PAUL KRUGMAN - Climate Change [Insanity] - Building a Green Economy - NYTimes.com

If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic. And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean our economy from the use of fossil fuels, coal above all.
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And this brings me to my third point: models based on this research indicate that if we continue adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere as we have, we will eventually face drastic changes in the climate. Let’s be clear. We’re not talking about a few more hot days in the summer and a bit less snow in the winter; we’re talking about massively disruptive events, like the transformation of the Southwestern United States into a permanent dust bowl over the next few decades.
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At this point, the projections of climate change, assuming we continue business as usual, cluster around an estimate that average temperatures will be about 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 2100 than they were in 2000. That’s a lot — equivalent to the difference in average temperatures between New York and central Mississippi.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » The numbers made easy: How Republicans will likely take the House

...it’s pretty likely they’ll take the House this year. Frankly, dozen seat buffer is well within the realm of possibility.

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I just found out that I'm invited to an intimate & exclusive meet and greet on Earth Day in Montreal with Al Gore! Way cool!

Remember that poll on the global warming law? - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

There were only seven questions, unlike other polls that can have many times that number. And the questions avoided mentioning projected costs of the law or that even if it were fully implemented immediately, it would do nothing to affect worldwide temperatures.

Instead, people were asked loaded questions along the “Are you still beating your wife” line of inquiry: Do you generally support the law that requires reducing greenhouse gas emissions that “cause global warming.”