"The state of the nation's climate is poor, and the climate and ecosystems that depend upon it are showing increasing signs of disruption. Global climate change now threatens not only the environment, but also our national security, our economic stability, and our public health and safety. We can no longer discuss the State of the Union without assessing the state of the nation's climate."
Thus states the first "State of the Climate" assessment delivered to the White House on the eve of President Bush's "state of the nation" address. This assessment was prepared by the Presidential Climate Action Project and has been signed by many of the nation's scientific, political, business, and environmental leaders.
Warnings that mankind can irretrievably damage the earth's climate envelope are not new. They date to the 1860s at least. And now, after two decades of intense scientific research, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has unequivocally concluded that our consumption of fossil fuels has led us to the brink of global catastrophe.
Given the abdication of national leadership, 780 American mayors representing over 77 million citizens have signed a Climate Protection Agreement pledging to cut greenhouse gas emissions at least to the level required by the Kyoto Protocol. A majority of states have followed. Corporate America is beginning to join this grassroots national commitment. But these positive developments are being overtaken by the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
The "State of the Climate" declaration urges ten steps that must be taken before the 44th president delivers the next state of the union address:
Please read the entire "State of the Climate" statement and add your name to those of the national leaders who have signed this document.
Our "State of the Climate" message concludes: "If this is our defining moment, then let us be known as people of courage, morality, vision and goodwill--a people who gladly accept the responsibility of ensuring that the America of tomorrow is even better than the America of today. That commitment to the future is required of us if we wish to keep faith with those who founded our nation, with those who have sacrificed for it and with those around the world who look the United States of America for hope."
What do you believe to be more pressing?
The agenda of your fellow insiders and bankers at the CFR, or the ACTUAL environmental and societal impact your peers' desire for a controllable, taxable singular global society has on the destruction of nation states--as well as the lives of the ordinary serfdom?
Your high horse agenda won't work anymore.
Mr. Gore knows (as perhaps Senator Hart also knows) that climate change may or may not be real. It's a question for scientists whether the microscopically small data we have about the earth's climate (over its estimated 4.5 billions years) represents a pattern. A pattern, period, quite apart from human activities.
US Brit and others will call you "right wing" if you so much as sniff at the term "global warming," but the truth is that Climate science is a brand, spanking new baby of a scientific discipline.
Various natural events, like vulcanism, mess with the atmosphere a whole lot more than does anything coming from the San Diego Freeway. And the earth has survived. (Of course there was that unfortunate thing with the dinosaurs, the details of which are still emerging.)
Hey look, you don't have to be "left wing" (whatever that means) or "right wing" (ditto) to believe in conserving nature. Everybody likes to breath clean air.
You guys can begin cleaning up your personal act anytime you like. Please do. And definitely make your carbon footprint as small as you please. I'm not exactly living high on the hog over here. Only difference between you guys and me is I'm not whining so much about it.
Cheers.
Science and technology are vital to our continued survival as a nation and as a sustainable planet with a viable ecology that will sustain us and the species we share Earth with.
Given the many urgent scientific and technological challenges facing America and the rest of the world, the increasing need for accurate scientific information in political decision making, and the vital role scientific innovation plays in spurring economic growth and competitiveness, many in the scientific community and the public at large, are calling for a public debate in which the U.S. presidential candidates share their views on the issues of The Environment, Health and Medicine, and Science and Technology Policy.
ScienceDebate2008 is the name of this effort and I urge all of you to get involved and support this idea.
More info is at http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=2
Forget Mars for the moment . . .we need all the help we can get to rediscover signs of intelligent life at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.!!
On the destruction of South Lousiana ecology:
In the summers of my youth, my father woke my entire family up at exactly 4 a.m. every Saturday morning. We packed our lunch, usually pop rouge (red pop) and baloney sandwiches, piled into our old black Buick and headed to the bayous about 20 miles south of Abbeville, La. We loaded up the boat my father had built with his own hands and sped southward down the Vermilion River, into Vermilion Bay, and then hooked east to Cote Blanche Bay. There we fished for drum and red snapper and seined for shrimp.
The water was cool in the morning and only the surface warmed by lunchtime; if you plunged your hand in the water or dove in from the front of the boat, as we usually did, the water was frigid and clean and clear. Even now, when I close my eyes, I see the movement of baby shrimp, crab, sand sharks, the simple trilling of life. On the distant shore, flights of egrets and gulls and pelicans took wing, descending in search of the silver fish that nourished them, banking and circling the newly installed oil rigs. I will always remember this pure celebration of life. No child could have asked for finer days.
Read the rest of essay at http://www.beatitudesinneworleans.blogspot.com
It's all a big hoax, designed to line pockets and keep a bunch of Chicken Littles employed.
Even if you accept that climate change is man made, how do you know that whatever "corrective" steps are taken won't make matters worse?
There's an arrogance by global warming alarmists that precludes any rational debate.
I think it would be cheaper to just post signs at the Beach, that Say:
Hey You Dope! Get out of the WATER!!!
How about it?
Bush & Pelosi could mandate that we have to buy all of these Credits from AL Gore too, since he does have a Nobel Peace Prize!!!
I know what you are thinking... Just how would we pay for such an Expense?
We would use these New Nuke Plants to Desalinate the Rising Sea Water, into Not only Fresh Water for Growing Populations, but also can transform some of these Rising Seas into Hydrogen & Oxygen, both of which can be sold off as Carbon-Free fuels, and of course we would sell off the excess electricity, as coal fired plants are decommissioned.
Now I am not averse to other Electrical Generation methods, if local topography dictates a different method, such as geo-thermal plants in areas where such green methods warrant consideration, but systems such as Residential Solar & Wind generators are not that reliable for Industrial applications.
Solar & Wind Generators could be used for CO2 Scrubbers, and Waste Water Treatment facilities, in the same way that the Desalination Plants operate, recovering Methane, and Hydrogen, and the processed sludge used to replenish farmlands.
To offset Coastal Flooding due to Hurricanes and other tropical storms, we need to start a New Deep Tunnel project, such as the One that Chicagoland currently uses.
Now this underground tunnel would become an emergency water reservoir as well, and a Source to feed all of the Other plants I have cited. With the Muck removed from these tunneling projects, we could elevate New Orleans back above sea level, and also build up Barrier Islands and coastal reefs, which in turn should lessen any future storm surges.
Now I am Not so Naive as to think that any of these measures will have any effect on Global Temperatures, but at least we will show our Vision & Leadership to the World.
Implement is spelled implement.
The world can't wait. Drive out the Bush regime.
worldcantwait.com
http://asknadler2impeach.org