Monday, January 24, 2005
"Global warming approaching critical point"
This breaking news from CNN.com. The article is mostly focused on rallying supporting from the United States by saying,
Byers said it was vital Blair secured U.S. cooperation in tackling climate change. U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected the Kyoto accord, arguing that the carbon emission cuts it demands would damage the U.S. economy.
"What we have got to do then is get the Americans as part of the G-8 to engage in international concerted effort to tackle global warming," said Byers. "If they refuse to do that then other countries will be reluctant to take any steps."
I have yet to be convinced that this global warming hysteria approaches anything close to science, but it is ironic to me that those who do believe this stuff won't do anything until the United States gets involved. It is very difficult for us in the U.S. to not get a power complex when we read things like this. Apparently, if we were to jump off a building the rest of the world would rush to follow.
On a side note click here to check out a middle school supplemental curriculum titled "Have and Have-Not." This lesson brought to your local public school by www.rprogress.org.
Anyway, the last few nights here in the Southeast has been very, very cold with temperatures dipping down to 20 degrees. Those of you up North will certainly laugh at my complaining, but I have always lived in the South and I don't really like the cold weather. In the South we have a term for "global warming." We usually refer to as SUMMER.
Byers said it was vital Blair secured U.S. cooperation in tackling climate change. U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected the Kyoto accord, arguing that the carbon emission cuts it demands would damage the U.S. economy.
"What we have got to do then is get the Americans as part of the G-8 to engage in international concerted effort to tackle global warming," said Byers. "If they refuse to do that then other countries will be reluctant to take any steps."
I have yet to be convinced that this global warming hysteria approaches anything close to science, but it is ironic to me that those who do believe this stuff won't do anything until the United States gets involved. It is very difficult for us in the U.S. to not get a power complex when we read things like this. Apparently, if we were to jump off a building the rest of the world would rush to follow.
On a side note click here to check out a middle school supplemental curriculum titled "Have and Have-Not." This lesson brought to your local public school by www.rprogress.org.
Anyway, the last few nights here in the Southeast has been very, very cold with temperatures dipping down to 20 degrees. Those of you up North will certainly laugh at my complaining, but I have always lived in the South and I don't really like the cold weather. In the South we have a term for "global warming." We usually refer to as SUMMER.
