Washington D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, is pleased to announce the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled “A Skeptic’s Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming."
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/28/inhofe-diatribe/
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/9/25/17124/9789
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=97
Global Warming.... isn't that just the deal? i live on long island, it was formed by a glacier. the glacier melted a long time before i bought my first SUV. Hasn't the earth been warming since the ice age?
I don't understand how these greenies can be so arrogant that they think we can reverse or slow down that process.
you live on a peninsula, not at island. donkeyhue lives on an island (or so i'm led to believe).
I am a rock. I am an island.
I believe long island is in fact an island. there is no natural connection to the mainland, or even to the island of manhattan.
Either way, it was formed by a glacier and that glacier melted away before lily poofed up her big hair with the old school cfc hairsprays.
i can't believe the existence and significance of climate change is even up for debate. it's pretty much a scientific consensus.
what we should be talking about are market-based incentives to reduce pollution.
I didn't read the link that donkey put in there, but i don't think there's too much debate that the climate is always changing, i think the cause is the debate. Personally, i believe it's a natural occurrance.
No its not Donsky. Just as one example Rhino pointed out how some think cow farts impact global warming more than man. Now Im sure you could find me a study where they say man is more repsonsible. Consensus my ass.
The gist of Inhofe's report is dead on right. Its trendy right now to say the world is going to end next week if we all dont start driving Prious'.
The algore ecojackasses use scare tactics strictly to increase funding and destroy industry without any difinitive proof as to the cause or cure.
the auto industry needs to retool for a variety of reasons, one of which is to lessen our dependance on oil, particularly foreign oil. which we all know is non-renewable resource.
so get thee to your prius dealer, man.
i wouldn't drive a prius if they paid me.... wait i take that back, i would drive it if they paid me. but that's the only way i would drive it.
Does that make me a whore?
you don't want to get 50 miles per gallon? you feel comfortable getting 15 mpg with your souped up escalade?
and no, that's not what makes you a whore.
I want to get 50 miles per gallon, but those cars are just flat out ugly. just not my style. I'd rather drive a volvo!
one of which is to lessen our dependance on oil
If our oil dependency is a key component of your concern....do you support exploratory drilling in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico?
i believe that our dependence on oil is a given, and unfortunately until we have developed viable alternative fuels for cars, and energy sources for industry and buildings, and until we begin to integrate the use of "green" products in general, we have no choice but to continue feed the the giant petroleum-eating monster that we have become and that includes exploring for oil, wherever it may be.
but i think that we should be prioritizing mass transportation, alternative energy sources and fuels, and the development of greener products.
as donsky noted, investment needs desparately to happen in those areas.
i never said there was consensus about whether global warming is caused by man (it's notoriously difficult to prove cause and effect relationships when dealing with complicated phenomena such as climate change; nevertheless, there is a strong correlation between humanity's productivity and environmental change, and that can't be denied by anyone looking at the facts).
the consensus is that the climate is changing and that environmental catastrophe the likes of which we've never seen is a strong enough probability that we should do something about it.
now if you believe that nothing we can do will save us (because, let's face it, the rapture is coming anyway and who cares about the heathens "left behind"?), that's one thing.
but i'd say your a damn fool who doesn't understand the long-term ramifications. and so would 98% of the scientific community.
and my mom. my mom would say you're a damn fool.
so we should be talking about solutions. market-based ones.
sure, we should create incentives for consumers, but more importantly, we need to create a complementary currency in the form of "pollution vouchers," modeled off of the "land development voucher" system (it has a formal name i don't remember) that has worked so well in places that had both vast swaths of important natural resources/habitats and huge demands for development, like florida.
basically, private parties buy and sell these vouchers (equifax became a major re-seller in florida, i believe) on the marketplace.
so how it would work is that companies that don't pollute or create clean technologies would be rewarded with these vouchers, which they would then sell to companies that want to pollute more than they're allowed to by law.
that's one idea.
others?
and regarding oil dependence, we are headed for a very ugly, dramatic shift in our lifestyle down the road. hopefully we'll all be dead by then.
Thank goodness for Donksy. The voice of reason.
I dont know if you really like volvos or you are mocking me again. (I've had a few and the turbo was very cool. I crash alot though, so I need such cars. I should be a city girl with mass transit)I dont want to think as you do that everything is about me. Is the Lily big hair remark about me?
So I briefly had big hair. So TBR got a picture.So everyone laughed at me. It was NOT my Poison poster in the background and that upset me more about the pic than the big hair. Rhino the girl who owned it lives in Centereach. You could go ask her. She probably secretly still likes Poison too.
Plus shes hot.
I'm thinking of cutting it off for "locks of love" for cancer. I'm tired of getting proofed, I need to "mature".
I think the vouchers are one good direction to go in. And I absolutely think we are society in which perhaps only market-incentives will work. That, and prestige:
http://www.hearstcorp.com/tower/
The Hearst Corporation is certainly bragging that its headquarters building is the first commercial building in New York to have gotten LEED certified as "Green." (I don't know what happened over the past year or so, because I was told previously that they were going to get "Platinium.")
A green building is marginally more expensive in the short term to build, but operating costs in the long term will be significantly less because it solar energy, recycles water and has more efficient heating, ventilation and air condition.
I work mostly in the public sector (but I was hired briefly to do some minor work on the Hearst building as a friend of mine is the project manager for the developer), but LEED certification has been a VERY VERY important aspects in Federal buildings for several years now.
www.usgbc.org/
www.nrdc.org/buildinggreen/leed.asp
Oh, and EB, my advice: enjoy being proofed as long as you can, because there will come a day, when you will be pissed off that no one is proofing you anymore. I think that's the day when they start calling you "ma'am" ... now THAT really pisses me off.
I don't need to be reminded that I'm 28, not 24.
;)
donsky, i'm sure you heathens will be screwed anyway, but i don't want it to be because of some crazy environmental catastrophe.
I would remind you however that there was a time when all the great scientists said the earth was flat, man would never walk on the moon (donkey still thinks that one's a fake by the way) and man could never run a 4 minute mile.
There was also a time not too long ago that they KNEW that we were heading for another ice age.
Now i'm not saying we can't take some precautions and i'm not saying we shouldn't try to be better stewards of the environment, but what i am saying is that we shouldn't destroy the economy of the world and especially the U.S. because SOME scientists are CURRENTLY saying that we need to do something or another.
Lily, all i have to say to you is:
Cause baby we'll be
At the drive-in
In the old man's Ford
behind the bushes
till I'm screamin' for more
Down the basement
lock the cellar door
And baby
Talk dirty to me
Lily, don't act like you don't like poison
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