Miliband calls for [more people to join his dwindling band of Kool-Aid drinkers]

Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, warns today that he is "fearful" that the world may miss the opportunity to halt global warming and is calling for a Make Poverty History-style popular movement to push for a breakthrough at this year's Copenhagen summit.

He will travel to Washington this week for preliminary talks, amid concerns that Barack Obama's ability to back genuinely ambitious cuts in carbon emissions could be hindered by domestic political opposition.

"We do need to be pushed. Political change doesn't happen simply because leaders want it to happen, but because people make it happen," Miliband told the Observer. "I don't think it's just about protesting, although people are welcome to protest against me.
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Miliband hopes to build on last week's budget, which saw a U-turn on clean coal production and a surprise hike in petrol duty, to help to re-energise green campaigners ahead of the Copenhagen summit in December. He will shortly publish a climate change manifesto, revealing British negotiating positions, including an expectation that the west should bear the brunt of the pain of reducing carbon. "I am very fearful if we don't get the framework we need in December, because I think we will miss a historic opportunity," he added.

The manifesto will be backed by new climate change projections forecasting what could happen to the UK if global warming continues, amid concerns that too many Britons still do not perceive climate change as a threat to them.

"I would say that the debate on science is being won: we are moving in the right direction. The debate on 'will it happen to us?' is not a debate that is won. People think it's going to happen to someone else," Miliband said.

Asked why ministers did not move to force change, for example by restricting car use, he said that most people were not unwilling to go green, but needed help and information to do so.

Greenlee: A climate of fear? : Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera

A recent memo from Macon Cowles, the chief advocate for Command and Control governance, is frightening in both its scope and detail. Not content to just offer a few tired platitudes about carbon footprints, melting glaciers, or any number of climate disasters, Cowles lays out public policy initiatives he believes are essential if the city is to achieve its questionable Climate Action Plan goals.

Cowles argues Boulder must move beyond "early adopters" who always seem eager to glom onto any number of the latest environmental and progressive fads. These are the folks who are erecting solar panels on their roofs and were among the first to drive hybrid cars. He states that the city should adopt programs where "everyone participates, not 30 businesses, but all 6,000. Not just 150 homeowners, but all homeowners." Cowles wants a new citywide Conservation Code requiring all commercial and residential buildings to be 50 percent more energy efficient on or before 2015. Of course there's no indication of what this is going to cost anyone, it's just essential that it be done otherwise sea levels rise, the Polar Bears die, and blah, blah, blah.

EPA "validates" global warming as a threat, but don't expect change soon - Times-Standard Online

America needs to catch up with the countries of the world who have been proactive in reducing their deadly emissions. Republicans will have to quit holding up Al Gore as some environmental nutcase to be laughed at. They can apologize by supporting the new bill and showing that Republicans are not all obstructionists.

I've heard a lot of talk lately about the national debt future generations will inherit.

As It Stands, people ought to be worry more about future generations wearing gas masks to survive Earth's deadly atmosphere!