rssBoxer: ‘America Is Acting on Global Warming’
Monday, December 14, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) will travel to Copenhagen this week to tell delegates at the international climate talks that the Senate will not pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. His aim is to sink a global climate deal by undermining the Obama administration’s pledge to cut the United States’ carbon levels as part of an international treaty.
But Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, is determined not to let Inhofe get the last word. “Pressing Senate business,” she says, prevents her from traveling to Copenhagen, so she just delivered the speech she was planning to give in Denmark in the EPW hearing room, and she’ll be circulating it to delegates in Copenhagen.
She titled the speech “America Is Acting on Global Warming,” and that’s the basic thrust of her message: that Inhofe and his Republican cohorts are simply wrong that America isn’t ready to tackle climate change.
“There are those, including my ranking member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Inhofe, my friend, who are determined to claim that the U.S. will not take action to reduce global warming,” Boxer said. “Well, my good friend Sen. Inhofe is entitled to his opinion, but he’s not entitled to his own facts. I’m here today to set the record straight. America has already acted, we will continue to act, and we are doing more each day.”
She pointed to climate action by her home state of California, as well as regional cap-and-trade programs around the country. She also claimed — a bit optimistically — that climate activists are getting “better and better news from the Senate every day.”
Of course, if the developing countries in Copenhagen make good on their threat and preclude a global treaty by walking out of the climate talks, this could all be a moot point.
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Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 2:59 pm
A model exists that accurately predicts average global temperatures since 1895. Consideration of CO2 or any other ghg is not needed. Google 'dan pangburn' 'time integral' and select the climate research site. The model and a graph are revealed in the research described in the pdf dated Oct 16.
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
There is a ton on money being spent on radio right now in western PA (coal country) trying to tell everyone that there will be no jobs if climate change legislation passes and that the democrats are basically out to kill the American dream. I see they are spending lots of money to get people to post BS scientific evidence in the blogosphere too. These people need to Google “James Hansen”
Bottle line, please don't believe everything you read, see or hear. Look at the real data and form your own opinion. If you can't make sense of it, then stay out of the debate.
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Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 9:40 pm
Global Warming-IS- Human / Industrial Pollution
The best indisputable SCIENCE example that should be the #1 item on the Copenhagen Agenda would be the toxic waste dump, the size of Texas, 900 miles off of the United States and Canadian West Coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreatPacificGarbag…
That is a Big SCIENCE problem with no dedicated U.S SCIENCE and INNOVATION DEPARTMENT to address the issue. The U.S (or Canada) has not even sent out a SCIENCE research vessel to evaluate this ecological disaster; neither country wants to take the responsibility for the industrial/human pollution or even acknowledge its existence.
No Profit-No Action!-No SCIENCE! Will the World Trade Organization and the New Industrial World Order address the issue? Where is their World SCIENCE Department?
Can the problem be solved with SCIENCE? Probably so, Americans are very ingenious primarily because we were raised with the compliments of Freedom and Democracy and are free thinking individuals. We could probably figure a way to clean up the mess and possibly make a profit doing so.
We can do nothing until we have a DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE that is free to address SCIENCE and to develop the advancement of SCIENCE. (Yes, for the sake of humanity; SCIENCE FIRST-PANDERING SECOND.)
Comment posted December 14, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
I could be paddling a rowboat down Market Street in San Francisco after the poles have melted, and there will still be conservative fanatics who deny that humans are responsible for Global Warming or that it is even real. I invite you to my web-pages devoted to raising awareness on this urgent issue: http://pltcldscsn.blogspot.com/2009/12/conserva…
Comment posted December 15, 2009 @ 8:58 am
Quick and radical changes are possible, and we proved it in WWII. We can probably solve global warming with a lot less effort than what was needed to win that war. Our grandparents knew the real meaning of sacrifice. Don't our grandchildren deserve the same?
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/12/world-war-ii.html
Comment posted December 15, 2009 @ 1:58 pm
Quick and radical changes are possible, and we proved it in WWII. We can probably solve global warming with a lot less effort than what was needed to win that war. Our grandparents knew the real meaning of sacrifice. Don't our grandchildren deserve the same?
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/12/world-war-ii.html
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