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 The Long, Hot March of Climate ChangePosted on Apr 12, 2012By Amy Goodman The Pentagon knows it. The world’s largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March on record for the United States since 1895, when records were first kept, with average temperatures of 8.6 degrees F above average. More than 15,000 March high-temperature records were broken nationally. Drought, wildfires, tornadoes and other extreme weather events are already plaguing the country. Across the world in the Maldives, rising sea levels continue to threaten this Indian Ocean archipelago. It is the world’s lowest-lying nation, on average only 1.3 meters above sea level. The plight of the Maldives gained global prominence when its young president, the first-ever democratically elected there, Mohamed Nasheed, became one of the world’s leading voices against climate change, especially in the lead-up to the 2009 U.N. climate-change summit in Copenhagen. Nasheed held a ministerial meeting underwater, with his cabinet in scuba gear, to illustrate the potential disaster. In February, Nasheed was ousted from his presidency at gunpoint. The Obama administration, through State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, said of the coup d’etat, “This was handled constitutionally.” When I spoke to Nasheed last month, he told me: “It was really shocking and deeply disturbing that the United States government so instantly recognized the former dictatorship coming back again. ... The European governments have not recognized the new regime in the Maldives.” There is a parallel between national positions on climate change and support or opposition to the Maldives coup. Nasheed is the subject of a new documentary, “The Island President,” in which his remarkable trajectory is traced. He was a student activist under the dictatorship of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and was arrested and tortured, along with many others. By 2008, when elections were finally held, Gayoom lost, and Nasheed was elected. As he told me, though: “It’s easy to beat a dictator, but it’s not so easy to get rid of a dictatorship. The networks, the intricacies, the institutions and everything that the dictatorship has established remains, even after the elections.” On the morning of Feb. 7, 2012, under threat of death to him and his supporters from rebelling army generals, Nasheed resigned. While no direct link has been found yet between Nasheed’s climate activism and the coup, it was clear in Copenhagen in 2009 that he was a thorn in the Obama administration’s side. Nasheed and other representatives from AOSIS, the Alliance of Small Island States, were taking a stand to defend their nations’ very existence, and building alliances with grass-roots groups like 350.org, that challenge corporate-dominated climate policy. Advertisement Texas lists 1,000 of the state’s 4,710 community water systems under restrictions. Spicewood, Texas, population 1,100, has run dry, and is now getting water trucked in. Residents have severe restrictions on water use. But for Perry, restricting corporations whose greenhouse-gas emissions lead to climate change is heresy. Mitt Romney is on track to be the Republican candidate for president, with the support of former challengers like Perry. They are already attacking President Obama on climate change. The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, has been promoting legislation in statehouses to oppose any climate legislation, and rallying members of Congress to block federal action, especially by hampering the work of the Environmental Protection Agency. As the Center for Media and Democracy has detailed in its “ALEC Exposed” reporting, ALEC is funded by the country’s major polluters, including ExxonMobil, BP America, Chevron, Peabody Energy, and Koch Industries. The Koch brothers have also funded tea-party groups like FreedomWorks, to create the appearance of grass-roots activism. This election season will likely be marked by more extreme weather events, more massive loss of life, and billions of dollars in damages. President Nasheed is working to run again for his lost presidency, as President Obama tries to hold on to his. The climate may hang in the balance.
Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!,” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 1,000 stations in North America. She is the author of “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” recently released in paperback and now a New York Times best-seller. © 2012 Amy Goodman Distributed by King Features Syndicate  TAGS:
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By prosefights, April 20, 2012 at 7:01 pm Link to this comment
Google ‘jerome block prc’
Not good.
Let’s hope google ‘jason marks prc’ is better.
Report thisBy prosefights, April 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm Link to this comment
Liberal arts ‘education’ is suspicious. Lots of BS,
Reed college liberal arts graduate New Mexico commissioner Jason Marks may be demonstrating a postive side to liberal arts education?
http://www.prosefights.org/nmgco/intervene/hearing/kippenbrock/benchrequest.pdf
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Subject: Re: Large-scale solar generation of electricity fraud in New mexico?
Mr Payne:
I don’t understand your concerns. There are two basic solar electric technologies: photovoltaic panels (PV) and thermal concentrating solar power (CSP). The development and deployment in NM is focused on PV. Hundreds of homeowners with installed PV systems can tell you that their systems produce electricity in line with specifications, as proved by meters.
You (either an individual or a utility) buy a solar system for a certain price, you install it, and it generates electricity for 20 or 30 years or so, with minimal operating and maintenance costs. There are no fuel requirements (and thus no “heat rate”). When you spread the upfront costs over the system’s lifetime electric production and adjust for tax credits and REC incentives, you arrive at the cost per kwh. You get to decide if you think that cost per kwh is reasonable before you make the investment. There is no fraud.
Jason Marks
We’ll try to explain the problem to commissioner Marks in detail. From a liberal arts educated standpoint, of course.
Report thisBy EmilieTheRed, April 15, 2012 at 9:53 pm Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
When I spoke to Nasheed last month, he told me: “It was really shocking and deeply disturbing that the United States government so instantly recognized the former dictatorship coming back again.
Since when does America (land of the free home of the brave) tacitly or otherwise support a dictatorship? I mean really. Surely this kind of behavior would all be documented somewhere by, I dunno, someone who keeps like written records or something.
President Nasheed is working to run again for his lost presidency, as President Obama tries to hold on to his. The climate may hang in the balance.
For some reason I feel a lot gravity behind those words… something definitely hangs in the balance and let me tell you, it’s got nothing to do with politics or the weather. I agree with some of the sentiment here; I believe Orwell and Vonnegut had it right. Many men and women (dead and alive) have done their best to expose this garbage-farce for what it really is. The question I’m left with is this: Now that we see it for what it really is, what are we going to do about it? What are we doing about it NOW? We need to turn our BACKS on this vampire circus. Stop feeding it with your sweat and blood!! “Oh, but they’ll take away my passport if I stop paying taxes.” Fuck them! Stop paying your taxes! Stop participating in their bullshit. They don’t give a rats ass about you. Do know how many American citizens this government has murdered in cold blood and gotten away with it? If you don’t, I suggest you brush up on your non-government invented history. I’ve even heard the words, “Fascist Totalitarian State” bandied about. Hell if I didn’t know any better I’d think the Vultures are circling and preparing to land… of course there’s not going to be much left to land on what with all that radiological contamination and such. HAHA! Jokes on them!
What have you got to lose by NOT participating, really? Think about it.
This might help provide some context:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBt5mMAfB5c
Stop being duped and cowed by those worthless, nasty, lying Vultures. We’ve more important things to concern ourselves with and the Vultures can’t save us from it.
Report thisBy blogdog, April 15, 2012 at 2:31 am Link to this comment
RE: ...the powerful elite (however you wish to define them)... take another bite
out of your ass.
agreed - Left vs Right, racial, gender, ethnic and sexuality schisms, all play right
Report thisinto the jaws of the oligarchs - pointing out how effectively they manage the
duping, of any of these factions, is an honest effort at alerting underclass fellows
to the depths of their treachery
By El_Pinguino, April 14, 2012 at 8:03 am Link to this comment
I am always amazed at the drift in the comments on these websites. And…. as the drift appears, so does a whole lot unsubstantiated information designed to sway opinion or make someone think they are King Shit…
I don’t care what article is written here on Truthdig or many other websites it becomes a pissing contest instead of a discussion.
And while you’re busy pissing on each other, the powerful elite (however you wish to define them)... take another bite out of your ass.
Report thisBy David J. Cyr, April 14, 2012 at 5:45 am Link to this comment
The fossil-fuel extraction industry financially supports fundraising focused liberal “environmental” organizations for the same reason it contributes to the political campaigns of corporate party candidates. When collecting money becomes an individual’s or organization’s reason to exist then collecting money is perceived to be a more existential need than the nourishing air, water, and soil of Nature.
Liberals establish bureaucracies that regulate environmentalists to protect polluters.
The difference between Republicans and Democrats is only how fast they wish to carelessly use up all of Nature’s bounty, with the regressive faux “conservatives” wishing to use it all up today, while the degenerate “progressives” seek to save just enough for My Generation to have a comfortable retirement… before the complete collapse.
The “Principles” of Liberal Voters:
http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=491&Itemid=1
Dr. Jill Stein for President:
http://www.jillstein.org
Report thisBy Marian Griffith, April 14, 2012 at 5:18 am Link to this comment
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@JohnM
The Daily Mail is not even a bad joke when it comes to news, and manages in fact to make Fox News sounds sane and pro-Obama. Anything appearing in that rag should be treated with the same level of scepticism as bigfoot sightings and secret moonbase stories.
Further, Dr.Jones did no such thing as you (through selectively quoting of a rag that selectively quoted) claim he did. He never retracted his statements regarding earlier conclusions about global climate change. The article you are quoting is reporting on an other attempt to setup a straw man argument (i.e. refuting an argument and then apply that to a different or much larger issue. In this case the argument that there were a few years where the average temperature was higher than it is now does not negate the observable fact that global average temperature is steadily rising).
Also, you conveniently left out that scientists who set out to prove that there was no evidence of climate change in the data set that Dr.Jones and his team has collected have come to the conclusion, and reported as such, that the evidence was firm, that there was no bias in his conclusions and that he might in fact have underestimated the degree of climate change.
Guess that is too inconvenient if the facts disagree with what you believe the reality should be?
Finally, Dr.Jones is hardly the ‘center’ of the climate change research going on world wide. He only became the center of a hyped up and manufactured controversy when a climate change deniers group hacked his email and selective quoted (plus providing their own interpretations as fact) in an attempt to derail an international conference regarding climate change.
His work has been duplicated by other research groups before and after, and dozens of different datasets have been collected using many different sources that Dr.Jones did not initially have access too. Each of these have provided evidence to the same conclusion, namely that the global average temperature is rising, and has been doing so for the last century, with a significant upswing in the last few decades.
I don’t think I am going to understand why you insist on clinging to your zealous belief in a global conspiracy, but considering the general stupidity and shortsightedness of the human race I am inclined to say you are going to ‘win’ this battle between belief and facts.
I do recommend investing in a boat though.
Report thisBy blogdog, April 13, 2012 at 9:37 pm Link to this comment
Big Green Oil Money: WWF founded and ran by Royal Dutch-Shell
http://counterpsyops.com/
By Patrick Henningsen, Infowars.com
If any person or group dares to question the great global warming and climate
change orthodoxy, green clerics will first attempt to discredit them, normally by
leaping across the table and pointing the finger of shame right in their face,
exclaiming, “You’re funded by Big Oil!”
That makes it all the more ironic when you consider who first funded, and later
ran the great global flag ship for the modern green movement…
Donna Laframboise‘s recent article entitled, The WWF’s Vast Pool of Oil Money
chronicles the rise the globalist green charity – seeded with funding from global
petroleum giant Royal Dutch Shell, who’s former President of 15 years, John
Loudon, later served as president of WWF International for four years after that.
In 1961 Shell Oil forked-out the handsome sum of £10,000 to help found
WWF-UK, money that in today’s terms equates to £418,000 – or $663,000 (see
the historical calculator here).
But that’s only the beginning. WWF continued to ride the wave of oil cash for
the next 40 years – from giants like BP, Shell and others, until the year 2000.
Not surprisingly, self-appointed socialist technocrats at Greenpeace dictate on
their own website that the idea of free speech no longer applies when it comes
to the climate debate, and will often attack climate skeptics based on their
alleged connections to ‘Big Oil’. According to that green charity:
“There’s a difference between free speech and a campaign to deny the climate
science with the goal of undermining international action on climate change…
Freedom of speech does not apply to misinformation and propaganda.”
Their own militant stance makes it all the more interesting that Greenpeace
itself is funded by Standard Oil money, and so is Sierra Club – according to the
watchdog website Activist Cash. See for yourself:
Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
Greenpeace $1,080,000.00 1997 – 2005
Sierra Club $710,000.00 1995 – 2001
ACORN $10,000.00 2002 – 2002
Rockefeller Family Fund
Greenpeace $115,000.00 2002 – 2005
Sierra Club $105,000.00 1996 – 2002
ACORN $25,000.00 1998 – 1998
Rockefeller Foundation
Greenpeace $20,285.00 1996 – 2001
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Sierra Club $38,250.00 1997 – 2000
Suffice to say that the neither of these champions of climate change and global
government – the WWF and Greenpeace, would exist without all that juicy Big
Oil Money. One last inconvenient truth should be mentioned here. The
unofficial leader of the global warmist movement, Al Gore, is also heavily
invested in, and is doing massive deals with – Big Oil.
Estimates put Gore’s wealth holdings in Occidental Petroleum upwards of
$500,000 in stocks and shares, which stands to reason why Gore fixed up the
deal to sell the US Naval Oil Reserve to Occidental Petroleum in a no bid
contract.
Still, so many people admire Al Gore so for all wonderful his ‘envronmental
Report thiscredentials’. Or could it just be a case of the bland leading the blind?
By EmileZ, April 13, 2012 at 6:51 am Link to this comment
Dear Amy Goodman,
Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5z1ervJfg&feature=related
A token of my esteem.
Yours Truly,
EmileZ
Grateful - warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
Report thisBy John M, April 13, 2012 at 6:39 am Link to this comment
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250872/Climategate-U-turn-Astonishment-scientist-centre-global-warming-email-row-admits-data-organised.html
Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row
admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’
Report thisaffair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of
climate change, has admitted that he has trouble
‘keeping track’ of the information.
Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones
has refused Freedom of Information requests is that
he may have actually lost the relevant papers.
Professor Jones told the BBC yesterday there was
truth in the observations of colleagues that he
lacked organisational skills, that his office was
swamped with piles of paper and that his record
keeping is ‘not as good as it should be’.
The data is crucial to the famous ‘hockey stick
graph’ used by climate change advocates to support
the theory.
Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that
the world was warmer in medieval times than now –
suggesting global warming may not be a man-made
phenomenon.
And he said that for the past 15 years there has been
no ‘statistically significant’ warming.
By GradyLeeHoward, April 13, 2012 at 5:42 am Link to this comment
People who deny climate change are mostly couch
Report thispotatoes. They don’t get out much. They never garden.
They don’t birdwatch. I really miss the bluejays.
Bluejays died of West Nile from mosquito range
shifts. Who will perform the ecological tasks they
left undone by going extinct? Who’s gonna make like a
bee and fertilize my squash blooms. Get out there,
couch potatoes. (Is Bashful Barry a couch potato now?
See his tin butterflies in the Whitehouse garden?)
By GradyLeeHoward, April 13, 2012 at 5:42 am Link to this comment
People who deny climate change are mostly couch
Report thispotatoes. They don’t get out much. They never garden.
They don’t birdwatch. I really miss the bluejays.
Bluejays died of West Nile from mosquito range
shifts. Who will perform the ecological tasks they
left undone by going extinct? Who’s gonna make like a
bee and fertilize my squash blooms. Get out there,
couch potatoes. (Is Bashful Barry a couch potato now?
See his tin butterflies in the Whitehouse garden?)
By prosefights, April 12, 2012 at 6:36 pm Link to this comment
Whoops.
Forgot to credit
Urban Survival
Thursday April 12, 2012
PNM looks to beoming uglued.
http://www.prosefights.org/pnmrider/pnmrider.htm#paula1
Solar generation of electricity fraud?
Report thisBy prosefights, April 12, 2012 at 6:25 pm Link to this comment
World War III in May?
Speculation is building as to just when the world-ending fighting will begin (if it does, at all). Specifically, there’s a slow clock running on Iran, which is coming into talks on April 23rd with what most experts agree are less than “clean hands” on the matter of weapons development. And backing them up? Well, there’s a worrisome reports that “Russia is massing troops on Iran’s northern border waiting for a Western attack.”
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-04-09/news/31311454_1_russian-defense-ministry-military-action-dmitry-rogozin#ixzz1rfK37hoV
Report thisBy moonraven, April 12, 2012 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment
I don’t get it:
Why are they still fighting over the coconuts on the Maldives?
Most of the islands are already underwater.
Report thisBy El_Pinguino, April 12, 2012 at 4:28 pm Link to this comment
@ prisnersdilema
I would doubt the stories of underground bunkers etc to house the elite en masse… Also, I think these psychopaths really do think they are invincible.
But if underground bunkers and living in space is what one calls, living I’d rather go out with the rest of my fellow humans. I could never conceive of living like that. Honestly, I’d rather be dead.
But let me take it one step further… just how many MREs would it take to sustain Goldman Sachs in the event the world looks a bit like Mad Max.
If / when climate change wipes us out… a ton of MREs in a bunker only last so long. Soon the people in the bunker will be fighting over dwindling supplies of MREs
Report thisBy jimmmmmy, April 12, 2012 at 2:34 pm Link to this comment
Prisnersd Gated ,guarded communities yes, under ground bunkers not necessary . The “terrorists ” only have access to AKs and RPGs not nukes. The fascists own all of those. Your right about food and ammunition being stock piled. The stock market speculation in food and energy will soon bring riots to the U.S. ala Egypt, Tunisia, Greece. With the same results, at first. The killing of the citizenry has been moved off camera.
Report thisBy prisnersdilema, April 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm Link to this comment
No El Pinguino the elite will not go with you… While they have publicly resisted the
implications of Climate change they have been preparing…
Multimillion dollar bunkers, stashed with food, and weapons for long years underground
in safety are selling like hot cakes to the elite.
It is rumoured to the that American military, have underground cities in many locations,
Report thisto protect them….
By SoTexGuy, April 12, 2012 at 12:22 pm Link to this comment
Jimmmmmy!
You’re da man.
Report thisBy jimmmmmy, April 12, 2012 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
The problem I have with the Climate change folks is there short sightedness and one issue committment. Yes Climate change is real . But its just an effect .The real cause is the cancer of capitalism , and the over population it created. No one wants to talk about these causes ,to thorny and devisive politically. But as Malthus Or Richardo posited in the 1800s under capitalism ,population will rise to exceed the food suppy in all cases, boom then bust. This article is very weak . I watched the interview with this little fellow, and thought to myself this guy wouldn’t last 20 seconds in the shark tank of Amerikan politics. The generals must have felt the vacuum of lack of power he created .I doubt the coup there had much to do with global climate change.
Report thisBy El_Pinguino, April 12, 2012 at 9:13 am Link to this comment
I live in Los Angeles. There are times that I enjoy a good traffic jam. You know….when the limo or the high end car is beside me….. stuck just like me. The world seems equal.
If climate change destroys us… those responsible will go as well.
Report thisBy prosefights, April 12, 2012 at 8:55 am Link to this comment
Outing Truth at NASA
Pull together some of the best and brightest of America…load them up with science degrees, send them off into orbit and to the moon, and what have you got? Brainpower…gobs and oodles of brainpower.
So what does it mean when seven astronauts and 42 former NASA scientists all sign on to a letter which condemns NASA’s hand in promoting the global warming hoax?
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/may/2012-04-12/astronauts-and-scientists-condemn-nasa-participation-global
Government seems to be doing a switch repacking job. If you put in the web address http://www.globalwarming.gov you’ll find it is now http://www.globalchange.gov and they are now throwing everything into the mix to keep up appearances of not being wrong… Of course, the basic correlation with the 11-year solar output index ought to be obvious…
Urban Survival
Thurday April 12, 2012
Solar generation of electricity is not green - google ‘solar pollution riots china’ - and may not work well for large-scale generation of electricity?
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FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES
Report thisBy Paul_GA, April 12, 2012 at 8:16 am Link to this comment
Governments would rather spend money on war and preparation for more of same than do diddley-squat about climate change—other than talk about it ...
Report thisBy Stuart Davies, April 12, 2012 at 7:24 am Link to this comment
(Unregistered commenter)
Too many people are still missing the real significance of climate change, and this piece is further evidence of that unfortunate fact. As bad as these effects will be, the most serious danger posed to the world will not stem from global warming, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, and extreme fluctuations in weather patterns.
Report thisSad to say, these effects are relatively benign in comparison to others that have as yet received little publicity. The evidence being brought forth by researchers in different fields of study regarding the relationships between atmospheric and marine chemistry, and ancient mass extinction events over the course of the earth’s history shows that we have good cause to be very alarmed indeed.
This evidence indicates that there is a direct causal relationship between rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere and increasing acidity in sea water due to oceanic CO2 absorption, and the fossil record shows that this dynamic appeared in all of the five major extinction events in the Earth’s history.
Another line of research indicates that in each of these major extinction events, a tipping point was reached in the Earth’s oceans where conditions shifted from those that favored oxygen producing phytoplankton and other life forms that require oxygen to survive, to algae that thrive in an anoxic enviroment… and produce toxic hydrogen sulfides instead of oxygen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event
Since phytoplankton produce most of the Earth’s oxygen, this process has of course had dire consequences for terrestrial ecosystems as well. Recently released data by an international team of marine biologists indicate that the current rate of acidification in the Earth’s oceans is TEN TIMES faster than that which occurred in the most rapid historical extinction event.
By SoTexGuy, April 12, 2012 at 6:40 am Link to this comment
DJC is right.
Goodman is plugging for Obama and isn’t even being honest about her reasons.. She suggests Obama will address climate change in a positive and meaningful manner.. All she really has hopes for is that a second Obama term will not be as harmful as a new Republican Presidency.
Adios!
Report thisBy John M, April 12, 2012 at 5:46 am Link to this comment
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/washington-secrets/2012/04/astronauts-condemn-nasa’s-global-warming-endorsement/469366
In an unprecedented slap at NASA’s endorsement of
Report thisglobal warming science, nearly 50 former astronauts and
scientists—including the ex-boss of the Johnson Space
Center—claim the agency is on the wrong side of
science and must change course or ruin the reputation
of the world’s top space agency.
By David J. Cyr, April 12, 2012 at 5:27 am Link to this comment
QUOTE, Amy Goodman,
“President Nasheed is working to run again for his lost presidency, as President Obama tries to hold on to his. The climate may hang in the balance.”
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Nasheed’s advocacy for global leader nations (like America, Inc.) to recognize the imminent catastrophic consequences of climate change, and to immediately respond to responsibly mitigate in a manner appropriate to the existential threat, was the only reason Obama could have had for his deciding to reward with official recognition the return of dictatorship to the Maldives.
Like Robert Scheer has, Amy Goodman is also now senselessly placing her hope for the future where no hope exists… in the corporate party’s deeply depraved Democrats.
“UNFORGIVABLE!”
— Dr. Jill Stein’s position on the Obama regime’s actions to delay responsible response to mitigate climate change.
Jill Stein for President:
http://www.jillstein.org
Voter Consent Wastes Dissent:
http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=498&Itemid=1
Report thisBy Big B, April 12, 2012 at 4:51 am Link to this comment
“We probably could have saved ourselves, but we were just too damn lazy (and cheap).”
Kurt Vonnegut
It is an election year, and when was the last time the words “global warming” left Prez Barry’s lips? He is a tool for big business (like most of his contemporaries). And like most of them he does not possess the vision to see that there can be a “Green” economy.
Don’t fret my friends, the problem of global warming will be solved in the next 50 years. It will be solved by the complete depletion of the carbon reaserves on this planet. But by then it will be too late. It is probably too late now. The major effects of climate change are already taking place. To change now would be like a lung cancer patient telling his doctor that it MAY be a good time to stop smoking.
Report thisBy rbe4free, April 12, 2012 at 3:14 am Link to this comment
Look on the bright side if they keep ignoring it, we’ll all be extinct in 25 years. You, your family, friends and loved ones all dead and no hope for a reprieve. We should all hold our heads up proud and stand tall, we the most advanced species on the planet, who have the technology to fix it, simply choose to ignore it.
So how do you plan on spending the last 25 years of your life? Are you going to continue to be a slave to the almighty dollar?
If you are serious about wanting a solution, then you should check out The Venus Project.
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