U.S. Warned to Prepare Now for Disasters Caused by Global Warming

By | October 26, 2009

  • October 26, 2009 at 7:54 am
    Kool-Aid Hater says:
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    Sigh. I rolled my eyes, too, but it doesn’t translate to text very well.

    That’s all.

  • October 26, 2009 at 8:15 am
    DanWealter says:
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    Why doesn’t the Insurance Industry prepare for global warming. because they know its a farce

  • October 26, 2009 at 8:21 am
    Cher says:
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    Markey is an Idiot. What Katrina was caused by our carbon foot print, the earth is flat as well.

  • October 26, 2009 at 10:43 am
    George says:
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    All Katrina foreshadowed was that it’s stupid to build a town underwater and protect it from flooding with earthen dams.

    My opinion: all this new climate change/global warming talk is just viral marketing for that ‘2012’ disaster movie starring John Cusack.

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:27 pm
    Rick says:
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    Ed Markey is synonymous with “the end of the world is coming”

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:29 pm
    Lenny says:
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    Why isn’t anyone listening to the reality that the earth has actually cooled. And when will someone please report the money around this farce. GE is a great example of a company that has determined how to make money on Global warming. Follow the money folks, we have all bought in to the sky is falling… chicken little…… By the way my meteorologist can’t forecast tomorrows weather right, how can he figure out the next decade….. oh yea thats right they are using the same computer model……… makes sense.

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:37 pm
    Brian says:
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    Carbon Dioxide, regardless of SCOTUS opinion, is not a pollutant, and the evidence, even more than previously, now points to global warming being, essentially, a hoax – politial in nature. Even if it were an issue, the total impact of all of the proposed legislation and emissions rules would be negligible over the next 50 to 100 years. did these idiots consider that the warming & cooling is cyclical and dependant, largely, on that large yellow HOT object called the SUN. Yet the lemmings believe. Anyone want to buy a bridge to nowehere?

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:38 pm
    E. S. Keymo says:
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    You are right on Lenny. I remember the coming “New Ice Age” of the 1960s which also never happened. Thats what happens when we don’t teach history anymore and we don’t have an honest press.

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:41 pm
    Back to the basics says:
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    We as humans, mammals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide. Plants breathe in carbon dioxide and expel oxygen. So the cycle continues. This is the way it goes. There are all kinds of cycles in this world the enable life to continue. This is one of them. The Global Warming and Global Cooling “scientist” are backed by politicians that want to control you and your money. Any politician reading this “NO CAP and TAX”. The voting public does not want it. Nor do we want the world government the proponents of (new vocab for Global Warming) Global Change. If you are going to look to “Katrina” to prove a point, then you must look back to the hurricanes, earthquakes and the tsunamis before the invention of the automobile and all those carbons, and then explain Global Change during that time period. Please let’s get on to real science, not popular science.
    A real friend of the Planet Earth.

  • October 26, 2009 at 12:55 pm
    Reality Bites says:
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    At what point to you naysaying nabobs of negativism wake up and realize that in no way can we plant enough trees to absorb the pollutants and CO2 pumped out by an increasingly industrialized world?

    Do you truly think there is NO price to pay for our impact on the ecology? Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead?

    Were any of you in Pittsburgh or Scranton or Detroit in the 1950’s or 60’s? How about current China or India? Set aside the loss of an economy; would you really WANT to be breathing all the pollutants that were pumped into the air, 24 hours a day when WE lead the world in output?

    At what point does the loss of Arctic ice impact you – forget about the cuddly bears and baby seals – when your Nevada property is beachfront? Are you willing to accept the price – for your grandchildren’s sake – if the ice DOESN’T grow back in 100 years?

    Sure humans have behaved stupidly, building homes where they don’t belong. Don’t blame that on cyclical weather patterns; rather it’s a need to control an environment which cannot always be controlled – to a great extent because we don’t UNDERSTAND the envirnonment properly.

    Is there a hole in the sky, Chicken Little? Don’t know, but there are holes in the ozone layer, and to what extent has modern life contributed to that?

    Can we afford to be right – and spend what needs to be spent for alternative energy sources (which are limited in supply)?

    Can we afford to be WRONG. That’s the question.

  • October 26, 2009 at 1:06 am
    Chicken Little says:
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    What a bunch of hooey. Liberals are so funny. They would fall for anything.

  • October 26, 2009 at 1:07 am
    Optimist says:
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    Amen, Reality Bites!!

  • October 26, 2009 at 1:09 am
    George says:
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    Hey, I’m willing to agree that it’s better to pollute less than we did in the 50s. I don’t think i can agree with the studies that say climate change is real when they cant decide which way it’s changing, or if it even is. Pollution is bad, but it is not affecting the climate. it’s affecting the soil and the water and plant growth, but temperature? Not so much.

  • October 26, 2009 at 1:20 am
    Realist says:
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    Once again I must say the same thing I say everytime one of these reports comes out – if you follow the money, you’ll find the government – and all of their “friends” as well. Climate Change is about re-distribution of wealth. Taking money from Anerica and the European countries and giving it to the UN and others.

    The climate has been changing since God created the Earth. Have people polluted it, yes. But, according to your own sources so have cows who pass gas…

  • October 26, 2009 at 1:59 am
    Tom Travis says:
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    The headline might as well read:

    “US warned to prepare now for Disaster caused by asteroid hits”

    Next we will be hearing that sea ice will cause the sea to rise and the ice melting in my cocktail causes it to overflow when it melts. And, polar bears are running out of Christmas Coca Colas.

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:22 am
    tigertail says:
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    When are people going to wise up that this is a total scam? Even if it isn’t, what good does it do to give a “global warming warning”? We already get really get hurricane and other weather forecasts, what difference does it make if the temps are up or down? For God’s sake, enough already….

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:40 am
    Anonymous says:
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    Reality Bites has missed the point. Its whether we can afford his “I am right” attitude. He confuses the 50s/60s pollution with today’s CO2 battle. That pollution was heavy sulfur, cynadie and other toxins which threatened human health, not the CO2 version that is driving this nonsense. Companing what comes out of one’s lungs to the 50/60 pollution is like comparing elephants to ants. I am afraid he can’t see the forrest for the CO2 intaking trees.

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:46 am
    Allan says:
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    Ok, so I’ve read through these posts and I’m seeing a pattern that lines up with the Republican and Conservative base. Ok, but here’s the thing, wasn’t scientists that discoverd global warming and man’s influence on it? Wasn’t it all the worlds leading scientist that concluded that pumping all the Co2 in the atmosphere going to affect our climate? Couple this with the deforestation in the Amazon. Wasn’t it the scientist that made us aware of all these things? It wasn’t the government.

    I always find it funny how the Conservatives and Republicans always find a way to discredit things that relate negativly to their pocket book. They will sell themselves and their families out as long as they can stay rich no matter the consequence.

    I also find it funny how conservatives are listening and following our elected repuplican officials, conservative TV and radio show hosts instead of paying attention to the leading scientists that have documented time and time again that advancement of climate change is related to man.

    I will throw this out there however…..even if climate change is going on regardless of man, man is not helping things by raping the planet by deforestation and pumping endless amounts of Co2 in the atmosphere.

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:49 am
    George says:
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    How do you rape the planet anyway? Through a volcano or something?

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:58 am
    Lenny says:
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    Your right if you listen just to the liberal scientists you will get only thier liberal views. Ask Dr. Grey (you know him, the father of hurricane forecasting)what he thinks, unless he changed his view since the last time I heard him, there was a definate tone of disbelief. Oh I get it he is not an engineer, he is a Meteorologist, you know the folks that study weather??? Stop drinking the coolaid.

  • October 26, 2009 at 2:59 am
    Allan says:
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    LOL. Try it and find out.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:03 am
    Marcy says:
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    I guess I don’t understand why trees have seeds? If the forests have been raped, why do we have just as many trees (may not be as big as there were a century ago)
    but forestry is sustainable. Liberals are followers not leaders as I see it. Hope you didn’t give any money to Gore, because if you did, you deserve a flight on his personal jet to nowhere.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:10 am
    Joe says:
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    A coincidence? I don’t think so.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:14 am
    Joe says:
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    Yea, sure, you know a lot about science. You’re another brain-washed Demonrat (not a misspelling).

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:18 am
    Joe says:
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    Gosh, polar bears running low on Coca Colas? The Anointed One will save them, but they’ll have to drink the soft drink of a major contributor to the Demonratic Party.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:24 am
    Joe says:
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    Look at the list of so-called scientists who believe (“believe is the correct word here, because there is no scientific proof of it) in global warming. The list includes very few volcanists, climatologists, geologists, and etc. It does include MDs, psychologists, sociologists, and other assorted PH’Ds. Not exactly the scientists I’d turn to for advise on global warming.

    One group of scientists overwhelmingly doesn’t subscribe to global warming and they are astronomers. They believe that planetary cycles and the sun have the most influence on long term climate and that it’s the arrogance of man that believes it can reverse the impact of these forces of nature.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:26 am
    Allan says:
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    Marcy – go online sometime and read and look at the deforestation in the Amazon. The amazon is the lungs of our planet and we are killing it.

    I don’t believe Al Gore should have stepped in front of a camera to deliver the scietific message. It should have been a group of leading scientists. So, no plane ride for me.

    If you say I’m a follower, than so are you for the crazy and insane conservatives who are pushing this b.s.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:30 am
    Allan says:
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    Where is this list???

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:30 am
    Joe says:
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    Allan, de-forestation isn’t caused by GW (not former President Bush, but Global Warming, even though, contrary to many libs’ opinions, GW wasn’t caused by W, either). It’s caused by people cutting down the trees in the forest. Can you even see the forest for the trees?

    And, to follow up on Vlad’s question, you are a graduate of what public school?

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:33 am
    Joe says:
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    Allan, it was published in the NY Times (it was a full-page ad signed by them) about 8 years or so ago; google it and you’ll find it. I’m not your research assistant, notwithstanding that you’re in dire need of one.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:35 am
    Reality Bites says:
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    Joe, Joe, Joe. What an inventive retort, Richard.

    I don’t vote by party line; I haven’t since George the First – who I still voted for. Liked Clinton the first time around but not the second. Couldn’t get me to support John Kerry but got burned by George the Second who figgered he had some political capital to spend, and spent it on friends like Halliburton (heh heh heh). Last time, couldn’t pin my hopes on an old man and a lame excuse for an enlightened dingbat as Veep.

    But I don’t think I’d be painting anyone in this conversation as Red or Blue. I’m a social conservative but a pragmatist when it comes to alternatives – be they energy or music.

    Use more of your common sense, Joe. If you burn something, it creates smoke. Does the rain knock all the smoky bits down to the ground? Does it become fertilizer for crops and shrubberies? If it goes into your well, does it become a pollutant? If it stays in the air, is it good to have it there so that it blocks the sun a little bit? How much is too much?

    Don’t pigeonhole anyone so quickly. By outlining my shape, you paint yourself by creating a vacuum around you.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:41 am
    Charlie says:
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    Here are three reasons to start worrying about material issues (read anything but AGW):

    1. Carbon dioxide is a trace element–it comprises less than .035% of the atmosphere. Of that minute number, less than 10% is allegedly caused by man.

    2. The so-called Scientific evidence on which the UN Intercontinental Panel on Climate Change based it’s 1996 has been conveniently lost or destroyed.

    3. 10 consecutive years of cooling, which was not forseen by any of the predictive models produced by the so-called consensus within a cloistered scientific community.

    If this is a political football, blame Gore and his Academy Award winning slide presentation–not Republicans.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:44 am
    Ortho W. Begone says:
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    This is a real real good idea. Global farming is a real problem, if we all farm all the dirt will run in the seas and it will make the waters rise and flood the icecap which will make it float to Saudi Arabia until it gets caught in the sand and melts and makes the water go higher yet.

    We must begin painting all asphalt parking lots which, or a light shade of beige, if we are to stop global farming; the asphalt will keep the dirt from washing under, (if you think I’m wrong look what happens in a ditch when it gets a whole bunch of water in it), but asphalt is real real hot when it’s summer and the sun is out and it stays hot so we should use it north of the artic lines and south of there is should be painted, and yes, we could use other colors besides white and a very light beige; I could see some really nice pastels and light gray and brown; who doesn’t like nice, light orange color to park on? Plus, we would create jobs with the need for asphalt and paint, and those would be made in the USA proud American jobs that could not be sent overseas…but they may go underseas if the sea were to rise but this plan can stop that.

    Does anyone know when Lost is coming back on? Everytime I look I see Lost is on, but it’s a repeat like from 2007 or something and I have seen it already. I would like some new ones please. And why is toothpaste so high? People keep losing teeth, and yet the paste costs more and more.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:47 am
    Anon says:
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    I love how the very first time they looked to guage O-Zone the “hole” was there but instead of saying “hmmm… that’s unusual” they knee jerk and say it’s a sign of impending doom (there actually is no hole in the O-Zone, there’s a THINNING of the O-Zone in certain areas most notably around the South Pole).

    Further, we do not have a finite amount of O-Zone… every time the sun shines new O-Zone is made. O-Zone isn’t some magical element put here by the hand of god. O-Zone is ionized normal ogygen particles. As the sun hit O-2 atoms it breaks some apart, most of those broken 0-1 atoms reform back into 0-2 but some reform into 0-3 which is O-Zone. If you want to destroy the O-Zone layer you have to find a way to burn out the sun first.

    Last, I grew up in the 70’s and remember the hysteria of global cooling and the coming New Ice Age… then 20 years later some scientists realized the theory was falling apart and there was more money to be made with global warming.

    I’m reminded of Robert Frost, “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.” I’ll modify his original poem to say that I don’t care which way the world ends, right now I’m more worried about how our economy ends.

  • October 26, 2009 at 3:51 am
    Allan says:
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    Joe – your moronic perception is baffleing. I never said at anytime was global warming attributing to any deforestation. You do not have the foresight to interpret what people are saying. I’ll keep it simple for you:

    Trees produce oxygen and we (man) is destroying the one forest where roughly 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced. Not to mention destroying one of the earth’s largest eco systmes.

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:02 am
    DJ says:
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    Flooding is caused by concrete. We have no control over the changes mother nature makes but we do have control over to much concrete. That answer is our government needs stop funding over population.

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:04 am
    Joe says:
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    Dear Allan:

    You write that someone is a moron and in the same sentence misspell the word baffling. But, not satisfied with this display of arrogance, ignorance, and chutzpah, you follow it with subject/verb incongruity (“…we…is…”). Ah, but still, you weren’t satisfied and wanted to hit the trifecta of arrogance, ignorance, and chutzpah and low and behold, you were successful, because we now know that the forests of the earth provide oxygen for many “worlds.” Thank you for this information. You’re the first to discover this. We should soon expect to read of your being awarded the Noble Prize for Science.

    Ah, Allan, you’re a piece of intellectual wittiness and wisdom. (You’re forgiven for the typo of systems.)

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:06 am
    Joe says:
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    Sir, have you no shame and brain?

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:06 am
    Barakkk says:
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    The world’s policymakers and scientists have made a critical error in how they count biofuels’ contribution to human-generated greenhouse-gas emissions, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102202889.html

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:11 am
    Allan says:
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    Ok, so some gramatical errors and miss spellings. That’s not what I’m on here for. I’m also working while conversing with your dumb ***. You still haven’t articulated any of the points I’ve posted. However, you are quick to point out my english.

    Great come back.

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:30 am
    Joe says:
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    Dearest Allan,

    You must be a liberal, because you’ve a very liberal view of what you consider to be corresponding in English, unless, of course, you were using this word as a verb, as in, ‘to put english on the ball.’

    And why do you “miss spellings?” Did spellings leave you? Do you feel lonely without spellings?

    The fact is this, Allan, I pointed out your non-English; nothing you’ve posted today comes close to even resembling proper English-language usage, so, I certainly didn’t “point out your english.” I’ll understand if English isn’t your native tongue, which, based upon your posts, I’m guessing that it isn’t your native language.

    God’s speed to you during your journey to master the English language, or, if not master, at least learn a few of its more simple, fundamental rules.

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:47 am
    Allan says:
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    LOL. Conservative/Liberal….I consider myself rational. I can write and spell just fine. I just tend to F up a lot when I’m in a bit of hurry.

    But I really do “miss spellings”. I’d wish they would come back so I could lend you a hand on articulating a thought on the topic.

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:54 am
    Joe says:
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    Dearest, Dearest Allan:

    I would never let you lend out me to anyone, whether a human or a hand. Or did you mean to write ‘lend to you?’

  • October 26, 2009 at 4:58 am
    James E. Carter says:
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    the problem I see with global warming is related to nucear pwoliferation; what we need to do is band together and blame nucear (pronounced new-kee-er) on George Bush.

    I also think we should paint asphalt white.

  • October 26, 2009 at 5:18 am
    Allan says:
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    I don’t think there is much we can do unless other industrialized nations follow each other.

    What America can start to do is build more nuclear power plants, get off foreign oil and switch to more natural gas and get on the ball with more wind, tidal and solar energies.

    That’s a start.

  • October 26, 2009 at 5:42 am
    Joe says:
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    Ugh. Don’t like to write this, but, in fairness, I must.

    YOU’RE RIGHT, ALLAN. I AGREE WITH YOUR LAST POST.

    Sheesh, how embarrassing for me.

  • October 26, 2009 at 5:43 am
    Joe says:
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    You at least can respond in a post with some grammatical errors to ease my embarrassment.

  • October 26, 2009 at 5:51 am
    Allan says:
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    Oh, say it aint so Joe!!!

    LOL!!!



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