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To: RexBeach; hunter112
This asshat used to be my congresscritter when I lived in Shelton, WA. He constantly made a buffoon out of himself at the shovel ceremonies for the pork he brought back for the district...

Well, OK, but what did Mr. Dicks say that was so objectionable?

Here's an excerpt:

The second environmental challenge you and all of your generation will face is the “Inconvenient Truth.” My friend Al Gore has done an incredible job with his slide show and the movie to explain to the world that the planet is at risk and how carbon dioxide emissions not only cause global warming but also result in dangerous changes in the oceans, particularly acidification. Over the last century, the oceans rose between four and eight inches, ten times the average rate of the last 3,000 years. This alarming trend threatens all of the nation's coastal communities, where more than half the U.S. population lives, and obviously it threatens coastal populations and communities all across the globe. In my Committee this Spring we have studied the issue; we have consulted with experts such as the Climate Impacts Group run by Professors Ed Miles and Ed Sarachik here at the University. And we conducted hearings to assess the impact of climate change on public lands and wildlife in the United States … and the evidence was sobering: we see increased wildfires, changing precipitation and water availability patterns, increasing evidence of invasive species, severe bug infestation in our forests, changing migratory patterns for many animals and birds, and significant loss of habitat. It’s just not possible, anymore, to deny that climate change is real … it’s happening … and our challenge now is to find ways to deal with the impacts that these changes have on our lives and on our environment. We also have to move forward to begin solving the problem … as a nation and as individuals we must work to dramatically reduce greenhouse gases. The hybrid car I drive today emits far less carbon dioxide than the one I drove ten years ago and in your lifetimes it’s entirely possible to imagine “zero emissions” automobiles, along with other new and creative ways to reduce the so-called carbon footprint and thus reduce one of the root causes of global warming...blah, blah, blah.

13 posted on 06/14/2007 8:51:59 AM PDT by XR7
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To: XR7

Yeah, students want to sit there and hear lectures on ‘global warming’ while sitting in the freezing Washington spring rain!


16 posted on 06/14/2007 8:57:15 AM PDT by hunter112 (Change will happen when very good men are forced to do very bad things.)
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To: XR7
Invasive species? SEVERE BUG INFESTATIONS in our forests?? The "invasive species" were brought here by HUMANS who wanted pretty plants that the neighbors would envy, humans who whought the moltiflora roses were good for the ecology (intellectuals, in other words), humans who thought killer bees would make better honey, gypsie moths would make better silk, mute swans, anacondas and pythons would make good pets and now those invasive species are well....invading. Because of HUMAN STUPIDITY, not because of global warming.

Dick isn't just a Richard, he's a MORON.

19 posted on 06/14/2007 9:00:31 AM PDT by cake_crumb (May I never live to see the day America has a 'popular war'. God bless our troops.)
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To: XR7
And we conducted hearings to assess the impact of climate change on public lands and wildlife in the United States … and the evidence was sobering: we see increased wildfires, changing precipitation and water availability patterns, increasing evidence of invasive species, severe bug infestation in our forests, changing migratory patterns for many animals and birds, and significant loss of habitat. It’s just not possible, anymore, to deny that climate change is real

As usual, science by anecdote.

37 posted on 06/14/2007 10:12:01 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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