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Humanity Responsible For Current Climate Change
tehanu writes "Scientists working with Antarctic ice have found that the level of greenhouse gases is at the highest level in over half a million years. Carbon dioxide is 27% higher now than any other time over the last 650 000 years. Methane, an even stronger greenhouse gas is 130% higher. The period of time studied covers eight full glacial cycles including a time when the earth's position relative to the sun is the same as it is today. Other scientists have found that the annual rate at which the sea has risen since the industrial revolution is twice that of over the last 5000 years. It is predicted that by 2100 the sea level will be 40cm higher. These results provide strong evidence that human activity since the industrial revolution, rather than just natural processes, has strongly altered the world's climate. As one of the scientists involved in the research put it: 'The levels of primary greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide are up dramatically since the Industrial Revolution, at a speed and magnitude that the Earth has not seen in hundreds of thousands of years.'"
However, the world is not all that straight-forward.
The issue on hand is NOT oil, it is the control and money it brings with it.
Today's oil barons are ready to ditch oil in a moment's notice, PROVIDED, they can control the alternate source as easily as oil.
Any attempt to break that cartel will NOT succeed. They have been entrenched too long, too powerful, and too much moneyed to be ignored or broken easily.
To save the world from further ruin, we should collaborate with them.
If we are truly "for earth", Bio-diesel and portable nuclear fuel reactors may be the answer. However to be easily adopted, we need to "PROVE" that the same cartel that controls oil (iam not talking about OPEC), needs to be assured that they will still have absolute control over both supply and pricing of the new fangled energy sources.
There have been numerous attempts to replace oil with cleaner fuels, more cheaper sources, however, all have failed for the reason that the cartel is unwilling to relinquish control and will squash any attempt at dismantling the cartel.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
Where do you get the right to decide what behavior is right and wrong and then affect change through lies? How could you become so arrogant? At least with regards the environment, the cause is for good. Your pal, George W. Bush, did the same thing, except he did it to wage war and fill the coffers of Halliburton.
If you're trolling on Celiac its a worthy reason to come out from beneath your bridge. I'm a middle aged adult and I thought for years that I had attention deficit disorder. I recently discovered its Asperger Syndrome, part of the autism spectrum, and that gluten intolerance was very often a contributing factor.
I dropped wheat from my diet eight weeks ago and the results are astonishing. Forty is too close for comfort but I feel like my clock has been turned back fifteen years in terms of energy and mental focus. I accidentally got a little gluten two weeks after I went gluten free and it just floored me - couldn't think straight, had to come home and zonk out for four hours, then I felt foggy for a day afterwards.
If you even think you might have Celiac or AS you owe it to yourself to go wheat free for a bit. You'll know within forty eight to seventy two hours if its working for you. If this is the case you'll only eat gluten another time or two before you get real careful about what you're consuming.
I'm spending an hour a day cooking for myself now, but I'm getting back many, many hours of being able to function rather than being a gluten zombie.
I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo
Matt Drudge played a nice (and long) audio montage of democrats during the Clinton administration saying how Saddam was a threat and needed to be eliminated along with his pursuit of WMDs. Also in this montage, were UN reports of verified WMDs...not counting the ones used against the Kurds.
Sad that we have short memories of history when issues become political.
Point being, I don't give a damn what political administration is and could have been running this country. Saddam and his supporters needed his ass kicked out of Iraq. We should have finished the job with the first golf war. But noooooo we can't do that. We must beat the drums of "bash Bush" yada yada yada.
Life is not for the lazy.
*sigh*
No new weapons were manufactured in Iraq after the first gulf war that violated any part of the agreement. The "weapons violations" where they found "WMD's" were because they had the same missles they had always had, and because the payloads had been removed (per the post-war agreement), the missles could now fly past the range specified by the agreement. These were disabled. The first gulf war eviscerated the iraqi armed forces and slaughtered their economy.
First off, consider the source. Drudge is not a non-biased news source, he's a pundit. He's proven this many times. Second, I've heard and seen similar montages. They all say (some in and some out of context) that Saddam was a threat if he had WMD's, and that he should be removed.
You know what? Kim Jong Il is a threat, and should be removed. The present government of Pakistan is a threat, and it would be nice if they were removed. It would be nice if Jack Valenti were removed. I consider Pat Robertson a threat to the security of the United States, and I wish he were removed.
Guess what's different?
I DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE AND KILL A HUNDRED THOUSAND CIVILIANS.
People can say that things aren't right and should be changed. It doesn't automatically give them the right to go and change them. The first time we invaded Iraq, we did so under the umbrella of protecting a trade ally. Whatever, ok, that's cool. The 2nd time, we did it under the pretext of preemptive war, and operating on information that was at a minimum suspect, and at maximum, knowingly false.
Whether you or anyone else wants saddam, or castro, or anyone else gone, there are rules. You can't just invade someone else's soverign nation with a ruling body in power for no reason other than you think they need to go.
~W
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