Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/21/2008 3:03:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eight scientific organizations urged the next U.S. president to help protect the country from climate change by pushing for increased funding for research and forecasting, saying about $2 trillion of U.S. economic output could be hurt by storms, floods and droughts.
"We don't think we have the right kind of tools to help decision makers plan for the future," Jack Fellows, the vice president for corporate affairs of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a consortium of 71 universities, told reporters in a teleconference on Wednesday.
The groups, including the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, urged Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican rival John McCain to support $9 billion in investments between 2010 and 2014 to help protect the country from extreme weather, which would nearly double the current U.S. budget for the area.
The U.N.'s science panel says extreme weather events could hit more often as temperatures rise due to climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
The economy needs protection from climate “scientists”.
This is clever. Paint the industry and economy destroying environmentalist agenda as pro-industry and pro-economy. And the hubris exhibited is amazing. Just give these people enough money and they will end any and all violent acts of nature. The Lord has nothing on these folks (in their minds anyway).
Yeah, political scientists.
Climate futures have been trading for years.
Oh, but that's not the next President doing something, it's only the free market. Years a head of the "scientists," incidentally.
Extra, Extra! Climate change scientists say more money for climate change scientists necessary.
I was wondering today, whatever happened to all those crisis funds for bird flu?
Whatever happened to the impending bird flu?
Follow the money.
Oh, you must not have heard, global warming killed the flu and the birds too. But the worst is yet to come.
Articles like this really should be posted in a forum called “Serious or Satire?”. We could debate if the people in the story were talking with their tongue planted in their cheeks or were they totally serious. It is really difficult to tell any more so we need to dissect things like this carefully.
You beat me to it.
Hint: Follow the money.
Now, just “who” is asking for more money to research “climate change”?
That’s no fair.
You copied my answer before I could post it.
What we need is an “American Climate Protection Amendment” to the US Constitution, whereby the government is specifically prohibited from making any law, regulation or executive order, or imposing any tax, for the purpose of changing or regulating the climate of the planet.
It’s the only way to preserve our natural liberties from the relentless onslaught of the global warming debate deniers, who continue to deny the indisputable fact that there is lots of scientific debate about global warming, and continue to pursue their half-baked social engineering redistributionist agenda despite the many, many credentialed scientists who reject the man-made global warming hypothesis outright.
Even if such an amendment is politically impossible, a serious debate on its merits would do much to put the pro-global warming policy makers where they belong — which is on the defensive.
I call them “pro-global warming” because they desperately want anthropogenic global warming to be real in spite of scientific evidence to the contrary, and they will not give up their draconian interventionist legislative agenda until we pry it from their cold, (legislatively) dead fingers.
The liars need to give it up. Their cover is blown
Liars for Jesus and Liars for Science:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047988/posts?page=9#9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047988/posts?page=8#8
Exactly.
Smithsonian & Associates sponsor a Dr. Michael Crighton talk. Listen while you surf - watch it, and/or read the transcript - you WON’T regret it:
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/video-speeches-smithsonian.html
Click the arrow to start the video. You may slide the time marker forward to 9:00 minutes into the tape when he comes to the podium (or listen to the introduction beginning at 3:30 minutes). His talk lasts about 45 minutes after which he takes questions for aprox. 20 minutes. bttt
He has a great sense of humor and the blond jokes are hilarious.
More great stuff here: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches.html
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.” ~ Michael Crichton
“the relentless onslaught of the global warming debate deniers ....”
That’s a good label for them.
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