Climate change
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Gore has been spewing at about the same rate as the volcano!
I found a different article yesterday but didn't reply. Here's one I found today: Icelandic volcano won't affect the world's climate Environment Blog (ABC Environment) . Where did you get that information Pete?
Pete McCluskey.
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It came to me via email from a normally reliable source, I cannot confirm its veracity but there is no denying its humour.
"inconvenience and expense of driving your Prius hybrids" - what's inconvenient and expensive about a Prius? They cost the same as any other everyday car (at least here in the states) and they're no more inconvenient than any other typical sedan. Sorry Pete - I don't see the humor. Why do people have to be so bull headed towards these people? So they thought they were doing something good - maybe they need to be more selective about what they're being good about?
So let's see - a season of brush fires (which sums up that calender year's worth of fire pollution) will negate 2 years of mankind's addition - so give up mankind's efforts and add even more. YEAH!:laugh:
So let's see - a season of brush fires (which sums up that calender year's worth of fire pollution) will negate 2 years of mankind's addition - so give up mankind's efforts and add even more. YEAH!:laugh:
I don't think the problem is with green cars etc. The problem is with a BS Cap and Trade bill that will tax us into oblivion.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
Come on Chris fess up, you drive a Prius don't you?
Nope - but I would if I was into buying new cars. I admire the engineering behind it and the idea that you can do pretty much the same thing as so many cars yet much quieter. I drive a 1985 BMW 535i - great car. Of course, if I had a GT40 replica or something similar I'd have that as my daily driver.:thumbsup:
From Newsmax.com today 2 June 2010:
4. Climate Change Skepticism Rising in Britain
Concern about man-made global warming has been plummeting in Britain among politicians and the general population as well.
Nowhere has the shift in public opinion from concern to skepticism “been more striking than in Britain, where climate change was until this year such a popular priority that in 2008, Parliament enshrined targets for emissions cuts as national law,” The New York Times observed.
A February survey by the BBC showed that only 26 percent of Britons believe that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely man-made” — down from 41 percent as recently as last November.
A poll in January of 141 Conservative Party candidates found that “reducing Britain’s carbon footprint” was the least important of 19 issues they considered.
London’s Science Museum has decided to change the name of what it had planned to call the Climate Change Gallery to the Climate Science Gallery.
David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, was “strangely muted” on the climate change issue in pre-election debates, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
And former Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that the science supporting man-made global warming may not be “as certain as its proponents allege.”
The change in attitude can be traced at least in part to the so-called “climategate” controversy that arose in November — the leaking of e-mail messages from British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that global warming skeptics pointed to as evidence that researchers were exaggerating the evidence for global warming.
An article in The Telegraph after the scandal erupted stated that the global warming “myth” has been “suddenly, brutally, and quite deliciously exposed.”
Then in January, The Times of London criticized a report from a United Nations climate panel for an erroneous claim that glaciers in the Himalayas could disappear by 2035. The U.N. apologized for the error.
Other media sources said the report also claimed that 55 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, when in fact it’s half that amount.
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, acknowledged.
There has been a shift in opinions about climate change in the U.S. as well. A Gallup poll in March found that 48 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming was “generally exaggerated,” up from 41 percent a year ago.
Editor's Note:
Al Gore Shocked by Global Cool-Down
4. Climate Change Skepticism Rising in Britain
Concern about man-made global warming has been plummeting in Britain among politicians and the general population as well.
Nowhere has the shift in public opinion from concern to skepticism “been more striking than in Britain, where climate change was until this year such a popular priority that in 2008, Parliament enshrined targets for emissions cuts as national law,” The New York Times observed.
A February survey by the BBC showed that only 26 percent of Britons believe that “climate change is happening and is now established as largely man-made” — down from 41 percent as recently as last November.
A poll in January of 141 Conservative Party candidates found that “reducing Britain’s carbon footprint” was the least important of 19 issues they considered.
London’s Science Museum has decided to change the name of what it had planned to call the Climate Change Gallery to the Climate Science Gallery.
David Cameron, Britain’s new prime minister, was “strangely muted” on the climate change issue in pre-election debates, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph.
And former Prime Minister Tony Blair has acknowledged that the science supporting man-made global warming may not be “as certain as its proponents allege.”
The change in attitude can be traced at least in part to the so-called “climategate” controversy that arose in November — the leaking of e-mail messages from British climate scientists at the University of East Anglia that global warming skeptics pointed to as evidence that researchers were exaggerating the evidence for global warming.
An article in The Telegraph after the scandal erupted stated that the global warming “myth” has been “suddenly, brutally, and quite deliciously exposed.”
Then in January, The Times of London criticized a report from a United Nations climate panel for an erroneous claim that glaciers in the Himalayas could disappear by 2035. The U.N. apologized for the error.
Other media sources said the report also claimed that 55 percent of the Netherlands is below sea level, when in fact it’s half that amount.
“Legitimacy has shifted to the side of the climate skeptics, and that is a big, big problem,” Ben Stewart, a spokesman for Greenpeace, acknowledged.
There has been a shift in opinions about climate change in the U.S. as well. A Gallup poll in March found that 48 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming was “generally exaggerated,” up from 41 percent a year ago.
Editor's Note:
Al Gore Shocked by Global Cool-Down
Well Tipper finally is exhibiting some common sense. How she ever lived with that pompous ass for 40 years is beyond me.
Have not yet read it but here it goes. From the AP.
The Associated Press: After 40-year union, Al and Tipper Gore separate
The Associated Press: After 40-year union, Al and Tipper Gore separate
Methinks there was a Climate Change in the bedroom at the Gore Mansion...
Decidedly cooler perhaps??? :stunned:
Save the Whale! :laugh:
My wife's former army hospital in Germany had to host Tipper for a while when the Gore's son was sick there - apparently Tipper was a MAJOR b&%ch to most everyone. I've heard from other folks that have met her that's she's pretty cold and rude.
If that's what your wife is like, then indeed it's more enjoyable to be alone.
If that's what your wife is like, then indeed it's more enjoyable to be alone.
