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But perhaps the one aspect of global warming research that nearly everyone agrees on is that more has to be done. NASA’s Earth Science Enterprise is involved in a number of projects that aim to monitor and analyze climate change. A number of Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite missions have either already been launched or are slated to be launched over the next several years. Instruments aboard these satellites will take unprecedented measurements of the Earth and the sun that are relevant to climate change. The EOS Terra satellite, launched in December 1999, retrieves global readings of land surface temperatures, snow cover, atmospheric aerosol levels, cloud properties, methane, vegetation density, and a host of other variables that influence climate on a global scale. The measurements are taken over the entire globe once a day, often taken at resolutions of 1 km or less. Taking measurements by satellite is much more efficient, consistent, and timely than taking measurements in situ on the planet’s surface.

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NASA’s Missions to Study Climate Change

In doing my research for an article I am writing on global warming, I, too, saw Leonardo DiCaprio on Oprah last week and happened upon your raping of our first ammendment on your blog.

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The Global Warming Conspiracy Theory

yesterday i saw the film "the day after tomorrow"...it was such a good movie...abt global warming and ice age and everything..makes one wonder where earth will end up if we keep exploiting natural resources in this way..

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day after tomorrow

We are running out of oil, the earth is becoming warmer, and our cities can't handle any more people than they have now. In fact the earth is pretty much on its last legs, because if Ice Ages or global warming don't get us, surely the bird flu, or an asteroid will.

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Some Things Have Always Been the Same - Crying Wolf Department

Climate modeling is science’s attempt to try and understand the earth’s complex climate system and all its inherent processes. Arguably its most important roles are to discern whether anthropogenic forcing is responsible for the current global warming trend and to predict future increases in the earth’s average temperature as green house gas emissions continue to rise. This is accomplished using mathematical equations.

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CLIMATE MODELING F.A.Q.

How do we spur the invention of a 200-mpg car or promote genome sequencing for $1000 or less? How do societies contend with the accumulation of carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere, the accompanying global warming and the rapid acidification of the world's oceans? How can the media be transformed into a forum where scientific discovery is heralded as it was during the Apollo program's glory days?

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PopTech! Conference 2005

Greenland’s ice cap has thickened slightly in recent years despite wide predictions of a thaw triggered by global warming, a team of scientists said on Thursday.

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Greenland ice cap thickens slightly

All I can conclude is that this global warming stuff is real, and we’re going to lose a lot of our coast to it.

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Carlos Guerra - Survivor of 9 Hurricanes

In this journalist's humble opinion, Baltimore today subscribed to the “any attention is better then no attention” theory. I mean reallyv- as beautiful Baltimore may be, that’s all they got. Next thing you know somewhere, anywhere, Wisconsin will be diverting your news away from the war in Iraq, global warming, and corporate fraud in order to bring you the latest update on the Arab hostage situation at the local Cheese Factory.

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Baltimore bomb bust

This doesn't really surprise me.... the arctic and antarctic regions of this planet have been seeing some of the strongest effects of global warming, with average air temperatures rising and glaciers showing signficant melt. It only makes sense that the warming would affect the ocean water itself. Unfortunately, these effects are not going to limit themselves to just the polar extremes.... its tempting for some to think that we are just going to lose a few obscure animals in a place that no one ever visits, so who is going to care? However, the Antarctic and Arctic oceans are important food resources for birds and mammals (particularly whales) that migrate there to feed before returning to more temperate water. Extinctions at the extremes of the globe will have effects that reach far into our own familiar territory.

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Last chance to see.... penguins?

I’m going to use the word “diagenic” to describe phenomena in which a single cause results in two opposite effects. Eg the global warming theory where the tropics heat up but areas near the poles freeze, hyperfocus and hypofocus in ADD.

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Diagenesis

Why do the public seem to believe everything that the media prints? The case regarding global warming is quite shocking. Moreso to believe that our schools are turning out hundreds of thousands of youngsters who allegedly achieved high grades in their science exams yet don't actually know what a scientific theory is.

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Global Warming...

President Bush is taking more liberal positions. For example global warming. He used to be against it. Now it’s the Republican plan for heating homes this winter. � Jay Leno

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LohC

We now find ourselves in a funny predicament. Being mostly blind to our own paradigms, we’re having a hell of a time figuring out what to do with ourselves. Lots of gloom and doom talk with terrorism, global warming, peak oil, nuclear proliferation, overpopulation, ozone holes, super-bugs, etc. All of this stuff comes about because of unintended consequences of unchecked growth.

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Opposable Thumb to Opposable Mind

A few weeks ago, while cooking, I was peeling leeks, tomatoes and carrots. Throwing all those peelings into the dustbin made me think about one frightening thing: “I am so selfish: this rubbish will be carried to the incinerator, and this will use petrol and produce CO2. Burning it will consume a lot of energy and cause dioxin air pollution. Global warming will cause hurricanes so strong that Louisiana will be flooded, disturbing world economy. I must react!”.

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How can I be so selfish?

High on the fear stakes is Muslim fundamentalist terrorism, global warming, H5N1 chicken influenza, Irans nuclear ambitions, North Korea and the A-Bomb, China taking all of our jobs etc etc.

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Climate of Fear

All the recent natural disasters, compounded with ongoing International terror strikes and American leadership errors, are giving me a bad case of the Doomsday Blues. Let’s face it, with rampant population and its resulting poverty, global warming and its resulting catastrophes, and WMDs and their resulting mass destruction, it seems like without a whole lot of peace, love and understanding… we’re fucked!

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Doomsday Blues

Contestants must have their names mentioned in either the USA Today or New York Times as many times as possible for any reason during a week-long period. Special consideration will be given to those contestants whose mention is linked in some way to global warming, or in the same sentence as either the word “reform” or “maverick.” The contestant with the fewest name appearances is eliminated.

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The Apprentice: John McCain

Great, who needs to actually worry about the dramatic and deadly shifts that global warming will cause for us, not to mention our children and their children etc. etc….Deadly natural disasters, whatever….Worry? Who needs it when there’s more gas to put in your Hummer. If I didn’t already think Intelligent Design was junk science this would prove it to me. Intelligently designed? People? Are you kidding?

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This Has to be a Sick Joke

This study clearly illustrates, however, that vegetation type change even in the natural system is a first-order climate forcing and represents another global heat change effect (global warming is discussed in our August 29th blog). While the role of arctic vegetation in the carbon budget has been extensively investigated, its role in the surface energy budget has not. This new research further demonstrates why we need to look beyond the radiative forcing of carbon dioxide, methane, and the other well-mixed greenhouse gases if we are going to be able to understand global warming and climate change in general.

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Why is Vegetation Type a First-Order Climate Forcing?

Crok's article - that I remember pretty well - explains that the analysis of the "hockey stick graph" revealed that this main pillar of the "global warming theory" was nothing else than a result of flawed statistics and raised questions about the integrity of the world climate research.

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Dutch journalism award: Kyoto is junk

What I do understand is that there are people out there who do understand AD a lot better than me, and they're trying to find a cure. Which costs money. And I understand that our congress has just thrown another $50 Billion down Bush's War on Terr'r commode. I wonder how much closer that money would have brought those researchers to a cure for AD. And diabetes, heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, Multiple Sclerosis. Hell, galloping dandruff and global warming for that matter.

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Tau and the Cost of Curing Alzheimer's

“The columns have been driven deep into solid ground,” explains Dick van Gooswilligen from the construction company. “They are even strong enough to withstand currents you would find on the open seas. As global warming causes the sea level to rise, this is the solution.”

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Amphibious houses

Did global warming contribute to the Gulf Coast disaster, and the thankfully smaller scale destruction of Hurricane Rita?

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Global warming and big storms

As I said in my previous post liberals appear to be continuously stuck on stupid, and this is especially true with regard to alleged global warming. I found an article Friday from a British paper that confirms exactly what I was saying. The gentleman who is the subject of this article is supposedly “one of Britain’s leading scientists.” This is a very scary thing for Britain. Notice how he interprets the “growing violence” of these hurricanes:

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Color me Loony

Before I come off as any more cruel and insensitive than I just have I do need to make a point to say that I understand not everyone knew of the mandatory evacuation. Then again, when did it become the duty of our government to go door to door and hold the hand of every individual who isn’t willing to keep up on important happenings in their own country or their own state? When did it become the duty of our government to babysit the people who live there? The answer: never. Sure, there are large groups of people who claim that the government didn’t do its job in warning people that a hurricane was coming. Had the tables been turned, however, and had the government simply failed to adequately remind people that, say, tax day was looming, none would have complained. Examples such as this lead me to believe that people love to blame their government for things that they are too uninformed, too lazy, too ignorant, too ashamed, or otherwise too ill-equipped to handle. And you know what? That isn’t right. In fact, the moment we start to complain that we are not living in a country that holds the hand of each of its citizens through every natural (and notice I said natural–as in Mother Nature–here, not a consequence of Dubya, of global warming, or of someone forgetting to pay the power bill) disaster that we experience is the moment that we can expect to lose so many of the rights we do have as citizens of this country. Simply put, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot have the government hand-holding along with the freedoms we feel so entitled to. It is either one or the other. And I, personally, am glad to take freedoms and their consequence of being made to take responsibility for my own actions (be it staying informed, evacuating once a mandatory evacuation has been issued for the city I live in, or something else) over the loss of these freedoms any day. In fact, I am willing to bet that most people would prefer their “freedom” over the kind of government we would have if all of the things we moan and complain about once tragedy has struck were realized.

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Katrina

That dailykos browsing is a problem though. Upsetting things appear there all day long. I want to know true problems. I want to see what’s there, not pretend all is lovely when all isn’t. But yeesh, a person can only handle so much bad news. My government is corrupt and inept, the economy is ready for a bad fall due to record deficits, global warming is truly happening now what with all that ice and snow melting up north so that even reindeer are now in jeopardy, and then you have your avian flu.

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I wait.

Hurricane Katrina should serve as a warning that the world must not ignore the consequences of global warming, the former US Vice President Al Gore told a gathering of international leaders on Saturday. If these concerns stay limited to the podium, scientific papers or seminar panels, is yet to be seen.

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‘Katrina warns, global warning can’t be ignored’: Gore

Lest any of ye scurvy-ridden bilge rats forget, only you can prevent global warming… Arrr!

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Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Global warming; a subject that's been in the news a lot recently due to Hurricane Katrina. No, I'm not convinced; we're always seeing reports of extreme weather events on TV...the hottest for 500 years, the wettest, the driest, the worst season for hurricanes, the ice caps are melting, the Gulf Stream might dissipate etc. etc. etc.

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Global warming...Why I'm not convinced

This article in The Washington Post describes the ongoing – and newly intensified – debate about global warming. And this paragraph, in particular, implies (but does not answer) a fascinating question:

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Agendas

This candy bar was nougat, caramel and almonds. See peanuts are OK, but they are trashy. Almonds are the bomb. So after trying to market that bad boy for a million years, M&M/Mars got tired. They probably lost all their talent to RJ Reynolds "smoking is good for you" division, or TexaChevronPhillipsOilWad's division of "global warming isn't real but if it is it's good for you now look over there, is that Julia Roberts and the twins?" division. Anyway, they just laid down in the road and died.

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Aborted Rant of the Day

So what should the U.S. really be doing? We should be completely removing our dependence on oil. We should be cleaning up our water and environment, taking steps to end global warming, species extinction, human hunger, disease and famine. We should be investing heavily into solar, wind and geothermal power. We should be making sure that every resident and citizen has healthcare. We should be educating our children (and by that I also mean telling them the truth about the world). We should end poverty in this country if not in the world. And we should be getting rid of television commercials and making sure that if you have 500 channels then there damn well better be something to watch on TV. OK, maybe I'm asking for too much.

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Bush's Plan - Return to the 60's

Here are some intriguing weather predictions which come from a somewhat improbable source. The author is not, as you might expect, Greenpeace or David Suzuki, but rather Munich Re, one of the largest insurance companies in the world. If this analysis is anything to go by, it would appear that the insurance industry is not waiting for the rest of us to decide whether or not global warming is a serious issue.

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Accu-Weather Forecast For The Rest of Your Life

'The effect of global warming was at most second order,' he wrote, 'and probably not present at all.'"

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The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Hurricanes

Hurricane Katrina has left waves of debate over global warming behind. The cold-shouldering of the global warming issue by the US has come to the fore once again. Environmentalists the world over are criticizing President Bush for USA’s refusal to come on board the main UN plank to combat climate change.

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Post-Katrina, the world wakes up to global warming

Seriously though, we do need to manage our resources better. The link between emissions and global warming may not be well proven, but what about the toxins, heavy metals, tons of high longevity plastics. Yeast may outlive us all!

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Yeast - fecken stupid or what?

Personally, I would bet on some microbe that is able to break up water. But anything that reduces the world's dependence on the few oil-producing nations, reduces pollution, slows global warming, and makes us safer would be very welcome indeed.

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Good news on the hydrogen front

I’m sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory. It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia. I cannot stress the importance of this enough, and unfortunately cannot describe in detail why this must be done as I fear this letter is already becoming too long. The concise explanation is that He becomes angry if we don’t. You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

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Spaghettie God

What a putz. (And what is with him using an AOL email address?) Someone on the left needs to tell him to use some of his massive amount of money to buy a clue. Moore continues to affirm that he actually has no idea whatsoever about how the country works. Bush is the left’s favorite scapegoat. Him and “global warming”. Let me quote Chrenkoff:

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Moore offers his wisdom

The loss of forests has a profound effect on the global carbon cycle. From 1850 to 1990, deforestation worldwide (including the United States) released 122 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, with the current rate being approximately 1.6 billion metric tons per year. In comparison, fossil fuel burning (coal, oil, and gas) releases about 6 billion metric tons per year, so it is clear that deforestation makes a significant contribution to the increasing CO2 in the atmosphere. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere enhances the greenhouse effect, and could contribute to an increase in global temperatures (see Global Warming Fact Sheet, NF-222).

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Deforestation and the Global Carbon Cycle

Reversals of truth are interesting—and frequent—phenomena. If you’ve been following the news on the damage caused by hurricane Katrina, surely you must have heard of hardcore leftists blaming it all on so-called “man-made global warming” [N.B: now it seems to have become simply “climate change” though—as if there were anything constant about climate but perpetual change!].

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Katrina: Human Life vs. The Nature Cult

After a couple nights kipping free at the aires we arrived in Haute Savoie, the French alps. I was let out on the 'lastic leash and we wandered up to a viewpoint and I looked up. . .and up . . .CRICK! . . and up. Mont Blanc! 4800 metres! That's like 3 miles UP, what a monster mountain. My hugely sensitive cat eyes just stared and stared unblinkingly at the high heavens, at those perfect peaks of perpetual powder. The only hill I've ever seen is that rise on Norbury common which is lucky to hold a slush drift in the depths of winter, what with global warming.

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CATHEAD SAILS TO FRANCE

The EU and China have signed an important agreement on global warming which recognises the huge economic, social and environmental importance of climate change – and the influence China will have on it in the future. Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, agreed on a “China-EU Partnership on Climate Change and the Security of Energy Supply”, a wide-ranging cooperation in energy and climate change matters.

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China-EU Environmental Agreement

The barrage of Hurricanes hitting USA’s Southern Coast, including Katrina, may have occurred anyway, but their likelihood was aggravated by Global Warming is apparant. With New Orleans increasingly becoming a cesspool pervaded by violence, rape, starvation and looting, maybe every country, including USA, will now utilise hindsight and sign the Kyoto Treaty!

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Effects of Global Warming

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

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New Orleans

There sure are a lot of people talking about how hurricanes are stronger now than they used to be, and that it is _obviously_ the direct result of global warming. Let’s see what sort of information we’re able to find to support these claims.

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Hurricanes Worse Now Because of Global Warming?

Interesting piece from John Naughton this morning, commenting on a finding that a fifth of our US cousins think the sun goes around the earth. The original article talks about other gaps in US science knowledge and worries that Americans can’t follow debates about cloning or evolution. Well if they want to believe the world came into being 6000 years ago as apposed to the 4500 million, let them. I’m not too worried about a 100 million Americans with the wrong ideas about how the world came into existence. What I am worried about is that the strongest country in the world is not signing up to the Kyoto agreement because its inhabitants mostly couldn’t tell you the difference between a warm front and global warming. And global warming affects all 6500 million of us on this planet.

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Americans don’t know the earth goes round the sun

Just watching the devastation in S. America.According to the politicions,global warming is one of the less important issues and only given slight attention due to public pressure.

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A Serious Blog (for a change!)

You knew Robert Kennedy Jr. was a nutjob…what Kennedy isn’t? But, this is the mother of all insanities…RFK Jr. is blaming hurricane Katrina on Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour!!! Why? Because Barbour wasn’t too keen on killing the US economy with the bogus Kyoto treaty. Ya know, the global warming treaty that would have derailed the entire US economy, costing all of us trillions of dollars, while the biggest pollution culprits (read China and India) got away without having to make the same costly changes!

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RFK Jr. Blames Hurricane on Mississippi Governor!!

After denying to sign the Kyoto protocol it is quite clear, that president George W. Bush is one of those who is to be accounted guilty for the disaster in New Orleans by hurricane Katrina. Mr Bush negated that exhaust gases are the reason for the global warming and so the US were and are the highest producer of theses gases in the world. So the little higher temperature of the water in the Gulf Of Mexico led to the few extra mph that busted lots of houses more.

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Bush responsible for Hurricane ‘Katrina’?

If it is true, as suggested by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, that global warming, caused possibly by volcanic activity. resulted in the extinction of 95% of life forms and effectively suffocation of the oceans...then it's all up for Harry Ramsdens I feel!

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TRIBOLITE AND CHIPS.. THE END.

“Pastafarianism,” as the belief has come to be known, has, according to the letter, over 10 million adherents. “I’m sure you now realize how important it is that your students are taught this alternate theory,” Henderson wrote. “It is absolutely imperative that they realize that observable evidence is at the discretion of a Flying Spaghetti Monster. Furthermore, it is disrespectful to teach our beliefs without wearing His chosen outfit, which of course is full pirate regalia.” The website includes a graph demonstrating compelling evidence which links global warming to the decreasing number of pirates worldwide.

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Of Spaghetti Monsters and People

Huh? So what are you saying oh wondrous leader? Was he duped into believing that the army was there to wear flowers, grow crops, and hand out flyers about ‘global warming’? I am sorry but everyone knows the military is a bunch of killers. Are you saying Casey was not able to make decisions about his life on his own? Why did you not stop him?

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Cindy's Daily B.S. From Camp Coward

You may be interested to know that global warming, earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural disasters are a direct effect of the shrinking numbers of Pirates since the 1800s. For your interest, I have included a graph of the approximate number of pirates versus the average global temperature over the last 200 years. As you can see, there is a statistically significant inverse relationship between pirates and global temperature.

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yet more piracy

A federal judge here [San Francisco] said environmental groups and four U.S. cities can sue federal development agencies on allegations the overseas projects they financially back contribute to global warming.

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The Courts May Decide Global Warming Questions

There’s all kinds of talk back east bout global warming; most of the discussion seems to center on whether or not the phenomenon exists. Well, I can attest to its existence.

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Global Warming - a Personal Perspective

I have a problem with how it's presented. I can guarantee once a person starts asking the right questions, the hard ones, the critical ones, the skeptical ones they'll think twice about Christianity. Once we start injecting theology the waters get very mirky. For example, I attended a PCA church here in Corpus a few months ago and was really put off by the teaching of sinful nature and predestination and some old fart tarnishing the name of my old former senator John McCain (the one and only Republican I actually respect - he even acknowledges global warming unlike a few prominant figures). "It's in the Bible!" He said (sinful nature and predestination, not global warming; maybe that's why the Christian Right doesn't much care for all things environment) as I was questioning him. Really? So I ain't got a choice whether I go to hell or not? Well, I'll be damned (literally). It don't make a spit of difference what the hell I do then does it now? Oh, I'm born bad? Wow, that makes a lot of sense now. Adam and Eve really screwed it up for the rest of us. That's fair.

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Selling Christianity

Methane is an extremely efficient greenhouse gas which may contribute to enhanced global warming when free in the atmosphere, and such free methane, would then be considered a pollutant rather than a useful energy resource. However, methane in the atmosphere reacts with ozone, producing carbon dioxide and water, so that the greenhouse effect of released methane is relatively short-lived. As a pollutant, significant biological sources of methane are termites, cows (ruminants) and cultivation (estimated emissions 15, 75 and 100 million tons per year respectively.

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Natural Gas

Why the hell does Focus on the Family even have a position on global warming? It is Focus on the Family.

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Religion Journal Review

There is reason to believe that this trend of accelerating progress may end. The end of the growth of progress will probably not come due to overpopulation, global warming, or nuclear holocaust, although any of these could theoretically create havoc. Rather, the human race could soon see its rate of progress slow significantly as a result of the simple fact that it has already tackled most of the easy problems and is facing diminishing returns to ingenuity.

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Hard Problems

They seem to have an issue with global warming. Brings to mind a time when Greenpeace placed a large "Global Warming is Coming" banner across the street from BP in Anchorage a few years ago.

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Senator John McCain Global Warms My Beach

[…]at the Brookings Institution, its environmental boss detects a whiff of terminological politics. “Polling data suggest that much of the public considers the term climate change less threatening than global warming,'’ says David Sandalow. “As a result, politicians eager to downplay risks tend to use the term climate change.

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War of Words

Whereas some meteorologists believe that there is not a link between gobal warming and storms, there has also been a recent model study on how the storm statistics can be affected by a global warming that we failed to mention in the previous discussion. Furthermore, a new analysis published in Nature by Kerry Emanuel ('Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years') points to a high correlation between the power of the TCs and the sea surface temperature (SST). This paper is also discussed in The New Scientist. He suggests that a likely consequence of a future warming is an upward trend in the destructive potential of TCs. Emanuel argues that a net power dissipation is a better indicator of TC threat than their frequency or intensity alone.

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Storms & Global Warming II

New Scientist reports more worrying global warming news. Russian researchers have discovered an area of peat bog the size of France and Germany (so big then) that is normally engulfed in permafrost is lacking it’s permafrost. The ice melting could result in the release of billions of tonnes of normally contained methane gasses into the atmosphere. That, my friend, is bad for the environment. Apparently this ecological time bomb has been slowly going off over the last three to four years.

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Siberia melts

Very few scientists are willing to blame global warming, the theory that carbon dioxide and other manmade emissions are trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere and causing a worldwide rise in temperatures. Yet few are willing to rule it out.

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Mysterious changes hit Pacific Coast

it looks like we’re in store for bigger, badder tropical storms . . . for some time to come. this ap article discusses new studies suggesting that global warming is wreaking havoc on the tropical regions of our planet.

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what’s the forecast?

You’ve probably already heard more about this than you want to regardless of which side of the fence you fall on, but I want to present what I think is a relatively novel argument. The gist is that dealing with global warming as if it was caused by man is sensible based on a risk analysis using a sort of Dutch Books style argument.

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My take on global warming

It is a good thriller with a controversial look at Global Warming and Eco Terrorism. It is a work of fiction but Michael spent three years researching, and provides foot notes for, a vast body of research on the topics the characters in the story deal with. No matter what your position on these issues I hope you check out the book, keep an open mind while reading it, and then begin asking some real questions about how “scientific” information is presented. Both sides of the argument distort the true data to suit their view and if you are any kind of conspiracy theorist, the State of Fear is surly no joke.

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Michael Crichton’s State of Fear

What is happening to the black family in America is the sociological equivalent of global warming: easier to document than to reverse, inconsistent in its near-term effect—and disastrous in the long run.

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Black Families Are Failing

But his story became rather important to our little group. We all wanted to come up with our own story that had the word "World" in the title. One of my friends had to the foresight to think up a story called "Water World" where the whole world was submerged under water because of global warming. My blatant rip off of this was called "Land World" where, for some reason I couldn't think of at the time, all the earth's water evaporated.

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Nerf World

Oh, and for those of you who are hoping the end is in sight, check out the graphic below from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center. Yes, all the red means its going to be hot for a while. God bless SUV's and global warming.

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Record heat in Wyoming, flights cancelled in due to heat

Looking down, I admired my new adornment. Embossed on the soft caramel leather band were the words "Stop Global Warming." Almost immediately, I was aware of wearing a bracelet. I was also aware of an unfamiliar warmth. Not the global sort, but that which radiates from one's Inner Virtue.

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Kathleen Parker: Easy Virtue

Looks like it’s on the people of America to show leadership on preserving our future in the face of global warming….

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Scientist Testifies on Global Warming

The Carolina Journal relays the comments of Fred Singer during his recent speech in Raleigh. Singer takes the dispassionate logical view of global warming and Kyoto that so differs from those on the Left who choose to use the issue for their personal political gain.

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Fred Singer on Global Warming

“It’s the krill that drive the food web dynamics off this coast,” said Ellie Cohen, the executive director of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. “Their absence has tremendous implications for everything out there, right up to the humpback and blue whales. We don’t know if this is a result of global warming or some natural cycling, but without the krill, you could be looking at a food web collapse.”

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Plankton Vanishing Off NorthWest Coast

Given that the G8 meetings start today, and given that terrorism is NOT on the agenda this year, given that George Bush probably doesnt give 2 fucks about global warming or poverty in Africa which ARE on the agenda, isnt it just too much of a strange coincidence? Yes, you could probably argue the fact that terrorists targeted this G8 day on purpose BUT if that really were the case and leaders were to be the targets, why target london and not Scotland????? Which is where the meetings being held. Also why target London transport systems and with minimilistic bombs that havent really killed anyone??? How Im seeing this is perhaps yes perhaps the Bush administration have got their fingers in the pie of this somehow in an effort to push terrorism back onto the table at the summit...forcing poverty and environmental issues to be swept under the carpet once again. Its a sad sad bloody state of affairs, especially that Tony Blair, the main pusher in the 8 leaders wanting to eradicate poverty, has to be pulled away from the summit in order to clean up someone elses mess in london. Perhaps im wrong but i think this is a HIGH HIGH possibility of whats actually going on. Dont think I been watching too much Michael Moore either, i havent, ive always thought...............theres more to the story than meets the eye!

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London Bombings 07 July 2005

"All of a sudden," he continued, "the media began asking, 'Is she selling out? Is she abandoning her principles?' But if John McCain, who's pro-life, works with Hillary on global warming, he's a man of principle moving to the middle."

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Bill Clinton, in his first non-lie of the summer, tells Dems not to worry, Hillary is still an abortion fan

"It's what I call tropical nights," said Phillips, adding humidity and smog are playing a role as well as a lack of rain. "That's what global warming is all about. It is not the daytime highs but the nighttime lows that are higher than what our parents and grandparents experienced."

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Summer of '05 sizzles

Reducing pollution levels in the air could lead to much higher levels of global warming, researchers have warned.

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Clean Air and Wind Power Get the Kiss of Death

How reassuring to know that my state is hopping on the issue of the day and spending our money on a state commission examining global warming. If the article by N&O writer Wade Rawlins today is any indication, we are in for an expensive and misleading journey.

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Global Warming

Western civilizations' out-of-control humongous footprint has brought humanity to the brink of twin disasters, the first being global warming, which is very real and is something humans must and will deal with in one way or another: either by making the decision to adapt to our planet's limitations, or in pain and suffering as we destroy the Earth and ourselves along with her.

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introductory post: small footprint

"Given the above caveats, if the postulated timeline and climate impact of industrial-society-induced global warming prove to be accurate, for countries without substantial untapped hydroelectric resources nuclear power is the only viable near term large-scale energy option consistent with economic growth and a commitment to reduced CO2 emissions."

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Margo Kingston's Webdiary - smh.com.au - Nuclear YES Case

I would argue that it is the internet itself that is the medium - and that the business model of MGM is now the issue - which brings me back to my original point. They need to make way for the augmented public domain which is sucking away at their profits as surely as the hard vacuum of space. They need to let go and change. In the same way the world will have to change to deal with global warming, they will have to change their business models. The internet is here, done, its already over. They didn't move fast enough. They will be punished.

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MGM vs Grokster - This Bong Is Only For Decorative Purposes

Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain’s attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.

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New US move to spoil climate accord

Have you heard this one? Philip Cooney, an ex-lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, recently fudged scientific reports to make global warming seem less serious . . . to characterize global warming as a sweet fairy tale . . . to counter with ’science’ the request of a visiting Tony Blair that more be done. (No, Mr. Blair, you and the British are only appreciated when you make war with us.) And this Cooney fuck, who resigned nice and quickly last week after his actions were exposed in the New York Times, was unbelievably enough the CHAIR of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality! It would be funny if it didn’t make me gag and spit.

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powerful liars

Extraordinary efforts by the White House to scupper Britain’s attempts to tackle global warming have been revealed in leaked US government documents obtained by The Observer.

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I’m SURE this is based on ’sound science’ as well

When you’re told that Global Warming is a scientifically proven fact, that is to be the end of the discussion. The debate is over. Tim Blair links to a German Spiegel Online - English Site piece which begins: “The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know.”

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Whither the Glaciers

Paulo Rodrigues, who manages the family sugar plantation for his father, acknowledges that “sugar has had a bad reputation.” But, he said, sugar cane requires fewer chemicals than any crop except pasture. His farm uses wasps to fight insects, reducing the need for chemical pesticides. The crop’s dense leaves absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide, making it a good recycler of the greenhouse gas implicated in global warming.

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Brazil’s Biofuel Strategy Pays Off as Gas Prices Soar

over fourty percent of the earth's land mass is currently desert and that number is growing. these areas are home to two billion people or one third of our population. what's happening is that global warming is throwing everything out of control already. droughts and heat waves are increasing everywhere but are concentrated in these arid areas. which brings the term desertification. the deserts are slowly growing because plant life can't sustain itself in unnatural ecosystems.

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world day to combat Desertifcation

* Allowing global warming, which will cause massive environmental damage

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For All You cRaZY Liberals Out There…

LONDON, England (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair is trapped in a dilemma of his own creation over saving the planet from global warming, analysts say.

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Blair faces G8 climate ‘train wreck’

New Zealand taxpayers will be $1 billion worse off under revised costs of the Kyoto treaty to combat global warming. We are likely to exceed our Kyoto target of greenhouse gas emissions by 36 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

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Kyoto

It's amazing what you can discover when you read foreign newspapers. Of course the resignation of Phillip Cooney was reported in the American press, but with it a quote from the White House that said his abrupt resignation had nothing to do with the doctoring of official US policy papers on global warming. The nasty stuff just gets deeper and deeper. Not only did Phillip Cooney (not a scientist, by the way, he was a lawyer for the American Petroleum Institute, a lobbying group for oil firms) resign, but just one week later, it turns out that he took a job with...can you guess?come on I'll give you a hint...if you said Exxon Mobile, you would be correct!

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Piles of It

I was listening to NPR the other day, when they reported that “more than 1,000 lakes in the arctic region of Siberia have disappeared or shrunk dramatically over the past 30 years.” As temperatures rise, permafrost is melting, and the fresh water just seeps into the ground and disappears. I call this Global Meltdown; something the House energy bill ignores.

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Make Democracy Work � Tell Congress We Need a Better Energy Bill

It appears that scientists are making a new push to get legislation passed on global warming reforms. According to this article from CNN, the science academies for Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the U.S., Japan, Italy,Canada, Brazil, China and India have all signed a joint statement calling for the immediate reduction of greenhouse gases and "recognize that delayed action will increase the risk of adverse environmental effects and will likely incur a greater cost." Despite this overwhelming statement of support from the world leaders in science, I'm sure the Bush administration will just dismiss this as more scientific hocus pocus.

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Those scientists and their silly

Male government workers and politicians who stoically cling to their dark suits and ties as summer temperatures climb are being encouraged to leave off their jackets and ties between June 1 and September 30 so air conditioner thermostats can be set higher, helping to save energy and fight global warming.

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Law of unintended consequences strikes again

Now these are the kind of girls I am looking for. You know?!? The one’s where we can all sit down sip’n on our 40’s discussing world politics, global warming, how Frank Loyd Wright should have designed mobile homes, or should the current interest rates stay at the current rate.

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Classy

WASHINGTON -- With concern over global warming mounting in the United States and abroad, three bipartisan groups of lawmakers plan this week to press the Senate to adopt beefed-up emissions controls, despite staunch White House resistance to them.

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President Gore goes to Washington

Reflecting a consensus between the company and the US administration on the need for more global warming science and the unacceptable costs of Kyoto, the papers state that Exxon believes that joining the treaty "would be unjustifiably drastic and premature", the Guardian reported.

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British newspaper claims Exxon leaned on Bush to shun Kyoto treaty

President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.

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I guess we already knew this….

When you use GWB's own logic we have to understand that global warming can never happen, since Bush denies based on current evidence, then he will extend his "I'm never wrong" into the future (what else can he do?), so any future effects will be something like "God's intervention". Why won't his God tell him the truth now? ;)

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Neil Cavuto Interviews George Bush. Hail to the Chief and Never Mind the Lies

President’s George Bush’s decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world’s most powerful oil companyand other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.

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Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush

We like to take an optimistic view, so we'd like to be able to predict the administration will learn to stop spinning science. But the Bush team will always prefer "let's pretend" to science about global warming and, probably, other vital subjects where the world's gains in knowledge are outstripping U.S. progress.

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When Big Oil meets science

A White House official, who previously worked for the American Petroleum Institute, has repeatedly edited government climate reports in a way that downplays links between greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

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White House Appointee Censors Environmental Reports

I'm not the world's biggest environmentalist--I have yet to be convinced that I should buy into the global warming hysteria right now, I like Aqua Net hairspray just fine, I see no problem with cutting down thousands of acres of trees to make newspapers if that's what you planted the trees for in the first place, I drive an SUV, I don't support Greenpeace (not "I don't care", Greenpeace is specifically on my shit list), and I think that, for the most part, recycling is a wast of time money and resources. Do you get the point? Given that, I think...

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Old Is New

Nowhere is this more evident than the Bush administration's policy on global warming. The administration rejected Kyoto, and rightly so (a fact that former Clinton officials will acknowledge if you get them good and liquored up). Bush officials said at the time of rejecting Kyoto that it would come up with an alternative plan. An even though it's actually implemented some useful programs in this area, it never followed through with a positive alternative. So even though I seriously doubt any European signatory to the Protocol will actually abide...

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Diplomacy 201

I feel sorry for the voiceless creatures who are forced to emigrate or die by the global warming the administration says doesn't exist. I feel even sadder for our young people who have chosen not to care about politics because they take their cue from mainstream media, which direct their attention away from real issues and toward "events" like the Jackson trial. Shut out of the world of celebrity, big money, warmongering and political deceit, they burrow inside themselves and focus on the torture of their own narcissism. It's the only place they feel empowered.

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Bree Walker: Celebrity Acquittal Riddle

A White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

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Bush Aide Softened Greenhouse Gas Links to Global Warming - New York Times

SCIENTISTS, including from the United States and China, threw down the gauntlet to world leaders today saying humankind was the major source of global warming and urging action, one month ahead of a G8 summit.

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Cut one for the Gipper

President's George Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto global warming treaty was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers seen by the Guardian.

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British Paper: Exxon Had 'Active Involvement' In Shaping Bush Climate Policy

The national academies of science for all the G8 countries, along with those of Brazil, India and China, have warned that governments must no longer procrastinate on what is widely seen as the greatest danger facing humanity. The statement, which has taken months to finalise, is all the more important as it is signed by Bruce Alberts, president of the US National Academy of Sciences, which has warned George Bush about the dangers of ignoring the threat posed by global warming.

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G8 scientists tell Bush: Act now - or else...

More than a metre above normal. That is what the rivers in Winnipeg will rise to when they crest on Wednesday. This could be because of global warming or too much rainfall or both. I do not believe it. There is something more insiduous at hand here.

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Swimming != Peace

The national academies of science for all the G8 countries, along with those of Brazil, India and China, have warned that governments must no longer procrastinate on what is widely seen as the greatest danger facing humanity. The statement, which has taken months to finalise, is all the more important as it is signed by Bruce Alberts, president of the US National Academy of Sciences, which has warned George Bush about the dangers of ignoring the threat posed by global warming.

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G8 scientists & Climate Change

A White House official who once led the oil industry’s fight against limits on greenhouse gases has repeatedly edited government climate reports in ways that play down links between such emissions and global warming, according to internal documents.

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Official Played Down Emissions’ Links to Global Warming - New York Times

“We are living in a time when the other side doesn’t want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer,” said Clinton, considered a Democratic contender for the presidency in 2008 . . .

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It’s easy to kick a man when he’s down . . . fun, too

Then Clinton revealed his new initiative, Clinton Global Initiative He plans to bring people together for a yearly summit where they must sign a pledge to accomplish specific things. Clinton feels that after 10 years many of the biggest global issues will be addressedlike global warming and hunger. One of the key people in this group is Rupert Murdoch. Clinton declared that if you don't want to get things done, don't come to these meetings.

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Clinton Confusion On Fox

The government seemingly succeeded. Within a few years the number of salmon eaten by the terns of East Sand dropped somewhere between 3.5 and 7.7 million, an oddly ambiguous range. But environmentalists objected, several species of salmon were still almost extinct, and the alternate prey species favored by the terns (herring and anchovies) were fleeing global warming into colder water. Federal authorities determined a solution: move the terns.

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Magnificent Indifference

So the resistance to global warming research is not that "funding causes X results" or "not enough research has been done" or "there are scientists saying different" IT REALLY is institutes in the pocket of Petroleum industry... If the research of 11 nations, including ours, doesnt convince you... how about the fact that Phil Cooney is changing the wording of the finding to introduce doubt... well, thats manipulation,... and one doesnt manipulate a non-threat... one manipulates something the has potential consequences that are real enough to merit...

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Internal Docs: White House Official Played Down Emissions' Links to Global Warming

The whole way we are consuming the planet today, creating our own Apocalypse, is leaving a legacy of decay, a deficit, whatever way you measure the world's resources and economies, that grows with each generation that doesn't sit up and say "whoa," and start hitting the breaks. It so distresses me that with one of the most important international treaties of my lifetime, the Kyoto Accord on Global Warming, we continue to sit on the sidelines, somehow forgetting that we all share the same air, that water touches all of our lives, that the...

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The reasoned information age

Facts are inconvenient _ facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air..." said Clinton

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The mask comes off

California seemed to be in control of an early lead in the race to sink into the ocean, but a new NOAA study suggests that Louisiana is catching up. Another result of global warming, you say? Think again. This study suggests that subsidence, or the sinking and settling of land, is the culprit.

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Substance in the Form of Subsidence

"We are living in a time when the other side doesn't want us to see the facts. Facts are inconvenient _ facts about global warming, facts about mercury in the air, facts about people staying unemployed longer," Clinton said. "Facts are stubborn, persistent and annoying if you believe that decisions should be made on ideology and partisan politics."

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Sen. Clinton says administration is intent on abusing power

In the more than 130 years since that early summer of 1871, Diet members and bureaucrats have made it a rule to wear a tie to work-with the exception of the years during World War II. But on June 1, Cabinet ministers and civil servants ended this tradition to ``help ease global warming.''

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Is not wearing a tie part of the Kyoto Protocol?

There are better ways of finding out what’s going on with global warming than just looking at what kind of people say what kind of thing and then asking whether you like that kind of people. There are actually facts.

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Sweet, Snowy Irony

The Pitch: Nicolas Cage and Jerry Bruckheimer team up once again for this action-packed global warming cautionary tale. The CIA has been working in Antarctica, trying to develop a smart bomb made of ice. What they didn’t count on was years of rising carbon dioxide emissions levels causing rapid melting of the polar icecaps. The result? Their technology has gone afoul, the iceberg is on the loose, it has it’s own intelligence, and it’s pissed off. Now, it’s up to CIA Agent Jake Storm (Cage) and a feisty polar scientist (Anne Heche) to save the world from an icey doom.

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Coming Soon To Theatres

The thing is that I have been warning the "adults" about Global Warming since I was old enough to see the threat - I was 14. I remember having heavy and angry discussions with relatives telling me to grow up and see the facts. I have been laughed at by almost everyone I know for a decade and a half, whilst all the time knowing I was right.

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I told you so!

I would survive the weather, the storm, the natural disasters, the global warming… I know I would …

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Motivational Tree - Survive

Former Vice President Al Gore urged an assembly of international mayors to fight global warming Saturday, warning of catastrophic consequences for the planet if governments fail to act. Gore, who helped draft the landmark Kyoto treaty on global warming that the United States never ratified, said that climate change was already melting glaciers, raising temperatures and altering weather patterns worldwide.

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Gore Urges Mayors to Fight Global Warming

Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made environmental activism a key component of his life since writing Earth in the Balance fifteen years ago, delivered an hourlong speech to the World Environment Day conference in San Francisco about climate change and global warming, which he called a “planetary emergency.” “We can’t ignore it,” he told the packed audience at the Fort Mason Center. “We can’t put our heads in the sand.” More from the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Gore Talks About Global Warming

And we can consider ourselves as lucky! One of the consequences of the global warming caused by human activites could be the disruption of the Gulf Stream, causing a major climatic change for Western Europe. Global warming could lead us to a new Ice Age.

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Waiting for the Sun

Two recent cases, one on stem cells and one on global warming, suggest reasons for caution when cherry picking science to support a political agenda. Quite apart from the misuse of science, from the standpoint of political expediency, cherry picking can backfire.

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When the Cherries Don't Cooperate

The show practiced what it preached by meeting all its energy requirements from solar and wind power sources. Pretty much every aspect of environmentalism was covered. Organic food stalls, public transport advice, ethical trading, green home exhibitions. There was also a sturdy focus on what the individual can do to help combat global warming and its associated phenomena. A new species of charity mugger roamed the event, cajoling punters into making environmental pledges, such as using energy-efficient bulbs and, gosh darn it, taking showers instead...

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Putting The Green Back Into Greenwich

It may be convenient for your views on the freedom of private businesses to discriminate to imagine that too few whites would do so to make it a viable choice for many businesses to make, but unfortunately for you, the voluminous empirical evidence out there does not play along with such notions. What you display here is an all too common tendency amongst libertarians to wish away difficult facts that stand in the way of their ideologies, when it would actually serve their cause better to propose reasons to support their views *in the face* of said...

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Libertarianism and Wishful Thinking

Schwarzenegger unveils plan to combat global warming, greenhouse gas

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Desperate times call for desperate measures, no?

Now, sadly, at the age of 70, he has gone all peculiar in public. He has turned against global warming with a demented article in the Daily Mail, and a recent letter to New Scientist.

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bellamy pulled to the dark side

Or Global Warming - it's not true that me driving my car destroys the environment - that's just some bullshit from those bleeding heart tree huggers!

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Homo Sapiens and its foggy self view

“An attempt by two men from northern Minnesota to cross the Arctic Ocean to call attention to global warming ended this morning because of poor weather conditions. Lonnie Dupre, 43, and Eric Larsen, 33, were forced to abandon their planned 100-day, 1,200-mile trek after encountering unexpectedly heavy snow storms, strong winds and unusual ice conditions, according to Jane Kochersperger, a media officer with the environmental group Greenpeace, which co-sponsored the trip.”

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Ironic

Even though Japan is already among the most frugal countries in the world, the government recently introduced a national campaign, urging the Japanese to replace their older appliances and buy hybrid vehicles, all part of a patriotic effort to save energy and fight global warming. And big companies are jumping on the bandwagon, counting on the moves to increase sales of their latest models.

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Japan Choosing Efficiency

And I think it ties into this Treehugger article about the problems of Global Warming, Peak Oil, and Homeland Security. The Treehugger suggests that they collapse into “one solution - Use Less. Buy Local. Walk or Bike. Stop mainlining gasoline.” I suggested, in fact that “walk or bike” could help solve one more problem, and pointed to an Associated Press report describing how “In W.Va., obesity studied like a disease outbreak” (by the Centers for Disease Control). So, add “Health” (mental and physical)...

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Large-Muscle Exercise

Former Vice President Al Gore urged an assembly of international mayors to fight global warming Saturday, warning of catastrophic consequences for the planet if governments fail to act. Gore, who helped draft the landmark Kyoto treaty on global warming that the United States never ratified, said that climate change was already melting glaciers, raising temperatures and altering weather patterns worldwide.

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Gore Warns Mayors Global Warming Puts 'Civilization At Risk'

The group said it would seek by this summer to find a consensus among evangelical leaders on how best to tackle global warming.

The conservative Focus on the Family organization reacted warily to the National Association of Evangelicals’ attention to global warming, saying in a statement, “Focus and the broader evangelical movement have viewed such issues as the protection of marriage, the sanctity of human life, and the related issue of judicial reform as paramount. Our friends at the National Association of Evangelicals, with whom we agree on these and so many other issues, have now staked out a position in the very controversial area of global warming. This...

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Might I have found common ground with American Evangelical Christians?

Perhaps this is already hell. After all, what would be a better punishment than making people wait for eternity for a salvation that will never come? And if this is, in fact, hell, I don’t think it’s really all that bad, other than people’s generally shitty attitudes. Maybe God intended hell to be just this humdrum place with all the leftovers after he took away his chosen people, and we’re left to be responsible for how torturous it becomes. So, you know, with all the global warming and everything, maybe this will actually...

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To: Fundamentalists, Pt II

Bottom line: keep it coming. Keep ranting and raving and stirring up trouble. Credibility is the new global warming, and this time it is definitely man-made.

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The New Global Warming: Credibility

I keep watching the Carr Government's shift away from ecological economics. It had good creditionals from increasing the size of NSW's national parks, a green Olympics in 2000 and Bob Carr's good policy talk on salinisation of the Murray-Darling Basin, the threat of global warming to snowfields, over-development of the coastline and destruction of old-growth forests before 1995.

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looking the other way

“Cities pull in huge amounts of resources including water, food, timber, metals and people. They export large amounts of wastes including household and industrial wastes, waste water and the gases linked with global warming.

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UN: Homo Sapiens Enter Bronze Age, Develop Crude Tools, Manipulate Habitat in 2004

I won't live in your Dark Ages with you just so your ancestors can look back and say, "What the fuck were they thinking?" Why can't you see this in yourself? Anyone independent thinker certainly would and does. Global warming exists fuckers and teenagers are going to have sex with each other. You did it, and I did it a lot more and frankly, because I didn't have all the hang ups and guilt, girls knew when they needed a good fuck, there was only one guy to go to, right here! People like me, our children, were we allowed to have them, and would not...

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Now they didn't have these when I was in high school

Urban dwellers are mainly responsible for global warming...the U.N. environment agency said Friday.

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And they said it was because of my SUV!

You can't make this stuff up! A massive snowstorm has stopped two adventurers from trekking across the Arctic ocean to bring attention to global warming:

Conditions were so treacherous, in fact, that the men, who had hoped to make the crossing to call attention to global warming and the receding polar ice cap, couldn't be picked up and airlifted out by helicopter until Friday.

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Global Warming Made Me Do It!

The BBC has a new set of before and after pictures on global development. These pictures are from the UN Atlas of Environmental Change and are satellite photos of different areas. The changes are striking. They have an article explaining the changes called Changing planet revealed in atlas. Earlier, the BBC had done a Global warming time comparison in pictures" - also dramatic. If one picture is worth a million words, these pictures speak volumes. These are good ones to pass on to those who think that humans only have minimal impact on the planet.

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UN Atlas Before and After Pictures Effects of Development

Even though Japan is already among the most frugal countries in the world, the government recently introduced a national campaign, urging the Japanese to replace their older appliances and buy hybrid vehicles, all part of a patriotic effort to save energy and fight global warming. And big companies are jumping on the bandwagon, counting on the moves to increase sales of their latest models.

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energy consumption in japan

"Cities pull in huge amounts of resources including water, food, timber, metals and people. They export huge amounts of wastes, including ... wastewater and the gases linked with global warming" said UNEP Executive Director Klaus Toepfer.

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google: one planet, many people

Global warming wheel card classroom activity kit : a lesson plan for teaching about global warming and how to calculate greenhouse gas emissions in ev ... students grades 6-8 (SuDoc EP 4.2:G 51/3/KIT)

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Global warming wheel card classroom activity kit : a lesson plan for teaching about global warming and how to calculate greenhouse gas emissions in ev ... students grades 6-8 (SuDoc EP 4.2:G 51/3/KIT)

Some time ago I posted about their tract on the EU constition - they also have interesting stuff about Trial by Jury, Cannabis and Global Warming.

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Sense from France

This week San Francisco is hosting the World Environment Day Conference where mayors from around the world are coming to talk about planning for a sustainable, green future. In his statement opening the conference, Governor Schwarzenegger broke with the Bush administration by declaring that California would be a leader in addressing global warming by cutting global warming emissions.

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Converting Hummers to Show Your Credentials as an Environmentalist

Along with about 120 others, I attended the regional climate change forum today (3rd June), at Southern Cross University. Most of the presentations were great, but not new - i.e. repeats of the significant impact of climate change in terms of temperature and rainfall, presented with some quite detailed models and figures. For those not familiar with the models, they are based on scenarios that presume a variety of political decisions that would lead to optimistically stabilizing at 450 ppm of Carbon in the atmosphere, and pessimistically an exponential rise to 950 ppm by 2050. The optimistic scenario requires cuts in carbon emissions of 40-60% and still leads to between 1.5 and 2.9 degrees rise in average temperatures. The pessimistic scenarios lead to from 5 to 6 degrees rise by 2050. Of course, it isn't as simple as that, warming will be much more pronounced inland and to the north, i.e. the areas which are already hot. Predictions of rainfall are less certain but are typically on the Far North coast around 1-2% reduction in rainfall per degree temperature rise, at a worst case depending on location there could be up to a 30% reduction in rainfall. However, there was one presentation which really made me worry - Wayne Franklin of Rous Water presented his management plan for the future, and then outlined the potential impacts on their supply of global warming - reduced rainfall, earlier cutoff of access to sources etc. The worrying thing was that their graphs for future management didn't show these impacts, showing a flat availability from each of their sources over the next 20 years. Clearly Rous Water hasn't really internalised the planning for climate change, also their demand planning graphs show an ever increasing demand, based on population increase, i.e. an ineffectiveness of demand-management. I would have a lot more faith in the future integrity of our water supply if I was seeing planning that took account of likely climate change, and based on investment in demand management rather than in trying to get more pipes into rivers that are going to be challenged for environmental flows anyway. I guess its time to buy a rainwater tank, and rely on my own supply! A contrast was Yahya Abawi from DPI in Southern Queensland who had been developing models for predicting water availability in Southern Queensland. He showed the consistency in predictions for temperature rises, but also the very wide variation between the predictions of rainfall. He made the most important comment of the day, i.e. that we should not be taking the average of the results, but should use the range of predictions as a warning that we need to plan for water availability that range from a small increase, to a 30% decrease. Des Schroder from DIPNR gave a report that was in places strong, but in others worrying. The positive side was DIPNR's strategies to reduce emissions and reduce impacts - for example by creating jobs near homes and supporting public transit, and the BASIX standards requiring improved energy and water usage. But there was a distinct lack of risk-management planning for even the moderately bad scenarios, probably for fear of politically unpopular decisions. For example DIPNR's predictions are based on the middle ground of the IPCC scientist's predictions of 0.5m sea-level rise - leading to the coastline receding on average 50m. Prudent planning would have been to work on the worse case - about 1.0m, or 100m coastline change. Of course these predictions are from around 1999, and they have been superseded by credible predictions at this year's Exeter conference of climate change scientists. That conference predicted the likely melting of the Greenland ice-sheet (7 meters sea-level rise) and the West Antarctic ice-sheet (5 meters) i.e. a total of 12 meters and a coastline receding by over a kilometer on average. A sea-level rise of this amount would put all of Brunswick, and New Brighton and most of Byron underwater, and not just during storm surges. Unfortunately DIPNR's presentation ignored the need to look at transport that takes account both of climate change, and of peak-oil. The NSW state government is still committed to supporting and expanding the trucking and highways industries despite their contribution to climate change, and the coming shortages of oil. The other significant deficiency in DIPNR's planning is that there is no serious question of the assumption that our cities have to grow whether or not there our environment has the carrying capacity for it. The variability issue was raised again by Zvi Hochman of CSIRO - "the high level of uncertainty in future climate changes suggest that we need more resilient agricultural systems - including Socio-economic and cultural/institutional structures) to cope with a broad range of possible changes. Enhanced resilience comes with various types of costs or overheads such as increasing enterprise diversity and moving away from systems that maximize efficiency of production at the cost of broader sustainability goals. Adaptation is not enough. To reduce risk for future generations we all need to take steps to minimize our contribution to climate change." Unfortunately the models Zvi used didn't take into account the more outlying predictions of up to 6 degrees temperature rise, and as he pointed out, when questioned, this means we need to work from a precautionary principle. Roger Tomlinson from Griffith University's Center for Coastal Management, had some good images showing how coastlines and river mouths move around, partly periodically from the SOI and IPO cycles - long-term periodic oscillations of the Pacific Ocean. Most importantly Roger showed how the IPO cycle may be counteracting the effects of global warming so that as the cycle reverses in the next few years predictions are for the highest erosion ever experienced, from the combined IPO induced and man-made sea-level rise. Roger stressed the importance of dealing with the variability and complexity of the likely results and the only long-term response is likely to be a significant retreat. Unfortunately, like the Peak Oil and David Suzuki talks recently, the day concluded only with a sense of urgency and importance and with very little discussion of solutions and actions, both in order to reduce the change, and in order to reduce the impact of the change. Personally I'm a techno optimist, which means that I believe there are technical and administrative solutions that would allow us to reduce our emissions by the 50% or more needed. However I'm a politico-pessimist, which means that I think it highly unlikely that the powers-that-be in Washington, Sydney and Canberra will take actions on the scale needed. Hopefully here in Byron we can start a conversation on what we can do to reduce our impact on climate and set a good example. We have a council that could potentially back such actions, although the reaction by so-called environmentalists to recent proposals for a wind turbine in the area do not bode well for a willingness to take action ourselves.

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Regional Climate Change preparation , are we willing to take the hard steps?

Urban dwellers mainly cause global warming, but see little of it

According to a UN report, officials at the United Nations are caught up in the frenzy of hatred towards the middle-class. They believe that in America, the possibility of owning your own home is to blame for every social evil, including global warming. The UN is parroting out the same loathing of surburbia that has come out of the elite for years. After the tsunami the UN was clamoring how heavily populated areas would cause massive casualties in the event of a tsunami (they were busy telling people to move into UN controlled refugee camps while...

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UN to Middle-Class: You Bad People Should Leave Your Homes and Live in Huts and Caves

For example, in the last part of her series on climate change, Elizabeth Kolbert contrasts the state of discourse in the political sphere about global warming:

“Senator [James Inhofe], who has called global warming 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,' went on to argue that this important new evidence was being suppressed by 'alarmists' who view anthropogenic warming as 'an article of religious faith.' One of the authorities that Inhofe repeatedly cited in support of his claims was the fiction writer Michael Crichton”,

“In legitimate scientific circles, it is virtually impossible to find evidence of disagreement over the fundamentals of global warming.... out of a study of the more than nine hundred articles on climate change published in refereed journals between 1993 and 2003 and subsequently made available on a leading research database.... not a single article disputed the premise that anthropogenic warming is under way.”

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Science & the Public

“Silver said the United States is the only developed, industrialized country that still debates in the mainstream media whether or not global warming is happening. No need to give the other side on that topic, he was suggesting, since global warming is the truth. “

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Liberal Media Reformers Call for ‘Truth’ Over ‘Balance’ – 06/03/2005

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used the conference as an opportunity to publicly break with the Bush administration over global warming, by unveiling an aggressive greenhouse gas reduction plan for California, according to the Associated Press.

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FOCUS: Update - United Nations Reform

But what has science given us lately? DNA manipulation? Fetal stem cell research? Global warming? Et tu, Science! Why have you turned on us? Why do you recklessly discover these things, when they just confuse us? We used to suffer your flights of fancy when we just needed faster jets and more accurate missiles, but no longer! We used to tolerate your softer side; your psychology and sociology, but only because all that loco math impressed us. Now we have a better friend. Now we have a friend who doesn’t fuck with our heads so much. Now we have...

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Hudsonblick 09

An attempt by two men from northern Minnesota to cross the Arctic Ocean to call attention to global warming ended this morning because of poor weather conditions.

Drew attention to Global Warming they did indeed -- the fact that its a fraud. Thanks swampies.

Now if you want to argue Michael Crichton's point -- that it's hard to trust models made by people who have a point to prove in advance -- great. If you want to say that the math is way too complex to make good predictions, great. But to say that consistently adding a lot of C02 into the air will never have an impact is just foolish, as is saying that a bad snowstorm in June disproves global warming.

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Global warming takes a snow day

Seriously though, what is the �3m going to be spent on each year? Drinks and nibbles during intellectual discussions? First class transcontinental air fares for conferences on global warming? Designing a nice looking letterhead? I can't understand why developing a network of distinguished academics to tackle the biggest problems facing humanity costs �3m a year. Are these people not prepared to lend their services to the human race gratis, or does our continued existence come at the price of a junior suite in the Randolph?

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Future Imperfect

but no, bliar wants bush to acknowledge the reality of global warming..no way, say the bushies..they don’t want to know and they won’t do anything about it..an unproven science, didn’t ya know?(sorta like evolution, eh?)

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bliar says “what about me?, it isn’t fair…

During these dialogues Kenner attempts to convince Evans that everything he thinks he knows about Global Warming is a fabrication created by various nefarious agencies acting in their own interests. The interesting thing was that these sections of the book are extensively footnoted. There’s even a seemingly exhaustive bibliography.

And that’s the project I’m going to undertake. I want to know whether the claims of the global warming theory are true. My first step in attempting to answer this question will be to discard (Descartes style) everything I previously thought I knew about climate change since those beliefs are very obviously unsubstantiated.

I’ll record all my progress with this project here so you can follow along if you have any interest in knowing what I find. My first task will be to identify exactly what ‘global warming’ is and what its claims are. By my next post on this subject I hope to have found out.

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Nothing to Do

Take global warming, said Josh Silver, another panelist and executive director of the Fair Press media reform organization.

Silver said the United States is the only developed, industrialized country that still debates in the mainstream media whether or not global warming is happening. No need to give the other side on that topic, he was suggesting, since global warming is the truth.

Of course, global warming remains nothing more than a theory in the scientific community, one that is not necessarily supported by the evidence. One recent study showed that the climatological community is split on the issue of global warming, with many scientific studies throwing the theory into question. Silver would apparantly make global warming an article of faith, with questioners relegated tot he lunatic frince. Who knows -- maybe he would like a public response to articles disputing global warming which rivals the response to Newsweek's...

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The Unbalnaced Liberal Media's Prescription For Restoring Public Trust In Media

Governor Schwarzenegger has announced what seems to be an ambitious plan to cut emission of global warming gases in California. While the announcement seems ambitious - ultimately an 80% reduction below 1990 levels by 2050, it was announced as a "voluntary" reduction.

6/02/05 ENS, California Governor Orders Cuts in Global Warming Emissions

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Schwarzenegger's Global Warming Plan

I am such a bad member of the Progressive Blogger Union. The hard-working chair sends out a loose topic every week and sometimes I follow it, or manage to connect it to what I was going to write already. Other times I can't switch my obsessions that fast, as passionate as I may potentially be about global warming or the Minutemen (that I could write about now, of course, after the spotlight has passed). But this week's themes are just up my alley, and so I put forward the first half of my contribution to PBU23 -- with a promise of more to come tomorrow night. Then, I'll make more direct reference to the way newspapers and TV news mis-report the war every day (for now, looksee what Jorgey at MediaInTrouble has called out).

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joe pulitzer's wonderfully disreputable ghost

Global warming at work, weather warfare, weather control, or something else, you decide?

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First Snow in a tropical land!

Greenpeace’s reputation for fighting climate change has been damaged by an embarrassing row over the charity’s US arm offering exotic foreign holidays as prizes in a global warming competition.

Project Thin Ice began on May 10, when two Americans set out to become the first explorers to cross the Arctic Ocean in the summer without outside support, to raise awareness of the effects of global warming.

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The Perils of the Multi-National Corporation

Tom Avril of Knight Ridder files a report from Iqaluit, Canada about global warming:

The Arctic provides a front-row seat for the phenomenon of global warming, as temperatures here have been rising almost twice as fast as in the rest of the world. Wildlife, native traditions, and the very foundations of buildings are at risk, experts said at an April conference here on Canada’s snowy Baffin Island, 600 miles above the tree line.

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As Temperatures Rise, Frozen Arctic World Finds Itself On Shakier Ground

#9. Global warming is threatening to melt the polar ice caps and drown the world. Unfortunately, most Republicans refuse to allow the United States to sign onto the Kyoto Protocol. Please calculate the total cost to humanity as far as lives, property, and human suffering.

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The Anti Racist Math Program

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared war on global warming by imposing bold new greenhouse gas targets emissions on the most populous US state.

“California will continue to be a leader in the fight against global warming and protecting our environment,” the movie tough guy told the conference where he stole the show and received a standing ovation.

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Governor Schwarzenegger fights gas problem

The weakening, apparently caused by global warming, could herald big changes in the current over the next few years or decades. Paradoxically, it could lead to Britain and northwestern and Europe undergoing a sharp drop in temperatures.

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New Ice Age Coming Much Sooner than Expected?

Despite the Bush Administration's refusal to act against the threat of global warming, hundreds of cities, counties, states, colleges and businesses are moving ahead on their own. In the process they are saving huge amounts of money and helping reduce America's dependence on fossil fuels.

"The politics of global warming are shifting in the United States. In just the past month, the Republican governors of the nation's two largest states and the CEO of the nation's largest company have made important announcements about steps to tackle this problem. The Bush administration is increasingly out of the mainstream on this issue," David Sandalow, director of the environment and energy project at Brookings Institute, told BushGreenwatch.

To implement the plan, Gov. Schwarzenegger has created a Climate Action Team, consisting of the secretaries of most of the state's major departments, such as business, transportation, housing, environment and agriculture. The team will be responsible for implementing global warming emission reduction programs. It will issue its first progress report next January, and bi-annually after that.

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the Governator does Good

I am happy to report that I still have baby apple, plums, cherries, a few pears and the best lilac bloom ever. The thermometer hit 30 degrees twice last week but the babies endured. Is it global warming or only a cycle? Whatever, for the first time in 29 years that I have lived here near Alfalfa, Oregon, I am going to have fruit on my trees. Awsome.

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I still have apples

There are people in the environmental movement that think that nuclear is an option in some circumstances, and believe that the side-effects and potential safety issues are minor compared to the threat of global warming.

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More on nuclear

Basically, any issue out there from Global Warming (You say climate change, I say tulips aren’t supposed to be out in January) to a women’s right to choose (it’s the law, how’s that for starters?) to stem cells (it’s just like organ donation, something that is going to die sacrifices part of itself so others may live) — they all offer us the chance to stand up and define the world and our party on better terms.

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Argument by Analogy

So it was all kind of ironic – here we were celebrating the lovely new bike lanes and as we were out there riding them crews were out replacing them with 4 lanes of car traffic. This is why YTG (the Yukon Territorial Government) needs a climate change action plan – while the Yukon is experiencing a faster rate of global warming than any other place in the world, with the exception of our equals in certain sections of Antarctica, the Yukon government has no plan for facing climate change. NONE. NADA. ZIP.

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hosed!

They took off a suit and took off a tie and showed posture to fight with global warming now by becoming a good figure of ventilation.

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what is "cool biz"?

For the record, 5th straight weekend of crummy weather. I’m thisclose to using the Force to eviscerate the next person I hear talk of global warming. I could give a rat’s ass if it’s the Jedi way or not.

Global warming? Where???? I swear, in the past 3 years our weather down south has gotten strangerer and strangerer.. i know.. warming actually means.. cooling.. but.. c’mon. it’s may.. in alabama.. and i’m still in a light sweater???? Geeze!

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Haps

Global warming wheel card classroom activity kit : a lesson plan for teaching about global warming and how to calculate greenhouse gas emissions in ev ... students grades 6-8 (SuDoc EP 4.2:G 51/3/KIT)

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Global warming wheel card classroom activity kit : a lesson plan for teaching about global warming and how to calculate greenhouse gas emissions in ev ... students grades 6-8 (SuDoc EP 4.2:G 51/3/KIT)

Excuse me but this article says that the forests of Siberia are being threatened by fires, and underfunding, NOT by Global Warming as it says on your headline.

You have shown your complete ignorance BERNIE, forrest fires are an impact of global warming, if you dont know how... figure it out.

I hate to hear about how the fires are not being put out because the forrest is "inexpensive" with respect to market value. That basically disgusts me that no other reason exists to put out a forrest fire besides the economic consideration. I do believe there is value in wilderness, having placed the value there myself and not because I value the economic value of the forrest. I mean most people would agree that there are values in the world besides market value.. there is no market value to protect innocent chidren from child molesters, there is...

Sorry, but global warming does not exist. 30 years ago it was the terror of an impending ice age in Newsweek that scared children in their beds at night. Over population is the problem not CO2. You only have to go look at the population trends from a thousand places along with the NOAA database on temperature from weather stations at ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/anomalies/global_meanT_C.all You can find the plot of the data and discussion on junkscience.com for the global warming bogeyman.

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Last Great Wilderness of World Being Destroyed by Global Warming

For a printable copy of this article, click here. (I’m going to steer my thoughts towards the environmental impact consumerism has) As we hear constant reports on global warming, oil prices/reserves, and other nature-related issues, I think the pattern of consumerism that is rampant in North America must be met with wisdom and reflection. I am beginning to see how the [often] fatalistic view Christians have of time can motivate them to care less for the environment (which is really the whole of nature, which God created…this term often...

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consuming/conservation