Stop Global Warming the Larry David way. Check it out, spread it around.

[Gabi Hayes]

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/

''Why I Am Marching

The virtual march is a perfect opportunity for the lazy man to do something good without having to expend any effort. This thing was made for me.''

seriously, please check this out, as well as the names on the list of participants.....note who's on it, Clarkies


Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Senator John McCain, (R-AZ)
John H. Adams - President, NRDC
Laurie David - Founder
Walter Cronkite
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA)
Denis Hayes - Organizer, the first Earth Day
Greg Nickels - Mayor of Seattle

Al Gore - Former Vice President (ACTUAL PRESIDENT)

Kevin Knobloch - President, Union of Concerned Scientists
Reverend William Sinkford - President, Unitarian Universalist Association

Eliot Spitzer - New York Attorney General
Dennis Rivera - President of 1199SEIU New York's Health & Human Service Union

Gavin Newsom - Mayor of San Francisco
Timothy Wirth - President, United Nations Foundation
Pete McCloskey, (R-CA) - Former Member of Congress 1967-1983
Robert "Birdlegs" Caughlan - Former President, Surfrider Foundation
Senator Joseph Lieberman, (D-CT) {'douchebag for compromise'}
R. James Woolsey - former Dir., CIA
Richard Blumenthal - CT Attorney General
Bill Lockyer - CA Attorney General
Peg Lautenschlager - Attorney General of Wisconsin
Bill McKibben - Author
Senator Maria Cantwell, (D-WA)
Rabbi David Saperstein - Dir., Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

General Wesley Clark

Andy Stern - President, SEIU
Richard Klausner - Exec Dir., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Father Paul Mayer - Co-Founder, Climate Crisis Coalition
Ross Gelbspan - Author, Pulitzer Prize Winner
Gus Speth - Dean, Yale School Forestry & Environmental Studies
Leonardo DiCaprio - Actor, Environmental Activist
Martha Marks - Pres., REP America
Susan Joy Hassol - Independent Scholar
Michael Oppenheimer - Professor of Geosciences, Princeton
Larry David

[Gabi Hayes]

1. this stays up, one way or the other

[Gabi Hayes]

2. ho hum...who cares...

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0218-07.htm

To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, the world will little note nor long remember the inhabitants of the Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. But these 11,000 people, who live on nine coral atolls a few hundred miles northwest of American Samoa, have earned a distinction, however dubious. They may comprise the first country to pay the ultimate price for a changing climate: national extinction. Rising sea levels are gradually inundating Tuvalu.
Last year, the citizens of Tuvalu started looking for a new home, appealing to New Zealand and Australia to help in the full-scale evacuation of Tuvalu's population. After an apparent rebuff from Australia, the first group of Tuvalu evacuees is due to leave for New Zealand this year. And on the nearby island nation of Kiribati, a similar future may be in store because rising ocean water is beginning to destroy coastal roads and crops.

The fate of Tuvalu reminds us that the world really is heating up and that global warming is not just an environmentalist scare tactic. The 1990s was the hottest decade on record. Worldwide, glaciers are in retreat and ocean levels are rising. If current trends persist, Montana's Glacier National Park might well be without glaciers in 30 years. Likewise, Africa's celebrated snows of Kilimanjaro might soon melt into history. Despite the efforts by some industry groups to discredit the science behind global warming, the U.S. public doesn't buy it. Indeed, recent polls show that a majority of Americans are concerned about the impacts of global warming on the health of people and the environment and believe that the U.S. government should take action to prevent it.

There are good reasons why the average American should care about global warming. Our cities will get hotter, and heat stress mortality among the elderly will likely rise. Higher temperatures will lead to higher sea levels, which means that many coastal areas such as New Orleans' French Quarter and lower Manhattan will be at risk from flooding unless billions are spent on dikes and other measures

[Gabi Hayes]

3. corporations working to undermine efforts to halt climate change

note the date

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/envronmt/tncwarm.htm



Top medical specialists on the effects of global warming on human health Friday accused energy corporations of working to undermine international efforts to halt climate change.

The attack came amid growing controversy at a two-week United Nations conference on how far to limit the "greenhouse gas" emissions, mainly from burning of oil and coal, blamed by key scientists for rising world temperatures.

"The fossil fuel lobby is beginning to behave like the tobacco industry did 30 years ago, as adverse health effects of smoking first emerged," Anthony McMichael of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said.

"It is using a typical rearguard action, through attempts at distortion, delaying tactics and making enough noise to drown out the arguments for strong moves by the world's political leaders to cut emissions," he told a news conference.

The fossil fuel lobby, he said, sensed that in what was for them "a big deal issue," governments were beginning to recognize that climate change was affecting not only farms, forests and fisheries but could have an impact "on the well-being, the health, and in some instances the survival of human communities."

[Independent_Liberal]

4. I see R. James Woolsey on there...

Isn't he a PNACer?

[Gabi Hayes]

5. yeah....I was going to comment on that....don't get his game

he's a real Ahole apologist for the intel community, among other things

he also has financial ties with some very sleazy operations. that said, I'm pretty sure his "interest" in this is also financial, as I recall reading that he's also working with/investing in some sort of alternate energy deal

why am I not buying much of what he has to say here?

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/06/07/little-woolsey/index.html

[Gabi Hayes]

6. basics/plus, for those who don't know/care

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-in-depth/

[Gabi Hayes]

7. relax, have a drink, and have a bedtime read

In 2000, President Bush promised that, if elected, he would work to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming.1

Yet, upon taking office, he withdrew American support from the Kyoto Treaty to regulate carbon dioxide,2
and he dismissed a report from his own Environmental Protection Agency pointing out carbon dioxide's critical role in global warming.3

Now, with the White House having done nothing to address the growing problem, elected attorneys from New York City and eight states filed a lawsuit this week to force five utilities to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.4


Why has President Bush reversed his position on carbon dioxide/global warming, and why has he refused to confront these energy companies himself? Because they are among the top donors to Republicans and the Bush-Cheney campaign.

click here for some big donors who benefitted egregiously:

http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=8270&fcategory_desc=Bush%20Environmental%20Impact