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Will a Threat to U.S. Credit Rating Convince Republicans to Care About Global Warming?
Yahoo! News ^ | 5/15/14 | Danielle Wiener-Bronner - atlantic wire

Posted on 05/15/2014 9:45:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) warned on Thursday that climate change will force down the credit ratings of countries throughout the world. Will this be the straw that breaks the climate change-deniers' backs?

"Climate change is likely to be one of the global mega-trends impacting sovereign creditworthiness, in most cases negatively," S&P notes, adding "Assuming that extreme weather events are on the rise in terms of frequency and destruction, ..

The S&P report closely follows one published by the CNA Corporation Military Advisory Board on Tuesday, which found climate change to be a risk to national security. The study was penned by members of a military research organization, including many former military officials, ... In an introductory note, the Military Advisory Board wrote that they hope the report won't be judged on partisan grounds:

We are dismayed that discussions of climate change have become so polarizing and have receded from the arena of informed public discourse and debate. Political posturing and budgetary woes cannot be allowed to inhibit discussion and debate over what so many believe to be a salient national security concern for our nation. Each citizen must ask what he or she can do individually to mitigate climate change, and collectively what his or her local, state, and national leaders are doing to ensure that the world is sustained for future generations... Time and tide wait for no one.

According to the New York Times, U.S. leaders who don't dispute climate change as a man-made phenomena recognized the importance of the report. But it appeared to do nothing to budge climate change deniers. Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma dismissed the report because "there is no one in more pursuit of publicity than a retired military officer," ..

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KEYWORDS: creditrating; globalwarming; republicans; threat
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a helluva lot of good having a climate change degree did for the occupants of santorini and pompeii and herculaneum,, they too are frozen in time , like a politician's soul when it comes to global smarming and the cost they would impose on all of us chasing vapours.
1 posted on 05/15/2014 9:45:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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The science is irrefutable, Sir!


2 posted on 05/15/2014 9:47:26 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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Does that mean I don't get my own Ipad? waa waaaaa..


3 posted on 05/15/2014 9:48:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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“Assuming that extreme weather events are on the rise in terms of frequency and destruction, .. “

which there is zero evidence of either greater frequency or greater severity when measured in the longest cycles of weather events


4 posted on 05/15/2014 9:50:15 PM PDT by Wuli
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5 posted on 05/15/2014 9:50:27 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: Wuli

has anyone ever drilled al gore’s head for ice core samples?


6 posted on 05/15/2014 9:51:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


7 posted on 05/15/2014 9:52:41 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: NormsRevenge

If you assume climate change is happening and the cause is man made, then you could conclude that it is a national security risk.

but with all logic, if you start with a faulty assumption, you end up with an invalid conclusion.

Additionally, if you assume the only recouse is to go 100% green energy, then you could conclude that path is a national security risk also.

But the reality is, if you assume the US govt. does nothing about the welfare state, you must conclude a financial disaster will occur which is a national security risk.

I wish S and P and the US military would publish that result which almost a mathematical certainty while the global warming premise is not a certainty.


8 posted on 05/15/2014 9:53:55 PM PDT by staytrue
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VERY CRAFTY!!!

Pure extortion.


9 posted on 05/15/2014 9:54:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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"Assuming that extreme weather events are on the rise in terms of frequency and destruction...

Well so far, so good:

Safest start to tornado season in almost a century

Downward trends in the frequency of intense Atlantic hurricanes during the past five decades

Violent Tornadoes Declining – Landfalling Hurricanes Declining

Global Warming to Decrease Hurricanes, Study Says

10 posted on 05/15/2014 9:56:01 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Hmmm, doesn’t mention water vapor, which has far more effect.


11 posted on 05/15/2014 9:57:37 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: NormsRevenge

Michael Savage had a great idea last week. He said that once all this climate hysteria settles down and the scam is fully exposed for what it is, that all the instigators who foisted this crap on us should be put in front of People’s Tribunals and when found guilty thrown into special “Climate Prisons”.


12 posted on 05/15/2014 9:59:13 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NormsRevenge

Well, if it’s throughout the world — then who cares?


13 posted on 05/15/2014 9:59:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: NormsRevenge

horse hockey!


14 posted on 05/15/2014 10:00:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: SpaceBar

And that includes these assholes at Standard & Poor’s who fancy themselves as scientists and not the worm-like bean counters they really are.


15 posted on 05/15/2014 10:00:47 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: NormsRevenge

The U.S. Credit Rating is going to now be controlled by Algore’s hoax and scam? Screw Standard and Poor’s. Who needs ‘em. This is fraud and extortion. Somebody at Standard and Poor’s needs to go to jail.


16 posted on 05/15/2014 10:00:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Wuli
I totally agree. But you can always count on the media to simply say something is worse than it really is. Hyperbole sells and the more they use it, the "worse" and more "frequent" the "disasters" become. It's not true, but it's what the climate change crowd will use as their stick to beat the taxpayer for more money.
17 posted on 05/15/2014 10:01:13 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: NormsRevenge

My thinking has it that “Global Warming” is a colossal fraud.


18 posted on 05/15/2014 10:02:14 PM PDT by OldNavyVet (Looking forward to November elections.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The powers that be are determined to push their agenda upon us no matter what it takes.

I will again state that to free ourselves from the current and coming oppression will take nothing less than a full blown civil war, and perhaps another world war.


19 posted on 05/15/2014 10:03:31 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: SpaceBar

Savage had another good one: if the oceans are rising and the coasts will be flooded, ask a lib if they’ll sell their beach-front property to you for cheap.

NOT A CHANCE!


20 posted on 05/15/2014 10:03:53 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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