Klobuchar, Poland and Climate Change

Sounds like there's a punchline in here dying to get out.
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A treaty. A TREATY! Whatever this yields, I hope it is not more of that nonsense about trying to cool the planet off. Step outside in your home state, Senator, we've had quite enough of that for the last few winters.

New York: Wind, snow make driving dangerous Sunday

Emergency workers fanned out to accidents around the Syracuse area Sunday afternoon as cold weather, snow and wind gusts of 30-40 mph made driving tricky.

Garnaut warns: don't go alone on global warming | The Australian

CLIMATE change adviser Ross Garnaut has warned that developed nations will be unable to avert global warming by simply setting exemplary emissions targets in the hope that developing nations will follow, saying China and India must join a global action plan from the start if there is to be any hope of success.

No Runny Eggs » Blog Archive » …Worse Than The Disease?

According to the UK Independent, we no longer have to fear global warming….we’ve found a solution! All we have to do is 1. Grow a bunch of trees, 2. burn them without releasing the CO2 they’ve absorbed, 3. Burn them without using more energy than they create in the burning process and 4. Bury the ashes in the soil.

Sounds simple; well, except that whole burning them without releasing the C02 and not using more energy than they create part! But, hey, let’s not be negative. After all, as Big G points out regularly to me, no one thought we could go to the moon but we did! It does sound simple except for a minor detail. In order to do this, we would need to grow and burn forests that are the equivalent of 2.5% of our productive land.

2.5%, doesn’t sound like much does it?

The World has approximately 33 Million sq. Mi. of productive land. 2.5 % of that would be approximately 835,600 sq. miles that would be needed for our carbon tree farm. So far so good...