Tim Flannery wants us to save the planet by drinking warm beer? « An Honest Climate Debate

“If people are truly worried, say if dad has a beer fridge, unplug that and people will be better off.“

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Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman: Obama “is going to have to mobilize the whole country to pressure the Senate — by educating Americans, with speech after speech, about the opportunities and necessities of a serious climate/energy bill….”

Future historians will inevitably judge all 21st-century presidents on just two issues: global warming and the clean energy transition. If the world doesn’t stop catastrophic climate change — Hell and High Water — then all Presidents, indeed, all of us, will be seen as failures and rightfully so.

Do the wave for Tiahrt’s climate-change analogy | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs

At a campaign event in Newton, Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Goddard, argued that carbon dioxide is getting more emphasis than it deserves in the climate change debate, likening the gases of the Earth to people in a 10,000-seat-stadium.
“There would be 4,200 [?] people in the stadium wearing nitrogen jerseys, representing that portion of the atmosphere,” Tiahrt said. “Twenty-four percent would be wearing oxygen jerseys, and four people would have on carbon dioxide jerseys. We are arguing about how long the sleeves are going to be on one of those jerseys.”

WikiAnswers - What is the composition of air

Nitrogen (N2): 78.09%
Oxygen (O2): 20.95%
Argon (Ar): 0.93%
Carbon dioxide (CO2): 0.038%