absolutely clear: Whatever the cause, the effect is indisputable. The ice cap is melting.
There is no debate about what’s going on here. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in February that “global warming is ‘unequivocal’ and that human activity is the main driver, ‘very likely’ causing most of the rise in temperatures since 1950.”
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CNN: New Cold War Over North Pole’s Oil
October 8th, 2007 at 2:12 pmInternational dispute over the North Pole between Canada and Russia (and Denmark and the US) who “want the oil and natural resources under the pole especially if global warming makes the arctic more accessible.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_1oEuYH48
on the bad side, the world is doomed
on the good side, think of all the new coastlines that we’ll have when the ice caps melt!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:16 pmOh yes…let’s not worry about all that depressing famine, flooding, plague, severe weather, etc. The important thing is:we can get to some more oil!
Part of me wishes I could be around when the oil runs out, so I can witness the great collapse of humanity. Most of me, however, is fervently thankful that I won’t live that long.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:18 pmThanks to Bush’s enabling of gas-guzzling vehicles (remember the rebate for Hummers?) and the environmental polluters as well as a veritable moron questioning the veracity of well-known scientists on global warming (as well as Al Gore), we continue capriciously to jeopardize our planet. What the hell does a sadistic sociopath care? His sense of stewardship of the planet is non existent.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pmdon’t forget the deep freeze that was happening in the with aerosol between the 40s and 70s
October 8th, 2007 at 2:20 pmThis week is your last chance to win a signed copy of Matt Bai’s “The Argument.” Find out more at TheCoin.org, where today we’re talking about S-CHIP.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:23 pmCouldn’t resist this one. Another Repuke Scumbag Hypocrite nailed doing the “Bathroom Queen Routine”. This time it’s a goomba of David Diapers Vitters. Imagine that?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:25 pmhttp://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/difatta_twice_detained_in_lewd.html
“………most scientists say……….other people insist…….”
That says it all.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:26 pmIt’s always about the oil, isn’t it?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:28 pmre #6
Actually that was about fluorocarbons destroying the Ozone layer, but but keep conflating your rightwing talking points, no one cares.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:32 pmUnNecessaryEvil sez:
Could you juggle these words into a cogent sentence and repost it? Kthx.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:35 pm#7
S-Chip is another liberal diversion from their lack of commitment to the American worker. They are slowly trying to take away the will of the worker and have it all in their coffers for the “common good”
Take away the hard work and dedication of one individual and give it to someone “less fortunate”.
Now, I know, there are people who work hard and save and raise their families that fall on hard times and those are the ones we should help but majority of those receiving said benefits are lazy.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:37 pmWe have to immediately send troops to the arctic. The terrorist Arcticians have vowed to obtain nu-clu-ar weapons to destroy the American way of life. If we don’t fight them there, then they will snowshoe down to us.
— GWB
It is a matter of utmost national interest that we occupy the arctic. The Arcticians would be able to hold all that oil over our head and disrupt our economy, which we all know, drives all of the economies all over the world, and must be preserved at all costs.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:37 pm— Alan Greenspan
Ah — so Fox will only acknowledge the destruction of the planet when it’s a good thing.
And now this “race to the Arctic” to grab the oil there now that it’s accessible will mean more oil, more pollution, and an acceleration of the global warming process. Oh joy.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pmAnd burning more oil will cause additional heating, which will melt more ice and liberate more oil. Yay!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:38 pm#14 There you go monky…working and posting at the same time while talking on the phone, I thought I did pretty good.
don’t forget the deep freeze that was happening through the 40s and into the 70s with aerosol.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:40 pm#15 – That post really makes you sound like a member of the communist party extolling the glory of the worker’s paradise.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:40 pmbut, but, but Nancy Pelosi just yesterday told us that Fox News aprent Newscorp was a leader in responding to Global Warming as a good corporate citizen. Can this be what she meant?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:40 pm.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
umm, try to stay on topic (if you can)
October 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pmI agree…MORE OIL…Pleeeeeaaaaasssssseeeee!
October 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pm#23 I was commenting on #7, thank you…have a great day.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:41 pmNow, I know, there are people who work hard and save and raise their families that fall on hard times and those are the ones we should help but majority of those receiving said benefits are lazy.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
Not that this is on topic, but your statement begs for a little backup. Could you please link to the study that shows the percentage of “hard workers” who receive public assistance and the percentage of “lazy” people? I’m certain that since you claim that the “majority” of those receiving benefits fall into the “lazy” group you’ve seen some research to that effect.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:42 pmI say we raise taxes on gas about 50¢ a gallon. That will make people drive less and save on oil.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:43 pmI bet that ANecessaryEvil is a Bill O’Reilly fan who rails about “socialized medicine” but screams when anyone suggests that his Medicare benefits be cut.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:43 pmdon’t forget the deep freeze that was happening through the 40s and into the 70s with aerosol.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:40 pm
“Deep freeze”? You are confused. The fluorocarbons from aerosol cans (as well as refrigerator coils, styrofoam, and other uses) were eroding the ozone layer. They weren’t freezing the planet.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:45 pm#23 I was commenting on #7, thank you…have a great day.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
Yeah, but I’m harassing you and going off topic to do it. I guess I’m feeling a little punchy. These GW threads have gotten pretty quiet lately because the deniers seem to be dwindling rapidly. It has been a while since I’ve seen a spirited attempt at “debunking” global warming around here. We used to have some rollicking battles on this subject around here.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:45 pm“Because beneath the Arctic Ocean, scientists estimate there may be a full 25 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil reserves.”
Typical Repug convoluted logic and weasel wording to justify their greed, disdain, and ignorance. If the oil reserves are undiscovered how in Hell is is possible to tell that the undiscovered oil under the Arctic Ocean amounts to 25% of the undiscovered oil in the world?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:47 pmI say we raise taxes on gas about 50¢ a gallon. That will make people drive less and save on oil.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
Well, looks like we agree on something after all. Don’t scare me like that.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:48 pm#23 I was commenting on #7, thank you…have a great day.
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 2:41 pm
And besides, it is already nighttime where I am.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:49 pmWhile I actually agree with this crowd that global warming is manmade., I don’t see your point in crying over spilled milk. Humans are super predetors. We will take and remove resources until there are none left unfortunetly. You can fight the good fight, but if there is oil in the Artic, someone will be going for it until it is gone.
Hopefully we run out of Oil in time. What I mean, is the only real solution is to run the world dry of Oil. Once it is gone, we can begin to force the world into more expensive yet cleaner fuels.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:51 pmWell as long as there is more oil in the world, Hummer dealership here I come.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pm#30
Not a fan of Bill and I don’t care much for Medicare. I don’t need it. It should be for those that absolutely need it and not growing in the leaps and bounds our omnipotent government want it to. Oh, the sell “It’s for the children” but in reality it is just another way to have control over us.
If you make in excess of $35,000 and you are single and do not have kids. You should be able to afford health care.
If you single with children and make $40,000 and don’t have health care that is on you. If you cannot afford health care. Get deadbeat daddy to pay. Do not have any more children and get a better job. Get some skills. Get a better education.
It sounds harsh but it is called responsibility. I don’t mind helping those that help themselves, in fact, I do so most every day.
Now, I know there are those that did take responsibilty and fell on hard times. That is what government health care should be for yet at a state or local level. And if should be for those working to get back on their feet. Not for those lying down their whole life dragging the rest of us with them.
The “common good” should be we all contribute to the growth and prosperity of this country and not just those who excel and achieve have it taken away by “socialize programs” that people live in from one generation to the next.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pmTake away the hard work and dedication of one individual and give it to someone “less fortunateâ€. -ANE
Like those darn Iraqis and that welfare state Iraq that hate us?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pmFrosty Cupcake: Unfortunately for this country, it’s always about the obsessive “greed” of the people at the top. It’s time for a people’s revolution.
October 8th, 2007 at 2:57 pmSo FOX news is saying we dont need to be in Iraq securing the oil?
October 8th, 2007 at 2:58 pm#37
October 8th, 2007 at 2:58 pmWe should start planning on that now and not just jump into a quick fix which could lead to more problems than the current one we already have.
ANecessaryEvil: Are you attempting to lecture us on “responsibility”? Why don’t you begin with the White House first if you want to make a difference? They’re the ones acting with capricious irresponsibility.
Good for you that you are well-heeled enough to be able to afford health care – rah rah for you. However, putting one’s head in the sand when it comes to the overwhelming number of our own “homeless” because illegals are taking their jobs or two-income households where if they pay the mortgage they can’t afford the horrendously overpriced health care….is certainly not espousing “responsible or realistic concepts”.
If you truly want to act with responsibility yourself, you should be absolutely appalled at all of our tax dollars being spent every day (to the tune of $500,000/per minute) on this highly illegal, amoral war. That’s the first place to begin if you want to take some responsibility for actions.
Your GOPervertism is showing in your bigoted disdain for social programs.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:02 pmBush’s HOLY TRINITY: BIG OIL, BIG PHARMA, AND BIG INSURANCE!
Guess how many of these areas he and his buddies have their sticky fingers into?
October 8th, 2007 at 3:03 pmANecessaryEvil: Do you call spending $500,000 per minute acting “responsibly” by any stretch of the imagination?
October 8th, 2007 at 3:04 pmThis is just the old Republican idea of replacing one bad idea with another.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:04 pmDo not have any more children and get a better job. Get some skills. Get a better education. -ANE
Who would do those menial tasks? Like take away the trash? Picking up the litter? Maintaining the streets? I just love the way people think if everybody just got an education we could all sit in an airconditioned office all day and these necessary things would just take care of themselves, the streets would repair themselves, the grass would stay green and enevr need mowing, and the garbage would just dissapear. Cars would stop breaking down, pipes would no longer freeze or clog, appliances would never break, electricity would magically grow wires to everyones homes, homes would built themselves, your luggage would load itself into those airplanes on the tarmac, if only everyone would just read more books and take tests!!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:05 pmI beg to differ.
The world is not doomed. Only humankind, which is good, in the global POV for the Planet.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:07 pm. What I mean, is the only real solution is to run the world dry of Oil. Once it is gone, we can begin to force the world into more expensive yet cleaner fuels. -RrOoGgEeRr
Well, thats certainly thinking large. But if everyone would just get a better job the oil problem would also magically cure itself and oil would flow like honey!! All you poor people quit your low paying jobs and line up for your job working for necessary evil!! All you gotta do is read a book, take a test, and low paying jobs will forever dissapear!!
Now why didnt the ancient Greeks think of this? Why we dont need an Army, or Marines, Navy or Air Force, forget those low paying un-necessary skills, put down your weapons poor grunts!! We need to build offices and stuff them with smart people that sit on their derriers and gain weight and have heart attacks to cure our health woes!!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:13 pmAs oil becomes even more expensive due to the higher costs to retrieve the dwindling supplies, market forces will generate the alternatives you describe. Assuming we let the market forces work.
Comment by CaptainMantastic
Yeh, the market forces thought Iraqi oil would be cheap and the price of oil would drop, meanwhile the price of oil has hit record highs and we still gotta pay for the OIL [Operation Iraqi Liberation]
Great Plan!!
Idjuts.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:15 pmThis sudden race for oil in the Arctic is only news to the ignorant Americans who get their information about the world from the television set.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:19 pmVeritas: “It’s time for a people’s revolution.”
My husband says that about once a week! :)
And yeah, I love the “people who work in service deserve what they get” mentality. It’s the cruelest form of class warfare since it is directed at the working poor. (Sorry for being off topic.)
October 8th, 2007 at 3:22 pmComment by margaret — October 8, 2007 @ 3:03 pm
I neither drive a lorry nor am I from Kent.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:23 pmHelp me out here – a) over-burning of fossil fuels has led to global warming. b) the melting of the ice caps has made more stockpiles of fossil fuels available.
So the solution is to c) accelerate the global warming by burning more fuel ?
October 8th, 2007 at 3:24 pmSo the solution is to c) accelerate the global warming by burning more fuel ? Comment by MapleStreet
Well we could also make some adjustments on the fuel controls of jet engines to burn a richer mixture that would help reflect heat back into space. We could also get rid of those darn catalytic converters and smog pumps, EGR valves and those expensive emissions tests! So yes we need to burn more oil, faster, to get the oil thats left and burn it up faster!!
Jane stop this crazy thing!!
October 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm#45
First of all I do take my up issues with the White House especially with the huge amount of spending like a welfare recipient getting a Christmas bonus.
I am not in favor of illegals in this country taking jobs away from Americans because most American would not do “that job”1
Yet those jobs are magically filled every time by Americans when illegals are rounded up.
As far as the war, we were all told the same thing from Russian, British and United States intelligence. Also, approved by the President and majority of Congress-Libs and Dems. alike.
However, now that we slept in that bed of falsehoods we should at least make the bed before we leave. That would be the most responsible thing to do. And if this is not evidence enough we should not be allow any President from this day forward take any military action that would take longer than a week to execute without Congress declaring war. No ands, ifs or buts about it.
But (intended) whoever gets the White House next will never ever give up that power because that is all these career politician thrive on…POWER…how to have it, take it away from you, and how to keep control of that power.
Dems and Reps alike. There is no sacred cow in the federal government.
That is why we should not give up power to the government with all these ridiculous social programs that keep growing every year to accept more people into the fold and then scream, “it is for the children”. That is truly how the middle class is being taken away. It is my government, not corporations. Corporations need the middle class for their growth and prosperity but government does not.
two-income households where if they pay the mortgage they can’t afford the horrendously overpriced health care
If you cannot afford health care then you need to look at a smaller house. What is truly more important? The house with garage or you and yours health care. There are many different private and state run programs to help those that need it. Here, and as well as I am sure all around the country, you can find hospitals or clinics that give routine check ups and you pay between $35-$75 per visit without using your insurance. Therefore you can use your insurance when you need surgery or have a medical emergency which would allow to have a higher deductible therfore pay less monthly. Also, most hospitals will work out a payment plan until that deductible is met. Just ask. I had to a few years back. As long as you make a honest attempt at paying down your bill, most of the time, the hospital will work with you.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pmthe side of the supposed free market on energy thing, the trolls seem to ignore, is the oil companies by and large own the rights to most alternative technology. Seems like they as the owners of the technology, wouldn’t be to interested in cutting into their outrageous profits, to offer cheaper alternatives.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:38 pm“people who work in service deserve what they get†mentality.
Its amazing that they cannot think thru the needs of society. Menial jobs are just as important, in many cases moreso, than the higher paying ones.
I say that since we live in a world where everything is based more and more on ergonomics and energy, we should pay people by the amount of energy [Calories] burned. Necessary Evil here would soon be broke and the street worker would not need medical assistance. Necessary evil would be the one crying for help when his lazy office bound self couldn’t afford to fix his cholesterol soaked heart.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:38 pm#49 Actually, a super predetor is what we are. A super predator is to advanced for its prey. In this case, we are super predator’s over every resource on earth. Since earth doesn’t have an effective defense to limit our “take” of it resources, we will take all its resources until they are gone. At that point extintion occurs for the Super predator unfortunetly. This experiment has been done over and over throughout history. Take that small island in the artic. They removed all the road blocks for the caribou by eliminating the wolves and bears. The caribou became a super predator over night “over the grass’ they ate”. Their numbers boomed. Guess what, their numbers also died when they ate themselves out of resources. This will happen with Humans as well unless the earth “evolves” quick enough to defend its resources.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pmAs oil becomes even more expensive due to the higher costs to retrieve the dwindling supplies, market forces will generate the alternatives you describe. Assuming we let the market forces work.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — October 8, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
This blind ideological worship of market forces will get us killed. We are nowhere near to any kind of breakthrough that can replace oil. The world will descend into chaos before scalable solutions can be found. People just don’t have any clue how much energy we are extracting from fossil fuels and how awesome the task will be to replace these fuels. Furthermore, we will need to build vast new infrastructure, which will actually accelerate the demand for energy during the crisis.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:41 pmComment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007 @ 3:34 pm
This thread is about oil and global warming. It is not about health care or your fantasies about socialism. Please try to keep up.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:43 pm#67
Don’t quote something I did not say. I work in service, therefore, I do know what they get. I also know that without my employers working hard to keep their small businesses afloat I would not have my job. Therefore, without him, I would not have a job. However, without me, he would find replacement.
PS. My heart is fine. Just got it checked with my over priced insurance that I work real hard to maintain. I take it you need the hand out. How about saving some money and forget the scratch offs?
October 8th, 2007 at 3:43 pm#51 High school kids working after school and college kids paying their way through school and then those dumb enough to think they dont need an education.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pm‘Professor Crutzen has proposed a method of artificially cooling the global climate by releasing particles of sulphur in the upper atmosphere, which would reflect sunlight and heat back into space.’
Like I said, just enrich the fuel mixtures of aircraft, heck we could even put particulate matter in the jet fuel, such as aluminium, quartz or silver iodide.
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Since earth doesn’t have an effective defense to limit our “take†of it resources, we will take all its resources until they are gone. At that point extintion occurs for the Super predator unfortunetly. -RrOoGgEeRr
This reminds me of the book ‘A Mote in Gods Eye’ RrOoGgEeRr where all of Mote primes resources have been mined and they continually blew themselves back to the stone age time after time, and any attempt to fix the problem was ‘Crazy Eddie’
Kinda like what we will become, [if we haven't already done this before]
October 8th, 2007 at 3:46 pmHow about saving some money and forget the scratch offs?
Comment by ANeccessaryEvil — October 8, 2007
I never buy scratch-off or lottery tickets because they are really, when you look at them, voluntary tax.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:48 pmXisithrus sez:
The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. ^_^
October 8th, 2007 at 3:51 pmI take it you need the hand out. -ANE
I dont need handouts, I happen to like working outdoors with my hands AND my mind. Just because someone gets a little dirty for a living is not a reason to keep their wages in the poverty level, which is what min wage, today, really is.
When I was in high school working at Burger King or the local grocery store was a stepping stone for the teens and college students until they graduated from school. Today, thats many peoples only income and their full time job. I was shocked when I was shipped up to Minneapolis and saw that Walmarts and Targets, the fast food places whose workers were were retired people who had to go back to work so they could afford prescription drugs.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:55 pmDespite progressive efforts to shut down debate, the evidence for our need to implement policy to begin tinkering with the environment, is far from conclusive. Comment by CaptainMantastic
They already have been tinkering with the environment. There are some 80 cloud seeding operations in the US right now.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:57 pmThe lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math. ^_^
Comment by TripMaster Monkey
LOL.
They started the lottery here in Texas with promises of using that money to build schools and do all these good things, yet I dont see them.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:59 pmAnd one of the “benefits” of cancer is you lose weight..
October 8th, 2007 at 4:09 pmDespite progressive efforts to shut down debate, the evidence for our need to implement policy to begin tinkering with the environment, is far from conclusive.
Comment by CaptainMantastic — October 8, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
Conserving energy isn’t “tinkering” with the environment. I don’t think Al Gore is looking to build a weather machine.
I should also point out that the evidence for the existance of a god or gods is also far from conclusive, yet conservatives have no issue beleiving in their evidence-less religions.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm//laughs at 82
True, that.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:17 pmExcellent, we can get our oil and the caribou won’t be involved.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pmTragically, far too many people seem convinced that once matters deteriorate sufficiently, a “magic bullet” will suddenly be rolled out, and all will be well. For those who believe this, there is little, if any perceived need to consider any inconvenient solutions. The ‘mercun way of life, as Chimpy so ineloquently stated, is not subject to negotiation.
Even the most horrific potential scenario must seem of little consequence to the ruling “elite”, since wherever chaos and confusion might surface, new economic opportunities emerge for those who are prepared to take advantage of such a situation, in addition to newly opened avenues for seizing additional political power. Participation in bringing about such an event can greatly increase the odds of successfuly exploiting such an event for the maximum benefit of the perpetrator.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:36 pmnot that fox cares about being factually correct, but that would be sea ice, not the ice cap. the ice caps are in greenland and antarctica, under which there is not oil. the oil would be under the sea ice.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:43 pmIf the icecap in Greenland melts enough that it slides into the ocean, the ocean level will suddenly rise 20 feet all over the world. It’s possible, it’s very scary as hell, and only an idiot would ignore this risk.
But hey, free oil in the Arctic for the survivors!
October 8th, 2007 at 4:47 pmGet
October 8th, 2007 at 4:58 pmOil
Party
What Fox News reporter Jonathan Hunt laid out for us in “Race for the Artic” is the battle plan for the Republican agenda if the electorate votes in another Republican president and Republican Congressional majority.
If you are a progressive and you live in a district with a Republican or a Blue Dog (the Blue Dogs ALWAYS grumble about the Republicans and then vote with them) representative or senator, and if you don’t spend 2008 doing everything you can to elect a progressive to replace him/her, then you should just go out and hang yourself and get it over with!
October 8th, 2007 at 5:02 pmThe oil fields are more accessible now that the tundra on the northern slope of Alaska will be mud year round?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:07 pmThis is whats wrong with enviromentalist. Brainwashed to believe this. The destruction of humans makes the world a better place? The enviroment is your God, and humans are your Satan. Sad.
Comment by Johnny Swank — October 8, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
The world is not doomed. Only humankind, which is good, in the global POV for the Planet.
Comment by Juan C. — October 8, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
If there were no humans left in the would, the destruction of plant and animals species would slow down considerably, which would be a good thing FOR THE PLANETARY ECOSYSTEM AS A WHOLE.
Do you agree or disagree?
October 8th, 2007 at 5:08 pmTo prevent this thread from from being hijacked by CaptainManeater, I am going to repeat an on-topic theory from my post at 5:o2 pm (# 89):
“What Fox News reporter Jonathan Hunt laid out for us in “Race for the Artic†is the battle plan for the Republican agenda if the electorate votes in another Republican president and Republican Congressional majority.”
October 8th, 2007 at 5:20 pmIt’s possible, it’s very scary as hell, and only an idiot would ignore this risk.
It’s also possible that we are going to be hit by an asteroid. What are you doing to address that risk?
Comment by CaptainMantastic — October 8, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
Why, I would leave the stopping of the Asteroid to you and your super Mantastic powers, CaptainMantastic!
More realistically, I would recommend increasing the funding for worldwide sky-watching programs designed to detect, years in advance, the orbits of asteroids which could present a danger to the Earth.
Humanity can do both things at the same time, you know. Reduce global warming _and_ keep an eye on the skies. You don’t buy fire insurance _instead_ of getting medical or car insurance; you try to cover all possible risks.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:20 pm# 61 nails it.
Global warming is good for Big Oil. Burn more oil, warm the globe up some more, more oil becomes accessible, more oil to burn. Oh, and yes, the world population gets reduced (floods, storms, disease, food shortages) so that the oil thats left lasts longer, and is burned at a lower rate, leading to global cooling.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:35 pmIraq report to the White House “Get Blackwater out in 6 months, and Hand Over the Blackwater Employees who Killed 17 Civilians”
just came out hour ago
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/iraq-to-blackwater-get-out-pay-up-and-hand-them-over/
October 9th, 2007 at 12:47 amwow.. compare this to the CNN story which mentioned the money damages ONLY… and..oh look the story has dissapeared from thier frontpage after only a few early morning hours online.. liberal media my @ss!
October 9th, 2007 at 6:24 amWould somene please give us some kind of news to watch in the morning, Morning joe makes me want to puke, and I think I have , Faux news is out (don’t even ask) and I just just don’t like CNN.
Please someone put on a news channel that can be tolerated!!!
October 9th, 2007 at 8:05 amPolar oil. Now just think for a moment. The earth turns on its axis. What would happen if we pump all that oil out and the bearings run dry?
October 9th, 2007 at 9:41 amShort FauxNews: Global Climate Change doesn’t exist unless we find a way to benefit from it.
October 9th, 2007 at 10:27 pm