Americans Ready To Attack Global Warming »
Posted by: TimALoftis 1 year, 5 months agoAmericans understand global warming, they want solutions to climate change, and they're ready to act on their own, according to a national poll conducted for Yale University.
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production, with serious implications for just about every nation on Earth.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity.
"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
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KingOfTruth1 year, 5 months ago
If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases - all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
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agentX1 year, 5 months ago
Yeah, we led the way in Vietnam and Iraq, so this should be right up our alley- a new way to screw up the world.
As long as Bush Co is in charge, we can't even lead a pack of mules to water.
On the plus side, I like the idea of a pollution tax per mile. I think that would have an immediate (if not unpleasant) effect.
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IcCaRus1 year, 5 months ago
i fail to see what vietnam and iraq have to do with this. also, yeah, another tax, just what the american middle class needs. btw, you do realize that another gas tax will raise the price of EVERYTHING in america, right? all comsumer goods in this country get to the store shelves BY TRUCK, do you think the companies will absorb the cost of this idiotic tax? NO, YOU will not only pay the tax for the miles YOU drive, but the tax for the miles those trucks drive to bring products to store shelves as well...
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kctrixter1 year, 5 months ago
there are things that we can do, that weather or not you believe man has a place in what happens globally or not, just make economical sense.
http://science.netscape.com/story/2007/03/17/algae
let me know if you see a problem with this
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jdhatl1 year, 5 months ago
"get rid of the nut-cases"???
takes one to know one
How do you propose to "get rid" of them?
Oh yeah, and you're wrong. It is not a bunch of [expletive deleted], your sources have been corrupted. The Pentagon, Exxon/Mobil, and George Bush all think the undeniable warming is being made worse by human industrial practices. They all know how much money there is to be made by selling the world new, clean technological infrastructure. We're gonna have to replace everything eventually anyway, so what's the problem? Are you just that lazy? Or too caught up in being afraid of all those other things besides Global Warming about which you are doing your fair share of fear-mongering, and have been since at least the days of the John Birch Society.
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MacR1 year, 5 months ago
And I said it before. If we as the planet was all green never burned fossil fuels, we would still be facing a climate change. Stuff that into your pipe and smoke it.
Really I am for a fuel source that will produce more horse power than a fossil fuel burning will have. But let's make it clear. Climate change would still be goin on and you would not control it then like you can not now.
And the second we start to control the weather we are up the shiite creek without a paddle.
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nWoNET1 year, 5 months ago
world need work together for better life in earth like star terk.
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FatherWeebles1 year, 5 months ago
This is good news. America is the only country that has the funds and swaying power to kickstart a plan to stop global warming. Bring it on!
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airglide1 year, 5 months ago
I want a more efficient car. I want a cleaner environment. I want a heating system that uses half the fuel to do the same job in my house. If I have my wish list, I don't believe it will make any difference to global warming.
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cratvrider1 year, 5 months ago
personally i've been looking into wind power for my home in the counrty,trying to find any source of funding has been impossible.i beleive alternet fuel sources are becoming much more nessacary,fossil fuels dont help the environment & there sources are becoming limited
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Amazing11 year, 5 months ago
I don't think it really matters. Do what you can to live a more environmentally friendly life. You'll save money on your utility bills, help clean up the air and water supplies and that's not a bad thing. Why is it so awful to leave a softer footprint on the planet? It IS the only one we have.
Fingerpointing and blaming has no place in this discussion. Just do what you can to make it a better world. Shouldn't that just be common sense?
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THOMNH621 year, 5 months ago
humans cannot stop blobal warming, period. Our changes would have little to no effect. In fact by ruducing co2 we are starving the plants that need up to 1000ppm and we now only have about 300. We are doing more harm than good
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IcCaRus1 year, 5 months ago
i think its EXTREMELY funny that you are trying bash Yale as not credible, or as some lying bastion of liberalism....
um, i have a question billybob, where do think your hero Duh-bya went to college?
heres a hint:
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the right did that in the elections too, tried to make Kerry look like some "eastern alitist" because he went to .........
Yale! hahahahahah
why is it that Kerry is an elitist because he went to Yale, but Duh-bya (who went there too) isnt?
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ningyo1 year, 5 months ago
and we will need large new govt agencies and taxes to set up this death match with the earth--just the latest money grab from the socialist big govt left--who really could care less if your children have clean air--as long as they can buy enough carbon credits to live in our unpolouted neighborhoods--and fly over you in our carbon credited private jets--and look down and say .. how compassionate are we..we care about all those little people down there..im just glad i dont have to live in all that dirt--stewardess..more champagne
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IcCaRus1 year, 5 months ago
i, for one, am glad that the american people are not waiting for our administration, which is both intellectually challenged AND integrity challenged to do something about this problem.
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