Posted on 06/27/2009 9:02:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned an audience of 800 at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park that "business as usual" would lead to a dramatically changed world in the coming decades...he described a world with more severe storms and droughts, far more hot summer days exceeding 90 degrees, rising sea levels and species extinctions if carbon emissions aren't markedly scaled back.
Chu focused on a chart from a report released this month from the NOAA [that] tracked atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over an 800,000-year period, measured from an Antarctic ice core. In it, a red line ranged between 170 to 330 parts per million, or ppm, until present times. Chu warned that scientists now believe that atmospheric carbon dioxide beyond 450 ppm will lead to what he called a "tipping" point.
"We're really going off the scales," he said. "That's the scary part, and most people don't understand this in their hearts and souls."
Accompanied by slides showing current signs of climate change, Chu described in detail the consequences of rising temperatures in the coming century. While more rain would likely fall, most of it would come during the winter, and in large downpours, rather than lighter rains spread over weeks or months.
"So we'll have floods in the winter, but when you want to grow things, we'll get less." Farmers, particularly in the West, will face conditions worse than those seen in the 1930s Dust Bowl. Ice sheets are also melting faster than predicted, and scientists are now deeply concerned about the melting permafrost. Long-dead plants sequestered in the frozen ground, with their carbon contained, would release their carbon stores, and the microbes feeding on them release methane, a greenhouse gas hundreds of times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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More junk science. They can’t tell you what tomorrows weather is going to be like, so how can they tell us what it will be like in 5-10 years.
The rhetoric will be increased because the congressjerks are voing on the so-called “energy” bill.
Dr. Chu must be aware that the world has not warmed since 2001. And there have been periods of higher CO2 concentrations in world history.
30 Mar 09 (Excerpts) - My friend, the internationally famed climatologist, Dr. S. Fred Singer, calls them “the CO2 wars.” It is the last ditch attempt by the Greens, under the aegis of the Obama administration, to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant and thus open the door to its regulation.
Here are a few things you need to keep in mind about carbon dioxide:
CO2 is not a “pollutant.” It is a trace gas necessary for all life of Earth because it is essential to the growth of all vegetation.
Without CO2 all vegetation—grasses, forests, jungles, crops such as wheat, corn and rice—dies. Then herbivores die. Then you die.
The CO2 produced by human industry or activity is a miniscule fraction of a percentage of greenhouse gases. It constitutes a mere 0.038% of the atmosphere.
The oceans emit 96.5% of all greenhouse gases, holding and releasing CO2 as it has down through the millennia of Earth’s existence.
In past millennia, CO2 levels were often much higher than the present.
CO2 levels rise hundreds of years after temperature rise on planet Earth.
The Sun is the primary source of warmth on Earth. Rising CO2 is an effect of global warming, not a cause.
Both global warming and cooling are natural phenomenon over which humans have no control.
The Earth is not currently warming. It has been cooling for a decade and likely to continue for at least another twenty years or longer. If a new Ice Age is triggered, it will last at least 10,000 years.
Polar ice is now at record levels and still growing.
Part of me wants this bill to pass, so we can get this show on the road. I don’t know about others, but I have no intention of living under the thumb of government.
I think someone should brush him up on botany. Does it matter if the climate changes if we have no food? Vote no on the Mass Starvation Legislation called cap & tax.
“If we had to have an unethical incompetent a-hole with a Nobel prize to be head of Energy, Obama could have just gone ahead and named Algore.”
LOL!!!
I’ll tell you about something that has gone way PAST the tipping point, and will eventually wipe us out- it’s called NATIONAL DEBT, started by that Kenyan impostor with his pork bills, destruction of private capitalism, socialist health care schemes and now this “crap”- and- trade nonsense to address a non-existent problem- welcome to the USSA, comrade!
Cut the crap, Chu. We know you are a liar.
ANother professional liar.
This guy and his cohorts are political propagandists, not scientists. The increase of the energy availble for storms is given by T2/T1. If the energy goes up 2 degrees, that's available for storms is given by 290/288=0.7%. So the "severity' of the average storm would increase by only 0.7% with a 2oC temp rise.
0.7% is some dramatic change, eh? Most folks can't distinguish temp changes within +/- 1.7oC and neither can any other animal, or plant.
Under HR 2454 , the secretary of Energy gets more power than the US congress.
Only on the BS meter.
I am including the “free traders” here because their agenda has helped to make this disaster possible.
HR 2454 is for the secretary of energy who will have money and authority under international rules and UN conventions to be more powerful than the US congress.
And if you notice that the bill will shift power to the executive branch, you get an A.
If you understand that the executive branch with its czars and political appointees is the focus for destroying any vestige of representative constitutional government with built in checks and balances, you get an A+
If that is true then talk to God don't talk tp me you phony yet arrogant S.O.B.
This man is poised to wipe you out, if the cap and trade bill passes
NATIONAL STRATEGY.
(a) In General- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the heads of such other relevant Federal agencies as the President may designate, shall submit to Congress a report setting forth a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory and other barriers to the commercial-scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration.
(b) Barriers- The report under this section shall—
(1) identify those regulatory, legal, and other gaps and barriers that could be addressed by a Federal agency using existing statutory authority, those, if any, that require Federal legislation, and those that would be best addressed at the State or regional level;
(2) identify regulatory implementation challenges, including those related to approval of State programs and delegation of authority for permitting; and
(3) recommend rulemakings, Federal legislation, or other actions that should be taken to further evaluate and address such barriers.
Could you please instruct us on how you plan to do that? If you had billions of dollars, perhaps you could purchase your own island paradise. Short of that, we are all serfs, no matter where you may choose to live. Ironically, it's looking increasingly likely that France and Germany are more free than the U.S.
Bet this puke has hardly ever ventured outside of an airconditioned building in his life.
There’s only one thing that can reverse this deadly trend: Money. Dinero. Moolah. Dollars. Hogs. Scoots. Dead presidents.
Lots and lots of it. Trillions. Bazillions.
For me. And Barry. And Nancy. And Barney. And Wacky-Markup.
Now. Forever.
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