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Cost of Global Warming equivalent to solving ALL the major problems in the world 3x over

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:40:00 GMT

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To make a simple comparison, the UN estimates that for about £40 billion annually, we could solve all major basic problems in the world - we could give clean drinking water, sanitation, basic education and healthcare to every person in the world.

efforts to reduce the speed of global warming will cost huge sums of money and have a pitifully tiny effect

global warming's total cost will be only about one half of 1 per cent of the net worth of the 21st century; that is the current worth of all the wealth projected to be generated in this century.

£100 billion annually for the rest of the century.

best-case scenario

temperature at the end of the century would be 2.4532342C. The effect is a difference of about 0.00038C - or about one three-thousandth of a degree in a hundred years.

This is the equivalent of delaying the temperature increase by the end of the century by a little less than a week.

But instead we are spending a fortune achieving almost nothing.

we have to come to our senses.

Tags: global warming, poverty, climate change

Global Warming... SUN?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:57:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the solar activity may actually COOL the planet in coming years

Clip Source: www.eworldvu.com

So, Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age.

In fact, if the current trend continues, 2008 could total 290 spotless days by the end of December, making it nearly a century since we have seen such a lack of activity fom our sun.

What does the current lack of activity on the sun mean? It could mean that scientists can test their various theories concerning the relationship between the sun and global climate change. It also may mean that much colder times for the planet are just ahead.

"If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

Gore was widely quoted last week, in a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative as follows:

Tags: global warming, sun, heat, carbon, solar, weather

Climate Change and Chipmonks in California

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:59:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's real and we can pretend it isn't

Clip Source: www.sciencenews.org

From California to Costa Rica, rising temperatures could be driving species to higher elevations

TIME TRAVELPlumper pine trees suggest that growing conditions turned milder at the north end of Vogelsang Lake in Yosemite National Park between the early 20th century (above) and 2004 (below). With climate warming, some of Yosemite's small mammals have edged up slopes to more familiar temperatures. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

Chipmunks, mice and other small mammals pretty much moved up in the world as Yosemite National Park’s climate warmed during the last century.

As temperatures rose, these species tended to edge upward to higher and cooler ground, says Craig Moritz, director of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, Calif.

Tags: green, climate change, globalism

Global economy and trees

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:01:10 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.

It puts the annual cost of forest loss at between $2 trillion and $5 trillion.

The figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide.

The study, headed by a Deutsche Bank economist, parallels the Stern Review into the economics of climate change.

It has been discussed during many sessions here at the World Conservation Congress.

Some conservationists see it as a new way of persuading policymakers to fund nature protection rather than allowing the decline in ecosystems and species, highlighted in the release on Monday of the Red List of Threatened Species, to continue.

Al Gore continues his lies.......

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:05:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sadly, McCain is biting.
As moonbattery.com observes, he is unfortunately still the better choice this November........

Clip Source: www.moonbattery.com

October 5, 2008

Al Gore Continues to Spew Climate Lies

Al Gore tells lies about the climate as fast as they can be debunked. Now he wants us to believe that nonexistent global warming is causing more powerful tornadoes and floods. Proclaims the Goracle:

Yes, we've always had tornadoes in Iowa and in Tennessee. But they're coming more frequently and they're stronger.

Via Watts Up With That, the following graph from the NWS/NOAA confirms that the number of severe tornadoes has been going down since the early 1970s. The trend for reported tornadoes overall is up, but that's only because improved technology and increased obsession with the weather has led to better reporting of minor incidents:

Gore also claims that recent flooding in Iowa was caused by global warming driving up the humidity. But water vapor only stays in the air for 10 days, whereas it has been 10 years since it's gotten any warmer — as University of Alabama, Huntsville confirms:

Tags: al gore, lies, climate change, mccain, global warming hoax, moonbattery.com

Nobel Peace Prize Misused

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:04:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And if they give it to a gasbag like Algore and the "Never Met A Palestinian Terrorist I Didn't Love" Carter - then we know they are not following Nobel's wishes.

Clip Source: www.aftenposten.no

Veteran peace activist Fredrik S. Heffermehl, thinks that most of the Nobel Peace Prizes that have been given conflict with Alfred Nobel’s will and testament.

Al Gore and the Panel on Climate Change, Muhammad Yunus, Wangari Maathai, Shirin Ebadi, Mohamed El-Baradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA are among the many awards which Heffermehl think conflict with Nobel’s wishes.

"Disarmament and anti-militarism was what Nobel wanted to promote," says Heffermehl to Aftenposten’s English Desk.

In his book Nobels vilje (Nobel’s Will), analyses all the 118 Peace Prizes which have been awarded from 1901 until 2007. Up to 1940 some 85 percent of the prizes were in accordance with Nobel’s wishes. Since the Second World War a mere 45 percent make the grade. Only one of the prizes given during the last seven years fit Nobel's criteria.

Tags: nobel, peace, will

Scientists create solar cells with a twist.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:53:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I suppose it won't be hard to have the power to at least power a Laptop. Perhaps a Solar powered tent for camping. We are finding new ways to transform energy into media we can use, and it, with the open information on the web is only bound to improve dramatically

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Julie Steenhuysen

US researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars.

The finding, published in the journal Nature Materials, offers a new way to process conventional silicon by slicing the brittle wafers into ultrathin bits and carefully transferring them onto a flexible surface.

"We can make it thin enough that we can put it on plastic to make a rollable system. You can make it grey in the form of a film that could be added to architectural glass," says Professor John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research.

"It opens up spaces on the fronts of buildings as opportunities for solar energy."

Solar cells, which convert solar energy into electricity, are in high demand because of higher oil prices and concerns over climate change.

Rogers says his technology uses conventional single crystal silicon.

Meltdown: A global warming travelogue

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:25:46 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

For a long time -- the first 15 years that we knew about global warming and did nothing -- there were no pictures. That was one of the reasons for inaction.

Climate change was still "theoretical," the word that people in power use to dismiss anything for which pictures do not exist. It is the reason we don't see shots of coffins coming back from Iraq; it's the reason the only prison abuse we really know about was at Abu Ghraib. Without pictures, no uproar; not in a visual age.

But now the pictures have started to come, and they will not cease.

Hear Braasch describe his photos in an audio slideshow »

Political Satire Stronger Than Candidates

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:20:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a good article about extra-wonderful satire and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (the first quote clipped here)...and a couple of nice slashes at Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden.

These comedy sketches are becoming more well-known than the candidates themselves. Many folks now, when they hear Palin speak, wonder ahead to how SNL will parody it.

Palin, certainly, gives the comics a lot of material to work with.

A link to a video of the skits is at the bottom of this article.

With the elections just a bit more than three weeks from now, we have to "press on," -- these Republicans are like vampires and to kill them you really have to drive a stake through their heart: They're not dead till they're dead.

At least with our talented comics we not only can 'press on,' but laugh-on as well.

Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

“Gwen, we don’t know if this climate change hoozie-what’s-it is man made or if it’s just a natural part of the ‘End of Days,’” she said. “But I’m not gonna talk about that. I would like to talk about taxes, because with Barack Obama, you’re gonna be paying higher taxes. But not with me and my fellow maverick. We are not afraid to get maverick-y in there and ruffle feathers and not got to allow that. And also, too, the great Ronald Reagan.”

“Look, I love John McCain,” he began. “He is one of my dearest friends. But at the same time, he’s also dangerously unbalanced. I mean, let’s be frank, John McCain - and again, this is a man I would take a bullet for - is bad at his job and mentally unstable. As my mother would say, ‘God love him, but he’s a raging maniac. And a dear, dear friend.”

parody of Biden’s schizophrenic feelings toward McCain.

New President faces Daunting International Agenda

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:27:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good luck, whoever wins. Why anyone wants this job, I will never know.

Clip Source: www.foreignaffairs.org

the next president will inherit a more difficult opening-day set of international problems than any of his predecessors have since at least the end of World War II.

He will have to reshape policies on the widest imaginable range of challenges, domestic and international. He will need to rebuild productive working relationships with friends and allies. He must revitalize a flagging economy; tame a budget awash in red ink; reduce energy dependence and turn the corner on the truly existential issue of climate change; tackle the growing danger of nuclear proliferation; improve the defense of the homeland against global terrorists while putting more pressure on al Qaeda, especially in Pakistan; and, of course, manage two wars simultaneously.

He will also need to change the relationship between the executive and the legislative branches after years of partisan political battle

Tags: politics, president, election, international

The SNL Biden/Palin Debate

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:38:20 GMT

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Clip Source: rawstory.com

Tina Fey reprised her role as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during a Saturday Night Live spoof of Thursday's debate.

Rapper and actress Queen Latifah played the role of moderator Gwen Ifill of PBS while cast member Jason Sudeikis spoofed Palin's Democratic opponent Sen. Joe Biden.

This is Fey's third skit parroting Palin's gaffes. SNL opened this season with a spoof of Palin and Sen. Hillary Clinton giving a press conference denouncing sexism in the media.

Several weeks later, Fey mocked Palin's highly ridiculed interview with CBS' Katie Couric.

In the latest episode of Fey's comic crusade against Gov. Palin, Fey spoofed the governor's stance on same-sex marriage, climate change as the "end of days," and being a "maverick."

"But don't think I don't tolerate gay people, because I do, I tolerate them with all my heart," Fey said. "And I know quite a few, too, not personally, but I know of them."

This video is from NBC's Saturday Night Live, broadcast October 4, 2008.

Tags: politics, satire, comedy

Solar rays drive global warming

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:13:07 GMT

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Clip Source: planetgore.nationalreview.com

Dr. Qing-Bin Lu, of Canada’s University of Waterloo, says NASA satellites and laboratory measurements show cosmic rays are the real cause of the seasonal hole in the earth’s ozone layer over the Antarctic.

Dr. LU says the severest ozone loss will occur over the South Pole this month — with another large ozone-triggered hole occurring around 2019.

If the South Pole gets an ozone-hole maximum in the coming weeks, it will strengthen the case for cosmic rays, and endorse a Modern Warming driven by solar variations rather than human-emitted CO2.

The solar model is already endorsed by oxygen isotopes in ice cores from both Greenland and the Antarctic, by microfossils in the sediments of nine oceans and hundreds of lakes worldwide, and by cave stalagmites from every continent plus New Zealand.

The case for a solar-driven climate is also strengthened by a drop in global temperatures over the past 18 months

forecast by the sunspot index since 2000, but was not predicted by the global climate models.

Tags: sun, global warming, climate change, science, religion, politics

Almanac Predicts Global Cooling

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:03:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: climate change Yes - global warming No.....

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The world is set for a "big chill," possibly a mini-ice age, according to the venerable and whimsical Old Farmer's Almanac, first published in 1792 and the United States' oldest continuously published periodical.

The 2009 edition, published earlier this month, predicts that the earth already has entered a sustained period of global cooling.

"The next 20 years, it's going to be colder," said Sarah Perreault, assistant editor of the Old Farmer's Almanac. "We do recognize that (global cooling) could be offset by greenhouse gasses and other human effects on the earth, but we're trending toward the cool period now."

The almanac is predicting a period of global cooling partly due to the lack of sunspots, a situation which some scientists believe causes cooling on the sun and, subsequently, the earth.

"Obviously we have more technology now," she said. "We have the benefit of having more information than he had, but it's basically the same."

Tags: climate change, global cooling

PALIN'S PLANS FOR POLAR BEARS

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:11:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you can call extinction a plan....

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Revealed: Oil-Funded Research in Palin's Campaign Against Protection For Polar Bear

Paper authored by known climate change sceptics • Governor suing over threatened species ruling

The Republican Sarah Palin and her officials in the Alaskan state government drew on the work of at least six scientists known to be sceptical about the dangers and causes of global warming, to back efforts to stop polar bears being protected as an endangered species, the Guardian can disclose. Some of the scientists were funded by the oil industry.

n official submissions to the US government's consultation on the status of the polar bear, Palin and her team referred to at least six scientists who have questioned either the existence of warming as a largely man-made phenomenon or its severity. One paper was partly funded by the US oil company ExxonMobil.

Palin,

responded last month by suing the federal government, to try to overturn the ruling

Kangaroo On The Climate Change Menu

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:49:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Roo in the stew ... beef and lamb will become to expensive for many households as climate change takes hold, the Garnaut report predicts."

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Kangaroo on the climate change menu

KANGAROO meat could become the staple diet for some households forced to give beef and lamb the chop to survive climate change.

That was the warning by the Rudd Government's top climate change adviser Ross Garnaut, who in releasing his report yesterday said Australians needed to prepare for a substantial rise in electricity and gas, food and petrol costs.

With food prices to rise, Professor Garnaut predicts households will "move away" from beef and lamb, "towards less emissions-intensive meat, such as chicken and pork".

Citing research, he said kangaroo meat "could again become important".

He said that if a way to reduce methane emissions from livestock wasn't found, seven million cattle and 36 million sheep could be replaced by 175 million farmed kangaroos.

"It's not an easy solution for Australia or the rest of the world," Professor Garnaut said.

"If we fail ... the failure of our generation will haunt humanity until the end of time."