Ah yes….this makes sense eh? (h/t Tom Nelson)
It may be too late to reverse some of the devastating effects of a warmer earth, author and environmentalist Bill McKibben told a standing-room only crowd at the College of the Holy Cross Monday night.
In a folksy cadence more akin to his roots as a Methodist Sunday school teacher than climate change activist, Mr. McKibben apologized in advance for “bumming people out,” but declared the situation around the planet isn’t good.
Having spent his career writing and reporting about climate change, Mr. McKibben said the planet is heating up faster than scientists had predicted.
Same old tune from this guy, here he is two years ago:
Act now, we’re told, if we want to save the planet from a climate catastrophe. Trouble is, it might be too late. The science is settled, and the damage has already begun.
And he does his best writing books to scare any who will listen (granted, they might have a combined brain cell count of 2) that we’re doomed….dooooooooomed I say:
Bill McKibben, probably the nation’s leading environmentalist, argues in “Eaarth’’ that we have already so thoroughly altered the physical features of the planet (to an extent that he has renamed it with an extra “a’’) that we must start preparing for a radically simplified lifestyle. Important strands of environmental thought merge in McKibben’s new book, making for some truly scary reading and prompting urgent questions about the nature of the environmental catastrophe at hand.
Sheesh, scary scary scary….whatever will we do?
Not listen to this nutcase for one:
The three warm-color time series are taken from Hansen’s published testimony in June 1988 in which global surface air temperatures were projected under three scenarios by his global climate model.
The red curve follows a scenario (A) of continued emissions growth based on the previous 20 years before 1988 (which turned out to be an underestimate of actual emissions growth.) The orange represents a scenario (B) of fixed emissions at the rate achieved in the 1980s. The yellow curve portrays a scenario (C) in which “a drastic reduction” in GHG emissions is assumed for 1990-2000. The observations are global tropospheric temperatures adjusted to mimic the magnitude of surface temperature variability and trends according to published climate model simulations (i.e. a reduction in satellite anomalies by 0.83.)
So ah….warming more than scientists imagined…not so much.
The facts won’t stop this guy tho. He said in 2008 that he can see riots and such coming from the hippies and greenies:
The big actions, like the one my friend’s worked on at the C.I.A., are coming on the climate front, it’s only a matter of time. Maybe sooner than we think as 350.org founder Bill McKibben says- “It’ll happen. Keep your eyes open in D.C.,“
And after getting rebuffed by the White House a few weeks ago admitted he is helping to lead the way in the planning of such events:
Actually, I’ll be surprised if the White House doesn’t put up solar panels within a year. But even if they do, that would just be the barest of beginnings. Which is why, with other environmental leaders, we recently issued a call for ideas about a campaign of civil disobedience next spring — at power plants and coal mines but at White Houses too, if they don’t turn at least a little green.
One EnviroNut found the light….I don’t think McKibben will tho, the mans a walking billboard of the apocalypse.
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If you freaking repuglathans don’t do something about global warming now all those glaciers are going to melt and form some of the most beautiful landscape in the northern United States!! The run off from those glaciers might create some kind of grand canyon…. THEN what will you do? WHAT WILL YOU DO??!??!?!?!??!!!!!
Bill McKibben has the same mindset for earth (or, as he calls it, eaarth) as Prince Charles of Great Britain.
Go back to the land.
Everybody have their own organic garden.
Energy sources should be small and decentralized.
There is one MAJOR problem with his philosohy along with many small problems.
The big one is that most people on earth cannot grow everything they’d need on land within walking distance from their homes.
Bill McKibben tried to talk Obama into putting solar panels on the White House roof, something other presidents have done.
Obama refused.
Post 9-11 anti-aircraft missiles and other “spook stuff” on the roof weren’t likely to make way for a solar panel.
@ Lenny Liberal, Easy solution…find an active volcano…tie up You, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barby Boxer, Al Gore and throw you all in. That should please the Gods, the Nation will be better for it and Mother Earth will get over it.
“Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are melting — and seas are rising,” said Al Gore in an op-ed piece in the New York Times on February 27.
Both parts of Gore’s statement are false.
Mr. Gore completely ignores the admission by the CRU’s disgraced former director Phil Jones that global temperatures have essentially remained unchanged for the past 15 years.
Almost all of the ice-covered regions of the Earth are growing, not melting — and the seas are not rising.
Click on the words “are melting” in Gore’s article, (1st link) you’re taken to a paper by Michael Zemp at the University of Zurich. Mr. Zemp begins his paper by warning that “glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates.”
However, if you bother to actually read the paper, you learn that Zemp’s conclusion is based on measurements of “more than 80 glaciers.”
Considering that the Himalayas boast more than 15,000 glaciers, a study of “more than 80 glaciers” hardly seems sufficient to warrant such a catastrophic pronouncement.
Especially when you learn that of those 80 glaciers, several are growing.
Growing. Not melting.
Fact is, we are currently coming out of a great Ice Age.
So, we should EXPECT ice to melt.
I bet people living in Canada and Northern Europe are glad about it, too.
In “World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown,” Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings show that the IPCC’s fraudulent claims were based on “speculation” and “not supported by any formal research.”
So, despite the fact that we are at the end of an Ice Age, many glaciers are growing.
How big if his house?
How many houses does he own/occupy?
How many air miles does he travel in one year?
Does he weave his own cloth?
Does he drink from a pond/stream?
Does he s__t in the woods?
The human being by instinct is a “negative” thinking animal . . . how else could we possibly plan for the future? We as animals see things through a jaded perspective that makes us “be prepared”. There has always been and there will always be those that take advantage of this actually very positive human condition. It is because of this constant awareness of the future that we grow food, build homes, save money; always, always, always we have a contingency plan. We try to “predict the future” and we never see it as “bright and shining” . . . to a great degree the various religions of the world are founded on just such perspectives. There has been since, perhaps the first human walked the earth, a profound reverance and belief that the “Earth is our Mother” or what is today called Naturalistic Pantheism.
We can relate an all encompassing perspective to what is going on with the Naturalist Religion by comparison to the Muslim Stealth Jihad . . . We ARE experincing a “Naturalist Stealth Jihad”.
Any jihad, regardless of what religion initiates such action, represents extreme danger to all other demographics that is “annonited” as the enemy. How is jihad carried out? Either through the “Ghandi Principals” or “Militant Principals”.
We are seeing both sets of principals in action everyday, both have the same goal . . . subversion.
We actually have “Agencies” such as the EPA that are in “Stealth Naturalistic Jihad” mode.
If he wants his mental anguish to subside…he needs to kill himself.
Suicide…a permanent solution to all fabricated problems.
Then can I buy the Challenger SRT now?
@Lenny Liberal:
Simple – build a see-through walk out over the ledge of the Grand Canyon II, and watch all the liberals float underneath.
I commented on the role National Parks are playing in this administration’s effort to sell global warming and other agenda items. Now, I see this article. Worth reading but may cause anger! http://www.carlineconomics.com/archives/947
This may be old news to this savvy group, but we need to remain alert at every turn in the road. Bear with me if I am repeating old business…I haven’t been posting much lately.
This is passed on through MOTUS.com
“Shore Bank, a community bank in Chicago (with Tony Rezko and many other Obamanite connections) was seized by the FDIC in August for insolvency, and its assets acquired by a consortium of Wall Street bankers and reincarnated as Urban Partnership Bank. Probably nothing here either, you know how urban conspiracy theories go.” Wink, wink.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/shorebank
“So . . . You think you know quite a bit about Obama and his band of thieves. Read on and see just how little you know.All of this comes together in the last part… a must read.
This is an interesting story put together from various articles and TV shows by the British Times paper.It shows what Obama and his friends are really all about. It’s not hope and change, it is money.
I warn you, the first part is a little boring, but stick with it.The second part connects all the dots for you (it will open your eyes). The end explains how Obama and all his cronies will end up as multi-billionaires.(It’s definitely worth the read. You will not be disappointed).
A small bank in Chicago called SHOREBANK almost went bankrupt during the recession. The bank made a profit on its foreign micro-loans (see below) but had lost money in sub-prime mortgages in the US. It was facing likely closure by federal regulators. However, because the bank’s executives were well connected with members of the Obama Administration, a private rescue bailout was arranged. The bank’s employees had donated money to Obama’s Senate campaign. In other words, ShoreBank was too politically connected to be allowed to go under.
ShoreBank survived and invested in many “green” businesses such as solar panel manufacturing. In fact, the bank was mentioned in one of Obama’s speeches during his election campaign because it subjected new business borrowers to Eco-litmus tests.
Prior to becoming President, Obama sat on the board of the JOYCE FOUNDATION, a liberal charity. This foundation was originally established by Joyce Kean’s family which had accumulated millions of dollars in the lumber industry. It mostly gave funds to hospitals but after her death in 1972, the foundation was taken over by radical environmentalists and social justice extremists.
This JOYCE FOUNDATION, which is rumored to have assets of 8 billion dollars, has now set up and funded, with a few partners, something called the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE, known as CXX. It will be the exchange (like the Chicago Grain Futures Market for agriculture) where Environmental Carbon Credits are traded.
Under Obama’s new bill, businesses in the future will be assessed a tax on how much CO2 they produce (their Carbon Footprint) or in other words how much they add to global warming. If a company produces less CO2 than their allotted measured limit, they earn a Carbon Credit. This Carbon Credit can be traded on the CXX exchange. Another company, which has gone over their CO2 limit, can buy the Credit and “reduce” their footprint and tax liability. It will be like trading shares on Wall Street.
Well, it was the same JOYCE FOUNDATION, along with some other private partners and Wall Street firms that funded the bailout of ShoreBank. The foundation is now one of the major shareholders. The bank has now been designated to be the “banking arm” of the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE (CXX). In addition, Goldman Sachs has been contracted to run the investment trading floor of the exchange.
So far so good; now the INTERESTING parts.
One ShoreBank co-founder, named Jan Piercy, was a Wellesley College roommate of Hillary Clinton. Hillary and Bill Clinton have long supported the bank and are small investors.
Another co-founder of Shorebank, named Mary Houghton, was a friend of Obama’s late mother. Obama’s mother worked on foreign MICRO-LOANS for the Ford Foundation. She worked for the foundation with a guy called Geithner. Yes, you guessed it. This man was the father of Tim Geithner, our present Treasury Secretary, who failed to pay all his taxes for two years.
Another founder of ShoreBank was Ronald Grzywinski, a cohort and close friend of Jimmy Carter.
The former ShoreBank Vice Chairman was a man called Bob Nash. He was the deputy campaign manager of Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. He also sat on the board of the Chicago Law School with Obama and Bill Ayers, the former terrorist.Nash was also a member of Obama’s White House transition team.
(To jog your memories, Bill Ayers is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He founded the Weather Underground, a radical revolutionary group that bombed buildings in the 60s and 70s. He had no remorse for those who were killed, escaped jail on a technicality, and is still an admitted Marxist).
When Obama sat on the board of the JOYCE FOUNDATION, he “funneled” thousands of charity dollars to a guy named John Ayers, who runs a dubious education fund. Yes, you guessed it. The brother of Bill Ayers, the terrorist.
Howard Stanback is a board member of Shorebank. He is a former board chairman of the Woods Foundation. Obama and Bill Ayers, the terrorist, also sat on the board of the Woods Foundation. Stanback was formerly employed by New Kenwood Inc., a real estate development company co-owned by Tony Rezko.
(You will remember that Tony Rezko was the guy who gave Obama an amazing sweet deal on his new house. Years prior to this, the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland had represented Rezko’s company and helped him get more than 43 million dollars in government funding.Guess who worked as a lawyer at the firm at the time. Yes, Barack Obama).
Adele Simmons, the Director of ShoreBank, is a close friend of Valerie Jarrett, a White House senior advisor to Obama. Simmons and Jarrett also sit on the board of a dubious Chicago Civic Organization.
Van Jones sits on the board of ShoreBank and is one the marketing directors for “green” projects. He also holds a senior advisor position for black studies at Princeton University. You will remember that Mr. Van Jones was appointed by Obama in 2009 to be a Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House. He was forced to resign over past political activities, including the fact that he is a Marxist.
Al Gore was one of the smaller partners to originally help fund the CHICAGO CLIMATE EXCHANGE. He also founded a company called Generation Investment Management (GIM) and registered it in London, England. GIM has close links to the UK-based Climate Exchange PLC, a holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange. This company trades Carbon Credits in Europe (just like CXX will do here) and its floor is run by Goldman Sachs. Along with Gore, the other co-founder of GIM is Hank Paulson, the former US Treasury Secretary and former CEO of Goldman Sachs. His wife, Wendy, graduated from and is presently a Trustee of Wellesley College. Yes, the same college that Hillary Clinton and Jan Piercy, a co-founder of Shorebank attended. (They are all friends).
Interesting? And now the closing…
Because many studies have been exposed as scientific nonsense, people are slowly realizing that man-made global warming is nothing more than a money-generating hoax. As a result, Obama is working feverishly to win the race. He aims to push a Cap-and-Trade Carbon Tax Bill through Congress and into law.
Obama knows he must get this passed before he loses his majority in Congress in the November elections. Apart from Climate Change he will “sell” this bill to the public as generating tax revenue to reduce our debt. But, it will also make it impossible for US companies to compete in world markets and drastically increase unemployment. In addition, energy prices (home utility rates) will sky rocket.
But, here’s the KICKER (THE MONEY TRAIL).
If the bill passes, it is estimated that over 10 TRILLION dollars each year will be traded on the CXX exchange. At a commission rate of only 4 percent, the exchange would earn close to 400 billion dollars to split between its owners, all Obama cronies. At a 2 percent rate, Goldman Sachs would also rake in 200 billion dollars each year.
But don’t forget SHOREBANK. With 10 trillion dollars flowing though its accounts, the bank will earn close to 40 billion dollars in interest each year for its owners (more Obama cronies), without even breaking a sweat.
It is estimated Al Gore alone will probably rake in 15 billion dollars just in the first year. Of course, Obama’s “commissions” will be held in trust for him at the Joyce Foundation. They are estimated to be over 8 billion dollars by the time he leaves office in 2013, if the bill passes this year. Of course, these commissions will continue to be paid for the rest of his life.
Some financial experts think this will be the largest “scam” or “legal heist” in world history. Obama’s cronies make the Mafia look like rank amateurs. They will make Bernie Madoff’s fraud look like penny ante stuff.”
Curt,
I apologize for not remembering you efforts to discredit AP and CPT Jamil. At that time, I was only able to access the internet for a few minutes a week. In our organization, we tracked every incident that occurred in Baghdad and most that happened in Iraq. We looked for trends that would indicate future action as an 2 shop would do. The Commie News Network, the AP and Reuters were reporting so many incidences that never occurred.
I met with an attorney in Baghdad one night and encouraged him to file a class action law suit against the news media who were reporting false information that inflamed the Shia, Sunni conflict on behalf of those families who suffered members killed, maimed or economically devastated. He was concerned about the cost and the view of the US Courts.