Mildmannered's Comments (3597)

“he will just be a spoiler and give the seat to the republican”

“butterfly ballot gave us W”

“Turkish? How are Turks or Turkey relevant?”

“Director Mark Sullivan should be looking for another job.”

“Wonder what table they sat at. Isn't there assigned seating?”

“(continued from above)

For example, the area of summer sea-ice melt during 2007-2009 was about 40% greater than the average projection from the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
Sea level has risen more than 5 centimeters over the past 15 years, about 80% higher than IPCC projections from 2001. Accounting for ice-sheets and glaciers, global sea-level rise may exceed 1 meter by 2100, with a rise of up to 2 meters considered an upper limit by this time. This is much higher than previously projected by the IPCC. Furthermore, beyond 2100, sea level rise of several meters must be expected over the next few centuries.
In 2008 carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels were ~40% higher than those in 1990. Even if emissions do not grow beyond today’s levels, within just 20 years the world will have used up the allowable emissions to have a reasonable chance of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.
The report concludes that global emissions must peak then decline rapidly within the next five to ten years for the world to have a reasonable chance of avoiding the very worst impacts of climate change.

To stabilize climate, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases need to reach near-zero well within this century, the report states.

http://www.copenhagendiagnosis.com/CD_press_release_en.pdf”

“Climate change accelerating beyond expectations, urgent emissions reductions required, say leading scientists

Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world’s top climate scientists.

In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago.

The report also notes that global warming continues to track early IPCC projections based on greenhouse gas increases. Without significant mitigation, the report says global mean warming could reach as high as 7 degrees Celsius by 2100.

The Copenhagen Diagnosis, which was a year in the making, documents the key findings in climate change science since the publication of the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.

The new evidence to have emerged includes:

Satellite and direct measurements now demonstrate that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing rate.
Arctic sea-ice has melted far beyond the expectations of climate models.”

“"non biased scientists from both sides"???”

“"the technology to burn it [coal] with little or no omissions of CO2"

Need link please”

“In my opinion the fed shouldn't even think about raising interest rates until unemployment drops below 7%.”

“very disturbing story, and what were the churches (and the court) thinking”

“intriguing and pretty”

“I thought that the UAE had large oil reserves -- can't they use the oil to pay off their debts?”

“I thought that the TARP funds were supposed to bring order to the derivatives market?”

“I support the Vice President's suggestion to totally revamp our Afghanistan strategy. Instead of increasing troops, we should scale back the overall American military presence. Rather than trying to protect the Afghan population from the Taliban, American forces should concentrate on strikes against Qaeda cells, primarily in Pakistan, using special forces, Predator missile attacks and other surgical tactics.”

“excellent”

“or insecure”

“The Bush/Cheney decade.”

“Raise the gasoline tax -- so every time anyone goes to fill up they will be reminded of the war.”

“Obama and ACORN are responsible for 9/11.”

“I'll buy that (if I had any money)”

“oh, you mean when hell freezes over”

“Get unemployment down below 7% and then you can start worrying about the deficit.”

“Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman,says that "... the big risk to recovery comes from the inadequacy of government efforts: the stimulus was too small, and it will fade out next year, while high unemployment is undermining both consumer and business confidence­."

The threat is not the deficit it is too small of a stimulus.”

“What does "wrongly thrown" mean?”