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"I was half-listening to NPR's Talk of the Nation on Monday afternoon when I heard some remarks which got my full attention. Host Neal Conan was talking with various guests at the Aspen Environmental Forum on getting people to pay attention to the realities of global warming. I have numbered and emphasized the crucial passages.
George Divoki Well, when I look at climate change, I'm always most impressed with the physical data. Given what is happening to glaciers around the world and given the fact that it is now an almost certainty that the Arctic pack ice will disappear in the 21st century, that is the sort of information and certainly what Craig is finding out and what I'm finding out are good stories to tell about climate change. But when you see that sort of data being reported by the media and the public just basically accepting, oh yes, soon we won't have a polar ice cap in the summer, it just indicates to me that somehow the story needs to be brought to the forefront and the consequences of that ice loss; 50 years down the road, what will be happening in North America due to that ice loss needs to be brought up."
We don't have 50 years.
At 2C degree Over shoot, Methan Fountaining at the Arctic Circle begins.
The Amazon turns from Sink to Emitter of CO2.
The Deniers' Fantasy World: EIA Projects 40% Rise ... -
Sep 21, 2011 The EIA assumes virtually no new climate and clean energy policies in their reference case. ... increase at an average annual rate of 1.3 percent from 2008 to 2035 .... Hansen said earlier in the year that even a 1.5 degree rise above .... 5-6 deg C temp rise for a doubling of CO2; by the late 1950′s there ...
A police commander said on condition of anonymity that more than a hundred people were killed here however we have been told to stay mute about the casualties. He further said the second floor has still not been cleared (second day) while ambulances were making consecutive trips till nearly dusk time. The said person adds that after the attack, the area was cordoned off by foreign troops until dusk time and even the minister of interior was not allowed near the site. The foreign forces evacuated the dead foreign nationals from the scene then allowed the internal intelligence agency to participate in the clear up however the number of killed, most of whom were foreigners is still not known but the said person says that he believes the number reaches into hundreds. The commander who does not want to be named adds that he has never seen such destruction while all the workers near Qargha lakeside have been told to not talk to any news outlets about the casualties.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m89179&hd=&size=1&l=e
Just a note here on how Media are so selective with the Taliban site,
Reuters, et al, but NEVER do they quote actual Battle Posts from there....never.....;}
Michael Weiss Michael Weiss is the Communications Director of The Henry Jackson Society, a foreign policy think tank, as well as the co-chair of its Russia Studies Centre. A native New Yorker, he has written widely on English and Russian literature, American culture, Soviet history and the Middle East. Follow @michaeldweiss
Turkey asks Nato about a no-fly zone as Syria makes it clear that it's ready to fight dirty
per antiwar....
Justin needs to be more careful of who he puts up as sources.
Weiss is either MI6, CIA or MOSSAD. IF you think there's a difference....;}
The psychological literature does indeed say that if you scare people too much, they'll just turn off and say global warming isn't happening. And it's true, that's what people do, and of course this characteristic human behavior is not helpful as we face the future. Denial only makes a bad situation worse. Those who have not reacted this way to dire climate forecasts have remained upbeat because they believethey've been told by "experts" they trustthat solutions to the climate problem are readily available and cheap to implement. (For example, see my post Understanding Paul Krugman's View Of The Future.)
Optimists are becoming less sanguine as time goes on and no actions are taken, but if people actually understood what is required to fix global warming, many of them would probably react the way the North Carolina Senate did when they voted to ignore future sea level rise....
Experts say there are no clear answers to what comes next for Stockton or how its fall will affect the rest of the state. Other cities hit hard by the housing bust and state budget crisis are negotiating with employee unions for concessions and are watching to see if municipal bankruptcy proves medicine or poison.
See Greece and the EZ for details.
First one squeezing thru the door wins.
Expect everyone to look to get the SAME BEST DEAL.
The USSA disintegrates....
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 9:32:55 ET Reply Trace Private Reply Edit #2. To: All (#1)
Went to my Wal MArt last night about 7.
IT was a ghost town.
Now this Wal Mart is one of Wal Marts Flagship stores.
A Model for it's system.
MY wife asked where were the Greeters.
The guy at the register said they'd been let go.
So how were we to mark Returns? (Formerly the Greeters' job.)
'Just go strait to Customer Service.'
A wizened Lady at a cash register next to, overhearing, stated (Like I said, They were DEFINITELY not busy;}
Next, Begging the Question:
'So what happens if the beeper goes off'.
And Everyone understood immediately what my wife meant by that....LMAO...8D
Wizened Lady:
'O it happens regularly, especially if I'm checking people out. They wave over their shoulder to me and I wave back.....'
The chart on the right shows U.S oil consumption. Take a look at the past few years: oil consumption has dropped nearly 2 million barrels per day since 2007. Over the same period, U.S. imports of oil have dropped 2.1 million barrels per day.
That's 4 MMBD and what the author does not realize is that,
Yes, we can and WILL stop oil imports.
The problem is the reason we're stopping.
There's No Return on Consumption.
No burning/wasting oil, no economic growth.
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
And speaking of debt...
How does the Lender get his collateral back on a loan for oil when the oil has been burned up....;}
Red, Miss Jimmie considers the USA "Fundie HQ". Ain't that funny?? What with all the drag queens, Gay Canaries, La Razas, Sharptons, Mexicans, Fascist-Atheists, Marxists, Tree-Huggers, mutant punks, and Union Thugs marching and parading around on CNN and MSNBC, WHO KNEW??
Yeah, some folk need to push away from the computer a bit and take a stroll down main street USA to get a reality check.
As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. -Proverbs 27:17 (NKJV)
Wanted to give you a head's up that I mentioned you on another board...
Political / Re: Nuns vs. Romney: The Sisters Hit the Battleground State of Ohio « on: Today at 11:34:11 AM »
Quote from: brownsfan on Today at 11:14:33 AM
I know you *lie* with regularity,
Offering information that stands in direct opposition to your separate reality does not obviate that information and render it into one or several falsehoods.
In other words, your *arguments* are regularly decimated by me to the point of humiliation. This results in your melting down, calling me a lair and then attacking me personally.
That is a pattern that both you and MusicLady repeat ad infinitum. The host at LP, also an Ohioan, routinely suffers a similar fate at my hand and responds in like fashion to yours.
My conclusion? You Ohioans are pretty eff en stupid.
I'll believe that a corporation is a person 1 second after Texas executes one...
The chart on the right shows U.S oil consumption. Take a look at the past few years: oil consumption has dropped nearly 2 million barrels per day since 2007. Over the same period, U.S. imports of oil have dropped 2.1 million barrels per day.
That's 4 MMBD and what the author does not realize is that,
Yes, we can and WILL stop oil imports.
The problem is the reason we're stopping.
There's No Return on Consumption.
No burning/wasting oil, no economic growth.
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
And speaking of debt...
How does the Lender get his collateral back on a loan for oil when the oil has been burned up....;}
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 10:14:53 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
Which is why that Stat above also tells us how bad the Depression now is....;}
That could be part of it. However, the freeways and toll roads are still full of cars. Traffic is as bad as ever here in SoCal.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, also known as the Bishop of Corum
Robin posted on 2012-06-29 10:20:58 ET Reply Trace Private Reply #3. To: Robin (#2) (Edited)
That could be part of it. However, the freeways and toll roads are still full of cars. Traffic is as bad as ever here in SoCal.
4 MMBD from 22 MMBD = 18 MMBD.
www.ceridianindex.com/index.php
The UCLA pulse of Commerce Index.
It's rolling over now.
To match this.
And Wonder how each and every one of those vehicles is paying for the fuel/car they're driving....;}
mcgowanjm posted on 2012-06-29 13:10:25 ET (1 image) Reply Trace Private Reply
Looking forward to nothing but crickets here from all the totally diverse knowledgeable not Homosexual But not liking uppity women either all white men....LMFAO
As a cavalry scout, it is my job to stay hidden. Wearing a uniform that stands out this badly makes it hard to do our job effectively, he said. If we can see our own guys across a distance because of it, then so can our enemy.
The fact that the government spent $5 billion on a camouflage design that actually made its soldiers more visible and then took eight years to correct the problem has also left people in the camouflage industry incensed. The total cost comes from the Army itself and includes the price of developing the pattern and producing it for the entire service branch.
So, pray tell, how exactly did this particular clusterfuck happen, anyway?
The problem, the researchers said, was an oddly named branch of the Army in charge of equipping soldiers with gear Program Executive Office Soldier had suddenly ordered Naticks camouflage team to pick a pattern long before trials were finished.
They jumped the gun, said James Fairneny, an electrical engineer on Naticks camouflage team.
Researchers said they received a puzzling order: Take the winning colors and create a pixilated pattern. Researchers were ordered to basically put it in the Marine Corps pattern, Fairneny said.
For a decision that could ultimately affect more than a million soldiers in the Army, reserves and National Guard, the sudden shift from Program Executive Office Soldier was a head-scratcher.
LMFAO...even now this ARMY guy has ZERO idea of how ....
revealing.....;}....
his statement is:
" Its worth noting that, flawed as it was, the universal pattern did solve the problem of mismatched gear, said Eric Graves, editor of the military gear publication Soldier Systems Daily, adding that the pattern also gave soldiers a new-looking uniform that clearly identified the Army brand."
Yep...A CLEARLY IDed Army Guy...and that's EXACTLY what the Army was looking for....LMFAO...you can't make this up.
Roberts voted how he did because health insurance companies are absolutely desperate for the money they will get from the mandate. All of the legitimacy arguments are bullshit, about 70% of Americans opposed the mandate.(pdf) This is more similar to TARP than anything else: it is a massive corporate giveaway, opposed by the majority of the population, and passed over their dissent.