The Republicans are going through the meat-grinder of primaries to weed out who among them will go up against President Obama in November. When candidates aren’t tearing each other to pieces over who made the most money or had the most ethics violations, the issues under discussion are the economy, jobs, taxes and the size of the US government in general.
Elliot Negin of the Union of Concerned Scientists (and their canine sidekick) accuses the GOP candidates of ignoring the elephant in the room, global warming:
The biggest long-term threat to the U.S. economy isn’t government over-regulation, high taxes, or even the deficit. It’s climate change.
…we know a lot more about the threat of global warming than we did two decades ago. We know that, next to a nuclear war, it poses the most significant long-term threat to not only our economy, but to the future of the planet. So it would be fitting to update that 20-year old sign to read “Climate change, stupid” and hang it on the stage during not only the presidential candidate debates, but during the debates for all candidates running for office this year.
Negin may believe global warming is the great issue of our times, but as the latest Pew Poll demonstrates, he and the UCS are outliers:
*pending Mike's Nature trick adjustment, which will rotate the chart 180° and prove global warming is the top priority after all
Candidates and debate moderators aren’t talking about global warming because in an era troubled by real economic and geopolitical problems,the worry that a harmless trace gas essential to life on Earth may contribute to slightly milder weather fades to insignificance.
A lot of people, for good reason, think: there’s nothing wrong with the climate, and CO2 has nothing to do with it. This may be another reason why gwarming is not much of an issue.
There’s nothing wrong with the climate? Micheal Mann’s fabrication, the hockey stick graph, led us to believe that the 20th century saw temps rise steeply to unprecedented highs. FALSE. Debunked. The rate of temperature change during the last century was not extraordinary in any way, and there have been several periods in the last 2000+ years that have been warmer than today. Current temps are not unusual, so what’s the problem??
Furthermore, CO2 does NOT effect climate scale temps, at all. The trace effects of the trace gas CO2 are dwarfed by the variations in more powerful forces like the sun, ocean, clouds etc. Regarding the impotence of CO2, see this 3 minute video, which also shows Al Gore in a pivotal deception: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK_WyvfcJyg
Want to see where enviro-concern comes to die on the alter of reality? Welcome to Greece! “Rising oil prices and chilly economic times are prompting increasing numbers of Greeks to chop down trees for winter warmth, a group of forest engineers warned Tuesday.
Nikos Bokaris, a spokesman for the Panhellenic Union of Forest Engineers, said the debt-wracked nation’s forest ecosystems were not yet under threat, but urged the government to act quickly to prevent broader damage.
“You have to remember what happened in Albania,” Bokaris said, describing how that country’s population felled trees en masse after the collapse of communism. “Even the trees lining the roads were chopped down.” http://ca.news.yahoo.com/greeks-fell-trees-warmth-amid-economic-chill-165149460.html
As I always say… I’d eat the last damned panda in giraffe sauce if I was starving!
*Pending Mike’s trick…
That’s the best one since a long time!!!
I’m surprised that little Kenji hasn’t had his membership of UCS withdrawn yet, on the grounds that he’s an evil sceptic ‘mole’, not a dog.
“Candidates and debate moderators aren’t talking about global warming because in an era troubled by real economic and geopolitical problems,the worry that a harmless trace gas essential to life on Earth may contribute to slightly milder weather fades to insignificance”
Yea, not to mention that its a giant fraud, but that’s another story.