How Writers Created the Environmental Movement
Q&A with environmentalist Bill MicKibben, author of a new anthology
Reader Comments
Climate:Local or Global
Whether you choose to believe in Science or one of the extant Gods, or disbelieve in either or both, believe your own eyes and ears. Can you honestly say the weather (a local, daily subset of climate) isnt a little screwy? Maybe the climate is changing, maybe it's just a change in the weather. Of course, we can hardly trust our own eyes and ears and trusting the media is an oxymoron if not absurd but if you have gone outdoors during the last 50 years or tapped into the media for the last 25, can you honestly say it's not changing.
Are you preparing for the change?
Are you ready for the changes that are coming whether manmade or cyclical variations.
Why Argue?
Bush or Gore-you make your own choice and I'll make mine. Don't try to convince me. I don't want to convince you.
We all have more important things to do.
Does US News have web editors?
Nice work, Patrick from VA. Seriously do all you psychos live together or is it all just one person under different names? I'm not sure if these "concerns" of yours are worth responding to individually, but in terms of the IPCC report you flagrantly made up, let me quote from their actual real report (http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html):
"Warming of the climate system is unequivocal."
"Most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic (human) greenhouse gas concentrations."
This is a reference to carbon (measured in parts per million, PPM) that traps heat in our atmosphere...as the IPCC concludes:
"Global atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased markedly as a result of human activities since 1750."
Subsidies for corn growers who produce ethanol, which you somehow blame on people like McKibben who starkely oppose ethanol production, are a policy of the Bush administration. Public money sent straight to the largest agrobusiness corporations that have driven small farmers off their land since the great depress and now have stopped growing food in favor of govt-subsidized fake biofuel. Well done on the fact check.
So this is who to blame...
So US News has found the guy responsible for the fraud that is "global warming."
Growing evidence suggests that the earth is NOT warming, and hasn't been for a decade.
Even the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC expects a cooler planet until 2015 and new satellite research says it could be 2030.
Bottom line: we continue to make trillion-dollar public policy to prevent something that isn't happening. the result: the poorest of the poor are rioting for food while we pump their rice and tortillas into our gas tanks.
So everyone give Bill a round of applause.
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