Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/06/2009 8:50:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Energy and Climate Change Secretary says politicians face a "huge challenge" to convince people that action on global warming should be a priority, ahead of crunch UN talks in Copenhagen.
Ed Miliband said voters needed persuading that action would be good for the economy and be fair to vulnerable people, admitting: "There is a mountain to climb on this, globally and nationally."
But he said there was "as close to a scientific consensus as possible" that global warming is happening and is man-made.
Ahead of the fortnight of negotiations, which will culminate in a summit attended by dozens of world leaders, Mr Miliband warned the next two weeks were "crunch time for the planet".
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.news.yahoo.com ...
So, do they think *this* was “happening and is man-made” too?
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) refers to the time of maximum extent of the ice sheets during the last glacial period, approximately 20,000 years ago. This extreme persisted for several thousand years.
At this time, ice sheets covered the whole of Iceland and all but the southern extremity of the British Isles. Northern Europe was largely covered, the southern boundary passing through Germany and Poland, but not quite joined to the British ice sheet. This ice extended northward to cover Svalbard and Franz Josef Land and eastward to occupy the northern half of the West Siberian Plain, ending at the Taymyr Peninsula, and damming the Ob and Yenisei rivers forming a West Siberian Glacial Lake. In North America, the ice covered essentially all of Canada and extended roughly to the Missouri and Ohio Rivers, and eastward to New York City. A person could theoretically walk from North America to Europe across the frozen north Atlantic ice sheet.
Dolts!
can they just arrest them all for fraud while they are all there
Negotiations for what? The USA is a sovereign country and the President of this country cannot negotiate ANYTHING in the name of the USA. Only the Senate can ratify treaties and based upon the ilk of the voters dare not sign away our sovereignty or the people will forcibly remove those who do so.
There are 301 million citizens in this country and over 600 million guns. Go ahead - make my day.
Why should they be exempt? So did Bernie Madoff, Clifford Irving and Charles Ponzi.
Nope, there’s never been “as close to a scientific consensus as possible” on anthropogenic global warming. There was in fact a scientific consensus that Newtonian physics described our universe, and the consensus that lasted about 180 years until it turned out to be flat wrong (largely because of the issue of the relationship between the observer and the system observed which Leibniz got hung up on, which stopped him from blundering on to use the calculus to do physics in a thoroughgoing way the way Newton did, though that was seen only in retrospect after quantum mechanics and general relativity were need to account for, among other things, the photoelectric effect, the constancy of the speed of light in a vacuum, and the precession of the orbit of Mercury).
Sounds series
Enron and the global warming scam was a big deal when President Bush was in office now chirp, chirp, chirp.
My wife opines that boinking produces excess CO2!
Maybe the Mayor of Copenhagen needs to issue a BOINK ALERT!
This whole mess is so embarassing. We have learned nothing from history and are doomed to repeat the very worst excesses of the past.
Another thing, even assuming that AGW exists, who is to say that the measures we take to combat this so called problem will even work?
“Mr Miliband warned the next two weeks were “crunch time for the planet”.
The megalomania of the global warming fantasists is extraordinary. Copenhagen will briefly be the Capitol of Bloated Egos next week, where bureaucrats with Napolean complexes can tackle non-existent apocalypse dangers.
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sung to the tune of “Home On The Range”
Oh, give me a home where the wind turbines roam
Where the queers and the unicorns play
Where solar does work with encouraging words
And the skies are so sunny all day
Hope, hope and some change
Where the deer and the antelope play
Where seldom is heard a disparaging word
And the rigs they are idle all day
How often at night when the money’s so tight
From the light of the glittering stars
Have I stood there and froze and asked as my toes
Are as frozen at ten icy bars
Hope, hope and some change
Where the scientists cheat on the stats
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
Cause Al Gore he did make sure of that
Then give me a land where the EPA can hand
Carbon tickets to tax like a dream
Where the grateful sheep pawns go sickly along
Like a chump in a political dream
Oh I would not exchange that sick hope and the change
Where the heat and the AC did flow
Where my engine was heard like a powerful word
And the skies used to change every day
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