According to the title I expected to read something
about Rep. Weiner but, alas, the bell tolls for
climate change.  I haven’t heard a good explanation
to explain “climate change” centuries ago long before the advent of burning oil and coal.
What variables exist today which also existed centries ago during the last climate change? Humans! Now there is a significant variable.  Humans! Could it be that hedonistic behaviors in humans contributed to the last climate change?  Resoundingly, YES!  Try dusting off that Bible and
reading about it.  Could hedonistic behaviors
extant globally be arousing anger in God who is bringing about climate change among other painful
conditions in an attempt to turn humans from their hedonistic behaviors?  We could run a global experiment.  The United Nations could ask people
around the globe to turn from their hedonistic behaviors for a year to see if there is an improvement in the climate, economy, environment, etc. Sadly, that isn’t going to happen.  The Bible tells us that though God makes human life miserable humans still refuse to turn from their hedonistic ways.  In fact, the Bible tells us that mankind will almost wipe themselves off the planet but “for the elect’s sake(Matthew 24:22” Jesus will return and
put an end to hedonistic practices.  Are you among “the elect?”  Better think about it!  Conditions are growing rather nasty on earth!

P. S.——I just typed “hedonistic” online.  The
second choice is a “hedonistic lifestyle in the
Canary Islands. Clothing optional.”  Better fire
this off to Rep. Weiner.  His pregnant wife could
stay with relatives while Rep. Weiner shows off his “wiener.”

It is reported sales have dropped at Der Wienerschnitzel, they blame it on the recent negative publicity and unappealing and explicit photos of Mr. Wiernr!

Let me see if I got this straight….

1. A US representative by the name of “Weener” twitters pics of himself aroused in his skivvies.

2.  First he claims his Twitter account was hacked, but then recants and confesses saying there was other sexting going on.

3. While he himself is of the Jewish persuasion, his wife is Muslim with her first name being Huma so she is called Hum-a-Weener.

4. His wife is a close aide to Hilary Clinton who had similar “trust” problems with her husband and is providing advice.

5. One of his sexting partners bares all and even writes an apology to his wife.

6. Now we learn his wife is pregnant except she has been out of the country for most of their married life——no further comment!

7. Breitbart claims to have a real pic of Weiner’s penis except it not circumcized that why he’s call NotsoBreibart!

You’d be hard pressed to make this stuff up and the only thing that could keep legs on this story is if one of his sexting partners turns out to be a trans-sexual and another a shemale!

MeHere—What’s good about putting one’s car out to pasture is not the difference in one’s individual use of energy and other resources, which is vanishingly trivial on a world scale, but that fact that it brings one in contact with what one is talking about.

Yeah, I understand she (Amy) was dying to use her oh so over the top headline,
but hey, she might as well have just dumped a bucket of paint over her head, and
started laughing at Weiner.  Weiner’s Palin In Comparison To Longfellow.  I might
have let her slide that one on in.As it stands, the sanctimonious left will probably
have to be shot and thrown in the grave they dug for the the sanctimonious right,
by all the illiterate prodigies of their failed social experiments.  Right now, it’s
really hard for Weiner, he should be left to roast on his own…

rico, suave, June 8 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
THX:

It’s “Gaea” or “Gaia”. So much for your liberal-squishy
bona fides, you right wing spy!
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Oh gee; a spelling error! And that tells you what about
me?
What a maroon and a waste of flesh.

Anarcissie says:

“Sure. You can start by putting your car out to pasture.”

Yes, individual acts of environmentalism are always welcome. But this is also a
trap that leads many to believe that the solutions to our energy and environmental problems will come that way. They won’t. It is a huge issue and we can only start making real changes if most of the population gets behind a national policy designed for that purpose.  I can hear voices saying “that will never happen”.....and they may be right.

When people are scared they run away.  (Don’t scare people.)
  When people are overwhelmed with scientific information they are not equipped to understand, they run away.  (Don’t overwhelm people with technical data. It increases feelings of inferiority.)
  When people mainly believe the popular media, the popular media must be worked on ceaselessly, in every possible way, and convinced to speak the truth in spite of their advertisers. (tough work, but absolutely essentiall.)
  When people are informed of needs by their friends, shown ways they can help, and organized into groups for maximizing their efforts, they tend to do their best to help.(Work through local churches, schools, organizations, door to door, grassroots organizing)
  When people’s religious/political beliefs are challenged, they don’t hear because often that’s the only “security” they have, it’s very flimsy—and they know it’s flimsy. (Understand the depth of their present and ongoing fears, and try to add as little as possible to their insecurity.  Counteract it with faith in what they can do.)
  Yeah, well .... Who’s going to do this, in this way?  Start with a national program for high school and college kids summer vacation time. putting emphasis on local and regional needs and actions. Nothing to do?  Here, read this comprehensive but simple “story”—“Help Heal Your Most Important Neighbor—Mother Nature.” Right here we need, a.s.a.p. ....
  Use precinct lists to go door to door passing out attractive, simple, reliable information on what you and your neighbors can do for this neighborhood/ region. Organize group activities. Emphasize friendship, cooperation, joy and confidence.
  Pay the kids minimum wages for their time and celebrate successes. Publicize efforts. Establish lines of intercommunication. Publish problems and success stories through local media.

(Note:  Somewhere along the line Americans have lost their gift for organizing.  Recently, I happened to run onto an old Red Cross Organization Manual from 1921 where I found my mother’s name listed among thousands of other Pittsburghers working together, centering at churches and schools, to “help Belgium recover” from WWII—doing everything under the sun from packing and shipping food and tools to knitting socks.  The number of men, women and children involved absolutelly amazed me, proving we can restore a lost art here, and now is our chance.)
  This antique rehash may seem naive and corny to more “modern” “sophisticaed” “hep” “cool” people—but ... any better ideas?

MeHere, June 8 at 8:47 am:

Even if human activity were found beyond a doubt not to be the reason for excess CO2 and temperature rise, aren’t there dozens of other reasons to change our approach to energy use?

Sure.  You can start by putting your car out to pasture.

THX:

It’s “Gaea” or “Gaia”. So much for your liberal-squishy bona fides, you right wing spy!

By WarrenMetzler, June 8 at 5:39 am Link to this comment

“There very well may be a gradual warming tendency. But there is not a smidgen
of evidence it is to due to man’s activities. And it is truly unfortunate that no
scientifically trained person who can articulate the man-caused global warming
scam’s masquerading as science is being listened to.”

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Hum…? Not a smidgen? My dictionary defines smidgen as a very small amount. Are you saying there is not even a very small amount of evidence indicating global warming due to man’s activities?

“National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed the current scientific opinion, in particular on recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position of January 2001 which states:

An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system… There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.[1]

No scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion; the last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which in 2007 updated its 1999 statement rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position.[2][3] Some other organizations, primarily those focusing on geology, also hold non-committal positions.”

I have to conclude that you are more than just a smidgen of a right-wing ideologue who has been indoctrinated to ignore scientific evidence, and to deny reality when that reality contradicts right-wing ideology, and when that reality supports the findings of the overwhelming body of science, but I won’t argue the facts with you, you’re ilk are obsessed with denying facts, and will dispute the facts, even when you know the facts are indeed factual. You and your ilk value your ideology more than you value facts or truth.

Now, I’m not aware of how the scientific community views Naomi Klein’s theories and observations, but I fail to see any connection between Naomi Klein’s theories and observations, and your contention that there is not even a smidgen (very small amount) of evidence that the shows man’s activities contribute to global warming and climate change.

As stated earlier, arguing with your ilk is futile, and long after you have been shown to be an idiotic ideologue, you will continue to dispute the facts until people are laughing loudly and exchanging comments about your idiocy.

REPLY TO:

“Anarcissie
...Doing something about potential climate change…
...especially after you’ve been told…
...There’s quite a difference between apocalypses.”

PRESSING MY POINT ABOUT NASA A LITTLE FURTHER:

THE ONLY UNCERTAINTIES ACCORDING NASA ARE IN FORCASTING WHEN AND THE EXACT IMPACT BY REGION.

PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW THIS.  WE ARE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO CHANGE FOR US BECAUSE AS ADULTS, WE ONLY CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO DISASTERS.

http://climate.nasa.gov/kids/
http://climate.nasa.gov/education/

Of course, this may be too little too late…. but this is who we are as a people.  Unlike these folks:

http://www.pvpulse.com/en/news/world-news/bolivia-set-to-pass-historic-law-of-mother-earth-which-will-grant-nature-equal-rights-to-humans

It feels so nice and fuzzy to know when I pay close to five dollars a gallon for fuel at the oil company gas station, and watching all those adds on television about how environmentally caring and nice the oil folks are, and learning, that I in my own small way helped additionally to pay for those advertisements,....  its like we are all members of one big dysfunctional family!

Mother nature does not exist and neither does climate change, so there is nothing to worry about here, no war on the climate, because then things could be a bit sticky and so they would be so damn inconvenient.  Anyway, we have enough wars going on right now, the war on terror, the war on women, the war on drugs, the war on education, the war on the drivel, the war on gays and especially the war on sanity sponsored by the Republicans, ...way to many damn wars, we just do not have room for one more war ask the special sponsored interest folks!

Even if human activity were found beyond a doubt not to be the reason for excess
CO2 and temperature rise, aren’t there dozens of other reasons to change our
approach to energy use?  There’s no doubt that the quality of our air, soil, and
water is increasingly being damaged by human activity motivated by ignorance,
excessive greed, and wishful thinking. Energy use needs to be viewed and
discussed as a comprehensive issue.

DigThis—War is fun when you don’t have to pay for it and someone else has to fight it.  And everything can be done in 22 minutes between the SUV ads.  Doing something about potential climate change isn’t, especially after you’ve been told that the world is coming to an end anyway no matter what you do.  So there’s quite a difference between apocalypses there.

Reply To:

“Anarcissie
...his style of apocalyptic doomsaying…
...appeals to authority and ad-hominem attacks…”

THIS APPROACH ALWAYS SEEMS TO WORK FOR THE US GOV’T WHEN IT NEEDS SUPPORT FOR A NEW WAR SOMEWHERE.

Neck deep in the big muddy may describe Mississippi, etc today but it was written to
describe Vietnam. Check out this toon
http://blog.cagle.com/2011/05/schedule-change/

The strange thing about humans, they will believe in a 3000 year old goat herders manual, and kill other people to prove it, but global warming has not a bit of evidence from the same people.

We may as well be having a discussion on the existence of god for proof will be just as forthcoming.

How does one prove or disprove anything to a believers satisfaction or the unbeliever for that matter? Humankind seems in some ways just like water it seeks its lowest level, the advantage of water, it does not have the capability or problem of belief and denial.

I don’t know if McKibben is a prevaricator—I think he is probably quite sincere—but his style of apocalyptic doomsaying has been extremely harmful to the cause he espouses.  That harm has been amplified by the fondness of his supporters and fellow believers for appeals to authority and ad-hominem attacks upon infidels and skeptics.  I wonder if the damage can be reversed in time to actually deal with the problems.

Reply To: 

“WarrenMetzler
...there is not a smidgen of evidence…
...no scientifically trained person… 
...How do we know that…
...Is there is smidgen of proof that…
...Not a single piece of evidence!...
...Not a single piece of evidence…”

I’M MUCH MORE INTERESTED IN WHAT NASA HAS TO SAY ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING: 
http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/
http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/
http://climate.nasa.gov/effects/

It is truly unfortunate that Amy has done so much hard work for revealing news
stories the main stream media overlooks; I most remember East Timor; has so
succumbed to prevaricators like McKibben and Klein.

There very well may be a gradual warming tendency. But there is not a smidgen
of evidence it is to due to man’s activities. And it is truly unfortunate that no
scientifically trained person who can articulate the man-caused global warming
scam’s masquerading as science is being listened to.

I’ll give one example. How do we know that co2 has increased in the
atmosphere over the past hundreds of years? By ice core samples in the Arctic
apparently. Is there is smidgen of proof that ice in the arctic has increased a
standard amount (about one inch) each year in the past centuries, so that if we
did a certain depth we can use the sample we collect to know the co2 amount
that year? Not a single piece of evidence! Is there any evidence that the amount
of co2 in any one sample reveals a world wide average of co2? Not a single
piece of evidence. So to claim co2 is responsible for temperature rise, and it is
man’s activity producing that excess co2 is a scam of monumental proportion.

Similarly with Naomi Klein, and her various crackpot theories. Has any of them
ever been proven to be valid? Not is one. She just gets high is some way,
dreams up a communist-light big money scandal, and writes a book. And the
assessment challenged left buys lots of copies, and it is then assumed she told
the truth. When, in truth, she just provided one more imaginary delusion with
which a lot of world citizens are being kept in the dark.

“We’re making the Earth a more dynamic and violent
place. ...
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Poetic justice, no? “We’re” far more violent and Gia
responds in kind…

Thanks for th change up Amy, I am sick and tired of the focus on stupidity and partisan politics, far as I am concerned they are all a bunch of wieners!

As a professional cynic, I would like to deny climate change, but what the hell is going on? It seems the money driven opportunists will deny anything which may effect their bottom line and our politicians seem to be the enablers.

Now, I do not know if all these things happening around the world are caused by the claimed climate change or just natural events, but I do feel the carbon footprint is mpacting on mother nature in some way.
All the huddled masses of the world must have something to do with the impacts on climate, just cutting down all the forests for starters seems a likely culprit?

Climate change exists, just who decides what that really means remains to be seen, as long as it is not the status quo power and oil companies. I need to get up to speed and be more aware of climate change. Everything seemingly becomes so overwhelming.