U.S.: Climate Change Climate Changing

OneWorld ^ | 11/21/06 | Haider Rizvi

[Always Right]

The only reasonable way we can significantly reduce emmissions is start building lots of nuclear plants.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It has long been accepted that the Earth has experienced climate cycles, most notably the 90,000-year Ice Age cycles. But in the past 20 years or so, modern science has discovered evidence that within those broad Ice Age cycles, the Earth also experiences 1,500-year warming-cooling cycles. The Earth has been in the Modern Warming portion of the current cycle since about 1850, following a Little Ice Age from about 1300 to 1850. It appears likely that warming will continue for some time into the future, perhaps 200 years or more, regardless of human activity.

The Physical Evidence of Earth's Unstoppable 1,500-Year Climate Cycle

[Paloma_55]

And Now, for the Traditional "Human Caused Global Warming" Slide

[Zap Brannigan]

"The 1997 Kyoto treaty requires as many as 35 industrialized countries to cut emissions by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The United States is not obligated to abide by the treaty because the George W. Bush administration does not recognize it.

The Bush administration rejected Kyoto in 2001 ..."

This is an outrageous distortion and a plain attempt to blame Bush. A principal reason the U.S. does not recognize Kyoto is because it was never ratified by the U.S. government under the CLINTON administration. Even Clinton understood that it would create an economic disater with no tangible benefit.

[ClaireSolt]

That's a good idea. Bring Barbara boxer front and center. Nasty and dumb. She's a perfect person to immediately neutralize unwarranted popularity of dems.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

In Nairobi, while delegates failed to set a deadline ....they did agree to continue their discussions in the future.

If they wait for 10 more years there is a pretty good chance that we'll be heading for a cooling period like the late 50s and 60s that was called a mini ice age.

[BigBobber]

The Bush administration rejected Kyoto in 2001,

The author is either ignorant or a lier. The president cannot approve treaties. The senate does that. And a sense of the senate vote in 1997, during the Clinton administration, rejected Kyoto 95-0.

[wita]

It was particularly the US Senate that voted not to ratify the treaty. The vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, and overwhelming in numbers against ratification. I do beleive it was also a democratic controlled senate. Babs is completely insane if she thinks the American people are going to miss the giant flip flop.

[yldstrk]

Bunch of hooey.

[Edgerunner]

"The recent elections have signaled a need to change direction in many areas including global warming,"

Typical over reach...All the wackos will say this for their own wacko agenda!

[cogitator]

And Now, for the Traditional "Human Caused Global Warming" Slide

Further evidence that you have no idea what this means and why it is significant for the understanding of current, anthropogenically forced, climate change.

[cogitator]

If they wait for 10 more years there is a pretty good chance that we'll be heading for a cooling period like the late 50s and 60s that was called a mini ice age.

The probability of this is lower than the probability of a continuation of the warming trend.

[CottShop]

Yup- the dems will be jumping on this huge cash cow called 'global warming'- I can see them now, all sitting around lickingtheir chops at the prospect of bilking billions from citizens and businesses over somethign that will have ZERO impact on a NATURALLY occuring phenomenom

Christian news and commentary at: sacredscoop.com ...

[Paloma_55]

Not all anthropogenically forced climate change is bad, is it?

[ML Capitalist]

The UK government has already attempted to profit from global warming. The Stern Review, a UK government sanctioned report concerning global warming advocates what IBD reported as stealth taxes. The review itself is jam packed with "tax-driven solutions" from adding a tax mechanism to gas prices, taxing SUV owners, adding a "pay-per-mile pollution tax on motorists, a value-added tax on flights to EU destinations and a new tax on inefficient large appliances and light bulbs." Socialism has been resurrected through global warming.

[Sloth]

The United States is not obligated to abide by the treaty because the George W. Bush administration does not recognize it.

Also, George W. Bush used his magical Rove-a-tron 2000 Time Machine to unseat Bill Clinton in 1996.

[cogitator]

Not all anthropogenically forced climate change is bad, is it?

Not all ice cream, candy, soft drinks, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and french fries are bad, right?

[cogitator]

over somethign that will have ZERO impact on a NATURALLY occuring phenomenom

The current warming trend likely has a significant anthropogenic forcing component.

[cogitator]

I think that the solution is technologically-driven, and should be motivated more from the energy sector (on the basis of economic and national security) than from the environmental sector.