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Climate-change action needs a Pearl Harbor moment
The Globe and Mail ^ | Dec. 21, 2009 9:06PM EST | Eric Reguly

Posted on 12/22/2009 10:22:04 AM PST by StACase

Copenhagen's dud status shows that perverse disaster psychology is alive and well – no disaster meant no action. That's unlikely to change until the climate change story has its Pearl Harbor moment, an event so catastrophic, so violent, that it instantly mobilizes entire countries. By then, of course, it may be too late.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
Did Michael Crichton have it right or what?
1 posted on 12/22/2009 10:22:08 AM PST by StACase
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To: StACase
They already tried linking the 2004 killer tsunami with global warming. If a quarter million killed and a very tenative connection aren't enough, what more do they want?
2 posted on 12/22/2009 10:27:07 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Gore is the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. He rides an icy horse bringing cold wherever he goes.)
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To: StACase; Delacon; SteamShovel; SolitaryMan; grey_whiskers; IrishCatholic; Darnright; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 12/22/2009 10:27:16 AM PST by steelyourfaith (This space for rent.)
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To: StACase

I think we had the “Pearl Harbor” moment - the Anglia email release finally woke up critics and put them on a “war footing”. Only in this case we acted before we lost a significant part of our fleet. It was the “kamikaze alarmists” who ended up in disarray.

It’s not over, either, but we’re paying attention now, aren’t we.


4 posted on 12/22/2009 10:29:34 AM PST by AbeKrieger (Islam is a trojan horse designed to infiltrate and bring down Western civilization.)
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To: StACase
Did Michael Crichton have it right or what?

I was just thinking that the other day when I heard a representative from a South Pacific island say something about suing industrial countries to save his land.

5 posted on 12/22/2009 10:35:31 AM PST by mnehring
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To: KarlInOhio
tried linking the 2004 killer tsunami with global warming

Yeah, and the BS they were trying to peddle us here in FL back five years ago in 2004. That this once in a life time battering of Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, would now be the norm thanks to Global Warming. The funny thing is you actually had folks around here buying that crap.

6 posted on 12/22/2009 10:36:28 AM PST by Sax
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To: StACase

which climate crisis does he want to avoid?

the coming ice age that in the early ‘70s they were sure was going to happen... or the meltdown they’re now sure will happen.

it’s not about global warming...it’s about global governance.

if it were truely about global warming, there would be no such thing as a carbon credit.

a carbon credit does NOTHING to reduce carbon output...in fact, all the effort surrounding carbon credits INCREASES carbon output


7 posted on 12/22/2009 10:42:06 AM PST by mreerm
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“which climate crisis does he want to avoid?”

The problem, of course, is that proponents keep trying to generate a “Pearl Harbor” moment and keep falling flat on their faces. Their assertions don’t carry a lot of credibility any more.


8 posted on 12/22/2009 11:02:27 AM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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To: StACase
That's unlikely to change until the climate change story has its Pearl Harbor moment, an event so catastrophic, so violent, that it instantly mobilizes entire countries

It was called Katrina. And Al Gore used as the centerpiece of his Oscar-winning film the thesis that the number of hurricanes in subsequent years would shatter previous records. Of course the opposite happened, proving that future such "Pearl Harbor events" will also fail to prop up the AGW theory. Because random events prove nothing, especially when the preponderance of evidence is overwhelmingly stacked against this fraud.

9 posted on 12/22/2009 11:16:45 AM PST by montag813
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To: StACase

9-11 was the Pearl Harbor moment that Cheney wanted so the New World Order could accelerate their plans for us. Nobody realized that 9-11 was a planned event at the time-though many had their suspicions with the WTC implosions.

Thank God that the emails and the excellent work done by many (Singer, Monckton, email whistle blower, etc.), along with God’s marvelous design of the universe, have made a climate Pearl Harbor a distant concern and of no relevance. The deceit has been revealed. However, the evil NWO types could still attempt the disasters written about in Crichton’s prescient “State of Fear.” It’s just that now we know the truth ahead of time. The real man-made disasters to avoid are being hatched daily by the Dems in D.C.


10 posted on 12/22/2009 11:21:28 AM PST by enviros_kill (Counter the culture and the oppression of regression)
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B I N G O !

Isn't it interesting that the lefties haven't proposed that we regulate fossil fuels at the source. They don't want to limit how much coal we dig out of the ground or how much oil or gas we pump from the wells. Why do you suppose that is?

Could it possibly have to do with the fact that if something isn't produced, it can't be taxed?

11 posted on 12/22/2009 11:51:27 AM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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Pearl Harbor moment, an event so catastrophic, so violent, that it instantly mobilizes entire countries

Al Gore and Michael Moore hugging and kissing on stage.

12 posted on 12/22/2009 5:14:34 PM PST by palmer (Cooperating with Obama = helping him extend the depression and implement socialism.)
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That’s disgusting!


13 posted on 12/22/2009 6:28:30 PM PST by StACase (Global Warming is CRAP!)
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