UN Calls on Countries to Boost Emission Pledges

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GO GREEN!...
!. Nuclear is about as green as it gets. Start building plants now! Find a nice deep cave. Maybe the same place where we used to test nuclear bombs under ground - can't do much harm there!
2. Wind farms and solar produce very little energy for the land (ecosystem) consumed by them. Windmills are nothing more than giant, whirling scarecrows, and as such, cause animals to flee the area.
3. Increase off shore drilling. Studies prove that drilling offshore actually reduces the amount of "natural seepage" from undersea fissures. Aprox. 1700 barrels of oil seeps from the seabed of North America daily - which is 150 times the amount lost through extraction and transport. Furthermore, if off shore drilling is curtailed then the amount of natural seepage would more than double! In the last 25 years less than 0.001% of oil extracted in U.S. Waters has been spilled. (Source, National Academy of Science, U.C. Santa Barbara and U.S. Dept. of Interior.)
4. Build (don't tear down) hydroelectric dams. They are a great source of renewable energy. If you're worried about "native fishies" than hire a limo driver to transport them above the damn so they can spawn there - or maybe build them a spawning ground somewhere else. They go back to where they were born - so give them a new homeland below the damn.
5. Get the enviro-regs out of the way of clean coal and shale oil.
6. Put a cork in Obama's and Gore's mouth - that should help with global warming.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 2:35PM February 24, 2010

The UN and Al Gore should pay for the cost of reducing emissions; Obama doesn't have the authority to obligate the American Gov't and American Citizens to pay for the fantasy that Sciolist Al Gore came up with. The rest of the world expects the US to fund all this crap which will benefit the third world countries who were too dumb to even be in the Twenty-First Century. Looking at these countries, we get the picture of people with their hands out to the US. Our idiot President just doesn't get it, or just doesn't care what he does to the American Economy. Our system of checks and balances better start working PDQ to stop this loose cannon from causing more trouble for us.

Robert L. Matarainen of NY 1:22AM February 24, 2010