Success of US climate [hoax] bill hinges on health care reform - environment - 09 September 2009 - New Scientist

"If the health care bill fails, the climate change bill will fail too," Lieberman told the Climate Change, Energy and National Security conference hosted by the political think tank Partnership for a Secure America yesterday.
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If the fight over healthcare reform severs President Barack Obama's increasingly tense relationship with Republicans, there's little hope for the climate change bill, Lieberman said.
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The US needs to start treating climate change like a war, said [Dennis McGinn, a US Navy Vice Admiral].
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Failing to take action on climate change will place an unacceptable burden on the men and women in uniform now and for generations to come, says McGinn, as its effects would amplify political, religious, economic and ethnic strife across the world. "It's like holding up a giant magnifying glass along human society's fault lines," McGinn said.

Kerry to kick off new global warming [hoax] campaign - National Politics Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com

WASHINGTON -- Senator John F. Kerry plans Thursday to help launch a new initiative to educate lawmakers and the public about the security threats posed by climate change, part of the Massachusetts Democrat's efforts to build support for legislation to curb carbon emissions.

Tom Friedman: Eco-Communist Wannabe » The Foundry

Then, this weekend on Meet the Press, New York Times columnist Tom Friedman defended Jones, calling the internet “an open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information.” Turns out Friedman is no stranger to Jones’ views. Friedman wrote a puff piece on Jones’ Green-Collar Solution in October of 2007.

Nicholas Stern, world’s top climate economist, endorses 350 ppm as “a very sensible long-term target.” « Climate Progress

Released in October of 2006, the Stern Review drew praise from many of his brethren in the field–and it also drew gasps of shock and horror from anyone who bothered to read it. It laid out, quite clearly, the cost of doing too little or moving too late on climate change: economic damage that would be greater than WWI, WWII, and the Great Depression combined.

Flashback: The Simpsons Quotes - Kent Brockman Quotes

Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.