Not again! Another 10-year climate 'tipping point' warning issued -- Despite fact that UN began 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' in 1989! | Climate Depot

As early as 1989, the UN was already trying to sell their “tipping point” rhetoric on the public. See: U.N. Warning of 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' Began in 1989 – Excerpt: According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of 'eco-refugees,' threatening political chaos.”

[Or we could just move the Weber grills away from the thermometers?]: Space travel to save the environment makes sense in this time of climate change: Kim Stanley Robinson

Now that human-induced climate change is on us, all our ideas and behaviors have to be re-examined, including our daily habits, our infrastructure and our economic system. This is such a huge project that it will become the major part of our efforts as a global civilization for the next century at least.

News Analysis - Obama Hobbled in Fight Against Global Warming - NYTimes.com

Yet Mr. Obama has found himself limited in his ambitions by a Congress that is unwilling to move as far or as fast as he would like.

Weren't we led to believe that Obama would use his speaking ability to convince Congress and the world to do allegedly great things?

Nov '08: Barack Obama: orator in the mould of history’s best - Times Online

Even in the age of YouTube and the soundbite, Barack Obama has proved that soaring, sustained oratory still has great power. His victory address to crowds in Chicago last week was widely regarded as one of the finest speeches in modern politics, delivered by a master.

When Obama delivered this famous megalomaniacal line, did he forget about the role of the US Senate in passing his pet legislation?: "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."