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Monday 7th December, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency in the US has ruled that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public safety.
The Environmental Protection Agency in the US has ruled that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public safety.

The agency has announced the gases must be regulated if health risks are to be minimised.

The "endangerment" finding may now lead to court dictated regulations on carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released from power plants, factories and automobiles under the federal Clean Air Act.

New rules will mean a ramping up of the manufacture of more fuel-efficient vehicles and also require industrial plants to install costly new equipment or switch to other forms of energy.

Energy prices for many Americans will probably rise substantially.

The EPA has said the evidence of health risks comes from compelling evidence collated by climate scientists.

EPA officials said last April that it viewed heat-trapping pollution as a threat to public health and welfare.

At the time, they took public comment on what was a complete reversal from the Bush administration, which had refused to issue the finding.

The Environmental Protection Agency findings have stimulated climate-control proponents at the international conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It has signalled the the Obama administration will push ahead for significant controls in the US.
 

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Mourning Glory
12-08-09, 12:19 AM

New anti-pollution rules will become law in US

The Rise and Fall of the U.S under the bone headed control of the mighty Obamanator. How will he Control the Volcano pullution that’s being pumped into the atmosphere?

yukon
12-08-09, 01:08 AM

What a bunch of MORONS!!!!!!!

Energy prices for many Americans will probably rise substantially.

Rising unemployment, an imploding economy and now higher energy costs? What bonehead’s bright idea is this? Is there anyone with a shred of common sense in the district of criminals? Are they all head-in-the-ass stupid?

Ashie
12-08-09, 01:30 AM

If this is signed we all screw

We should all be on the lookout for our new climate tax on our paychecks next year.

justincase
12-08-09, 01:40 AM

We need to stop the deterioration of the US economy,that should be the first priority of the country.Al Gore has his personal passenger jet plane and limo that is high finance by his company
who fly around the states and the world promoting climate change in which he gain billions of dollars from climate control equiptments.The summit is not a well justified conference because the data they use is very unqualified and not well investigated by the scientist. It is a big B.S.Somebody will benefits on these and that include Al Gore.

Free Mind
12-08-09, 01:51 AM

Why CO2?

Why is co2 included?
Did any of these climate scientists ever look at a greenhouse and see how plants benefit from higher co2 levels.
What about water vapor?

Anonymous
12-08-09, 05:06 AM

HEY YOU

ya you...... you live next door to a power station and see how you feel about it ;)
Of cause of them gases are good for you aint they... NOT :P

` ~galljdaj+
12-08-09, 07:12 AM

After 30 and 8 the church bells are making noise!!

Now that is the Record of the lil messianic boys and girls that supported Todays Conditions! Global Warming the Making of High Unemployment, No cares about Pollutions, No cares about Neighbors!

But Today less than one year into an administration that is different and accepting the facts of repairs are necessary, the lil cowardly supporters that helped create the unnescessary dammages and pollutions are clanging the lil heads like 'church bells'!

If they and their situtations were not so critical, it would be a great joke! Irony at the highest level! But the rising seas of their war pollutions, the medical expense of the war injuries mounting into the trillions of Tax Dollars, the jobs gone forever!

We could all laugh at them! But those of us that have seen all their lies before know that they are just lies and a 'invoice' or price, that no matter, will be paid. More will people will die, not by wars at first, but drowning, storm, heat, and freezings before the wars start again! This next time for foods!

The 30 and 8 club of messianics are lil religious bells of the republican party! Another gift of wonderful ronnie to the World! The gift that keeps on giving...

Pontotoc Bill
12-08-09, 06:14 PM

` ~galljdaj+;172710:
Now that is the Record of the lil messianic boys and girls that supported Todays Conditions! Global Warming the Making of High Unemployment, No cares about Pollutions, No cares about Neighbors!

But Today less than one year into an administration that is different and accepting the facts of repairs are necessary, the lil cowardly supporters that helped create the unnescessary dammages and pollutions are clanging the lil heads like 'church bells'!

If they and their situtations were not so critical, it would be a great joke! Irony at the highest level! But the rising seas of their war pollutions, the medical expense of the war injuries mounting into the trillions of Tax Dollars, the jobs gone forever!

We could all laugh at them! But those of us that have seen all their lies before know that they are just lies and a 'invoice' or price, that no matter, will be paid. More will people will die, not by wars at first, but drowning, storm, heat, and freezings before the wars start again! This next time for foods!

The 30 and 8 club of messianics are lil religious bells of the republican party! Another gift of wonderful ronnie to the World! The gift that keeps on giving...



Okay, girlyboyjihad, prove the unnescessary damage and pollution that you claim in your post.

Which ones are you talking about? Use real science to verify the data, something that the Goreacle does not do.

Until then, do not reply with garbage, propaganda, inane comments, or insipid attacks. ANSWER THIS QUESTION FOR ONCE!

First Strike
12-08-09, 09:02 AM

How will he Control the Volcano

There is no need to control the volcano, it is the people that they want under their thumb.

To Ashie, what are you saying, we are already paying that tax.

To galjadaj, you never say anything intelligent, just repeat your very special brand of muslim-comunist propaganda. do you even know that the two ideas are tolally incompatible?
But please keep on writing, you are truly ammusing.

Anonymous
12-08-09, 09:28 AM

If ever a case of stooge.

Sir Ron
12-08-09, 09:31 AM

My wife & her friends all smoke, they smoke in the house like a Saturday night poker game. Sadly, pollution begins in my home...going to work is actually a break.

kawahchan
12-08-09, 10:29 AM

NASA TV Channel on Digital 32.4 in N. California's Bay Area

(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential / Climate Change bill : Before the 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House, we want to prepare a simulation laboratory on Texas A&M’s university campuses (either US ROTC at Bryan or Commerce, Texas) to experiment the Digital Physics and Space Sciences. We will be glad if Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama can permit NASA and university to receive ALL the Japanese Satellite “Gosat” (or Japanese name “IBUKI”) sent data of Earth’s atmosphere contained the greenhouse gases of Carbon Dioxide CO2 and Methane (CH4) and others. So that we can use a glass-lab on university campus to use chemical reaction to cleansing the CO2 cloud that is simulate to the space’s large and thick CO2 cloud in space, writing all the preparatory computer software to function the Digital Physics' hardware before the 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE administration will give order to NASA to send rocket to carry chemical to spray over the space’s CO2 cloud. We hope Japanese Satellite “Gosat” will display on our NASA TV Channel (Bay Area Digital 32.4) daily, so everybody can receive the measurement data from “Gosat” other than Japan only.

* (R) 2010 CARLETON S. FIORINA (Carly) for 2010 US Senator of California.

bullnose
12-08-09, 10:32 AM

CO2, another gas tax

Obama and his czars put out toxic vapors with a very dangerous sound pattern, socialism for you money and power for us.

nregistered
12-08-09, 10:51 AM

How the media has bathed us in global warming lies.

Talk about conspiracy theories being the truth!



From the American...Thinker.


Science magazine has been stewing so long in the global warming bouillabaisse that its very brains are beginning to smoke. That may be because its august editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy (until last year) was a dedicated warm-monger. Science is the flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the political lobby for Big Science in Washington, D.C. The editor-in-chief of Science is like the Queen of England: It’s the closest thing to God in the church hierarchy. Everybody kisses your butt, and all you have to do is wave your hand to the cheering peasantry from your golden coach.

Try a Google search for “Donald Kennedy AND global warming” and you get almost six million hits. Search for “global warming” in Science magazine itself, and you get 2,792 citations — almost as many as you get for “increased science funding."

Here are some Science magazine headlines in the last several years, a period when we know that atmospheric temperatures were flat or declining. As MIT Professor of Meteorology Richard S. Lindzen just wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “Claims that climate change is accelerating are bizarre." The unfortunate tendency of the atmosphere to stop warming is, of course, why Phil Jones and the CRUdocrats were trying to “fix” the data in their infamous e-mail exchanges.

During this time, Science magazine published thousands of references to global warming, including headlines like:

CLIMATE CHANGE: Taming the Angry Beast

Ken Caldeira

Science, 17 October 2008 322: 376-377 (in Books) ...What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How... (human) activities have triggered the possibility of catastrophic climate change, how we have come to recognize the threat.


CLIMATE CHANGE: IPCC Report Lays Out Options for Taming Greenhouse Gases

John Bohannon

Science, 11 May 2007 316: 812-814


CLIMATE CHANGE: Global Warming Is Changing the World

Richard A. Kerr

Science, 13 April 2007 316: 188-190


How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

Gerald A. Meehl, Warren M. Washington, William D. Collins, Julie M. Arblaster, Aixue Hu, Lawrence E. Buja, Warren G. Strand, and Haiyan Teng

Science, 18 March 2005 307: 1769-1772


Global Warming and the Next Ice Age

Andrew J. Weaver and Claude Hillaire-Marcel

Science, 16 April 2004 304: 400-402


Et cetera, ad nauseam. It’s not a pretty sight.

Things only get worse when we look at the Eurekalert site, which is also run by the AAAS. Eurekalert presents an endless flow of press releases from universities that make billions from federal grants. This is where our pop media get their scientific news.

Here are some search results:

Global Warming: 2,500 hits

Climate Change: 5,140 hits

CO2 Global Warming: 2,498 hits

Anthropogenic: 338 hits

Catastrophic: 1,213 hits

Apparently, a lot of PR guys and gals were mining this little vein of gold. Remember Goebbels' slogan that “a Big Lie repeated often enough becomes the truth”? This is the Big Lie Repetition Machine. All your average journalist has to do is go to Eurekalert, search for “catastrophic” or “global warming," and copy the latest headline. Since the media are firing human “journalists” these days, they might as well get a computer program to do it.

It was Donald Kennedy who initiated the Science magazine State of the Planet issues to drive home the Global Warming meme. In an editorial in the 6 January 2006 issue of Science, he wrote, “The consequences of the past century’s temperature increase are becoming dramatically apparent in the increased frequency of extreme weather events ..."

The only trouble: It wasn’t true.

As skeptic Roger Pielke, Jr. wrote in a letter to Science that somehow passed the censors:

Over recent decades, the IPCC found no long-term global trends in extratropical cyclones (i.e., winter storms), in “droughts or wet spells," or in"tornados, hail, and other severe weather”... A recent study by the International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution Group concluded that it was unable to detect an anthropogenic signal in global precipitation. (Science, June 9, 2005, Letters)


But Mr. Kennedy’s mind was made up, and mere facts could not change it. In his editorial on The Breakthrough of the Year for 2005, Kennedy wrote:

An especially significant runner-up (to the Breakthrough of the Year for 2005) was climate change. 650,000-year-old ice cores from Antarctica give a continuous record of correlations between atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane and the temperature changes imposed by glacial cycles. New information put to rest the idea, popular with those skeptical about global warming, that satellite measurements, in contrast to ground measurements, showed cooling. One by one, holes in the global warming case are being filled. Government actions should follow; of that, I’ll say more in the first Science issue of the new year. (http://www.sciencemag.org/ Science, Vol. 310, 23 December 2005)


So guess who was instrumental in getting Donald Kennedy appointed to that plum job at Science magazine? Yes, it was our old friend Paul Ehrlich, the author of The Population Bomb of 1968 — the one that sputtered frighteningly for decades but never went off. It was Paul Ehrlich who wrote the major puff piece for Donald Kennedy, introducing him as editor-in-chief of Science mag, the most powerful job in American science. (See http://www.sciencemag.org.)

Are you beginning to suspect a setup? Uh-huh...

I know a liberal who fell for The Population Bomb three decades ago and still believes it today. Liberals never have to change their minds, especially about facts. Certainly Ehrlich never changed his mind, and when his predictions about planetary doom failed, he didn’t come to the obvious conclusion that I must have been wrong. He just added more epicycles to his pleasingly complicated picture of the climate. That little sentence — “I must be wrong” — is the most important one in the entire vocabulary of honest scientists, of whom there are still a few lonely souls wandering over the blasted heath of Big Academia.

It seems that Ehrlich and Kennedy are good buds. Neither of them are scientists — but they do play them on TV, in the media and at Stanford.

Donald Kennedy was Commissioner of the FDA for Jimmy Carter in the seventies, and he hasn’t stepped into a lab since that time as far as I can tell from his publications — none are based on empirical evidence. All he writes are editorials. Instead, Professor Kennedy returned to being head of Biology at Stanford University.

If you look up Kennedy’s bio on Wikipedia, you’ll see it’s been airbrushed in Stalinist fashion — it’s only a few short paragraphs, with a big notice that Wikipedia does not allow disputed material to appear about living persons. That suggests that somebody wanted to cite some critical facts, but Professor Kennedy objected. I wonder why.

One likely reason is the infamous Stanford University Overhead Scandal. “Overhead” is what universities charge the government over and above the cost of supporting research: In the evil corporate world, it’s called “profit margin." Of course, universities would never think about making profits, which is why their tuitions and overhead charges to the Feds have been going up and up and up. Barred from making profits, all they do is raise their salaries and pensions and pad their expense accounts. They’re in bed with a monopoly — the federal science bureaucracy — so they charge monopoly prices.

Well, Donald Kennedy as President of Stanford was caught dipping a little too deeply into the honey pot — some business about seven-thousand-dollar bed sheets for the presidential residence and overbilling the Office of Naval Research two hundred million dollars. Small stuff. But the U.S. Congress took notice and called Donald Kennedy on the carpet. Mr. Kennedy defended every penny of his charges and resigned. That’s when his good friends like Mr. Ehrlich got him his job at Science mag.

Everything about Science now smells fishy. The scientific blog world should be searching through journal websites — Nature, Scientific American, The Lancet, National Geographic, the lot — to see how deeply they are quagmired in the honey pot of global warming. They all have websites with search engines. Public exposure may help them to clean out that pervasive stink of rotten fish.

The decay goes far beyond the CRUddites in Britain; it’s all over the world among the machine politicians of science. All of them knew what was going on with the biggest science scam in history because it should be obvious to a child of six. Undergraduates in calculus classes learn that nonlinear dynamical systems are impossible to ****yze. Introductory physics classes learn there is no solution to the three-body problem, and the atmosphere is a lot more complicated than just three asteroids cycling around each other in space. Metereologist Edward Lorenz rose to fame in science by dramatizing the nature of chaotical systems — physical systems that cannot be predicted from their initial conditions. The weather is one of the best examples, but earth sciences and biology are full of them. So no sane scientist or mathematician could have believed the global warming scam. If any of them say they believe it today, he is either lying or incompetent.

Global warming is like political correctness: everybody knows it’s a lie, but nobody is allowed to say it in public.

This is a sad time for decent science.

But on the other hand, it’s springtime for fraudocrats.

` ~galljdaj+
12-08-09, 04:53 PM

Reading the Posts above, and, beyond...

...its clear there are folks that want to persue an attack on political figures of the other side. Political attacks of 'wrong doing' of the other side while for so so many years they have been blind dumb and deaf to their own side of the street. The ability to find the sliver in their opponents, but messianic about their beams!

So, that said, what to do about the Problems Our World IS Encountering? Are there things we can do? Or are we simply incapable? Do we want to try? OR LAY BACK AND JUST STEAL MAKE MERRY,BECAUSE WE HAVE PLENTY OF BOMBS?

Well, some folks in Our Hemisphere are providing leadership via example, and that example is the source of my above critique of the lazy agenda boys of messianics. Am I too rough on their incompetences? I don’t think so, in that in five or so years not a single post by them in resolution to any problem that is based on both sides winning. Every post is adversarial to antagonistic, and devoid of what follows in the attached example/Article:

IF there is one acronym that possesses an anticipatory symbolic responsibility it is that which defines the Bolivarian Alternative of the Peoples of Our America. The first light before the dawn, the ALBA ('dawn' in Spanish) is, in political terms, the launch of a long-dreamed of hope: continental integration on the bases of independence, cooperation and the full community of identities.

One of its pillars is the ALBA Cultural Fund, whose general coordinator is Cuban Ismael González, a psychologist by training and with vast experience in managing cultural institutions.

'It was tremendously encouraging to observe, for those of us who believe that one of the premises of integration is to know and recognize each other, how, when Fidel and Chávez signed the initial ALBA constitutional agreement on December 14, 2004 in Havana, two leaders predicted that culture would have a very important role in the materialization of this new coordination authority,' he told Granma.

'This is not just a conceptual consideration,' he specified, 'but a practical plan, given that it is formulated on the basis of encouraging, through concrete actions, the creation and circulation of cultural production in a way that socially promotes the most authentic values of the peoples of the region. All of this is in keeping with the strategy of empowering the culture of emancipation and counteracting the effects of the hegemony exercised by transnationals and the circuits of the so-called entertainment industry in detriment to the cultural diversity of what Martí called Our America.'

González explained that although the Cultural Fund is still in the process of organization, tremendous progress has been made over the past five years: 'There was a notable impulse,' he commented, 'which took place in the Cuban capital in 2006 when, within the framework of the Havana Book Fair, Chávez and Fidel signed the agreement for the creation of the ALBA Cultural Fund; less than one year later, that started to come into effect. It is an indispensable instrument for encouraging the production and financing of programs.'

'In 2007,' recalled González, 'the ALBA culture ministers met for the first time, at a conference that was also attended by representatives of other countries which had not signed up to joined the Alliance at that time, but who essentially shared our ideas in the field of culture. Those attending the conference reached the conclusion that it was necessary to emphasize the interweaving of policies in order to define a strategic program, to be reviewed every three years, and which was approved at the Summit of ALBA heads of state held in Caracas one year later. That summit defined the resources mobilized to comply with the aims of the ALBA Cultural Fund and the role that the nascent Bank of ALBA would assume with respect to financing. But perhaps the most important conclusion reached was the full comprehension that in the field of culture, the ALBA could and would have to expand its reach throughout the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, given that the communicating vessels at a spiritual level are many and varied and expectations and needs are great.'

Currently, as part of this grannacional (grand-national) project, 50 different projects are underway in five strategic areas: promoting creativity, the distribution and diffusion of art and literature; the organization of alternative agents and exponents for the development of cultural movements and industries; arts education and human resources training; recognized activities that favor the visibility of writers and artists through awards and competitions that acknowledge creative talent and ability; and the sponsorship of festivals and meetings.

For Cuban Deputy Culture Minister Fernando Rojas, this integrating initiative has not only been responsibly adopted by the island’s authorities and institutions, but also by our intellectuals and artists and is now beginning to be reflected in the interest of the public.

'This latter initiative has been witnessed in Havana since last summer,' he explained, 'when, prior to its official inauguration this December, the Casa de ALBA – on Linea and D Streets in Vedado – has hosted book launches, concerts, theater performances, poetry workshops, and conferences attended by hundreds of people who are beginning to identify the character of the institution.'

'Writers and readers,' he confirmed 'have appraised a program like that of the ALBA Publishing Fund as extremely promising. Paradigmatic works by Cuban authors have been some of the first titles published. Together with a classic such as Martí’s The Golden Age, other titles in the catalogue are Todo Calibán, by Roberto Fernández Retamar, and Bolívar: pensamiento precursor del antimperialismo, by Francisco Pividal.'

Referring to the reasons that are animating the Cuban cultural movement to sustain the principles of ALBA, Rojas underlined the very essence of a proposal that 'puts spiritual values before profit' and is based on 'the idea of sharing our heritage, our current activities and our search for new ideas.'

'What is also revealing,' he emphasized, 'is the idea of considering Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole, because there hasn’t always been a perception of how much the islands where languages other than Spanish are spoken enrich us. The same could be said of the attention liven to indigenous peoples in the shared projects.'

Both González and Rojas highlighted that the Alliance Summit taking place in Havana will be an opportune scenario for the 2009 ALBA Arts and Literature Awards to be presented to those who merit them: Brazilian theologian and writer Frei Betto and Argentine artist León Ferrari.


Comments: I believe its time to make those that would divide Peoples and create the kinds of evil demonstrated by so called capitalists that participate in adversarial activities for far more than their 'shares' to be made outcasts! Removed from the 'tribes'! We are facing a World wide crisis in the type demonstrated by storm Katrina and others. The rising oceans need only to be observed to know the truth of it happening. The same is true of the Glacier Ice. It only needs to be observed to understand the Problems coming!

To let these gross theives deter us from even 'trying' is unthinkable to me! It reminds me of the day we open the gates and saw the victims! What would the world be like today had we just shut the gates back up and said its a fraud!

UNTHINKABLE! to do!

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Pontotoc Bill
12-08-09, 06:17 PM

` ~galljdaj+;172789:
...its clear there are folks that want to persue an attack on political figures of the other side. Political attacks of 'wrong doing' of the other side while for so so many years they have been blind dumb and deaf to their own side of the street. The ability to find the sliver in their opponents, but messianic about their beams!

— SNIP —

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What is with the use of a Commie rag, girlyboyjihad? Still trying to satisfy your Cuban master?

The only people with messianic beliefs are the Democraps, Commies, and you, GirlyBoyJihad.

Try again, but use REAL SCIENCE next time.

yukon
12-08-09, 08:29 PM

` ~galljdaj+

© Copyright. 1996-2009. All rights reserved. GRANMA INTERNATIONAL/ONLINE EDITION. Cuba.


Cuban commie!!!! BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You’re smelling up the joint, girlyjihad!


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