Global warming is accelerating. Time is close to running out, and Obama knows it.
"The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. "We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way."
Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding "tipping points."
"We're out of time," Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. "Things are going extinct."
Gore called the situation "the equivalent of a five-alarm fire that has to be addressed immediately."
The President-elect has said that one of the first things he will do when he gets to Washington is grant California and other states permission to control car tailpipe emissions, something the Bush administration denied.
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming. Excerpts - the rest here:
"The time for delay is over; the time for denial is over," he said on Tuesday after meeting with former Vice President Al Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. "We all believe what the scientists have been telling us for years now that this is a matter of urgency and national security and it has to be dealt with in a serious way."
Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding "tipping points."
"We're out of time," Stanford University biologist Terry Root said. "Things are going extinct."
Gore called the situation "the equivalent of a five-alarm fire that has to be addressed immediately."
The President-elect has said that one of the first things he will do when he gets to Washington is grant California and other states permission to control car tailpipe emissions, something the Bush administration denied.
Mother Nature, of course, is oblivious to the federal government's machinations. Ironically, 2008 is on pace to be a slightly cooler year in a steadily rising temperature trend line. Experts say it's thanks to a La Nina weather variation. While skeptics are already using it as evidence of some kind of cooling trend, it actually illustrates how fast the world is warming. Excerpts - the rest here:
Got that morons? The cooling trend is because of global warming! I mean, any idiot can see that. Gawwwww!
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"Scientists are increasingly anxious, talking more often and more urgently about exceeding 'tipping points.'"
I've read "The Tipping Point". I recommend everyone with a brain read it. In the book, Mr. Gladwell describes three types of people who are responsible for EVERY mass change in the world.
These three types are:
1. Salesperson- This type of person is good at convincing people.
2. Maven- This type of person has a great deal of knowledge and happily shares it.
3. Connector- This type of person knows many different people and enough about them to bring them together.
Read the book if you want details and examples but for now, those are the basic facts.
I've read the book cover to cover. I've referred back to it numerous times. SOMEHOW I don't recall any of the following types of people being instrumental in any "tipping point"...
1. Morons
2. Alarmists
3. Band wagoneers
4. Shameless self-promoters (Al Gore).
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