YOUR GLOBAL WARMING PIN NUMBER? « Roman Around

How would such a thing work? Would someone who reached their carbon emissions limit be forbidden by the government from, say, buying more gas for their car? And if that someone’s budget doesn’t allow for the purchase of more carbon credits, is that someone out of luck? Can he or she no longer work? Will the green shirts come swooping in on their environmentally friendly bikes and haul that someone away? Will taxes be raised so more money could become available, via government grants and loans (or welfare), to the people who cannot afford to buy more credits?

Is leftism an inherent disease or is it spread through casual contact?

An Environment Agency spokesman said only those with “extravagant lifestyles” would be affected by the carbon allowances. He said: “A lot of people who cycle will get money back. It will probably only be bankers and those with extravagant lifestyles who would lose out.”

Casey discusses climate change bill at CMU

While declaring that, "Carbon pollution threatens our future and human life itself," Sen. Bob Casey expressed reservations yesterday about the major climate change proposal awaiting action in the Senate.

Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica - NYTimes.com

Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans’ penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy here. But climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelled in the Pacific for 150 million years.
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Small rises in beach temperatures can result in all-female populations, obviously problematic for survival.

Transcript - Al Gore on Larry King for an hour: They spend a lot of time talking about stuff other than Allegedly The Most Important Issue of All Time

And most importantly of all, this is a moral issue, not a political issue. The scientific community is saying to everybody in the world alive today: We can't continue putting 90 million tons of this global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day without risking an unprecedented catastrophe that could threaten the future of human civilization.