Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/20/2008 6:36:48 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
'100 months to save the planet'
A "Green New Deal" is needed to solve current problems of climate change, energy and finance, a report argues.
According to the Green New Deal Group, humanity only has 100 months to prevent dangerous global warming.
Its proposals include major investment in renewable energy and the creation of thousands of new "green collar" jobs.
The name is taken from President Franklin D Roosevelt's "New Deal", launched 75 years ago to bring the US out of the Great Depression.
The new grouping says rising greenhouse gas emissions, combined with escalating food and energy costs, mean the globe is facing one of its biggest crises since the 1930s.
Its members include former Friends of the Earth UK director Tony Juniper, Green MEP Caroline Lucas and Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation (nef).
In an article for the BBC News website's Green Room series, Mr Simms warns that the combination of the current credit crunch, rising energy prices and accelerating emissions are "conspiring to create the perfect storm".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
This is mass madness.
Was their some mass tulip hysteria in Holland long ago?
We’re all going to need medication when they’re done with us.
Ayn Rand once said that these environmentalist catastrophes are always “about ten years away.” Close enough for concern, far enough so that if it doesn’t happen, people will forget who said it would.
Gotta keep people in a perpetual state of panic to get their agenda through.
Or a miracle.
The Blue Man Group could not be reached for comment.
That’s about what they said 100 months ago, isn’t it?
These people are starting to sound more and more like used car salesmen. “Act now—the offer is only good for today!!”.
8.3 years...hmm, wasn’t it about 5 years ago the EnviroTards claimed we had only 10 years.
Somebody needs to take remedial math.
You would think that people contemplating predicting doom on a certain date, due to this or that, would take a look at history. Then they might see just how stupid all the others before them predicting doom looked when the time came and went.
Funny stuff from a 5/7/08 Walter Williams Column....
At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/05/07/environmentalists_wild_predictions
They don't have a friggin' clue, but their followers slop it up like hawgs at the trough.
Hey Al-when you go personally go “off the grid”- and can keep my cost per kwh at no more than 20% over what I’m paying now we’ll talk.
Hey Al-when you personally go “off the grid”- and can keep my cost per kwh at no more than 20% over what I’m paying now we’ll talk.
AGWers in a panic that the climate will become colder without society following ANY of their recommendations. If they don’t get some actions underway, they will not be able to claim success in 8+ years.
Until next year, anyway.
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