Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/22/2010 4:18:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Americans Go Green For Earth Day WASHINGTON (CBS) ―
Pollution before the first Earth Day was not only visible, it was in your face: Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. An oil spill fouled 30 miles of Southern California beaches. And thick smog choked many cities' skies.
Not anymore.
On Thursday, 40 years after that first Earth Day in 1970, smog levels nationwide have dropped by about a quarter, and lead levels in the air are down more than 90 percent. Formerly fetid lakes and burning rivers are now open to swimmers.
The challenges to the planet today are largely invisible — and therefore tougher to tackle.
"To suggest that we've made progress is not to say the problem is over," said William Ruckelshaus, who in 1970 became the first head of the Environmental Protection Agency. "What we've done is shift from the very visible kinds of issues to those that are a lot more subtle today."
Issues such as climate change are less obvious to the naked eye. Since the first Earth Day, carbon dioxide levels in the air have increased by 19 percent, pushing the average annual world temperature up about 1 degree Fahrenheit, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"We've cleaned up what you can see and left everything else in limbo," said Kathleen Rogers, president of the Earth Day Network.
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My Dear Comrade Rogers:
Until we CAN SEE it ... STFU and GTFA
Green is the new RED.
Only commies celebrate Lenin’s Birthday.
It April 22nd. The temperature this morning here in Minneapolis MN is 37 degrees Fahrenheit or 3 degrees Celsius.
Global Warming my....
“Green is the new red, white and blue!” Congressman Paul Hodes, C-New Hampshire; from 2008 campaign literature.
Let us all blow out the candle now
Wait till these Lenin worshipers get a load of the global cooling that Eyjafjallajokull will cause....they’ll wish they had bought that big Suburban to help move temperatures up.
I'll go dump some motor oil down the storm sewer to celebrate.
............... 
And for good measure I'll empty my ash trays in the street.
I feel like today should be a high-carbon day!
Celebrate CO2 - it’s for the plant’s children!!
My grass looks pretty darned green right now. And here I thought it was due to the fertilizer I’ve been using. Oh, well. Nice to know it was actually due to smog and lead levels in the air.
Now I can save some money by not fertilizing any longer...
All this clean air is increasing global warming. Ironic, or what? Those poor shlubs on the left just can’t get it right...
Yes, Earth Day! The one day a year where I stoke up the ol’ coal burner, burn my garbage, run all the Diesel motors and barbeque pounds of beek & pork in celebration.
Not me... I will burn up as much fuel as possible... I will be the antigore.
LLS
I've never barbecued beek before ... does it taste like chicken?
Anyone who is uptight about the earth and fails to commit suicide today, is a Rotten SOB!
That belongs on a bumper sticker.
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I think I’ll set fire to an old tire...
I can proudly say I know of no one who’s celebrating ‘Earth Day’.
The correct, experimentally-supported figure for a 19% change in CO2 is about 0.18 Fahrenheit or 0.1 degree Centigrade.
The NOAA are apparently relying on the discredited high-feedback IPCC models - the ones that predict a 3 degree C change per doubling of CO2. I say 'discredited' because these models predict the existence of a ~0.8 degree C hot spot in the troposphere. This hot spot is not observed: and its existence is completely vital to the high-feedback IPCC models.
The following graphs show first what the IPCC models predict, and then what the reality is:
Real world climate models created by scientists working without an agenda, such as Richard S. Lindzen - the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT, predict that a doubling of CO2 raises temperature by 0.5 degrees C. This is in stark contrast to the IPCC models which predict 3 degrees C per CO2 doubling - and which absolutely rely on the existence of a tropospheric hot spot that is not observed.
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