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Climate Change/Global Warming Roundup
A New Year and a new US President who, when it comes to protecting the environment and understanding of our urgent need to get away from polluting fossil fuels, appears to be a complete opposite of his predecessor. Bush tried to push through a flurry of last minute regulations loosening rules on industry and energy companies but Obama's 60 day stop on all pending BUSH legislation seems to have halted most.
The World Economic Crisis, Obama taking office and a few other things have been dominating the news recently, but I'm writing here to remind you that Climate Change/Global Warming is still going on and to give you a round up of both the good and bad news. The internet is an open library of information for you the reader to research and come to your own opinions, I've established mine and I've seen nothing from sceptics such as Dam to change it. We are slowly but surely destroying our planet and betraying future generations with our wasteful way of life and addiction to fossil fuels.
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Putting aside for the moment Dams position and argument that CO2 is not responsible for climate change, let's take a quick look at the other reasons for changing our 20th Century energy era into a 21st Century one of cleaner and safer alternatives.
Ask yourself how many wars and deaths have been caused by oil and by governments and oil companies.
Ask yourself how many peoples have had their lives and environments destroyed in the search for and extraction of oil, coal and gas.
Ask yourself if you keep peeing and crapping into your bath if you will end up in a cess pit.
Sorry to be crude, but it's the only way I could think of to make the point.
Ask yourself to calculate the science behind Dams argument that CO2 is a component of plant growth, and include in your sums the amount of plant life that is being destroyed all over the World in the Amazon and elsewhere, while at the same time CO2 emissions continue to rise steadily. Add into that equation the scientific fact of natural carbon sinks absorbing less and tree dying faster.
You don't have to be a scientist to put 2 and 2 together, and now thankfully, the US has a new President that has reopened to science that Bush closed.
There are so many arguments and reasons to move our World forward when it comes to energy production, for our environment, for our economic future and for our children's future. It's called progress, and research and adoption of cleaner renewable energies will open many doors and possibilities in that future. All you have to do is consider the true cost of fossil fuels to understand that even if all the other reasons don't move you, then morally they must.
Dam on the other hand, would have you doubt the science and listen to morons like Booker and the pathetic and simplistic argument he puts forward. Climate Change, or Global Warming, is not going to bring gradual and mild changes, it's going to bring extremes, in fact it is already doing so. The term Warming is slightly misleading because while that is the overall trend, there are also going to be cold extremes too. Our climate is becoming imbalanced.
Dam would have you listen to people like Source Watch - Friends of Science.
I would rather have you watch this interview with the head of Shell. or read about the pollution in Ecuador and Chevron's attempts to threaten and blackmail in order to escape responsibility for their actions. Or perhaps read about their record in Nigeria.
And then tell me you think we should continue giving these people our money. If you read those links then I hope you will have a new perspective on the costs of oil and our dependence on it.
One last point. Sarah recently stated that the Dutchside is seeking cooperating with the French side on waste. I await the day when some visionary potential political aspirant comes with a proposal to do the same with energy, and not just with the French side, but the surrounding islands too. Co-operation will bring down the costs of transforming to cleaner energy for all of us consumers.
Caribdude
More news worth checking out below.
Obama’s Order Is Likely to Tighten Auto Standards - 25th January 2009
ECO-MYTH BUSTER: Antarctica Heating Up, Not Cooling as Widely Believed (Video) - 24th January 2009
Scientists solve enigma of Antarctic 'cooling' - 23rd January 2009
World's toughest wind turbines set to make debut off Germany's coast - 23rd January 2009
Collapse of the Clean Coal Myth - 22nd January 2009
President 'has four years to save Earth' - 18th January 2009
Study Warns of Threat to Coasts From Rising Sea Levels - 16th January 2009
Carrick Gareth's YouTube Channel
Climate scientists: it's time for 'Plan B'
Newsweek - Ban Ki-Moon - We’re In For Stormy Weather
Backyard reactors? Firms shrink the nukes.
Year of the hungry: 1,000,000,000 afflicted
