Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/22/2009 5:36:12 PM PST by neverdem
It’s barely three years since Al Gore put global warming on the map with his video, An Inconvenient Truth. Global warming was barely on the public radar before then. Recent events show that we have made significant progress on the issue. Despite the despair in much of the media, echoed in the pages and on the web screens of the Planet, it’s very clear that due to concerted effort both nationally and worldwide, we’ve turned the corner on global warming and are now moving the other way.
Bitter cold in the Bay Area in mid-December, snow in New Orleans where formerly there were hurricanes, paralyzing cold and snow in Portland, Seattle and across the Midwest to Vermont and New York, airplanes skidding off icy runways at many airports! We have turned from global warming to global cooling with a vengeance. The cold-induced drought in California in the past two years is also a clue; we are in a cold dry “La Niña” instead of a warm wet “El Niño.” Cold and snow in China earlier in the year also indicate a new cooling. After many storms in 2004 and 2005, the last three hurricane seasons have fizzled and the danger is past. Even sea level rise has stabilized. The people of the Earth should be proud.
It’s been tough, but in three years we’ve licked global warming. The Recession (Depression?) has helped. Skyrocketing oil prices have now collapsed. Values are now falling through the floor as the world abandons fossils fuels. Oil and gas stocks continue to rise, unburnt, as the glut deepens and spreads. CO2 levels are fading fast with the curtailment of oil and gas usage. OPEC is curtailing production. Nobody wants the stuff. It’s the end of an era.
Now that we’ve defeated global warming, we can turn our attention to other things. The effects of global cooling, attested to in TV images nationwide, must of course be dealt with, but if we can stop warming, we can deal with cooling on our own terms. But we also have to deal with many other more profound problems: a speculation economy that’s out of control, the real pollution of soot and chemicals and toxic waste, crackerbox suburban housing far from any job, the rush to nuclear and corporate solar (touted highly by warming afficionados), political corruption on a mass scale, the Military-Industrial Complex and the permanent war economy, the apathy and inanity of the general population, the empty-headedness of media “entertainment,” the surveillance society based on the Internet. With global warming gone as an issue, we still have much to do.
So let’s rekindle the collective spirit that killed global warming and turn it to our other challenges. We did it once, we can do it again. I am shivering in my cold apartment, but my heart is glad. Thank you, Al, and in this season of Christmas giving and New Year’s resolutions, let’s thank ourselves for a job well done and rededicate ourselves as we know we should. Here’s to the Future!
Steve Tabor is an environmental and political activist residing in Alameda.
Huh? I thought the world was going to end.
we’ve changed the climate of earth in 3 years??? ROFL ROFL..
I just gotta shake my head at these people..
Please tell me this is a parody.
Climate Research NewsClick on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
I read this twice, and I’m still not sure if it’s a sample of stupid leftist thinking, or a brilliant parody of stupid leftist thinking.
It was just a matter of time before the loonies realized that we are not frying, like Al Gorbachev said we were. Of course, they have to take credit for this miraculous defeat of the dreaded Global Warming! This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. I needed a good laugh.
PSST, thoughtful people with an I.Q. of double digit or better global warming, as defined by political grabbers of legacy, never existed. ; )
Are we sure this guy’s not schizo? I mean, how many “issues” can you cram into one article - and all of them just a little bit ridiculous.
ROTFLMAO! Poor Steve...he’s in dire need of a really good psychiatrist.
listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!
Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???
As long as a Democrat occupies the White House, there will be no global warming (see: Clinton years). But as soon as a Republican gets back in office, global warming will be back in the headlines. Count on it.
Glad I could help, moron.
Is this a joke?
The Goracle does Washington next week, you think it’s over, Hah!
Pay more in taxes to the government, so government scientists can fake the data and pretend to control the weather. The perfect scam to run on the science challenged unwary.
??????? Global Warming has been consistantly on the front page of the New York Times and other liberal rags for 15 years.
Even better, no accords were signed. Nothing was done but talk... and yet - no global warming. It's a miracle. /sarcasm
This has to be sarcasm or parody. Anything else is just.. well.... F'ing stupid!
Now the success in solving global warming is the Convenient Truth.
I really wish people were smart enough to see the falsehoods that drive the left.
The speaker disappointed environmentalists when she said earlier this month that she may not bring climate change legislation to the House floor this year because it may lack the votes needed for passage. "I'm not sure this year, because I don't know if we'll be ready," she told Capitol Hill reporters. "We won't go before we're ready."
But in the interview Wednesday, she shifted her stance, saying she plans to move the bill this year. She said she hopes to hold a vote before December, when climate negotiators gather in Copenhagen, Denmark, to work on a successor to the treaty many countries adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997.
"I believe we have to because we see that as a source of revenue," she said, noting that proposed cap-and-trade bills would raise billions of dollars by forcing major emitters to buy credits to release greenhouse gases. "Cap-and-trade is there for a reason. You cap and you trade so you can pay for some of these investments in energy independence and renewables
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