Take Me Back Tuesday: GLOBAL WARMING CORRAL

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Po Monkey Lounge picked one part of a post I made about plausible reasons for reduced fall flights in the south Delta...Rather than allow his post about GLOBAL WARMING to hijack that thread, I have challenged him to a showdown here at the GLOBAL WARMING CORRAL, not to embarass, but to enlighten him and any other non-believers...6 shots to get us started...

BULLET 1: The NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES- which is the #1 scientific authority in the United States- said in June, 2005 that "The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nation's taking prompt action."

BULLET 2: The INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE Fourth Assessment in February, 2007: "Very High Confidence in Scientific Consensus"

BULLET 3: 11 states in the NE United States and 6 in the Western United States have started Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiatives that MANDATE reduced emissions of greenhouse gases within the next 5 years...THese states account for about 1/3 of the GNP of the US

BULLET 4: There is more CO2 in the our air than at any time in the last 2 MM years and possibly as far back as 30 MM years...BY definition, that is not a natural phenomena...It is the result of human emissions of fossil fuels as concluded by every credible scientist on the planet

BULLET 5: BP, Shell, American Electric Power, Wal-Mart, AES, Duke Energy, Constellation Energy, Alcoa, GE, Virgin Atlantic and many, many more companies are voluntarily reducing their CO2 emissions and encouraging the US government to adopt the Kyoto Protocol...

BULLET 6: Al Gore was been nominated for a NOBEL PRIZE because he was right...He learned about the linkage between climate change and CO2 emissions as an undergraduate at Yale and did something about it as a US Senator, as a Vice President and as an Ex-Vice President....He stood up for what he believed in and was right and for that I salute him.

BRING IT-

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Great comment MossyIsland- the science is overwhelming and the consequences are far worse in 2005 than the science predicted in 2000...The time to do something is now- before it gets any worse- and there is a lot all of us can do, including recycling yoru newspaper, cans and bottles, switching to energy efficient light bulbs, carpooling as much as possible, dont leave your truck running unless necessary, making sure the air pressure in your tires is right, setting your thermostat a little higher in the summer and a little lower in the winter, further insulate your house, etc...Note that most of this stuff is not only good for the environment but it was also save you MONEY!

Hunters are America's original conservationists and we ought to be out front on GW and CO2 instead of buying into the hype of a few oil companies- most of whom (even Exxon) are rapidly changing their tune.

Whether you believe the science or not, you can take this to bank:
The US Congress will soon enact MANDATORY GHG emissions limits...There might be some short term inconveniences but long term, this will make us a safer, healthier, more productive country.

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For a dissenting viewpoint from an expert on the topic, see the following article at the link below:


http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_492572.html

A key excerpt from the article:

The other thing that you are seeing going on is that they have switched from talking about global warming to talking about climate change. The reason for that is since 1998 the global temperature has gone down -- only marginally, but it has gone down. In the meantime, of course, CO2 has increased in the atmosphere and human production has increased. So you’ve got what Huxley called the great bane of science -- “a lovely hypothesis destroyed by an ugly fact.” So by switching to climate change, it allows them to point at any weather event -- whether it’s warming, cooling, hotter, dryer, wetter, windier, whatever -- and say it is due to humans. Of course, it’s absolutely rubbish.

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