Posted on 12/18/2008 11:33:43 AM PST by presidio9
When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore. Now it is a ticking time bomb that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid. Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas. The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration. Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
"The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," he said Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. "We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way."
But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed. Despite the urgency he expresses, it's not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.
Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans
(Excerpt) Read more at montereyherald.com ...
How many lies can they wrap in one article to instill fear? They seem to be going for the record.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit
Global warming?! Tell that to the people in Las Vegas! :)
You’d think Obama would be FOR global warming...gives him more water to walk on.
LOL!!!! I was just about to reply with the exact same phrase!
are they aware that the pacific is the coldest it has been for many years.?
the antarctic is the biggest it has ever been with ice in history?
are they aware that the earth has cooled over the last 6 years?
I do wish the AP and the rest of the media would tell all the story about this subject instead of dissecting the story to suit their own needs
These idiots have yet to see the REAL global warming they are headed for....
Don't worry. If he doesn't meet the "crucial deadlines", the MSM will ask for an extension so that he can meet them in his second administration. /s
This is in the face of conclusive evidence to the contrary. Make no mistake; those who promote the fight against GW aren't doing it for the environment. They are doing it as a means to further destroy the ability for America to remain a World financial leader. It's a bigger fraud than what we've seen come to light in our financial crisis. And anyone, Al Gore, anyone, who is on the GW bandwagon is a foe of America. Anyone.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I thought Mr. Obama mentioned that he wanted to recognize and plan according to SCIENCE the other day?
Does this apply only to some scientific THEORIES?
Tackling global warming? Wonderful! Southern California needs some right now.
Is that why more than 600+ scientists have come out in the last week or so & called GW BS?
"We're out of time," Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. "Things are going extinct."
Go chase yourself, Professot Nut Root. So, when things DON'T go extinct...then what?
Global warming is a scam, period.
not too mention last year the southern hemisphere had pone of the coldest winters for many years.
It has been freezing around the country this year and we had a lousy summer in most parts.
Snow had fallen in places like Malibu
the only way to combat this now it seems is to get our children into journalism, media, teachers, judges,etc
Great minds think alike!!
Global Warming?? tell that to the people in the Antelope Valley(Including Lancaster and Palmdale) it was even snowing in NORTHRIDGE yesterday!! NORTHRIDGE!!
Traces on the ground in Malibu, California as well...
Yep, we’re toast!
That ‘ten hottest years crap’ was shot down earlier in the year, yet they’re still spouting it.
This is our nation’s largest threat at the moment. PC speak is going to destroy it if we don’t put these assholes in their place but quick!
Can’t Obama just “improve the U.S. relationship” with Mother Nature, and be done with it?
“A President that finally gets it”.
Yep, now we are about to get it.
Get it in a big way.
Mr Obama and Science have never been in the same room. It’s not possible to know anything about science and speak so glibly at the same time.
which is why we have to speak out more to our friends, neighbors, work associates etc about this plus get more like minded folk into teaching, journalism etc
we cannot allow anymore for us to be silenced because of political correctness by the left
Yeah. I got it.
Your statement implies that we'll have a choice...
Libs do everything by force and coersion.
The truly scary thing is if there was ever a doomsday button that if once pushed will kill all humans across the entire globe instantly these people’s faces would light up like it was the greatest gift in history and mash the button down smiling.
Leni
I don't think so. It could be an anti-capitalism movement since the Warmists are going after China and other mega capitalists, but I think it really comes down to a group of elites that are really pissed off at having to share the wealth with peons. Do you really think that Al Gore or the Bozo that wrote this article are going to do without? Hardly; they're just tired of sharing plane flights, cruises, holiday destinations, etc. with the sweaty masses. Time to crank consumption back and bring back a true separation of the classes.
I’m still betting it’ll be around 0 degrees on Jan 20th, in Wash DC.....
Translation: People are getting wise to the scam, endangering grant dollars.
If I were president, I would draw up an executive order on day one, that stated all colleges and universities would either level out the political makeup of their professors, or they would lose public funding. I’d give them six months to comply. They would henceforth also have to provide parity when it came to speakers on campus. And if they allowed the student body to disrupt the presentation by Conservatives, they would also lose public funding.
I’d also implement this on the K-12 level if the message didn’t come through loud and clear.
This political lock on our centers of eduction must stop.
As for Congress, it could over rule my EO, but if it did I would take my case to the U.S. Citizen and make it an issue Congress would pay dearly for.
They changed the name to climate change because the earth is no longer warming. Steady as she goes....
“The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over,”
so...build more nuclear plants. Assuming there is a problem, you won’t solve it with regulation and windmills. I mean, you make fun of us for denying global warming but you don’t even want to solve it in a serious way. And while most conservatives don’t care for the evidence behind global warming, we like the idea of nuke plants for energy independence.
Okay: When Bill Clinton took office in 1993,
Slower-moving political ruse, Non-existent environmental problem then as well as now: global warming was a slow-moving environmental problem that was easy to ignore.
False: Now it is a ticking time bomb
False: that President-elect Barack Obama can't avoid.
False: Since Clinton's inauguration, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas.
False: The 10 hottest years on record have occurred since Clinton's second inauguration.
False: Global warming is accelerating.
False: Time is close to running out,
False (probably): and Obama knows it.
False: But there are powerful political and economic realities that must be quickly overcome for Obama to succeed.
True: Despite the urgency he expresses, it's not at all clear that he and Congress will agree on an approach during a worldwide financial crisis in time to meet some of the more crucial deadlines.
No Sh*t: Obama is pushing changes in the way Americans
somebody tell bo that its snowing in vegas!
It is a tool to pry the masses into accepting socialism.
There is no manmade “global warming”, but that isn’t important. We have pollution and industry and populations that make many uncomfortable. By pretending a dire consequence, and further pretending an ability to affect the severity, the masses will be lulled into accepting what they otherwise would not.
lol
Ran across that pic yesterday. Supposedly taken before a speech when one of his aides did a few pull-ups and Obama had to show his muscle and pump out 3.
He’s probably counting 100, 101, 102...
Yes, and we know that the climate has not ever changed until now! ;)
Gets what? The fact that climate change is not "man made"?
I did find it curious to be hearing about this "no polar ice cap in 2013") prediction right as Milhous is set to begin his first term, which will take us through 2012. Expect this to be a major campaign issue if the economy is not booming, and Russia, Columbia, Iran, South Korea, Pakistan, and assorted terrorists are not playing nice by then.
Freeways closed in LA due to ice, snow.....
I got this in the email from the GOPUSA. This bumper sticker is hilarious! Check it out.
And we also know now that Man can attach a giant thermostat to the planet and control the temperature and the climate.
I know. We are incredibly powerful.
The desperation of the author’s tone is refreshing.
It reads like a hysterical rant.
It’s getting warmer damit!!! Hurry up and do this thing before...
...they catch on
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