Obama pledges US lead on climate change

AFP on Yahoo ^ | 4/5/09 | Leigh Thomas

[Uncle Meat]

Climate Change.I get up some mornings,it rains,others the sun shines,cold one day,hot the next.What’s the big deal?

[CASchack]

I bet Obamugabe hasn’t spent five days in the oval office since inauguration. Our Dear Leader has been on a continuous rock tour.

This is because narcissists have an insatiable need for adoration. He can't get that inside the White House, except from the press corps.

[napscoordinator]

This is the worst crock ever. It really sickens me when GOP politicians get on board with this.

[upchuck]

Frigging unicorns.

[upchuck]

BUMP!

[ApplegateRanch]

the fact that the United States is the world's biggest polluter

PROVE IT, you lying sack of macaca! Let's see the figures for ALL forms of "pollution"; not just cherry picked and massaged individual pollutants.

We have scrubbers of one type or another on nearly all of our stacks.

We've had catalytic converters on our vehicles, as well as both older & newer mandated measures, to clean our auto emissions for from years to decades.

We have 1/4 the population of China, but ALL of our even smallest towns have sewerage/waste-water treatment plants, with secondary & tertiary treatment at the larger cities.

Newer, cleaner controls on what is left of mining & smelting.

Our farming pollution control practices are among the best.

On, and on, and on.

Overall, (and I can say it with confidence, having grown up in the 1950s) our country is cleaner aired, and cleaner watered, especially on a percapita basis, than just about any place else that is worth living; and certainly than it was 50 years ago.

Don't get me started on that other outdated...if ever true...canard about only 5% of the world's population hogging 25% of the world's energy.

[THX 1138]

This CO2 reduction nonsense provides a strong opening for conservatives.

Good idea.

Maybe we can get Mark Sanford working on this.

Oh, wait...

[ApplegateRanch]

where exactly are you going to put the 160,000 square miles of solar panels it would take to replace coal plants? On the moon?

That is an extrememly fragile, unique, and pristine environement, that must be protected from development. And the untested but potentially dangerous technology involved in beaming the energy back to earth....

[Chgogal]

Hey Obama, if you really believe CO2 is a pollutant, show us the way and STOP exhaling. SS, this is not a threat. It is just an In Your Face observation of the crap politicians are forcing down the tax payers’ throats.

[ApplegateRanch]

They relentlessly oppose any actual construction of said power plants, while using the promise of the same to foil development of coal, oil and nuclear sources.

They do have a plan to fight AGW!

You can read about it here

[1010RD]

Is the painting behind him historical? It looks like a European fawning pretender about to kiss someones ring in a deep bow.

[1010RD]

I hear, ya. I don’t trust the sun either. Sure, it was there yesterday. I am talking about the future. Moon reflects sunlight, sure it does!

[Caipirabob]

Can we keep him from re-entering the country somehow? What if we require him to produce a birth-certificate along with his passport?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !