WRI Warns of Worsening Warming...

[ihaveaquestion]

Another think tank chimes in on the impending disaster of the planet....

WRI Warns of Worsening Warming as Climate Treaty Celebrates Tenth Year

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"We have not made significant progress in curbing global warming in the last decade. In fact, the latest scientific reports indicate that global warming is worsening," said Dr. Jonathan Pershing, director of WRI's Climate, Energy and Pollution Program. "We are quickly moving to the point where the damage will be irreversible. Unless we act now, the world will be locked in to temperatures that would cause irreparable harm. To stabilize the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases that lead to global warming, we must ultimately bring net emissions of these gases to near zero."
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0311-10.htm

I'm moving to Montana!

[NNadir]

1. Well, having an occupant of the WH who can't think or won't think

or hates thinking can't help. The fact that the person who runs the country having the most culpability in the Global Warming matter is the most dismissive of it, hasn't helped matters. It's amazing how stark this is, since the person actually elected to the Presidency had in fact written a book on the subject of Global Warming.

The assumption of power by G.W.Bush may end up being the greatest environmental disaster of all time, and it's absolutely amazing that such a castrophe could have turned on so little. It's ironic that a party calling itself "The Greens" expressed the opinion that somehow this wouldn't be so bad...

[mctrotter5]

2. Cronkite has good essay on Global Warming

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Read in Common Dreams, Cronkite article which speaks clearly to the attitudes of the Bushies toward clear evidence that we may be in BIG trouble on global warming. He also asks the question: Why isn't global warming the big issue in this campaign? Hope the Kerry team picks this up and starts the conversation. We need to act NOW! Maybe its just an odd spring but here in Northern California, we will soon end almost two weeks of record breaking heat. Feels like the end of May not mid March. :scared:

[LeftCoast]

3. Welcome to DU mctrotter5!

:hi:

[cprise]

4. Welcome to DU

Global warming isn't an issue with Kerry because, like Clinton and Bush, he won't support the Kyoto protocol.

[NNadir]

8. Clinton's administration helped write the Kyoto protocol.

This certainly makes the statement that "he support the Kyoto protocol" highly dubious.

He did what he could, but he faced an apoplectic reaction from the right:

http://www.buchanan.org/pa-97-1218.html

He also faced opposition on the left, like this myopic gem:



http://www.nirs.org/nukesandglobalwarming/NATIONALCALL-INDAY.htm

The Kyoto treaty was certainly not perfect, but it was an excellent start, and all that it potentially offered has been gratuitously destroyed for a few bucks.

This "there is no difference" between Clinton and Bush and "there is no difference between Kerry and Bush" is completely cynical and completely untrue. Such statements reflect an unsubtle mind which demands that every thought and plan be blurted and telegraphed to assauge one's pet issue. There is no surer way to lose, which is possibly why the "there is no difference" crowd never seems to manage more than two or three percent.

Bill Clinton could think and John Kerry can think in contrast to the beast occupying our government. That is 95% of the battle. John Kerry is certainly not running around, as I am, beating the "nuclear power is the best" drum. I imagine I might even hear anti-nuclear remarks from him during the campaign. But again, I trust him with our future because I know he can think.

[mctrotter5]

5. Just have to turn this Kerry around on this issue! Perhaps BEFORE he gets

the formal nomination is the time! Thanks for the welcome!:D

[mctrotter5]

6. Just have to turn this Kerry around on this issue! Perhaps BEFORE he gets

the formal nomination is the time! Thanks for the welcome!:D

[Boomer]

7. Uhh, you're headed in the wrong direction

I'm not sure there is a "right" direction anymore. But you might want to keep in mind that Montana and other western states appear to be headed for long-term droughts. Melt water from snow has been significantly reduced, as I believe has rainfall. The result is dying cattle and the possibilities of range wars over water rights. Not to mention that wild fires are ever more likely and dangerous as everything continues to dry up.