Opinion 1.0
Fourteen days and counting... It is travesty for the media of the United States of America to avoid reporting anything on the explosive science story of the century, ClimateGate. Then, there's a bigger travesty, the Obama White House refusing to investigate ClimateGate. I guess it doesn't fit his narrative. How else will he pass "Crap & Tax." I don't know how NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and the BBC has the gall to call themselves "worthy news agencies." I just checked the forementioned news companies and not a word on ClimateGate. As sad as it sounds, this is where we are in this day and age. Selective news reporting to satisfy a political narrative. They have been supporting this ideology for years. I heard Al Gore, Jr. is at a retreat wondering how the AGW conspiracy unravelled. This ClimateGate story is going uber huge. It is unbelievably popular in the Blogesphere. Fox news and the net has brought this story into the forefront of news before the summit in Nopenhagen. ClimateDepot, Professor Patrick Daniels, Christopher Monckton and other scientists and skeptics have been chomping at the bit for years opposing Anthropogenic Global Warming. I'm sure the skeptics feel vindicated. They have been outcast for years and often have not been able to get research published because of the AGW advocates strong-arming the science magazine's editors not to print their material forgoing the "peer review process." Will the state run media incorporate any of the ClimateGate fraud during the Denmark debacle? Will they just keep running the same stories of " we are killing the planet and we must do something now." I'm taking bets! Gore has cancelled his speech in Copenhagen without reason. Fishy? On a different note, do you think Obama feels his empire or perceived empire is falling apart? Healthcare is still not agreeable, cap & trade is DOA now, politicians will run from this, conservatives are getting ready to put up a good fight against Immigration reform. "Nope & Chains" New Zealand has just defeated a climate change bill and many other countries are voicing skepticism concerning the scientific data supplied to the IPCC at the United Nations. This information was deemed the most accurate and a lot of countries and organizations utilized it for their causes. Now, everything has bee turned upside down with ClimateGate. In my humble opinion, I think Copenhagen should be postponed or cancelled until all investigations are completed. I don't think much will be accomplished now.
Phil Jones being reprimanded at St. Anglia University:
Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist Exclusive: World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster.
The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if next week's Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse.
James Hansen talks to Suzanne Goldenberg Link to this audio In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
"I would rather it not happen if people accept that as being the right track because it's a disaster track," said Hansen, who heads the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
"The whole approach is so fundamentally wrong that it is better to reassess the situation. If it is going to be the Kyoto-type thing then [people] will spend years trying to determine exactly what that means." He was speaking as progress towards a deal in Copenhagen received a boost today, with India revealing a target to curb its carbon emissions. All four of the major emitters – the US, China, EU and India – have now tabled offers on emissions, although the equally vexed issue of funding for developing nations to deal with global warming remains deadlocked.
Hansen, in repeated appearances before Congress beginning in 1989, has done more than any other scientist to educate politicians about the causes of global warming and to prod them into action to avoid its most catastrophic consequences. But he is vehemently opposed to the carbon market schemes – in which permits to pollute are bought and sold – which are seen by the EU and other governments as the most efficient way to cut emissions and move to a new clean energy economy.
Hansen is also fiercely critical of Barack Obama – and even Al Gore, who won a Nobel peace prize for his efforts to get the world to act on climate change – saying politicians have failed to meet what he regards as the moral challenge of our age.
In Hansen's view, dealing with climate change allows no room for the compromises that rule the world of elected politics. "This is analagous to the issue of slavery faced by Abraham Lincoln or the issue of Nazism faced by Winston Churchill," he said. "On those kind of issues you cannot compromise. You can't say let's reduce slavery, let's find a compromise and reduce it 50% or reduce it 40%."
He added: "We don't have a leader who is able to grasp it and say what is really needed. Instead we are trying to continue business as usual."
The understated Iowan's journey from climate scientist to activist accelerated in the last years of the Bush administration. Hansen, a reluctant public speaker, says he was forced into the public realm by the increasingly clear looming spectre of droughts, floods, famines and drowned cities indicated by the science.
That enormous body of scientific evidence has been put under a microscope by climate sceptics after last month's release online of hacked emails sent by respected researchers at the climate research unit of the University of East Anglia. Hansen admitted the controversy could shake public's trust, and called for an investigation. "All that stuff they are arguing about the data doesn't really change the analysis at all, but it does leave a very bad impression," he said.
The row reached Congress today, with Republicans accusing the researchers of engaging in "scientific fascism" and pressing the Obama administration's top science adviser, John Holdren, to condemn the email. Holdren, a climate scientist who wrote one of the emails in the UEA trove, said he was prepared to denounce any misuse of data by the scientists – if one is proved.
Hansen has emerged as a leading campaigner against the coal industry, which produces more greenhouse gas emissions than any other fuel source.
He has become a fixture at campus demonstrations and last summer was arrested at a protest against mountaintop mining in West Virginia, where he called the Obama government's policies "half-assed".
He has irked some environmentalists by espousing a direct carbon tax on fuel use. Some see that as a distraction from rallying support in Congress for cap-and-trade legislation that is on the table.
He is scathing of that approach. "This is analagous to the indulgences that the Catholic church sold in the middle ages. The bishops collected lots of money and the sinners got redemption. Both parties liked that arrangement despite its absurdity. That is exactly what's happening," he said. "We've got the developed countries who want to continue more or less business as usual and then these developing countries who want money and that is what they can get through offsets [sold through the carbon markets]."
For all Hansen's pessimism, he insists there is still hope. "It may be that we have already committed to a future sea level rise of a metre or even more but that doesn't mean that you give up.
"Because if you give up you could be talking about tens of metres. So I find it screwy that people say you passed a tipping point so it's too late. In that case what are you thinking: that we are going to abandon the planet? You want to minimise the damage."
• James Hansen's book Storms of My Grandchildren is published by Bloomsbury
Daft Statement of the day:
"Unlike some people, I never pardon anyone."
Mitt Romney
Kill Bill Vol. III:
Opposition to Senate Healthcare Bill: Call your Senators!
"We the people" must stop the Obamacare Proposals: I am formally asking (pleading) with you to muster up the initiative and enthusiasm to fight the healthcare bill that will emerge in the end of the year. First, there are 2 bills (proposals) that will somehow be merged into one bill. Liberals are adamant about some form of "Public Option." (Government Run Option) I think the democrats believe they can push this bill through while we are sleeping. The democrats have blocked many bills that would allow the final bill to be posted on the internet 72 hours prior to a vote. Why? you know why. We must oppose this more than we did over the summer. Let them know, we are not against healthcare reform, just not a total makeover. Call and email your representatives. I have emailed and called mine so many times, they are referring to me by my first name. Write an old fashioned letter, it has a lot of importance. Attend your local tea parties and townhalls to voice your opinions and make a overwhelming presence. Below, is a little list how you can get involved. It is our civic duty. "It is our Country."
http://www.congress.org/
http://www.joinpatientsfirst.com/
http://www.freedomworks.org/
http://www.resistnet.com/
http://www.teapartypatriots.com/
http://www.teaparty.org/
http://www.taxpayer.org/
http://www.taxpayer.net/
info@cmpi.org
http://www.fairtax.org/
http://www.conservativeamericansunited.org/
CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS! CALL YOUR SENATORS! EMAIL YOUR SENATORS!
Polls you can live by:
28% Strongly approve of President Obama's job performance.
40% Strongly disapprove.
Presidential Approval Rating Index: -12
46% Somewhat approve of President's job performance.
54% Somewhat disapprove
*Nineteen straight days in negative double digits.
Quote du jour:
"Nothing endures but change."
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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http://www.thehill.com/
http://www.politico.com/
http://www.quotationspage.com/
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