Prepare for climate change, U.S. report warns W.House | World | Reuters
Representative Edward Markey, chairman of a House of Representatives global warming panel, recalled the government failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans four years ago.Poll: Belief in Man-Made Global Warming Still Dropping
"Katrina foreshadows the consequences of climate change if we do not make the necessary preparations," he said.
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Representative James Sensenbrenner, the senior Republican on Markey's committee, said recent weather patterns show a global cooling, not warming.
The poll shows believe in this fantasy dropping even among Democrats, who are the most likely to believe this nonsense.Rising seas could be worse than expected, scientific group says during stop in Tampa - St. Petersburg Times
This has been a continuing trend for some time. The more people learn about this silly theory that doesn’t even pass the smell-test of credibility, the less they believe it.
Emily Rocheleau, the Hip Boot Tour organizer, donned a pair of hip boots to communicate the visual difference between previous scientists' estimates and Hamilton's findings.'Day after tomorrow' map shows consequences of climate change - Telegraph
She raised a hula hoop near her knees to represent the 17.3-inch rise in sea levels that scientists on the IPCC have predicted for this century. She then raised the hoop to her waist and then her chest to represent the new ranges. The grimmest scenario: The hula hoop lingered above her head.
The apocalyptic map was launched by Government ministers at the opening of a new exhibition at the Science Museum.Climate Cover Up reveals how zombies are made | David "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts
'Prove it – everything you need to know to believe in climate change' is aimed at educating the public about the dangers of uncontrollable global warming.
Regular readers know that I’ve basically lost the ... what is it? cussedness? ... required to spend time debunking skeptic arguments about the existence of climate change. It’s like being a zombie hunter, shooting, hacking, and defenestrating talking points only to watch them lurch back to life and stumble on. And every time they drag their carcasses into public again, the media covers them again, they get shot again ... and so on, and on, to this day.Predicting the future with the New Nostradamus - RT Top Stories
Ever wonder what keeps bringing those zombies to life? Turns out it’s a toxic blend of ideology and money. Mostly money. The same well-funded movement that spent so long delaying regulations on tobacco is still out there, busy polluting public discussion with fear, uncertainty, and doubt about climate change. They do it knowingly, and they profit from it.
RT: What about your predictions on climate change, you say that the upcoming talks in Copenhagen will fail?
BBdM: The difficulty with universal treaties – like the one proposed for Copenhagen – is that you get everyone to sign-on, either by not asking them to change behaviour or by asking them to change but having no punishment if they violate their agreement. Universal treaties almost never do anything useful; they are just feel-good exercises. They deflect attention from the failure at home to take tough political decisions that will actually make the difference.
Take Kyoto for example, 175 countries signed up but 137 of them signed up to do nothing! All they have to do is report what they are doing, i.e. nothing at all. Of the 38 who had to reduce green house emissions, almost all of them lined up after Kyoto and said ‘we can’t meet the standards’. Even host nation Japan said they could not honour the agreement. I predict the same will happen in Copenhagen. They may come out with a feel-good treaty that nearly everyone will sign, but those that pause to read the fine print will see there will be no punishments for non-compliance. There will be no teeth to it.
The US and EU have shown no willingness to reach into their own pockets to compensate poor, high polluting countries like India or China, to help them use cleaner technology. It’s not popular with voters to ask them to pay other people in other countries to change their behaviour.
2 comments:
The grimmest scenario: The hula hoop lingered above her head.
Thank God her arms weren't longer.
Right? It would have been super grim. Grimmester? Grimmiestest?
Re Nohopenhagen...GW Bush and John Howard (PM of Australia) were notable dissenters and non-signers at Kyoto, effectively discrediting a flawed piece of green/left BS.
Looks like India and China may torpedo this gabfest too.
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