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Markey: Deniers of global warming should 'start their own country'
The Hill ^ | August 7, 2010 | Shane D'Aprile

Posted on 08/07/2010 5:38:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) suggested a novel use Saturday for a 100-square-mile ice sheet that has broken off Greenland.

“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country," Markey said in a statement. “So far, 2010 has been the hottest year on record, and scientists agree arctic ice is a canary in a coal mine that provides clear warnings on climate."

Some scientists have attributed the breaking off of the ice sheet to abnormally warm temperatures this year.

Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, co-authored the House version of the climate change bill that's currently stalled in the Senate.

He said it was "unclear how many giant blocks of ice it will take to break the block of Republican climate deniers in the US Senate who continue hold this critical clean energy and climate legislation hostage."


TOPICS: Government; Outdoors; Politics; Weather
KEYWORDS: agw; capandtax; capandtrade; carboncredits; climatechange; democrats; dncconspiracy; environment; fanniemae; globalwarming; liberalfascism; patent6904336
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Mr. Mahkey, pieces of Greenland, and Antarctica, and any other chunks of ice covering bits of land, have been falling off for millenia, LONG before we humans were on the planet.

Humans have nothing to do with changes in the climate. We can only react, and adapt to the situation, as best we can.

41 posted on 08/07/2010 7:49:13 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hay, ignorant dorko congressman - even the chief scientist at IPCC admitted that there is “no statistical significance” to support the warming or cooling hypothesis in the recent global temperature record. Observing the carving of a glacier, which has happened for eons, is not evidence of global warming - it could be the opposite - an unusually massive ice pack on the continent pushed off an unusually big piece of ice. That is happening in the Antarctic.


42 posted on 08/07/2010 8:47:02 PM PDT by GregoryFul
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
New entry in all future edition of dictionaries :

Ignorant delusional idiot -----> Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)

43 posted on 08/07/2010 9:07:53 PM PDT by Publius6961 ("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pretty ballzy talk for the side that has no income and no guns.


44 posted on 08/07/2010 9:14:14 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (A "tea bagger"? Say it to my face. ><BCC>)
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To: airborne
Advocates of man made climate change should go start their own planet.

In another solar system, preferably.

Even more preferably, a solar system in a completely different galaxy...

the infowarrior

45 posted on 08/08/2010 12:32:13 AM PDT by infowarrior
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

snow in Brazil and Argentina this week ...........


46 posted on 08/08/2010 4:22:08 AM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; DollyCali; IrishCatholic; meyer; SteamShovel; Desdemona; grey_whiskers; ...
Be careful what you wish for, Mr. Markey.

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

47 posted on 08/08/2010 4:24:44 AM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
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To: sayuncledave

Very true. On this page is a summary of polls showing that a majority attribute global warming to planetary trends and not human activity. Send us a postcard, Markey.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/energy_update


48 posted on 08/08/2010 4:39:41 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: NormsRevenge
arctic ice is a canary in the coal mine?

More like.....

.....Markey is a canary.

49 posted on 08/08/2010 8:32:31 AM PDT by SteamShovel (UTOPIA...Isn't)
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To: maryz

He’s just keeping the ASS in MASS.


50 posted on 08/09/2010 10:49:24 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
maybe Ed should go live on the island his fellow genius Democrat says will tip over:

http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/in-the-know/36-news/3169-rep-hank-johnson-guam-could-tip-over-and-capsize

51 posted on 08/09/2010 10:53:20 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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