• Replace your regular incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.
• Get a setback thermostat that allows you to program your heating and cooling for optimum savings.
• Turn your air conditioner up 2 degrees and your furnace down 2 degrees. Heating and cooling account for half of your home's energy use
• Sign up for your electric utility's green energy option. MGE, Alliant Energy and Wisconsin Public Power Inc. offer such programs, which charge customers a bit extra to support renewable energy sources like wind power.
• Make sure your car's tires are properly inflated, to get the best gas mileage.
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Really. I read Al Gore's book. He faked the data. He is a liar.
The argument is not over whether or not there is global warming. The argument is over determining the cause. Unless the cause is properly/scientifically determined, policies to reverse or stabilize ambient temperatures are based on what? A socialist craving to control the economy? A communist desire to put enough brakes on the American economy to throw the world into depression? The problem is identified. The cause is not. Policy to address a problem without an identified cause is folly and a lame politicians gambit to make it look like something is being done.
• Turn over your life to a global government.
I'm releasing freon into the atmosphere...and I'm digging it!
It was 96 today. I've got my heat off.
What truth?
The words "Al Gore" and "truth" should never be used in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence.
Gore should be incarcerated at the Arkhem Mental Asylum for his own well being.
Michael Moore should be his cell mate!
Thus gushed the author of this article, referring to the "passionate evangelism" accompanying Michael Mooreon's F/9-11. And we know how well that worked in electing Kerry, so how well do we think "An Inconvenient Truth" will work in advancing the "manmade global warming" argument.
"It's inevitable."
"What?"
"I said, It's inevitable."
"How's that again?"
"It's inevitably inevitable that things are going to change. Jeez, open your fuggin' ears!"
Obviously global warming of the brain is taking place in Madison if this article is to be believed.
At a minimum, every single local resident should:
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Make sure your car's tires are properly inflated, to get the best gas mileage.
I don't see how keeping my car's tires properly inflated will help MG&E stop burning coal.
Yea and it was cooler 400 years ago
Do you think Fire and Brimstone can be stopped by not driving your SUV or changing your lightbulbs ?
God would not have given us a planet that could have been so easily destroyed...
Don't start thinking what you do can stop God you can't even delay it!
Al Gore is Godless and could do much more good by reading the History of the world !
The Bible ...
Go Ahead Start Flaming.
Global Warming is a control mechanism for the Socialist Central Planners of the world. I would rather die due to climate change than live under the tyranny of Liberals.
We MUST ACT NOW!! Gore needs some serious mental therapy! It would be a crime not to heed his obvious cry for help!!
The old tax me more concept. Bet even the pukin' liberals aren't signing up for this scam. I think I'll set my thermostat to 68 now, it's hot outside so it will be nice inside. Global warming is just another plot to separate you from your money.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the author is clueless.
"Of nearly 1,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles about global warming, not one takes a contrary view of the growing risks we face from the continued warming of our atmosphere due to our fossil fuel use."
Interesting... that they call this "Science". This is "Politics" nothing more. There is no scientific proof of the above statement, only conjecture, computer model data, and convenient omission of any facts that collide with this socialistic power grab. Of course there are numerous articles, that "take a contrary view", by climatologists, in particular.
"The brutal reality is this: If we don't stem the carbon dioxide emissions, we will see nations' entire coastlines under water from the rise in sea levels due to melting glaciers, other nations with such severe droughts that their populations risk starvation, and the extinction of millions of species that cannot adapt to radical temperature changes in their habitats."
She knows! She saw it, it was right there on the movie screen! Movies are all true, right?
"Some scientists say the severity of Hurricane Katrina, which powered up from a category 1 to a category 5 storm while passing over the warm Gulf of Mexico, can be linked to global warming and signals more catastrophic hurricanes to come."
Not the ones who know what they are talking about.
"The moral imperative to make big changes is inevitable," Gore says of the need to face global warming seriously. "It is deeply unethical if we allow this to happen."
So, let's reduce America to an overtaxed 3rd World, basket case nation, sacrificing our economy, property rights, and sovereignty, to assuage the hysterical fears of a few international leftist proto-totalitarians who hate us all anyway.
"Two hundred western U.S. cities set high temperature records last year. Just last week, the Western Governors Association, whose states contain major coal and oil reserves, passed a resolution acknowledging the need to reduce global warming."
Every city in the country sets high temperature records at some time of the year, on one day or another. This statement is so pedestrian in its guilelessness as to be laughable.
Sorry hun, but hysterical emotionalism isn't going to motivate entire nations to commit economic and social suicide and return to the 19th century or earlier, on the promise that it might just avert a disaster that no one can prove will happen.