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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:28:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL AND MAN-MADE. GET IT THROUGH YOUR TINY SKULL. I happen to know this personally as 30 years ago I had the pleasure of mountaineering on some of Alaska's glaciers. Now, these once huge glaciers are nearly gone. In only 30 years and disappearing faster and faster. So you tell me, dork brain, what other possible explanation is there? Duh. Quit parroting the corrupt Exxon PR BS. Exxon has a standing offer out for $$$$$$$$ to any scientist willing to sell out and claim global warming doesn't exist. Every single one who has claimed this is being paid off by Exxon. Every single one. So shut up and start suppporting life on earth, nimwit.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:45:11 PM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 173976

Propaganda Funded by farking Yankee idiots.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:48:15 PM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 173976

No, this one: canada.com Study reveals growing evidence of global warming Margaret Munro , Canwest News Service Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 A vast array of physical and biological systems - from polar bears in the Arctic to tiny krill in the Southern Ocean - are showing the effect of the world's rising temperature, say scientists who analyzed more than 30,000 sets of data stretching back to 1970. Shrinking glaciers, melting permafrost, earlier spring river runoff, and warmer water bodies point to pervasive physical changes, they say. And earlier spring blossoms, bird migrations and altered distribution - salmon showing up in the Arctic, the mountain pine beetle expanding into vast tracks of Western Canada's forests - point to the many biological impacts. Polar bears walk at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec in this March 6, 2008 file photo. Polar bears were listed on May 14, 2008 as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because of damage to their sea ice habitat, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced. Polar bears walk at St-Felicien Wildlife Zoo in St-Felicien, Quebec in this March 6, 2008 file photo. Polar bears were listed on May 14, 2008 as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act because of damage to their sea ice habitat, U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced. "Significant changes in physical and biological systems are occurring on all continents and in most oceans," the international team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. The study builds on the work of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year concluded that human-induced climate warming is "likely" - within 66 to 90 per cent probability - having a "discernible" effect on physical and biological systems. The new study mined even more data and concludes human-influenced climate change is the main driver of the changes being observed, outstripping the more modest effects of deforestation and other land-use changes. "Anthropogenic climate change is having a significant impact on physical and biological systems globally," says the team, led by Cynthia Rosenzweig of The Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York. The team analyzed data from of hundreds of studies published in peer-reviewed journals since 1970 and is the first to "formally" link observed global changes in physical and biological systems to human-induced climate change and greenhouse, says Francis Zwiers, director of climate research at Environment Canada. "Making the link using a rigorous scientific method is a pretty big advance," says Zwiers, co-author of a commentary on the study, also in Nature. The study is not without its limitations, says Zwiers. It would be better to have evidence stretching back 50 to 100 years. But he says the new study "largely overcomes the sampling limitations because of the sheer number of changes" included in the assessment. Zwiers says scientists are now working to refine models to forecast the change that can be expected in coming years and decades, impacting everything from crop yields to hydroelectric power generation to the spread of insects and microbes associated with infectious diseases. "The more precise we can make the information the better off we will be," says Zwiers, noting that society is "going to have to be making all kinds of adaptation decisions." While it may not feel particularly warm in many parts of Canada this spring, Zwiers says the long-term trend is towards warming. Even if the world collectively managed to freeze greenhouse-gas emissions at current levels, scientists says the climate is already "committed" to significant warming for hundreds of years to come. The climate system is "a noisy chaotic system and there is a lot of natural variation," says Zwiers, cautioning against reading too much into the cold spell in Canada. "You have to very careful about local perceptions," Zwiers said in a telephone interview from the Netherlands where he is attending scientific meetings and enjoying the unusually hot weather. "People are walking around in their tank tops and restaurants are conducting business on their patios," he said, adding that it also uncomfortably warm at night in his hotel room that has no air conditioning. "And it's only May."

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:50:51 PM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 173976

If the UK "officially" acknowledges that GW has "stopped", then why are they putting carbon capture on the fast track???? You're such a gullible dweeb, you are. Global warming: Government puts carbon capture on fast track · Four energy groups to bid for demonstration project · E.ON's Kent coal-fired station may use system * Terry Macalister * The Guardian, * Tuesday July 1, 2008 * Article history The government has stepped up the pace of change in the battle against global warming by announcing a shortlist of four bidders pre-qualifying for its carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project and outlining a proposed new legislative framework for "clean coal". Among the bidders are E.ON, which wants to use CCS for its controversial Kingsnorth coal-fired station in Kent, and BP, which recently scrapped plans to develop a trial project in Scotland because ministers appeared to be moving too slowly to meet its own internal timetable. Scottish Power and Peel Power are also included. John Hutton, the industry secretary, said CCS had the potential to capture 90% of carbon emissions from coal-fired power stations and its deployment would dovetail with a wider strategy which included renewable and nuclear generation. "The progress we are making with the CCS demonstration competition and on developing a sound legislative and regulatory framework will help to deliver our ambition to see CCS ready for commercial deployment by 2020," Hutton said. The minister, who announced a radical renewable energy strategy at the end of last week, will be pushing for CCS to be recognised by the European Union's emissions trading scheme and the clean development mechanism at the forthcoming meeting of G8 leaders. He said he wanted other countries to make similar commitments to what he said was a vital tool for tackling global warming. CCS is a system whereby carbon usually emitted from power stations is removed and transported to a place for indefinite storage. Different stages of the process have been demonstrated but the whole process has not yet been applied to power plants on a commercial scale. There are questions about the technology and cost. Most interested companies say they would need financial incentives. BP welcomed the decision last night but said it would probably be too late for planned trials with a plant to be built at Peterhead and using the North Sea Miller oil field for storage. It said it remained committed to developing alternative technologies. "We have always seen this [CCS] as a serious option," a spokesman said. Bob Taylor, managing director of generation at E.ON UK, said it was vital to develop a large-scale carbon capture project in the UK, to ensure the country could reduce carbon emissions while maintaining security of supply and keeping energy as affordable as possible. "We firmly believe that our Kingsnorth project, which is the only modern, highly efficient coal-fired power station currently in planning, is a strong candidate for this competition," he said. "We look forward to supplying the government with more detail about our plans and hopefully to making Kingsnorth into the world's first large-scale CCS demonstration plant." Independent experts said carbon capture was an exciting opportunity. "It is the great panacea. It would mean not having to do the hard things like changing the way we live," said Michael Grubb, chief economist at the Carbon Trust. "The trouble is that while everybody says it can be done, no one has yet done it. There are very big companies out there with very deep pockets but even they are not doing it." Meanwhile E.ON yesterday welcomed a high court decision to award legal protection for part of the Kingsnorth power station site ahead of the 2008 protest Camp for Climate Action. Climate campaigners fear E.ON will construct a new coal plant there with or without CCS.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:55:07 PM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 173976

The G8 is fighting GW. Wingnuts like the Dweeb refuse to acknowledge it. Major G8 tech investment to fight global warming, report says 2 days ago TOKYO (AFP) — The Group-of-Eight industrialised nations will jointly invest more than 10 billion dollars a year on research and development of technology to combat global warming, a report said Sunday. The plan, including research on underground storage of carbon dioxides, is included in a draft joint statement on economic policy to be adopted at the G8 summit scheduled for July 7-9 in Japan, the business daily Nikkei said. Climate change will dominate the summit which will bring together leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States to the northern Japan lakeside resort of Toyako. The Nikkei said it had obtained the outline of the draft statement. According to the draft, the G8 leaders will also seek an agreement on setting country-by-country goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the medium term from 2013, the daily said. They will also express their determination to avert a global economic crisis through coordinated efforts to deal with the impact of soaring oil and food prices, it added. On July 9, the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change (MEM), a 16-nation forum including China and India, will be held on the sidelines of the G8 summit and issue a separate statement, the daily said. The draft of the G8 economic statement points to the importance of imposing a long-term goal for cutting global emissions. But, because Japan and Europe differ with the United States over long-term numerical targets, a final decision on the question may be left to the G8 leaders when they meet at Toyako, the daily said. Japan and Europe want gas emissions to be halved around the world by 2050, while the United States is cautious about establishing such an ambitious goal, it added. The Nikkei said that the joint statement will clearly state the commitment of the G8 nations to setting quantitative goals in the future although it is unlikely to contain specific figures.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (127582)	7/1/2008 12:56:16 PM
From: Land Shark	Respond to of 173976

Cap and Trade is the only way... EPA agrees. EPA: Global warming a danger, emissions should be regulated Mon Jun 30, 2008, 09:00 AM EDT Medford - The Environmental Protection Agency was on its way towards finding global warming emissions to be a danger to public welfare, and that these emissions should be regulated in vehicles and fuels, according to a review of subpoenaed global warming documents by the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. The review of the documents follows a lengthy process of negotiation with the EPA and the White House, which started in January of 2008, and brings into serious question the administration’s u-turn on regulating global warming emissions. The documents are the draft regulatory recommendations from Dec. 5 and Dec. 14 of 2007, and were sent to the White House and to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for approval before reports indicate all work was stopped on the recommendations. The White House is now in the process of completing an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), which would be a step backwards in what the Select Committee has found to be an already advanced process towards regulating global warming emissions. Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the Select Committee, today sent a letter to the President on the documents, saying that any proposed rules disseminated from his administration should live up to the quality of recommendations put forward by his own EPA experts in climate and transportation. “This administration has shown its contempt for Congress, its contempt for the rule of law, and this administration’s handling of the Massachusetts v. EPA decision has shown its contempt for science,” said Markey. “The president has a short amount of time to alter his legacy as running the most environmentally-unfriendly administration in history, and he can start by listening to his own climate scientists and take action on global warming.” The letter, which is available on the Select Committee’s Web site at globalwarming.house.gov, outlines how the documents reviewed by the committee indicate that, along with global warming being a danger to public welfare and in need of regulation: · EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson determined that man-made global warming is unequivocal, the evidence is both compelling and robust, and the administration must act to prevent harm rather than wait for harm to occur before acting. · EPA found that global warming risks include severe heat waves, sea level rise, reduced availability of water, increased wildfire and insect outbreaks, an increase in heavy precipitation events, an increase in regional ground-level ozone pollution, and changes in the range of vector-borne diseases. · EPA proposed that regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles be implemented in order to achieve the equivalent of a 35 mpg car and light truck fleet average by 2018 (with the car fleet averaging 38.4 mpg by 2018 and the truck fleet averaging 29.5 mpg by 2017). · When EPA used the EIA 2007 high gasoline price projections of $2.75 in 2017 to $3.20 in 2030 to calculate standards, it found that the car fleet could achieve a standard of 43.3 mpg by 2018 and light trucks could achieve a standard of 30.6 mpg by 2017. EPA is set to release its draft ANPR soon, and the letter makes clear that any future regulations from the administration on global warming will be measured against the standards put forward by its own environmental and energy experts. The regulations reviewed were created in response to the Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, which directed the administration to make a determination on the danger posed by global warming and to propose regulations for reducing global warming emissions from motor vehicles and fuels. On May 14, 2007 the President directed EPA, along with other agencies, to prepare a regulatory response to by the end of 2007 and to complete it by the end of 2008. According to reports, EPA staff spent about 6 months developing this proposal, and transmitted both a positive finding of endangerment to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and a draft regulatory proposal to require the equivalent of a 35 miles per gallon (mpg) fuel economy standard from the fleet of cars and light trucks by 2018 to NHTSA in early December, 2007. A timeline of the negotiations between Markey and the administration on these documents is available on the Select Committee’s Web site here: globalwarming.house.gov.