Obama tackles global warming (AP: At last, a president who gets it)

Associated Press ^ | 12/18/2008 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[Lou L]

Can’t Obama just “improve the U.S. relationship” with Mother Nature, and be done with it?

[FMBass]

“A President that finally gets it”.

Yep, now we are about to get it.
Get it in a big way.

[RightWhale]

Mr Obama and Science have never been in the same room. It’s not possible to know anything about science and speak so glibly at the same time.

[manc]

which is why we have to speak out more to our friends, neighbors, work associates etc about this plus get more like minded folk into teaching, journalism etc

we cannot allow anymore for us to be silenced because of political correctness by the left

[XR7]

At last,

Yeah. I got it.

[MrB]

trying to get Americans to pay more

Your statement implies that we'll have a choice...
Libs do everything by force and coersion.

[Abathar]

The truly scary thing is if there was ever a doomsday button that if once pushed will kill all humans across the entire globe instantly these people’s faces would light up like it was the greatest gift in history and mash the button down smiling.

[MinuteGal]

"I'm gonna get rid of these nooses if I have to rip them off with my teeth."

Leni

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

"The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," he said Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming a Powerpoint presentation that someone else made into a movie.

[ignorancerunsrampant]

Wait! It is snowing in Malibu, Houston, Las Vegas, and New Orleans. I have been freezing my arse off in Chicago since mid-September. WHAT GLOBAL WARMING!!!???

[randog]

They are doing it as a means to further destroy the ability for America to remain a World financial leader.

I don't think so. It could be an anti-capitalism movement since the Warmists are going after China and other mega capitalists, but I think it really comes down to a group of elites that are really pissed off at having to share the wealth with peons. Do you really think that Al Gore or the Bozo that wrote this article are going to do without? Hardly; they're just tired of sharing plane flights, cruises, holiday destinations, etc. with the sweaty masses. Time to crank consumption back and bring back a true separation of the classes.

[goodnesswins]

I’m still betting it’ll be around 0 degrees on Jan 20th, in Wash DC.....

[84rules]

The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration.

That's a lie. Dr. James Hansen's "Hockey Stick" model used as a fear-mongering tactic by Al Gore was dubunked last year when it was revealed that NASA had incorrectly calibrated the satallites which measured the earth's temperature. When the measurements were adjusted for the correct calibration, the ten hottest years on record were randomly dispersed through the 20th Century with the hottest coming in the 1930's.

Plus, at least six of those "ten years" are from 2000 onward during which global temperatures have been going down.

[JennysCool]

Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding "tipping points."

Translation: People are getting wise to the scam, endangering grant dollars.

[DoughtyOne]

If I were president, I would draw up an executive order on day one, that stated all colleges and universities would either level out the political makeup of their professors, or they would lose public funding. I’d give them six months to comply. They would henceforth also have to provide parity when it came to speakers on campus. And if they allowed the student body to disrupt the presentation by Conservatives, they would also lose public funding.

I’d also implement this on the K-12 level if the message didn’t come through loud and clear.

This political lock on our centers of eduction must stop.

As for Congress, it could over rule my EO, but if it did I would take my case to the U.S. Citizen and make it an issue Congress would pay dearly for.

[kabar]

They changed the name to climate change because the earth is no longer warming. Steady as she goes....

[ari-freedom]

“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,”

so...build more nuclear plants. Assuming there is a problem, you won’t solve it with regulation and windmills. I mean, you make fun of us for denying global warming but you don’t even want to solve it in a serious way. And while most conservatives don’t care for the evidence behind global warming, we like the idea of nuke plants for energy independence.

[mbarker12474]

How many lies can they wrap in one article to instill fear? They seem to be going for the record.

Okay: When Bill Clinton took office in 1993,

Slower-moving political ruse, Non-existent environmental problem then as well as now: global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore.

False: Now it is a ticking time bomb

False: that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.

False: Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas.

False: The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration.

False: Global warming is accelerating.

False: Time is close to running out,

False (probably): and Obama knows it.

False: But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed.

True: Despite the urgency he expresses, it's not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.

No Sh*t: Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans

[remaxagnt]

somebody tell bo that its snowing in vegas!

[G Larry]

It is a tool to pry the masses into accepting socialism.
There is no manmade “global warming”, but that isn’t important. We have pollution and industry and populations that make many uncomfortable. By pretending a dire consequence, and further pretending an ability to affect the severity, the masses will be lulled into accepting what they otherwise would not.