Comments on: WAYNE CREED: Question Authority on Climate Change

By: Wayne Creed

Wayne Creed — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:28:05 +0000

Alternative views and and reports on the some of the same things:

From MIT Tech review:

“Wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies have sprouted around the world in recent years, and deployment surged in 2013. Yet taken together, they still failed to prevent 2013 from notching the largest single-year growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations since the mid-1980s.

“The World Meteorological Organization reported this week that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere last year experienced the largest one-year spurt since 1984. With a jump of 2.9 parts per million, the year-average concentration now stands at 396 parts per million. That’s about 42 percent higher than in 1750, before humans began digging up and burning coal, oil, and natural gas at a vast scale.

“But another major reason for the surge is clear: clean technology is failing to keep up with economic growth and commensurate energy use.”

Link MIT tech review: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530591/surging-carbon-dioxide-shows-clean-tech-failure/

Also, from Drovers Cattle Network, a great Ag resource:

“A better solution would be for agricultural organizations to get out ahead of the problem by designing and implementing programs and systems that will enable agriculture to meet increasingly stringent nutrient and sediment discharge limits (as well as Methane and CO2). This likely will require public financial support, but with a proactive strategy to solving pollution problems that affect everyone the chances of gaining that support are enhanced.”

Link to Drovers Cattle Network: http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/Chesapeake-Bay-EPA-and-agriculture–274099581.html

By: Joseph Corcoran

Joseph Corcoran — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 13:55:57 +0000

Surging levels of carbon dioxide sent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a new record in 2013, while oceans, which absorb the emissions, have become more acidic than ever, the UN said on Tuesday. “We know without any doubt that our climate is changing and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels,” said Michel Jarraud, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that released a report on the issue on Tuesday. “We must reverse this trend by cutting emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases across the board,” Jarraud said in a statement. “We are running out of time,” he warned.

You will not hear this from Fox “News.”

By: Andy Zahn

Andy Zahn — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:13:37 +0000

Wayne is right on and has his facts down pat. As a former science teacher I see all this “Climate Change,” nee “Global Warming” as bad science with people being caught lying and fudging the facts in order to force drastic changes in our economy and our very quality of life. There are scientists who disagree with all this hype such as the man who started the Weather Channel and Joe Bastardi from Fox News. With PC being the American way only the one side gets air time. Climate on this planet has been changing for millions of years and will forever keep changing, people or no people. Long before humans, SUVs, and anything else we had a glacier covering most of North America, and the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska, has been melting for 18,000 years. In areas ice is melting and in other areas it is getting deeper. A P-38 made an emergency landing on the ice in Greenland sometime after WW II and recently a group retrieved the plane which was in perfect shape. They had to dig down over 200 feet to reach the plane because the ice pack had thickened that much. At the North Pole the ice is geting thicker and Al Gore need not worry, the polar bears are doing fine. It seems to me the oxygen, nitrogen, and CO2 percentages are about the same as when I taught science back around 1962. CO2 is of course necessary for plant life and it is converted into oxygen and released back into the atmosphere. Wayne is right that certain people will reap billions of dollars and that the public will pay in higher fuel and electric bills which will also raise the price of every item we buy but will have NO effect on the climate. Man is a fool if he thinks he can control the weather or the tides.

By: Joseph Corcoran

Joseph Corcoran — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:59:19 +0000

Not much to disagree with there. The bottom line is and has been: “Think globally, act locally.” There is plenty that can be done locally and throughout the USA, if only the vision, will, and priority were there. The Schiphol International Airport in Amsterdam is 13 feet below sea level and sinking. New Orleans in the USA is 7 feet below sea level and sinking. Look at how the two countries handled the challenge: The Netherlands built a flood control system that is a wonder of the world. It works. One of the dykes is a 20+ mile long elevated 6-lane highway. I suspect there is more concrete there than in the Hoover Dam. New Orleans on the other hand is a typical Army Corps of Engineers fiasco built mainly of dirt. It has failed in the past and it will fail in the future. It will fail NOT because the USA can’t build a flood control system; it will fail because the people of the USA prefer stupid, unnecessary, and counter-productive wars (not to mention the billions sent to Israel to keep the turmoil alive in the Middle East) above building and maintaining infrastructure for the good of the USA. The cost of the counter-productive wars from Vietnam to Iraq and now Syria could have financed all of our wish list and more. Pogo said it best.

By: Jack Wolf

Jack Wolf — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 03:28:15 +0000

We are at war. I am brave. You are too. Whatever the price, I shall defend our island planet, whatever the cost may be, I shall fight on the beaches, I shall fight on the landing grounds, I shall fight in the fields and in the streets, I shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender to the fossil fuel foe. It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. This is our ultimate challenge, the stuff that epic history is made of. Don’t stay home and watch it on the tellie. Be there and share. Be among the brave.

People’s Climate March: NYC: 9.21.14