Posted on 05/31/2013 3:16:54 PM PDT by Libloather
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The last topic of discussion was potential solutions. The panel split into two sides on this one. Some panelists suggested different options to prevent further greenhouse gas pollution, such as a transition to renewable energy and increasing fuel efficiency in vehicles. Others, however, saw the only real solution as finding ways to live in an imbalanced world, like avoiding development in flood-prone areas.
Such a view might seem unnecessarily bleak and pessimistic, but it's by far the more practical view. The Earth has only 16 years left of emitting greenhouse gases until we reach a tipping point. That's not 16 years left to begin approaching the issue, that's 16 years left to stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether. Frankly, and tragically, this radical of an action in such short of a timeline just doesn't seem realistic.
So while we should praise CBS for speaking up about climate change, it seems we've all been silent for far too long.
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RUSH: Try this one from yesterday's stack. I don't know if you people know this or not, but Al Gore has been out at the Sundance Film Festival out there in Park City, Utah. This is one of Robert Redford's big do's, and apparently Al Gore is working on a movie that -- what is the name of this movie? Oh, that's right, "An Inconvenient Truth," and the movie will document his efforts to raise alarm on the effects of global warming, and so he brought Tipper and the kids out there.
He's attending parties and posing for pictures with his fans. He's enjoying macaroni and cheese at the Discovery Channel's soir?e. He's palling around with Laurie David of Curb Your Enthusiasm, who is the husband of Larry David, who drives the Prius and then flies the GV. Larry David says, "You know, Al is a funny guy, but he's also a very serious guy who believes humans may have only 10 years left to save the planet from turning into a total frying pan."
Now, the last time I heard some liberal talk about "ten years" it was 1988, Ted Danson. We had ten years to save the oceans; we were all going to pay the consequences, which would result in our death. Now Al Gore says we've got ten years. Ten years left to save the planet from a scorching. Okay, we're going to start counting. This is January 27th, 2006. We will begin the count, ladies and gentlemen. This is just... You have to love these people -- from afar, and from a purely observational point of view.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2006/01/27/algore_we_have_ten_years_left_before_earth_cooks
Heh. The “tipping point” seems to be a mirage. Keeps disappearing right before we get there, and reappearing in the distance.
SnakeDoc
Speaking of tipping, whatever happened to Tipper?
I thought we only had 10 years for that 13 years ago....
Algore and Prince Charles should get a room. And leave the rest of us to live our lives in peace.
If we were really that close to the tipping point, it would really be too late as we speak.
I think Ted Danson said we had 5 years to go in the 90s.
I thought Tipper had left already.
There is a tipping point, and there is a Tipper point. I guess the Tipper point came the same time Algore did.
Probably out campaigning for warning labels on iTunes.
Gee, and it was only 35 years ago that we had 16 years until the tipping point for the coming Ice Age.
An excellent study came out this week linking global warming to CFCs - and the cooling we’re seeing now is directly linked to the CFC ban a decade ago.
Al, you failed miserably. AGW is AWOL and there is no amount of LIES, PROPAGANDA, CLIMATE GRANT FUNDING that can bring it back. It was based on a POLITICAL LIE from the beginning and was bound to FAIL when the TRUTH was revealed.
That reminds me. You know it's about time we started pushing back against this completely stupid ban on freon. Like the ban on DDT it was based on "science" that had been completely debunked. Freon is the most energy efficient coolant for air conditioners and we should go back to using it.
I thought that was back in the 80s.
Anyway, the earth can't tip. It's (sorta) spherical. Plus, it's floating in space. So it's physically impossible for the earth to tip.
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