Below is the text of the NYT Editorial which has the online summary in my post which if you click then you can also access all 3 reports on climate change. we all know that most Republicans are asleep at the switch of climate change and the environment, preferring to myopically to focus on employment, rather than the big picture. But dont think for a minute that the Democrats are much different. Government is, has been and always will be in support of business over environment. Think about it, Government, city, state and federal all are run off the tax revenues which employed people and businesses pay for there to be funds to operate or to paraphrase and old saying, money talks and bullshit (environment) walks. So dont expect big Brother do do much more than give you lip service when it comes to the environment, even when the ocean rises to turn Wash., DC back into a swamp which it was originally and then eventually an undersea amusement park. Also in todays NYT, check out the article, Buying Insurance Against Climate Change, ny-times/upshot, which I will also post after this one. Unfortunately, I dont mean to be an alarmist but, it will take much more than a simple insurance policy to have, as the writer of the article and Yale Economics Professor, Robert J. Shiller says, we need concrete action now to build a mechanism that will provide real help for the victims of climate change disasters. And continuing, In short, we need to worry about the potential for greater-than-expected disasters, especially those taht concentrate their fury on specific places or circumstances, many of which we cannot now predict. Or in other words, Shiller is saying that even the experts may not know what the f--k their talking about with all their scientific future forecast models of how extensive and intense global climate change will negatively impact our planet and more specifically the most susceptible areas in which there are 10s of millions of inhabitants living at sea level of coastlines and Islands around the world, as well as, drought prone areas. So stay tuned for a very hot and stormy summer and check out The Weather Channel article, El Niño Possible in 2014: Hurricane Season Impact? By Alan Raymond: Mar 6, 2014, weatheron El Nino, weather/news/el-nino-enso-warming-ocean-pacific-drought-hurricane-20140306 Btw, did I just hear my environmental alarm clock go off from my April GQ article, gq/life/mens-lives/201404/hoarders-disorder Willful Ignorance in Wyoming: NYT Editorial, 5/25/14 The year has already produced three alarming reports involving climate change. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the planet is warming, that humans and the burning of fossil fuels are largely responsible, and that the world must take aggressive, concerted action. The federal National Climate Assessment described frightening changes, including unusually severe and persistent droughts, already occurring in the United States. And two weeks ago, two groups of scientists reported that the West Antarctic ice sheet had begun to disintegrate irreversibly, a process that, over centuries, could cause a large and destructive rise in the oceans. My comment: Are you shitting me, did the NYT actually come out and say alarming reports. Sometimes I feel like Im that Marconi wireless operator, Jack Phillips, bbc/news/magazine-17631595, who kept typing out S.O.S ... we are sinking as the icecaps melt and the oceans rise and the weather gets even more unstable with extreme events like Sandy and droughts and floods around the world. In closing, Marconi was a thief who stole the wireless from its actual inventor, Nicola Telsa and only years later did the US Patent Office issue a joint patent to both. See link below and others which tell how Telsa was robbed by both Marconi and Edison/J.P. Morgan for the wireless and alternating current inventions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Continue reading the main story RELATED COVERAGE Roger Spears, a science teacher in Yoder, Wyo., wears his signature tie-dye lab coat during a lesson. He said new teaching standards promoted scientific inquiry.Science Standards Divide a State Built on Coal and OilMAY 18, 2014 Despite all this, many leading politicians continue to dispute the science and resist any effort to regulate and reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas. Among the prominent deniers are two Floridians — Senator Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott — whose state is greatly at risk from even modest and relatively short-term increases in sea levels. Continue reading the main story RELATED IN OPINION Editorial: Climate Disruptions, Close to HomeMAY 7, 2014 Some of this is to be expected in a political season, when politicians will do almost anything to prey on the public’s fear of job losses. What is truly depressing is the news that Wyoming’s State Legislature has become the first in the nation to reject the new national science standards for schools, standards that include instruction on the human contribution to climate change. The legislators’ action arose from various motives, including hostility to government regulation generally and, more specifically, any teaching that seems to threaten the coal, oil and natural gas industries that are important to Wyoming’s economy. But it seemed also to be a willful effort to leave a whole generation of children in the dark about climate science. This is more than standard-issue political posturing. It is madness.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 22:24:50 +0000
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