ANALYSIS: Obama embarks down long road to climate change action
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Jan 27, 2009, 11:55 GMT
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Gaiacomm also designs arcane electromagnetic weapons systems for use in large areas for complete destruction
How will it 'disable a suicide bomber' with a match and a fuse ?
I truly hope that his plans will include ending all the subsidies to ranchers and dairy farmers. All the methane from cows causes more greenhouse gases than all transporatation combines. Plus we are paying for their land, their feed, the railways to transport the feed, the water subsidies, and now I hear we are buying their excess milk too, all with taxpayers money.
And for what? Bad health, skyrocketing healthcare costs, more global warming, and more debt.
Please Obama - you can do it!
The recent discovery of large amounts of methane seeping from Arctic waters and permafrost may be telling us that it is already too late to contain global warming.
Natural Gas can and is being used for many things, it's a waste of this finite resource to use it to make electricity and millions are going to be very very unhappy when it is no longer affordable.
The Scientists that promote and support the higher percentage numbers of mans contribution to climate change are in fact a minority.
This is a time for some of these minority's to stop what they are doing and be still, or they are going to be responsible for evil coming upon millions. and we are not all unlearned imbecilleass's.
The majority of Scientists have jointly stated, that the possible scale of change to our climate caused by man does not show in records kept to current date. In the past carbon levels have been much higher than today's and as our fossil fuel supply declines the lower carbon levels will someday return.
Climate Change has been causing man to move from one place to another for thousands of years,
are you all so simple?.
I guess you voted for Obama? You may want to check out Europe's experience with Wind energy. It has cost them more,and provided less energy than anticipated...plus when the wind doesn't blow, backup power is still required. Woefully inefficient use of assets.
Wind energy potential, is different than wind reality I am afraid. So, if you have a turkey in an electric oven powered by wind...hope it gets done before the wind stops. T. Boone Pickens has put his project on hold...seems he needs higher oil prices to justify the project. So much for being green....the good ol' capitalist is still alive!
Why not let what is left of the free market determine what energy sources are available? If the environmental wackos and government get out of the way, we could be self sufficient in oil...there are huge reserves off the coasts that can be recovered safely. The ocean itself leaks more oil from the bottom, than is spilled by industry on an annual basis. Let's get the oil, then work on a viable replacement.
I guess you believe all the hysteria about global warming too, eh? Well, do you realize that you exhale carbon dioxide? YOU are contributing to global warming! The global warming hoax is just that...a hoax for an over zealous government to put more controls on us.
Yeah, I want to plug in my SUV every 40 miles for eight hours, to go another 40 miles...better really make good plans and have plenty of time for the road trip! I am all for cleaner technologies, but not at the risk of reducing freedom, and consumer choice, and those that make economic sense.
WE are about to have a whole bunch of c rammed down our throats to stop global warming.
Actually BUSTER it does not really matter whether global warming is man made or natural because the chances that mankind will do anything about it are less than zero.
The earth is littered with lost civilisations and undoubtably bad weather and climate change is the major cause. Many died where they were and perhaps some moved but in an overpopulated world there are less and less places to move to.
In a globalised economy starvation is becoming less frequent but if you consider the tripple whammy of overpopulation, global warming and peak oil the entire earth could soon face the same fate.
The droughts in Nortern China, Texas, California, Mexico, Australia, Argentina and many more, probably caused by global warming, should concern us all.
You can judge 'thebusters' level of ignorance by his statement 'The Scientists that promote and support the higher percentage numbers of mans contribution to climate change are in fact a minority'
In fact the the proportion of scientists and experts in the climatology field which agree with mankind causing climate change is 97%.
Thebuster obviously has a very rudimentary understanding of mathematics if he thinks the remaining 3% is a 'majority'. But then , he is probably in the same league as the other anti-warmers - many of whom seem to be experts in body building, fortune telling and weather (not climate), or who are simply taking an opposite view to gain publicity and cash in
thebuster also states - In the past carbon levels have been much higher than today's and as our fossil fuel supply declines the lower carbon levels will someday return. Climate Change has been causing man to move from one place to another for thousands of years
CO2 levels are currently the highest in the past 650,000 years - but Homo Sapiens has only been around for 200,000, so the two statements have very little to link them
OK - so mankind has moved about because of climate change in the past - but that was when he was nomadic, and the Earth was virtually unpopulated. But he did this gradually, moving step by step over fertile areas and over hundreds of years.
Now think about trying to move hundreds of millions and all the infrastructure, food and energy supplies etc in a couple of decades.
How does thebuster propose moving such numbers - lets start with just one location - Bangladesh, due to be covered by rising seas within decades, population 133 million. Plenty of space in the USA perhaps, as it would only increase the population by a third, but how long would it take to put in all the infrastructure ? And while at it, how about the millions of Americans also forced to move ? Re-siting New Orleans seems to be totally beyond the current resources - now multiply that by about 50.
so far...I still have not been laid off like 64 of my co-workers. I still have a job. I did not vote for this guy but basis of his plan sounds like it COULD WORK.
If this happens there will be less likely of a chance for me to lose my job and have to go to unemployment. Right now it's a 3 out of 4 chance I'm gone in the next 2 months. But if this happens it will turn that 2 months into 6 or possibly a year. I still have hope. I am no naysayer and I watched last night objectively and did not scoff like so many others may have.
Look....nothing good is happening right now. So....lets wait and see if something good happens from this.
Stop being so pessimistic and cynical. That's more depressing than the enonomy.
'yes...this is the Presdient...(best Chappelle white person voice)...oh...hello Al...nice suit...very sliming...(oh Brother)....what?...climate change...yes, Al I've heard of it....Global warming and all....yes Al, I'm onboard....what?...the Chinese?..well, no Al...they are telling you to suck their...what?...the Russians.....how DO you say it in Russian Al?....no Al, it's not suck my.....who?..Africa?....Al...LOOK at Africa...do you think they really think about it at all?....really Al...you actually do?....yeah, sure Al...whatever...South America Al?....sure Al....as they burn the rainforest Al...makes sense to me!...(oh jesus, get THIS MORON his Scotch bottle!)....sure Al, burn some jet fuel and go tell them...be sure to get back to me....heck Al...that's most of the world.....well...see ya when you get back Al....'
SP4
I guess what your saying is that since nobody else cares about climate change we shouldn't either? What a moron, this country has to LEAD the world by example not by ridicules uneducated posts like this one. The last 8 years have shown how narrow minded and selfish Americans can be, the next 8 will show the world how we can innovate, build and win in the marketplace. Time is up you want to keep giving our childrens future to the Saudi's, Venezuelans, all other petrodictators on the globe. Cheap energy is over it time to pay the piper, Buster lets use you as an example of the misguided minority that will have change whether you like it or not.
SP4
I guess what your saying is that since nobody else cares about climate change we shouldn't either?
SP4 -ya think???... well, I wasn't the one who said it...THEY DID!
What a moron,
SP4 - that still does not make me wrong bonehead...or them...these natyions are not buying it and neither will they participate...and if they do not, ALL of our efforts are useless, without them doing their part. Now run along and do the math...
this country has to LEAD the world by example
SP4 - wake up johnny...we ARE the leaders! We have the most stringent environazi laws in the world. We are the wind power leaders, and will be the solar leeaders by next year. We produce virtually ALL of our electrical power domestically, and are the 9TH largest user of oil, per capita, in the world, contrary to the popular perception.
not by ridicules uneducated posts like this one.
SP4 - the old libnazi line...no one is educated unless they agree with you and your evangelists. Go get the facts and come back.
The last 8 years have shown how narrow minded and selfish Americans can be,
SP4 - yes, you stupid child, we know this by freeing 50 million people from the scum of humanity costing over 500 lives...and giving ,conserivatively, 300 billion to the poor of the world..tell me..what did your nation do in the last 8 years, be sure to get back to us on this as I'm dying to hear.
the next 8 will show the world how we can innovate, build and win in the marketplace.
SP4 - oh yes, we know this by wasting 800 billion on the worst kind of pork imaginable. Tell me, is this the legacy of this president and when was it that they quit teaching math in your public schools?
Time is up you want to keep giving our childrens future
SP4 - you just sealed any hope of that by indeturing our children to a lfetime of trillion dollar debt for the worst kind of value.
to the Saudi's, Venezuelans, all other petrodictators on the globe.
SP4 - no, your sychophantic, moronic slavish followers did that by ignoring Bush's request to drill domestically, and now he's in Crawford laughing in your faces...Tell me, how does it feel to be more stupid than GW Bush? We asked John Kerry but he's still voting for the answer before voting against the answer....
Cheap energy is over it time to pay the piper,
Newflash dickhead, gas was $1.49 when Bush left office and now it's $2.10..go write a paper on that and get back to us....presumably about supply and dmeand....but by all means do whatever you want!
Buster lets use you as an example of the misguided minority that will have change whether you like it or not.
SP4 - how, exactly do we gauge this..by Obama propping up domestic auto manufacturers, who make the largest gas using autos on earth, with tax dollars? Make sure you explain this one, because I cannot wait to see the moon walk you do on this one! Tell me, do you have any idea how rediculous you sound? Now run along...the short bus is leaving...
... Obama has it wrong.
The greatest positive environmental impact in the world was done by President Bush. By causing an economic meltdown he closed factories overnight. China's coal burning emissions plummeted.
In one swift action President Bush did what no one else was able to do in decades of trying.
No amount of action by Obama can come close to that.
No project has yet made it through the BLM’s permitting process. Overwhelmed, the agency tried this summer to put a moratorium on new applications.
“I don’t see us putting 80 solar projects on BLM land, there’s no way. I don’t see us putting 30,” says Mr. Miller, who notes the agency must manage the land for multiple uses. “And I hope the solar industry hears me on that.”
The BLM’s pace has displeased some in Congress. Rep. Jon Porter (R) of Nevada introduced a bill last week that would limit the BLM’s permit process to 180 days. And Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R) of California is proposing doing away with environmental impact reviews. Mr. Rohrabacher says he is trying to “make sure that people who have something to offer other human beings [won’t] be stymied because the BLM thinks insects or reptiles are more important.
Comment,,,, environmental activist are shutting down all the nuclear powered electricity in the U.S.A. '' more '' economic stress,, thanks
Comment,,,, environmental activist are trying to ban coal surface mining to protect insects and reptiles OR drive up the cost of electricity ? more economic stress, thanks.
NOTE,, The BLM over see's vast amounts of land,,, NO project has made it through the BLM's permitting process,,, THIS government agency has an ''' invalid ''' name. Pick the name you want something close would be ''' banana ''' on government land.
NOTE,, Suddenly insects or reptiles are not so important when it's something the environmental activist's want. ''' uh excuse me,,, when do I get to decide how much I can not afford to pay every month for electricity ? The sierra club and league of environmental activist groups are mandating an intermittent electricity supply that '' if '' implemented will cause most of our country [ the U.S.A ] .to become uninhabitable in the winter months. thanks again,,,
d wrote - Barack Obama as next President of The United States of America
You seem to be rather behind the times - do try and keep up at the back of the class
..how's it workng so far?...financial markets crapping on Obama's economic mess of a stimulus plan, Nations bugging out on climate change....
Perhaps Mr. Obama can do another 'clean coal' ad!?
My, sp4
I neglectid to mention the greens are shutting down coal fired electricity along with atom,
so the unemployed auto workers can enjoy much higher electricity bills as soon as they get everything shut down,$$$ truly.
Since 1998 the global temperature has cooled despite a massive increase in manmade C02 emissions. This was not predicted by the IPCC, Al Gore and James Hansen from NASA. This is opposite to what is supposed to happen according to the theory of significant manmade global warming! These increased C02 emissions came mainly from the developing countriessuch as China and India so why didn't the global temperatures increase? Because significant manmade global warming is a lie and taxing hot air or capping C02 emiisions will do very little to change the climate. Obama is a green idiot and will ruin America's economy, while India which is using fossil fuels at will is expected this year to increase it's GDP by 7% while the dummies running green America and the global warming Alarmist nations are wrecking their own economies because of a self serving significant manmade global warming hoax.
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