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Well, since Bert’s head is way up in the clouds, I’m sure that makes him think he’s qualified to be an “expert” on the climate. ;-)

*bert

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Comment by BERT CONVY — February 29, 2008 @ 11:48 am

Hey Bert. When did this screw up get control over the sun or are you backing off on that sun stuff. Either way thanks for the Yippie Ki Yay. I love that stupid shit. You are about as real as Daryll. Oh yeah and your expertise in this area comes again from where?
Best-

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jEqfg4UsfKG1hEruuGr6j4Jx0LWAD8V3SUG00

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-epa29feb29,1,5889335.story?track=rss&ctrack=1&cset=true

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040200487.html

and that’s just a the tip of the iceberg.

“What Bush did not explain – and what the press did not deign to find out – was that Bush’s claim about the Internet’s energy use came from a study commissioned by a coal-industry group that endorses the view that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good – not bad – for the earth.

Also not mentioned by Bush was that the coal industry’s Internet study concluded that the United States must undertake a $1 trillion investment in new power plants to meet energy demands supposedly created by the Internet and other new technologies.

Though Bush cited the 8 percent figure as fact, the estimate is vigorously challenged by many energy experts as a wild exaggeration of the Internet’s energy requirements and as a gross distortion of the underlying reality that the high-tech New Economy has achieved significant net savings in energy use.”

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/100900a.html

‘Will Bush Stop Congress from Creating a New Energy Future?

After six years of rhetorical puffery from President Bush about making the United States “less dependent on foreign oil,” the new leadership of the 110th Congress took the initiative last weekend and passed a pair of “far-reaching,” forward-looking energy bills that “will increase the use of renewable energy, reduce America’s dependence on foreign sources of energy, and decrease global warming pollution.” In a rare Saturday session, the House approved the New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act, putting the nation on a path toward greater energy independence and security. Congress also passed a companion tax package totaling nearly $16 billion to help transition to a new energy economy. Bush has threatened to veto the bills. In 1986, the United States imported 27 percent of its oil; today, it imports 60 percent. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) heralded the bipartisan legislation as “just the ambitious first phase in what will be a series of revolutionary actions for energy independence.” Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) said the bill’s passage moves America away not only from our “over-dependence on fossil fuels, but from our dependence on fossilized ideas.”

http://www.alternet.org/environment/59387/

Pres. Bush doesn’t care anything about our environment. He’d rather sell out to oil & coal industries rather than invest in alternative sources of energy.

Why does Bert refuse to support his country by serving in the military? Is he afraid of being patriotic?

That was quite the fair and balanced write up you posted. Please do tell, where did you find it?

jeebus…

how old are you?

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/16/bush-fear-iraq/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKBLKLF79EA

Thatks for proving that Pres. Bush is fiscally irresponsible!

it’s going to take a Democratic President to address the continuing failures of the Republic President and his failed Republic Congress!

Dubya, bring back the surplus you squandered!

Dubya, bring back the soldiers you killed for the oil in Iraq!

Dubya, bring back the reputation of the United States that you’ve succeded in sullying over the past 8 years!

Dubya, do something right for a change!

Poor Bert seems to hate our veterans simply because they refuse to swig the kool-aide that he;s been blindly drinking.

I used to be a Republican, until I opened my eyes to how much they have been screwing the US and lying about theiir ulterior motives.

I’m sure that, one day, you’ll exercise your brain and wake up to the failure that is the right-whiners.

It looks like Bert is selectively reading information from the U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to fit his pre-concieved notion that Global Warming is a “myth”.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/aug/national.html

Inconvenient (for Bert) highlights:

For the contiguous United States, the average temperature for August was 75.4°F (24.1°C), which was 2.7°F (1.5°C) above the 20th century mean and the second warmest August on record, based on preliminary data.

In the tropical Pacific Ocean, La Niña conditions were developing. By the end of August, sea-surface temperature (SST) anomalies remained positive in the western equatorial Pacific and became more negative in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Most dynamical models are forecasting the strengthening of the La Niña conditions in the next couple of months, while some statistical models are forecasting the return of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-neutral conditions. A developing La Niña may result in wetter than normal conditions in the Pacific Northwest and drier than normal conditions in the southwestern U.S. in the fall. For additional information on ENSO conditions, please visit the NCDC ENSO Monitoring page and the latest NOAA ENSO Advisory.

I guess ‘ol Bert believes that having one of the most extreme winters equals “Global Warming is a myth”. Record breaking weather extremes are a sign that the global climate is changing for the worse, not the better.

Rising global temperatures does not mean that winter is less harsh, it means that extremes become even more extreme. Higher highs, lower lows worldwide.

I suggest that Bert should do some unbiased research on his own, and not just reguritate the talking points that oh-so conveniently support his prejudices.

*bert

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Comment by BERT CONVY — February 29, 2008 @ 8:45 am

What you know about science would fit on the point of a pin. wny you continue to embarrass yourself is a mystery, unless you just can’t help following in the lead of your embarrassingly stupid presidunce.

Now let’s return to reality, Bert. The people you cite as “scientists” aren’t, and this claim about solar activity is false. Also, you are a liar, probably a paid liar working at an ultra-rightwing think tank sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

Amazing, isn’t it? Truly amazing. Now let’s hear these geniuses tell us that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, that cancer doesn’t exist, and that smoking tobacco doesn’t cause lung cancer. Maybe they will even tell us that the earth is flat and 6,000 years old.

Right-whiners refuse to believe that encouraging alternative energy will open new jobs to support the technology.

Right-whiners love being enslaved to the middle east and (mostly) islamic nations for the oil which we currently depend upon.

Right-whiners will only face the reality of climate change when they have no other choice. I hope and pray they wake up to the truth sooner rather than later.

I’m always amused by right-whiners such as Bert who makes wild assertions with no proof at all whatsoever to back up his claims. If he had proof, he’d offer it. Since he offers nothing, that’s exactly what he’s got: nothing.

Obama also has no plans to sign on to legislation that seeks to ban the use of these forces in US war zones by January 2009. Despite their antiwar rhetoric, both Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton have adopted the congressional Democratic position that would leave open the option of keeping tens of thousands of US troops in Iraq for many years.

I discovered is that both of them intend to keep the Green Zone intact. Both of them intend to keep the current US embassy project, which is slated to be the largest embassy in the history of the world. I mean, I think it’s 500 CIA operatives alone, a thousand personnel. And they’re also going to keep open the Baghdad airport indefinitely. And what that means is that even though the rhetoric of withdrawal is everywhere in the Democratic campaign, we’re talking about a pretty substantial level of US forces and personnel remaining in Iraq indefinitely.

In the case of Barack Obama, I wanted to focus in on what his position is on private military contractors, particularly armed ones like those that work for Blackwater. And the reason I focus on Obama instead of Hillary on this is because Barack Obama has actually been at the forefront of addressing the mercenary issue in the Congress. In February of 2007—this was way before the Nisour Square massacre, where Blackwater forces killed seventeen Iraqis and wounded twenty others—in February of 2007, Barack Obama sponsored legislation in the Senate that sought to expand US law so that—

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/28/jeremy_scahill_despite_anti_war_rhetoric

DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN ARE BOTH REPULSIVE VOTE NADER OR JUST KEEP REPUBLICANS IN AND FINISH YOUR COUNTRY