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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 09:31 AM
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The global Warming consensus is total...time to DEMAND political action!
Edited on Sat Jun-10-06 09:34 AM by Harper_is_Bush
The level of consensus in the scientific community concerning climate change is incredibly strong. The National Academy of Sciences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (w/ 2500 member scientists), The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), have ALL issued statements concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling.
Of 928 abstracts published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 not a single one disagreed with the consensus position (source: Naomi Oreskes “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change”).
Source: HERE


Time to put this issue on the front burner, above all others. We do not have the luxury of watching someone like Bush fumble and BS his way through this like everything else, shake our heads at the ideological incompetance and wait for '08.

Bush has expressed his views:
THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate you bringing that up.
Q -- and I suppose I want to know, what is your plan?
THE PRESIDENT: Good. We -- first of all, there is -- the globe is warming. The fundamental debate: Is it manmade or natural.


This was THREE MONTHS AGO. In the same answer he goes on to express how his greatest concern is the economy.

Find out your representatives position on Global Warming. Tell them you understand it is happening and it is caused by greenhouse gases which humans create to excess. Ask them what they plan to do about it and
MAKE SURE THEY KNOW IT IS YOUR #1 ISSUE AND WILL DECIDE HOW YOU VOTE


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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 10:29 AM
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1. I almost believe they want Global Warming to...
Edited on Sat Jun-10-06 10:31 AM by slor
occur. It may sound crazy, but look at Iraq. They wanted chaos, nevermind the lives lost, or any of the many other strategically disastrous implications. Just one of many examples is that they allowed Zarqawi to thrive to help justify the continued war in Iraq, without thinking that it might lead to a bigger, better insurgency, in a occupation with too few troops. Well, we can see how that turned out.
I cannot say if their apparent desire for climate change is about profit or just their hatred of humankind. I do not know whether they really do not understand the implications of their actions, or do not care. I do not know if they think it might be a little political distraction, "rally the base" crap or if, like Zarqawi, they do not realize that they may have grabbed the tail of a very large tiger. Such climactic disasters may serve to explain (conceal) peak oil issues, which could be on their minds as well. This may sound tin-foil, and that is usually not my style, but if there is one thing I have learned from these guys, it is that they are capable of anything.


Sorry for the ramblings.
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windbreeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 10:59 AM
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2. IMO
global warming is mankind's biggest threat...and that these idiots think it's a joke...they are so determined to have everything their way, they can't be bothered to think what good it will do them to control a planet even they can't live on...by ignoring gw, the result is definitely going to be global chaos...death and destruction on a level very few, or maybe even no one, will live to talk about...perhaps a couple thousand or so years from now, someone will write about our civilization, like they have written about the Mayans, the Romans, and other great civilizations...perhaps they will try to understand why, with all of our knowledge/technology, we still allowed these things to happen, and why waging war, was all that mattered....nothing tin foil about the danger of global warming from everything I've been reading....Katrina was just a drop in the bucket....
windbreeze
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Bjorn Against Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 11:19 AM
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3. I think global warming accomplishes their short term goals
These people are looking for extreme wealth, and the current system does that very well for them. If they take serious steps to curb CO2 emmisions profits will go down.

It is not so much that they want global warming, as it is they don't care. They know they will probably be able to survive a few more decades and it will be the poor that take the brunt of the damage. Sure they may have to move inland a ways, but they will still be living nicely until the day they die.
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Harper_is_Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 01:33 PM
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4. I think it is indicitive of a weak mind. They cannot handle the truth...
and their mind shuts it out.

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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 01:42 PM
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5. My exact thoughts, they cannot handle the truth,
whether it be global warming, the theory of evolution, and for some of their ancestors the theory of the Earth revolving around the Sun. Our modern day scientists could just as well be named Copernicus or Galileo except for the drinking of the poison part.
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