Posted on 09/16/2009 10:46:39 AM PDT by mojito
Anyone who cares about the survival of our planet should start praying that Barack Obama gets his way on reforming US healthcare. That probably sounds hyperbolic, if not mildly deranged: even those who are adamant that 45 million uninsured Americans deserve basic medical cover would not claim that the future of the earth depends on it. But think again.
Next week, world leaders will attend the first UN summit dedicated entirely to climate change. Their aim will be to plunge a shot of adrenaline into stuttering efforts to draw up a new global agreement on carbon emissions. The plan is to replace the Kyoto treaty with a new one, to be agreed in Copenhagen in December. Trouble is, the prospects of getting a deal worthy of the name get bleaker every day.
Few deny that the world needs a new agreement. In the 12 years since Kyoto, we've emitted a whole lot more carbon – and gained a whole lot more knowledge of its dangers. The science is now clear that if we do not manage to keep the increase in the earth's temperature below 2C, we risk facing the effects of catastrophic climate change – with all the flooding, drought, mass migration and human suffering that it would entail. The experts tell us that the only way to stay below that 2C limit is for global emissions to peak in 2015 – and then start falling. In other words, we have set ourselves up at a nice corner table in the last chance saloon.
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“Anyone who cares about the survival of our planet should start praying that Barack Obama gets his way on reforming US healthcare”
I feel the need to remind him that even if every single human dies, the planet (earth) will still exist. It is not in immediate danger.
Okay maybe I’m a moron but how does Universal Health Care public option and globull warming climate change go together?
oh and DOOOOM
Easy. They’re both crap.
In the leftist mind they must merge to form one grand and lovely utopia.
They will join hands and sing Imagine: “Imagine there were no conservatives....”
... and global temperatures have gone DOWN which dispels any notion that anthropogenic global warming actually has any significant, let alone dangerous, impact on global climate ... all this despite the ecotard left's incompetent attempt to skew the collection data (H/T to Watts) for instance ... and through it all the Guardian remains pathetically ideologic ...
What a Goron.
Oh I don't know. Maybe the New York Slimes, The Washington ComPost, The Lost Angeles Times and 90% of the media in this country.
They need to pass this before winter hits. We've had a cooler than normal summer. An unusually cold winter will have people asking too many questions about "where is this global warming you speak of?"
Jonathan Freedland. You really don’t have to say much more than that. Yes, we have been emitting quite a bit more carbon since Kyoto. It’s called “exhaling.”
Ya know, P.T. Barum’s corpse has been grinning from ear-to-ear for a loooonnnnngggg time.
This idiot is one of the reasons why.
Just a bit, Jonathan...but we've come to expect it from the looney left.
In actuallity it is the other way around.
“Mildly”? Oh no it doesn’t sound mildly deranged it sounds completely around the bend nuts!
Yes, we have been emitting quite a bit more carbon since Kyoto. It’s called “exhaling.”
I’ve been excreting more carbon too, but that’s just cause
I burned the Pizza.
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