Thursday, September 20, 2012

Daily Kos: Santa Claus Is About To Drown, The North Pole Is Melting.
The longer we play the, Yes Global Warming is happening, No it isn't, yes it is, no it isn't, game with the Republican moron puppets of the fossil fuel industry, the more your children are at risk of experiencing a collapse of civilization.
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We've seen the Wall Street casino and what it can do to the worlds economy, but that is absolutely nothing compared to what will happen if we continue to turn our climate into a giant Casino.

President Obama has stepped forward on a couple of politically difficult issues this year. It's time for him to bring this up in the debates and in his campaign speeches. It's vital to our survival as a nation, and it's a winnable political issue to hammer the Republicans with.
Starting to tackle climate change - The Hill's Congress Blog
While the Republican National Convention was revving up, for example, General Electric announced it had teamed up with renewable energy firm Urban
Green Energy to produce a gadget that sounds like it's straight out of science fiction -- a wind-powered electric vehicle charger.

The Sanya Skypump can recharge an electric car's batteries without connecting to the power grid.
David Whitehouse: Extreme Views About Extreme Events | The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Nature says that attribution is in its infancy. How does that square with recent comments by Nasa’s James Hansen, “We are certainly seeing climate change in action…This year has been exceptionally unusual throughout the United States.” Writing in this morning’s Guardian Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, says that ‘extreme’ weather is the new normal: “We are now confident about linking individual events to climate change,” she maintains.

Perhaps she should read the Nature editorial.

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