Posted on 1/3/2008, 5:32:07 AM by ricks_place
THE EARTH is close to passing climate change "tipping points." Greenhouse gases released in burning fossil fuels are nearing a level that will set in motion dangerous effects, many irreversible, including extermination of countless species, ice sheet disintegration and sea-level rise, and intensified regional climate extremes.
more stories like this N.E. can lead the new energy boom Vermont Yankee's woes top list of year's big stories Chronology of news events in 2007 Tapping into trash to find a new energy source China pledges not to disrupt international energy markets As a society we face a stark choice. Move on to the next phase of the industrial revolution, preserving and restoring wonders of the natural world, while maintaining and expanding benefits of advanced technology. Or ignore the problem, sentencing humanity and other creatures to struggle on an increasingly desolate planet. Massachusetts is on the cusp of making this choice, and, barring citizen objections, is in danger of making the wrong choice on two counts.
Energy legislation in the state Senate would reshape rules designed to encourage renewable energies, modifying them to encourage energy generation from coal. A proposed amendment to the "Green Communities Act" - in most respects a good piece of legislation - provides incentives for coal gasification technologies without requiring carbon capture and sequestration. If passed, Massachusetts would be promoting projects that increase greenhouse gas emissions, just when we need to reduce emissions!
Meanwhile, the Department of Environmental Protection granted draft approval and is poised to grant final approval to a project extending the life of an 80-year-old coal plant...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The end is near!
Repent your climatalogical sins to Algore, the high priest of Global Warmism!
When did the Boston Globe become the Globe Newspaper Company?
It will be interesting to see who takes credit for “stopping global warming” in ten years after all of these Kool-aid drinkers have passed all of these laws to prevent something that isn’t happening.
This Hansen guy is a real rube. Figures he runs NASA.
Looks to me like he's trying to resurrect the hockey stick that Steve McIntyre debunked years ago. Maybe he just turned the graph upside down. ;-)
Seeing as NASA can't (or won't) measure temperatures reliably even within the last decade, what makes these idiots think we even have a definitive baseline from which to characterize "climate change" over centuries?
Stupidity starts with thinking you have all the answers.
I liked the way he linked “Climate Change” with
the Patriots at Lexington and Concord.
Obviously, anyone who disagrees with the jerk is
unpatriotic.
Of course the date for that tipping point is fluid.
Reminds me of the classic joke:
Doctor: Well I have the test results and I have some good news and some bad news.
Patient: What's the bad news?
Doctor: You have 24 hours to live.
Patient: What's the good news?
Doctor: I forgot to call you last week.
There are various versions of the joke but I'm sure you get the gist.
There’s a state prison at Concord—Concord MCI. Things must have changed by now but they used to let the inmates vote in all the elections. They had a murderer doing life sitting on the Concord City Council. This was in the 1980’s.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
The new housing market is tank(ing)(ed) .. right?
And it's common practice at job sites to burn excess wood and scrap .. especially in cold weather .. in piles or barrels .. right?
So .. it stands to reason that the carbon credit payments a contractor must pay to offset the burning of this 'protected' source (trees/wood), has upped the cost of doing business and the price of new houses.
Thus; Global warming has caused the failure of the housing market.
James Hansen does NOT run NASA. He is Director of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University New York City. Please pass the aspirin.
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