I read about Zionists and Texans are going to get it. I read that we as free individuals are not going to give up our luxuries and that our world leaders do not care. I seem to have more hope for man kind than (from what I can tell) most people commenting here.
I believe the attitude in the individual is the reason we no longer seem to have the good presence of mind to elect someone who can do the job. Our elected leaders should be a reflection of our ideals, beliefs and goals. Perhaps we should take a closer look at ourselves.
The issue is not that our leaders do not care but our free living people are not involved. We have become lazy. The fault sits 100% with us as individuals not becoming active in our own future. It is easy to sit at home with you favorite imported beer in front of the TV and say “that’s wrong.” What is truly wrong is after you said it you get another beer and sit down again.
Oh yes the ranting maniac running on about Zionists, you are a very angry person with punctuation issues. Have you tried a hug?

I saw a program on Danish T.V. and i must say i was shocked and saddened at America has committed crime after crime, and in America, nobody talks about that

2 men from Europe, Germany and England were kidnapped by the CIA. These 2 people suffered inhuman treatment, one man was beaten to a pulp, he was also raped, and he had his manhood cut many times over. A American doctor gasped at what she saw. Afterwards, they found this man to be not guilty of anything, and the CIA think its funny what they have done. Ilegaly entered another country and kidnap people who were innocent. Shouldnt some kind of compasation be awarded to these people for the inhuman treatment USA has done to them? According to a CIA member who smiled alot no way.

America needs someone who knows what there doing in politics. The world knows H.Clinton, A very highly respected lady throughout the world, no matter how much the media try and degrade her. Throughout the world this lady has respect for her work over the last 35 years, i stress 35 years and not 4.

What amases me is that CNN meant to be a highly respected news staion, yet one has never herd a word from this channel on any of the 2 people treatment by the USA, are they getting money to keep it quiet or what?

Showbuissness stars like >Operah, who never really ever came clean about the fact she was a lesbian in many, many years, people were led to believe she was married. Most lesbians are open about the fact of who they prefer, sadly Operah you lied and decieved all along the way. Kennedy who has had more affairs than Bill Clinton has had hot dinners, and wasnt there a murder scandel along the way. Mrs. Obama showed how immature she was at the cheap, nasty way she attacked H. Clinton. Obama takes many cheap shots at Clinton, yet the lady has dignity, something the Obama’s have yet to learn.

Ladies, ladies, you know you wear the trousers in the home, enough of men making a mess of your country, the world is willing you to take charge, and put a lady of dignity to clean up the mess thats been caused by the little men who think they know how.

I wonder who really should be in the book of rogues

God Help Humanity against the American-Zionist attack, i know that iraq, iran & others will Survive the Zionist attack But I Wish the Americans Had Better Chances. Good Luck to All Honest Americans!

ZIONISTS:Ones who believe they are the “only” humans(God’s"Chosen ones")& rest is “Trash” to be consumed / used. MODUSOPERENDI:start as business and bilk the populations while laying down Organisations that are for (fake)trade & “our protection” whose actual purpose is surveillance & Harrassement of “nonZIONIST”. they keep screaming “Hitler’s holocaust, Hitler’s holocaust” while they been doing WORSE since 1948 in their Fanatic Fantasyland called Isreal aka “shitty little state”, armed with 300 nuclear bombs that they dont want to talk
about.(these are peaceful people!lol) GOAL: creation of some nutty global empire based on pureness of “Chosen Ones” ENEMIES: anyone that does not Comply with them or their propaganda (is also branded an
Antisemite & thoroughly harassed) NETWORK: global and very developed, a well oiled machine bent on EVIL. FEARS: “EVERYBODY is out to get us because we are GOOD!” this is the typical brainwash and then they
WHITEWASH real issues with PATRIOTIC LIES. Also intresting to note that Mr Vanunu who stated the true state of Israeli Nukes rots in jails since 2 decades for speaking the truth, hence we can safely conclude
that TRUTH is definately not a passion in Israel. so GOD HELP ALL THAT COME IN CONTACT WITH ZIONISTS!  AMERICANS TRY AND GET RID OF YOUR ZIONIST MASTERS THAT DICTATE THE WHITE HOUSE, GOODLUCK!

The Texas mafia has had veto power over this country for years.  They murdered the Kennedy’s and Martin Luther King.  They threw the many elections, and they cooked up 911.  Whenever a conspiracy is mentioned, they get the media to change the subject.  I hope global warming kills them early.

remember---you herd it here 1st. Our nxt POTUS is going to be Newt Gingrich & he’ll have a Repub congress. Still gotta focus on the nxt VP, but the crystal ball is just back from the shop.

It’s EASY!

Just follow the money.  With big business running everything on this side of the pond.. with direct connects to the VP, it’s in Big Oils best interest to keep this horse in the barn for as long as possible.  Look at record profits for oil… do you think this would have been possible if Bush would have mandated lower emmissions by 2008?  By now, there’d be lots more alt fuel cars on the road and big oil wouldn’t be making record profits.

This is not a question of will, it’s a question of who profits.

Oil companies want to sell oil. That’s why they went into the oil business. Warming, shmarming, it’s about oil sales. Your computer’s made out of plastic, chances are your clothes are 60% plastic, (check your labels), your car runs on gas, or diesel, you manage your finances on a piece of plastic, plastic cups, plastic furniture, thousands and millions of tons of....plastic. The oil companies got us coming and going, and the only way to break this alien facehugger business relationship is to nationally cut back consumption. Yeah. That’s gonna happen…

#68476 by Allen on 5/06 at 9:28 am
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“I’ve started to wonder about the ‘unwilling.’ With Crazy Horse’s popularity down to 28%, the young guys seem to keep volunteering. will this ultimately thin out the loon herd?”

Good Point, Allen, and I agree totally.  HOWEVER, referring to Bu$h as “Crazy Horse” is just mean to Crazy Horse who was, actually, quite a wise man to his people in his time.  Please rethink a better nickname?  There are LITERALLY THOUSANDS being used everywhere.  On any given day several excellent monikers can be found at http://maruthecrankpot.blogspot.com/.  Toughen up to this site if you go there, they tend toward the graphic!
And again, GREAT POST!
siri

I’ve started to wonder about the ‘unwilling.’ With Crazy Horse’s popularity down to 28%, the young guys seem to keep volunteering. will this ultimately thin out the loon herd?

The significance of exposing the deliberate fraud that Al Gore is pushing is not for the purpose of measuring his excessive personal energy consumption. That is his own business. The problem is that he knows he has used faulty science to push a political agenda which will benefit himself financially and harm a lot of poor people globally.

There have been other periods of climate warming on the earth. These periods preceed all industrial civilizations producing large amounts of CO2. The charts that Gore is using have cherry picked data that highlights his point and cuts out real data that would refute it. We are in a natural cycle of climate warming between ice ages. Check out this site for articles by scientists who refute that global warming is a man-made phenomenon.(http://www.climatescience.org.nz)

It is not that people should not be careful to take care of the earth. We need to find clean energy sources and clean up dirty water so people can drink it and solve waste problems around the world. Solar energy is viable for small solutions. Wind power has its merits. Electric cars existed for a momment and then disappeared for some unknown reason. Nuclear power is clean. France has come up with solutions for its waste.

However, when large corporations start negotiating with President Bush and President Lula da Silva in Brazil to aggressively promote biofuels, this sends up a red flag of corruption in the making. If you begin to use land to grow crops that will become fuel for cars instead of food for people, then you are creating genocide. If you are creating government mandates that will prohibit certain activities unless you pay the “carbon offset fee”, then you are closing the door to industrialization to underdeveloped nations. Al Gore will get rich. Exxon will branch out into biofuels and continue to make billion dollar profits. Halliburton will build the prisons. Blackwater will provide the security and the enforcement of the genocidal laws that people like Al Gore and Tony Blair will propose.

I voted for Al Gore. I was devastated when the Supreme Court was used to hand the election to our unelected President Bush. But since that time, I have done lots of reading and researching. Al Gore is not the person I thought he was. He believes there are too many people living on the planet (about 5 billion too many). So he intends to do his share to reduce that number. Africans can starve and die of aids and civil wars. The South Americans can go hungry and thirsty while their land and water is being used to create biofuels and Pepsi. Halliburton just located their headquarters in Dubai. The hedge funds are in the Cayman Islands, owned by the Queen of England. Rich people are taking their money out of America. Al Gore has been hired by Gordon Brown, Britain’s next prime minister, and is running his own hedge fund in London. The inconvenient truth is that Al Gore doesn’t care about America or global warming. He cares about money and power. So he has thrown his efforts in with those who have both—the British Monarchy.

I was surprised by the assumptions being made about my personal consumption of energy and my affinity for people getting A’s in calculus in high school as well as my political bent. Actually, I drive a 4 cylinder car that gets good mileage for a car manufactured in America. I don’t hate people who get A’s in anything—I like intelligent people. And I am not a conservative but rather a progressive Democrat who boycotts Walmart and would like to see Dennis Kucinich in the White Housein 2008. I also don’t think we can wait that long to hear the voice of reason from the office of the president so I am supporting a double impeachment—Cheney first. Enough about me. Can you spend some time researching Al Gore who is having a much greater impact on politics than me?

Al Gore and David Blood began a London-based investment fund, Generation Investment Management, affectionately refered to as “Blood and Gore” by insiders, in November 2004. Brokering and speculating on carbon swaps is part of what Generation Investment management is about. they want governments to make green house reduction mandatory worldwide. he is set up to make a lot of money on this deal. gore has also been hired by the British government as an adviser. Tony Blair is distributing his movie to schools throughout England. The Queen of England owns the Cayman Islands where all the money lives now. Britain never gave up on the idea of colonizing the world. Now it can add unwitting environmentalists to its supporters in this endeavor. Just research who is pushing the “global warming” agenda and ask why. Follow the money.

Dawn, like the majority of “sceptics” is being disingenuous. Sure there isn’t the level of proof of a mathematical theorem, like say the pythagoran theory. The reality is with high school physics and chemistry, you can show that gas molecules containing more than two atoms (CO2 and H2O have 3, Methane five, Ozone 3...) all aborb/emit in the infrared. This makes
the escape of heat from the earths surface and lowr atmossphere harder. The result is immediate surface and lower atmosphere warming. The change of the energy balance is refered to as a forcing. The amount of warming from a given amount of CO2, or methane can be precisely determined, the only real question is how the climate system responds to a given amount of forcing. We have observations of cooling due to volcanic forcings (ash & sulfur dioxide blocking sunlight), and the results fit well with the models climatologists use. In addition, the same sort of analysis an be done of other planets with atmospheres, Venus is a good example. Its clouds reflect more of the sunlight than the earths clouds -so it actually absorbs a very similar amount of solar energy as the earth -yet its surface is hot enough to melt lead! Why? Well Venus contains large amounts of CO2 and sulfuric acid, so we have an important data point, lots of greenhouse gases means extreme heat!

We could go on and on like this, but I don’t think truthdig readers want to go into this level of detail. What do we see happenning here. People for whom human caused global warming is politically inconveneint, whi incidentally know little to any science, presume they know more than thousands of experts who have spent decade apiece working on these sorts of problems. Yes, Dawn -these are the people who got A’s in Calculus and Physics. You hated them because you couldn’t hack it! So now you decide to call them all fraudsters. The real hoax is from the denialist community, who keep grasping at the denialist alternate theory of the week (Sunspots, Cosmic rays, Solar brightness...).

I don’t expect conservatives to change easily on this one, they’ve been on the wrong side too long, to switch now would only expose how wrong they have been for so long.

I would like to ask Neanderthal75 what he believes the meaning of the word fascism is. His “liberal” use of the term in his rant indicates that he is a faithful follower of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News. For the purpose of education The American Heritage College Dictionary decribes it as a system of government marked by socioeconomic controls,suppression of the opposition, belligerent nationalism and racism. Does this sound like the enviroment movement, scientist, or the Republican Party.
I know the temption to quote your idols is hard to resist, however I would appear better informed if you actually understood what it is your are saying. Never take someones word for something, find out for yourself. As Ronald Regan once said “trust but verify”.feed4

So, Dawn, you’re willing to bet the whole planet on your denial that humans have anything to do with global warning? How do you know that? We do know that we’ve dumped more stuff into the ecosystem, not just CO2, in the last century than in the whole history of the planet.

Argentines know something’s screwy because they’ve got a huge ozone hole hanging over them that has radically changed everything from climate to skin cancer rates. Yeah, we’ve taken steps to reduce that problem, but the hole’s not going away anytime soon.

You know, one century is a blink of a gnat’s eye in history. If our great grandfathers had left us a polluted, overheated planet with big holes in the sky and we were suffering heavily from their lovely legacy, how would we look back on them? You really think we can afford that kind of goofy, wait-and-see gamble? Is that how you want us to be remembered and cursed by future generations? I beg your pardon, but I don’t care for your odds considering the stakes!

Dawn,

Innovation is the key, but it does not make business sense right now to be more efficient in every industry, and it is not happening fast enough.  So, the governments of the world need to enact laws before it’s too late.  If the EPA had not enacted pollution laws in the 70’s and later, just think how many more people would have lung cancer.

Even if you don’t believe that our global warming is man-made, what’s more natural and better for the environment, your lungs, and the future?… More pollution or less pollution? It’s less pollution. We only have one planet. Why risk it by going on polluting the way we always have?

And as for this being a green conspiracy, the groups (like oil companies), who say global warming isn’t real have more to gain by lying than the scientists and politicians who say it is real. And the naysayers can easily get support from the many people who don’t want to make any sacrifices and therefore deny the phenomenon is occurring.

Also, our extreme energy use and unwillingness to take environmental action is making the rest of the world hate us more than they already do for our military actions.

That’s all you need to know. So stop the whining and the disbelief and start doing your share. Don’t drive gas guzzlers, walk or bicycle sometimes, don’t waste electricity, don’t live in huge homes beyond your needs…

We don’t all have to do everything, but we should all do something.

UH2L
http://www.thingsivenoticed.com
http://www.realitydriven.com

No one can argue that climate change is not happening. Glaciers are definitely melting. However, there is NO REAL SCIENTIFIC DATA to prove that human activity is CAUSING this warming trend. Real scientists are not supporting this hysteria and are in some cases being punished for there integrity.

My point is that this “global warming” hoax is being used to unite progressives and conservatives in a effort to try and control CO2 levels of all nations by setting up a “world regulatory commission” to legislate and enforce laws to restrict technology worldwide. That is a slippery slope. Colonial powers have always enjoyed controlling technological innovations in underdeveloped nations. They typically extract natural resources (oil, gold, diamonds) and leave the local people in abject poverty without developing their infrastructure at all.

Every nation should be recognized as a sovereign nation whose borders and laws (or lack of them) should not be breached by the U.S. or England. If the western powers would stay out of other countries’ politics and policies and natural resources, the people of those countries would have a better chance of taking charge of their own fates. I am sure the people of China do not enjoy the pollution they are creating in their own country. Clean, green energy would be a viable alternative if technology and innovation were allowed to work in the free market. People are not stupid. Electric cars have already been invented. They could be mass produced. That innovation has been suppressed. I am all for innovation. I am not for “global regulation” because that opens the door for facism. And that door is already wide open here in the U.S.

Al Gore has a facist agenda. He believes in depopulating the world. He is using the global warming hoax as a forum to rally people to his way of thinking. I hope that the Democrats will not be fooled.

Climate is warming but CO2 emissions have nothing to do with it. Innovation is the key to our survival on the planet—not the demise.

Hello All,

The bottomline is that most of you folks are living in the Ether, breathing some mind altering substances, because you all seem to believe that the condition of the Earth is non-transitive: that only during the “Dinosaur Ages” did the climate of the Earth actually change catastrophically.

Those of you, such as Kol Klink (which is rather perjorative, in my opinion, to the actual actor who survived Nazis persecution), seem to think that we humans have some special right to survive, even if we aren’t smart enough to get the job done.

The trouble isn’t Global Warming, which is indeed occuring-but NO ONE can PROVE the CAUSE, NOT scientifically, the problem is the Radical Left Fascism which is currently being employed by politicians, academics, pundits, and members of the media.

The governor of Oregon actually FIRED the State Climatologist, NOT for saying that Global Warming wasn’t happening, but that there was NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE proving human causality for GW.

A similar act of radical left fascism occured in Washington State and has occured in a number of other states, including one RL loon advocating stripping meteorologists of their credentials if they DIDN’T agree to human causality for GW.

Yeah, the Politically Correct (RL’s among them) Crowd, so oft touting “diversity, open mindedness, and tolerance” of others, once again illustrating all too clearly, their fascist colors.

No open debate. No scientific data. No comparative analysis.

Just jack-booted thuggery against any and all with whom you folks on the RL and PCC disagree.

One last tidbit upon which to chew: please take the time to explain how the Jet Streams STOP at the borders of the PRC or India.

Take the time to explain how the Ocean Currents STOP at the 12 mile limit of the Yellow Sea, the Indian Ocean, etc.

Last time I checked, our planet is best described as a CLOSED ECO SYSTEM: what pollutants are DUMPED into the Yangtze River, end up on the shores of Anchorage and all the way down to the tip of Chile.
The horrific air pollution of Beijing, makes its way to London, Berlin, Moscow, and Po-Dunk Your Town. Same goes for the similarly horrific pollution in Mexico City.

Despite these FACTS, you loons on the RL and PCC, have NO problem with the “underdeveloped nations” CONTINUING to POLLUTE. India and the PRC pollute so much MORE than the USA, ton for ton, that these countries FAR SURPASS the levels of the USA in every category.

India and the PRC have no such agencies with power as the EPA in the USA. Those nations continue to pollute to this very minute and there is no cessation in sight.

Yeah, go ahead and keep promoting the right of Polluters to keep polluting.

You do NOT care about GW. You do NOT care about the “poor” and “helpless,” you care about your ideologies, political power, and control.

Keep on showing your fascist colors, more and more people ARE taking note. Perhaps enough will take note to strip you of your power to control and power to lie.

Cheers.

The Republicans noticed that Arnold Schwarzeneggar went from zero to hero very quickly just by embracing the global warming issue. Therefore, it has become their “cause” for rallying a broad spectrum of people—including progressives that are unaware they are being used. Blair and Bush couldn’t care less about the environment. But they do like the idea of legislating CO2 caps especially on underdeveloped nations.

They would like to discourage scientific advancements of a peaceful nature. Only weapons can become more and more sophisticated. Any kind of technological solutions to world poverty, undrinkable water, and lack of energy will not be contemplated or endorsed by western world leaders. That would only lead to even more population growth (especially people of color). If you read the papers that these people put forward you see that it is really all about racism and genocide. There are presently about 6 billion people inhabiting the world. Bush and Blair and the fascist British bankers would like to see that number reduced to about 1 billion.

Republican policies of austerity for the poor and tax cuts for the rich will assure that most people will live in abject poverty and work at slave wages to provide the bankers with the raw materials and necessaary commodities to maintain the life to which the elite have become accustomed.

Perpetual war is killing off thousands. Iraq is going as planned. Paul Bremmer did his job very well (losing 9 billion dollars in cash to fund an insurgency). Starvation and corruption in Africa is working well. Aids is a bonus. And private armies such as Blackwater can provide the security and intimidation to encourage total cooperation. Private prisons, packed with people of color, are booming on the stock exchange.

The Patriot Act is in place to remove our civil liberties and allow the unitary executive to ignore our Constitution. The U.S. attorneys are loyal subjects willing to do the bidding of our new king. The Supreme Court has been packed by the Heritage Foundation. There is a sleeper in the White House and Dick Cheney has his finger on the button. Iran is about to get its face blown off.

It is people of color that CO2 caps are aimed at. They can’t have nuclear power plants. They can’t have desalinization plants to make sea water drinkable. They can’t burn coal or oil. They can’t develop transportation routes and productivity for trade among themselves. Innovation of that order would just cause these people to multiply. Bankers believe the world is a pie and if people of color start eating there just won’t be enough to go around.

This “global warming” hoax is based on faulty science and put forth by people who subscribe to the never ending saga of British colonialism. As much as I love nature and want to preserve it, there is no proof that the current climate warming has anything to do with our production of CO2. It is the same people who brought us the Iraq War and the never ending War on Terror that now want to bring us the War on Innovation. They want to keep people of color in caves and huts without water and electricity and without schools for girls. It’s really just racist, sexist, facist propaganda aimed at co-opting tree huggers. Don’t be fooled by Al Gore who is quite friendly with the Prince of Whales and the British jet set. He’s not who you think he is.

lynchings just like carla fay got…

Remember “Radio ga ga, radio goo goo”? It is the religion of the west preached by the advertising industry. As long as it keeps up, there will be no global warming whatever anyone else says. Half naked girls and young muscular men continue to sell tourists the rosy picture.

It seems to me that the ‘hard’ news must come from us private individuals who stand our lonely and riduculed watch with a sign in hand that reads “The World is Ending Soon!” See http://www.thebequest.com for one such sign.

To UH2L
I realize that many Americans did not want the war in Iraq. I realize that many Americans voted against the war in Iraq in 2006. It was not enough!
What I believe that you fail to realize is that Americans are, like all other humans, not going to relinquish their overly large homes, lets fly to the superbowl, little betty is 17 and needs an automobile of her own, lets drive 100 miles roundtrip to that new bar-b-que joint, its Thanksgiving and we must make the trip to grandma’s place, and countless other questionable ‘needs’ which are really ‘wants’, just to accomplish carbon reduction.
Tests of midocondrial dna have shown that the human population of the earth crashed from about 3 million to less than 10 thousand about 70,000 years ago. Much debate is going on about the cause of this crash but the most accepted theory is that it was caused by the largest volcanic eruption in human history.

The species of all life on earth is at risk daily of another catastrophy that could cause another population crash. Some of the potential disasters that face us are known but there are probably more that we are not even yet aware.

Meanwhile, instead of attempting to face the problems of global warming, mega tsunamis, mega volcanos, peak oil, peak potable water, potential outbreaks of killer viruses, inadequate education, inadequate health care, hunger, and know one knows what else, what are we doing??? Fighting stupid wars! To add insult to injury we have let a bunch of incompetent idealogues hijack our government and turn it into a war machine of invasion the likes of which have not been seen since the third reich. We elected a ‘bring em on’ cowboy moron for a president and he was and is too stupid to realize that he needs competent help. So what does he do? Surrounds himself with yes men...’your doin a hell of a job Brownie!’

And you still think that ‘we can control global warming?’ I think you are delusional. China and India are reaching for the brass ring of improving economies and that means corbon emissions are going to skyrocket. How do you propose that we convince the emerging economies to cut back on their emissions while the bushco big oil government is running the show?

As a last point I would like to say that there are numerous accomplished scientists that believe that we have already passed the ‘tipping point’ of global warming and that no action that we can take will stop runaway warming.

So, party hardy while you can! We made our bed and now we are going to have to lie in it.

To Kol Klink and Gimmesometruth,

I agree with much of what you say, but you must remember that there are a large number of Americans that do believe in global warming and did not want us to go to Iraq for war.  We are not all of the same opinion!  Our elections in 2006 show that some of the disillusioned are turning the corner on believing our current presidential administration.

UH2L
http://www.thingsivenoticed.com

climate change is real, and it takes for than psychological resistance to deny it, it takes massive, struborn ignorance on a scale that should be utterly inconceivable in an advanced democracy.

Much of the nutty, psychedelic, raving idiot pseudo-science found in these comments (the solar system is heating up? the “ice age” is JUST now starting to end?? magic, hitherto inconceivable energy sources will soon power the world with the mere flick of a switch???) demonstrate more vividly than anything else possibly could how confused Americans are about the science of the physical world in which the live, and which gave rise to our species.

Te larger question is:
why are americans so hopelessly ignorant that they will sieze on the first wacky idea that floats by and then cling to it with the zeal of the cult member?

Anyone that believes that Bush and the chickenhawks are going to stop their maniacal pursuit of world domination to address global warming is delusional.

Never forget that this regime and the main stream media that it controls ‘stays on topic’! A discussion of global warming is to them merely a distraction to which they pay passing lip service prior to ‘getting the discussion back on topic’.

Capitalisim is not going to voluntairly commit suicide (hurting it’s bottom line) by going along with a carbon reduction agenda just because the extinction of mankind swings in the balance.

A capitalist will sell you the rope you are going to hang him with if he can make a buck on the deal.

If America did not listen to the rest of the world when being advised that an attack on Iraq was going to be a strategic disaster, why does any rational person believe that America will cooperate on a carbon emissions program???

Get real!!!

After we have poisioned all the rivers and killed all the fish and can no longer breathe air, when will we wake up to the fact that money will not buy the good air and the trees that were there when this country was founded.

The natural animal of the plains was the buffalo, but Texas wanted beef, back in the 18th century steer ate grass, today animals are grain feed, changed the natural habits of the animals digestive system.

Now all kinds of things are happening to our food and also the food of our dogs.

Of course the manufacturers have to make money, juice is not 100% anymore it is called juice cocktail, and to stretch the juice even farther high frutose corn syrup is helping along with food coloring. 

All in the name of profit.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

honestly, do you think president bush or blair really care about reducing emissions? they arent gonna be alive by 2050!! being president is JUST A JOB TOO YANNO. do what you do to make ppl happy in this case they are doing shit to make rich ppl happy… to eliminate bums, gays, drug addicts.... yeah why are we putting up with this BS? This is just like the movie idiocracy.

My Big Problem with so much of the environmental debate, and the “environmental movement” such as it is, is that I believe the solutions required are of a fundamentally political nature. That is, we have to radically re-define and promote a rebirth in our conception of what “citizenship” means in a democratic society. I suppose I’m talking about power relationships, and nothing like business as usual, tweaking the system, gently persueding industry to be more responsible and “green”. It sound rather utopian and unrealistic, but I believe we need something close to a “Revolution” in how we run society and how power, wealth and responsibility are distributed. What I fear is that “environmentalism” and the “green agenda” will be highjacked by establishment politicians in order to introduce a severely limited and constrained form of post-democratic “democracy” under the guise of saving the planet. This post-democratic society will, not surprisingly, safeguard and defend the lifestyles of the rich and powerful, at the same time as the rest of us are “forced” to change our lives for the good of the planet. I believe and fear we are moving towards a new form of fuedalism, where our leaders rule because they are “good men” and we trust them and their feelings. Blair is a ghastly example of these new men, he is a quasi spiritual leader, a new style monarch, who, at the end of the day feels he is answerable to his own conscience, and God, rather than the electorate or even Parliament.

Steve,

Even if the solar system is heating up for some unknown reason, it would appear that we humans are contributing to the warming of this planet.  And even if we were not, there would be other compelling reasons to be concerned and make changes regarding our use of fossil fuels.  E.g., oil is not a renewable resource and we cannot keep behaving as if it is.  We need to be developing sustainable sources of energy that do not harm the environment.  If the current crisis helps us do that and also helps our species survives, then who cares how much of global warming is solar sytem generated and how much is human generated?

Great essay, Stillman. Although you didn’t really unearth any “new information” for me that I didn’t already contemplate or already came across in other stories.

It is a combination of factors in the United States that prevents us from taking the lead in fighting global warming and our current President is definitely a stumbling block. But worse, the electorate who voted for George W. Bush is part of the problem as this country’s “greatmess” continues to be sullied by the myopic and intellectual stuntedness of those people who live in it.

I have a question. We know that we had at least 1 ice age right? Well, who warmed the Earth to melt all the ice? ITs pretty obvious that warming happened or all the ice would still be here. Global Warming happens with or without us in that respect.

good article, dugg
http://digg.com/environment/Coalition_of_the_Unwilling _Why_Brits_Get_Global_Warming_and_U_S_Doesn_t

ALL i can say, when your cowboys bomb the british, SAYING sorry is SO hard, but it beats the hell better than straffing sheep herders , hell a REAL target EVEN if it was one of owes is better than bombing sheep herders

Climate, shmimate, this is REALLY about becoming energy-independent. How far are you willing to walk to avoid paying taxes to some guy in the middle east? Let’s talk about all that treasury debt, and what it represents for the country’s future, let’s talk about the Selling Of America, let’s talk about all that patronage, let’s talk about businessmen-turned-politicians-turned-businessmen that can’t keep their facts straight because their sponsors keep telling em to do different stuff, let’s talk about the wholesale deliberate indentureship of the american population so some pro-growth jackass CEO can get his jollies watching people grovel for food stamps. ‘Progress’ ain’t all that, by a long shot, and the longer we have shills, clowns, and charlatans like these in office, the closer we come to giving OUR independence the long kiss goodbye, there. Yaaay, globalization. Yeah.

For those interested in “new energy technology” info along the lines of that posted by “Mark Goldes”, comment #58133 above, go to http://www.steorn.net (Yes, this is for real, its not a hoax). Also, see http://www.aias.us for the only rigorous physics theory capable of explaining the technology of what has been called “space energy”. Currently accepted physics theory cannot. Keep in mind that Professor Evans’ work is heavily sensored by the “Standard Model” physics establishment and physics publishing houses who all have a huge emotional, financial and credibility investment in the so called “Standard Model”. Emotional investments because entire careers have been spent invested in the standard model. If the theory goes, the careers and Nobel Prizes become questionable. Financial investment because many millions of dollars of taxpayer money has already been spent to build the big accelerators in order to verify predictions of the standard model. Credibility investment because, if a simple, elegant theory is found, and it has been...ECE theory, that is capable of completely unifying all the known forces of nature and explaining all known experimental obvservations, even the currently unexplainable ones, then the millions in taxpayer dollars spent trying to verify the so-called “Standard Model” has been wasted, careers have been spent, and Nobel Prizes have been awarded on the basis of a dead-end theory. The “Standard Model” is anything but a unified theory. Its a hodge-podge patchwork of pieces that is incapable of explaining the breath of experimental observations that ECE theory can explain quite simply and elegantly. In other words, egos are large in physics, so don’t believe the few, loud debunkers whose vindictiveness and unfounded, incredibly destructive, fanatical personal attacks has been documented and whose flawed mathematical arguments have been easily shredded by Professor Evans.

One last thought. With the fanatical, almost religious zeal with which a couple of notorious debunkers have continually attacked Professor Evans at every opportunity and wrecked his family, marriage and career, one has to wonder if these debunkers are on the payroll of big oil who has a vested interest in keeping these technologies secret and this knowledge secret for private exploitation.

Cheers!

Has anyone here read that ALL of the planets in the solar system are heating up and not just this planet? Damn… I know they don’t have farting cows and SUVs on Pluto.

Duhhhh… read up.

“The world has just 10 years to reverse surging greenhouse gas emissions or risk runaway climate change that could make many parts of the planet uninhabitable.” There are very few steps that can be taken rapidly enough to realistically sharply reduce the need for fossil fuels in 10 years. While all can help, none of the conventional renewable power systems, solar, wind, fuel-cells, etc., can possible meet this challenge. Nuclear power plants take 10 years to begin operation. Clearly, the idea they can contribute to a solution is an illusion.

Only radically new energy conversion systems can do the job. In our opinion, by far the most promising technology is rapid development of Magnetic Power Modules™. Constructed using solid-state electronic components, they are expected to produce electricity indefinitely, without any need for fuel or recharge. This is accomplished by utilizing an abundant, renewable, little known source of energy that is found everywhere in the universe. This energy has never previously been utilized in practical products, although it was probably first tapped by Wesley Gary, a Pennsylvania inventor, in 1874. An article in Harper’s, describing his patented mechanical magnetic devices, was published in 1879. The article can be found on the internet.

A generator without moving parts, apparently converting the same source of energy, was invented in Germany by Hans Coler, about 1926. Eleven years later, he demonstrated a more powerful, 6,000 watt, unit. Consequently, he was supported by the German navy. His laboratory was bombed by the Allies toward the end of World War II. In 1946, British Intelligence published a classified Report suggesting his achievement was genuine. In 1979, a portion of that Report was declassified. Thirty four pages can be found on the web.

This remarkable source of energy is sometimes called the Quantum Vacuum. It is also known as Zero Point Energy, or ZPE. Physicist Richard Feynman, a winner of the Nobel Prize, and John Wheeler, a protege of Einstein’s, calculated there is sufficient ZPE in the volume of a coffee cup to evaporate Earth’s oceans. Physicist Harold Puthoff has said, that if we employed ZPE to power the entire planet, it would be like dipping a thimble into the sea.

The March 1st, 2004 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology featured an article headlining the fact that Zero Point Energy is no longer science fiction. The Department of Defense admitted it is supporting ZPE research and development at a major aerospace company. BAE, in the U.K., stated they seek to power Mach 4 fighter aircraft, among several other objectives.

Our firms current development work opens a door to a multitude of practical products. They will operate with no need for fuel, or any plug connection to the grid. Modules can be connected together in order to produce larger amounts of power, in a manner analogous to solar cells. Preliminary data suggests a 1 kW (1,000) watt package may be about 6” x 6” x 16” in size. These one kilowatt packages can also be linked to create generators for homes. Distributed Generation of utility grade power can also rapidly be implemented.

Electric cars, such as the recently announced GM VOLT, can dispense with the need for batteries, engines of any kind, fuel cells, or the need to plug-in.All new cars can be redesigned to run on this revolutionary source of energy.
During WWII, the automobile industry shifted to building aircraft on a round the clock basis more rapidly then most would have imagined. Averting a catastrophe due to Global Warming calls for a similar all out effort. Magnetic Power Modules can be produced in most of the world’s electronics factories once the technology is prototyped at the pre-manufacturing stage.

Hmm, so it’s going to require radical transnational leadership plus a philosophical realignment away from free market fundamentalism and towards a new regime of environmental regulation along with personal and collective sacrifice?  Doesn’t that translate into our having to change the world?  No problem, though.  because that’s what’s taking place right now, what with our prevailing upon Congress to cut off all funding for the Iraq, then to impeach President George W. Bush II, following which off he goes to the International Court of Criminal Justice, there to be tried for his crimes against humanity, whereupon empire collapses.  And then?  It’ll be up to us.

Sarah, I just wanted to point out the Al Gore did not and does not use Microsoft PowerPoint. He uses Apple’s Keynote, which is far superior to the former mentioned application

Whaaaaat? Halliburton’s leaving the country?!?!??! What, guilty conscience? LOLOL

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2941931

They ran an ethanol car at Bonneville, got 173MPH out of it.

Sarah Stillman’s article makes a lot of good points.  I’d just seen a CNN clip on the British demanding that the U.N. Security Council take up global warming as a threat to human security....but the U.S. plans to use its veto to block the discussion.  Then I did some googling and came across Stillman’s discussion of why the Brits are out ahead of us in aggressively tackling global warming.

Her best point is the way the U.S. media have used the guise of “objective” reporting to frame global warming as an issue with good arguments on both sides--when in reality virtually all the scientists tell us it’s a very real problem that will have disastrous consequences if we don’t act to limit it.  U.S. media have been far too accepting of the “studies” from the energy industry front groups and right-wing think tanks.  Stillman’s other excellent point is the need for democratizing this whole issue of global warming, so that it isn’t just a discussion between politicians and the oil companies that give them the big donations. 

I was appalled at the way Tony Blair sucked up to Bush and went along with the Iraq debacle.  But Truthdig is right on this one...the Brits are out ahead of us on global warming.  Thanks to you writer for a lively, well-crafted explanation of why.

“Bearchested”? The hirsute male rules.Lots of tangled threads, but too much like a fair isle sweater, starting with the first paragraph. Not something I would pass to my students seeking a path to follow.