2.29.2012
2.28.2012
'More Lives than a Cat, but my Hope for Humanity died again today. That's ok. Refocus on Future Survivors.' Loving (no detail)
'More Lives than a Cat, but my Hope for Humanity died again today. That's ok. Refocus on Future Survivors.' Loving (no detail)
University Of Virginia Students On Day 11 Of Hunger Strike For Hourly ... Huffington Post
Huffington Post -
Twenty students at the University of Virginia Charlottesville campus are on a hunger strike protesting the low wages paid to hourly employees in the university system.
Heartland associate taught 'biased' climate course at Ottawa university The Guardian
The Guardian -
An associate of the Heartland Institute, the thinktank devoted to discrediting climate change, taught a course at a top Canadian university that contained more than 140 false, biased and misleading claims about climate science, an expert audit has ...
Belief in Global Warming on the Rebound: National Survey of American Public ... Brookings Institution
Poll: US belief in warming rises with thermometer
Kansas City Star - 56 minutes ago
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON -- A new poll shows Americans' belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes. The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 ...
New survey links Americans' growing belief in global warming with the wilder ...
Washington Post - 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON — A new poll shows Americans' belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes. The survey by the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College says 62 percent of those asked last December think ...
Belief in Global Warming on the Rebound: National Survey of American Public ...
Brookings Institution - 1 hour ago
Christopher P. Borick, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion As 2012 begins, a growing number of Americans believe global warming is occurring. This is one of the key findings from ...
MONSANTO: YES, GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL. minpost.com
MinnPost.com -
So, when the board of directors of Monsanto asked its scientists to figure out whether global warming was real, and whether it would cause problems for farmers, it got its answers.
Is global warming killing football players? Summit County Citizens Voice
Summit County Citizens Voice -
An increase in the number of football player deaths may be partially due to a warmer and more humid climate, according to a University of Georgia study.
#1. Joe Romm Slams Obama. Will he Censor criticism of himself? Stay tuned.
See article, below.
Comment #18:
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Joe, perfect. You are perfectly consistent in your blaming of Pr. Obama of our failure, we-the-sheeple, we-the-cowardly-blaming-spectators. How can you be so smart on climate science and so stupid on politics? Obama can’t do our job for us. I don’t believe you are that stupid as to not know that. I must conclude therefore that you are willfully a coward. Just another Leftie auth-whore shilling, ‘oh, it’s not your responsibility progressives.’ ‘Oh, its’ not your fault Left citizens.’ ‘No, it is Obama’s fault!’
We broke our bargain on election night, the central fact of the last 3 years, nicely, aggressively, unfailingly obscured by the likes of you Romm, and armies of Leftie fantasy land pundits at your side. See, the presidency has no magical powers. If FDR hadn’t had a do-more-than-blame-citizenry, well, we’d have a Nazi flag over the White House. But you must know this. So, enjoy auth-whoring this valuable blog space.
It is the likes of you Joe, who could have, should have known better, that will lead this list of those going down in infamy.
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Comment #18:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
Joe, perfect. You are perfectly consistent in your blaming of Pr. Obama of our failure, we-the-sheeple, we-the-cowardly-blaming-spectators. How can you be so smart on climate science and so stupid on politics? Obama can’t do our job for us. I don’t believe you are that stupid as to not know that. I must conclude therefore that you are willfully a coward. Just another Leftie auth-whore shilling, ‘oh, it’s not your responsibility progressives.’ ‘Oh, its’ not your fault Left citizens.’ ‘No, it is Obama’s fault!’
We broke our bargain on election night, the central fact of the last 3 years, nicely, aggressively, unfailingly obscured by the likes of you Romm, and armies of Leftie fantasy land pundits at your side. See, the presidency has no magical powers. If FDR hadn’t had a do-more-than-blame-citizenry, well, we’d have a Nazi flag over the White House. But you must know this. So, enjoy auth-whoring this valuable blog space.
It is the likes of you Joe, who could have, should have known better, that will lead this list of those going down in infamy.
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‘All of the Above’: Obama Names His Failed Presidency
#2. Joe Romm Slams Obama. Will he Censor criticism of himself? Stay tuned. (detail)
See SL comment below, uh, 'awaiting moderation'
Bill McKibben: Beyond Keystone
We don’t get to rest in a fight that we’re still not winning
by Bill McKibben, reposted from HuffPostComment #5 left by Loving -
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Well, well, well. Quite a day at Think Progress Green. First, Joe Romm reaches an all time low in cowardly, throwing red meat to the Left, blaming of Pr. Obama for the failures that belong squarely at the feet of we the sheeple, pretty much an unbroken string now for Joe of pandering to us. But Bill McKibben, wonder of wonders, for the first time ever (?) Bill McKibben is talking like a leader of some seriousness, some responsibility! Wow. What a day. Go Bill! Go-away Joe! (or at least, stick to the science).
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 6.866 billion tons in 2010. (4% world pop. 20% of co2 armageddon) reuters
Higher energy consumption and warmer weather drove up total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 3.3 percent to 6.866 billion tons between 2009 and 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said in its latest emissions inventory report released Monday. [Reuters]
Chinese government has set new targets for domestic growth in the solar power sector under its latest five-year plan. [UPI]
Chinese government has set new targets for domestic growth in the solar power sector under its latest five-year plan. [UPI]
MUST READ. NAZI ISRAEL: For Israel's government, we are insignificant beings Haaretz
Haaretz -
True, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has brought the situation to a head. But the truth is that aside from Yitzhak Rabin, every prime minister before him either didn't negotiate with the Palestinians at all or did so with a "take it or leave it" ...
Israel won't warn US before strike on Iran nuclear facilities: Source Times of India
Times of India -
(AP Photo) WASHINGTON: Israeli officials say they won't warn the US if they decide to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, according to one US intelligence official familiar with the discussions. The pronouncement, delivered ...
Iran 'optimistic' on future of nuclear talks with UN watchdog Haaretz
Haaretz -
Tehran expects that talks with UN nuclear watchdog will proceed in right direction, says Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, stresses that Iran does not seek confrontation.
Living Wage Activists Say Hunger Strike Will Continue WINA AM
WINA AM 1070 -
Protesters for the UVA Living Wage Campaign are starting to suffer the effects as they continue their hunger strike. The UVA Board of Visitors has taken a green approach to meetings by going paperless.
Occupy London: "bookseller David Woodhead said such protests suffered from being too diverse in their objections"
USA TODAY -
LONDON (AP) - Authorities dismantled Occupy London's camp outside the famous St. Paul's Cathedral in a dramatic early hours raid Tuesday, clearing away one of the longest-surviving encampments inspired by the New York protest against capitalist excess.
Upper class more likely to be scofflaws due to greed, study finds UC Berkeley
WebMD -
By Matt McMillen Feb. 27, 2012 -- People who consider themselves upper class may not always act all that classy, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2.27.2012
Wealthier People More Likely To Lie or Cheat, Researchers Find San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle -
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Maybe, as the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald suggested, the rich really are different. They're more likely to behave badly, according to seven experiments that weighed the ethics of hundreds of people.
Global warming feeds bark beetles: Are they unstoppable? Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times -
That's the sound of climate change, says biologist Reese Halter. Global warming in the form of a bark beetle. Halter's short but disturbing new book, “The Insatiable Bark Beetle,” addresses one of the biggest and most visible issues facing global ...
Will the EPA's new climate rules get killed in court? Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
Congress isn't planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense.
Satan's GOPig Army Never Sleeps: Will the EPA's new climate rules get killed in court? Washington Post
Washington Post (blog) -
Congress isn't planning to tackle climate change anytime soon, which means the Environmental Protection Agency is now the last line of defense.
Chardon HS: "Doesn't surprise me coach hall put his life on the line today, always been selfless.... wash post .com
Washington Post (blog) -
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'For 36 Hours at Washington Post I've been playing whack-a-mole, deniers. (detail)
Hi. I storngly suggest you take some time and scan thru the 300 comments and replies here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-fight-against-global-warming-hopeless/2012/02/17/gIQAhRAXaR_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments
Democracy is NOT the absence of internal war!!!!!!!!!
Democracy should be the REDUCTION of internal bloodshed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-fight-against-global-warming-hopeless/2012/02/17/gIQAhRAXaR_allComments.html?ctab=all_&#comments
Democracy is NOT the absence of internal war!!!!!!!!!
Democracy should be the REDUCTION of internal bloodshed.
A 'LOVING' NOTE TO OCCUPY DC. POSTED TO THIER SITE TODAY -
http://occupydc.org/information/schedule/
Said moderator approval required. Who knows if they'll publish it. My business was to offer. Their business whether to heed.
The note......
Friends, among those few in history I admire is Dorothy Day, who along with Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement. Early on Dorothy decided that a regular newspaper would provide badly needed revenue, among other things. She poured her heart and soul into the first issue. When she showed it to Peter he said, in so many words, 'This is crap.' She was utterly devastated. 'Anything that has something for everyone is nothing of promise to anyone,' was the gist of his explanation. She was crushed. But she cared for the world's neediest more than she cared about her own hurt. So, she found the courage to see that Peter was right, redoubled her efforts, made the tough decisions on what the paper really stood for, avoided ever making the mistake again, and the paper continues today, as does the movement.
You articulate clearly on this site that you forgive yourselves for not having the answers on what you stand for. My generation has provided you the most hideous example, nothing you can follow, except to your doom. You are therefore to be forgiven. But for how long? The global neediest don't have long; 26,000 kids will die needlessly, tomorrow, and then the next day... because none of us have made it a priority to see what needs to be done, and DO IT.
You young folks, you don't have long if you are planning on making a home on Earth, because unless all the science is wrong (the bet of a sociopath) you have only months, MONTHS to make this upcoming election your generation's moon-shot moment to reduce carbon 80% by 2020. How? BY FINDING YOUR OWN SANITY. BY FINDING YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUS, UNVIOLENT RAGE, RAGE, AT WHAT MY GENERATION HAS DONE TO YOU, IS DOING TO YOU, EVERY DAY! By any and every objective, actuarial measure YOU, YOU, YOU, are paying 80% of the bill on my generation's every drop of oil, and every lump of coal burned today, and yesterday, and tomorrow. How? Well, 1. Most of the ACTUAL, tho carefully ‘hidden,’ price of fossil fuels is in the wreckage cost of Earth that you will be forced to pay for, fortifying our dozen or so sea level cities against climate change's rising of sea levels, for example; and 2. The multi-trillion dollar Debt accumulating hour by hour for our totally needless Oil Wars ongoing in the middle east, debt, you will have to pay off. Needless wars? YOU have 8 times as much wind, and 200 times as much sun in this country as you need for the entire economy, WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, AND IT IS CHEAPER, AND IT PROVIDES ABOUT 8 TIMES THE JOBS AS DOES FOSSIL FUELS. You are getting screwed, SCREWED, and so far, you are too stupid, to distracted with your self-righteous playing, ranting, self-indulgent experimenting… to do anything about it.
And soon, there will be nothing you can do about it. NOTHING. FOREVER, that is, unless 98% percent of the scientists qualified to weigh in on the matter are all lying to you, along with NASA, Lawrence Livermore Labs, the Pentagon, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, Cornell...............
But today, you can head off 80-90% of this environmental armageddon that otherwise is an eternally irreparable certainty for you. You need to do what was done when finally, folks like you got off their asses, and said 'ENOUGH' to the cigarette cancer deniers. KEEP SMOKING if you want, they said, but YOU ARE GOING TO PAY YOUR HEALTH COSTS, NOT US, WE DON'T SMOKE. You need to do the same thing, get off your asses and tell the fossil fuel denier industry, ENOUGH! Burn your coal and oil if you want, but YOU, NOT WE, ARE GOING TO PAY THE WRECKAGE COSTS, THE WAR COSTS. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO. And anything else, anything less, and you're screwed, and your kids are screwed, forever. Uh, FOREVER. Period.
Here's how YOU NEED TO MAKE IT TO BE from now on - NASA's Jim Hansen has laid it out beautifully here - http://books.google.com/books?id=mwva_7dPyAcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+hansen+nasa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dNLT4HwKI2x0AHo0q2EDg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fee%20dividend&f=false . Fee and dividend. Fee and 100% dividend to every US citizen of record, every month. $10 per ton of carbon fee, increasing $10 per year, collected on carbon fuels at the mine, well or port, distributed to citizens of record 100% as a dividend every month. NO CAP AND TRADE. NO TAX. Fee, and Dividend. The market will do the rest. You want to drive an SUV? Live it up. Waste your dividend endlessly, needlessly at the pump. Don't want to waste your dividend endlessly? Use it to get a plug-in hybrid, to get a few solar panels, for geo-thermal heating/cooling for your house. YOU DECIDE. BUT IF YOU AIN'T DOING THE WRECKAGE, YOU AIN'T GUNNA PAY FOR IT ANY MORE. THAT'S UN-AMERICAN. THAT'S STUPID. STOP BEING CRIMINALLY STUPID.
If any of you in Occupy get tired of playing activist, get serious about your future, please, PLEASE, let me know. I'm dying to fight alongside some courageous folks for your future, but I'll continue alone, with every breath, WITH EVERY BREATH, until then. xx Loving http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/
Said moderator approval required. Who knows if they'll publish it. My business was to offer. Their business whether to heed.
The note......
Friends, among those few in history I admire is Dorothy Day, who along with Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker movement. Early on Dorothy decided that a regular newspaper would provide badly needed revenue, among other things. She poured her heart and soul into the first issue. When she showed it to Peter he said, in so many words, 'This is crap.' She was utterly devastated. 'Anything that has something for everyone is nothing of promise to anyone,' was the gist of his explanation. She was crushed. But she cared for the world's neediest more than she cared about her own hurt. So, she found the courage to see that Peter was right, redoubled her efforts, made the tough decisions on what the paper really stood for, avoided ever making the mistake again, and the paper continues today, as does the movement.
You articulate clearly on this site that you forgive yourselves for not having the answers on what you stand for. My generation has provided you the most hideous example, nothing you can follow, except to your doom. You are therefore to be forgiven. But for how long? The global neediest don't have long; 26,000 kids will die needlessly, tomorrow, and then the next day... because none of us have made it a priority to see what needs to be done, and DO IT.
You young folks, you don't have long if you are planning on making a home on Earth, because unless all the science is wrong (the bet of a sociopath) you have only months, MONTHS to make this upcoming election your generation's moon-shot moment to reduce carbon 80% by 2020. How? BY FINDING YOUR OWN SANITY. BY FINDING YOUR OWN RIGHTEOUS, UNVIOLENT RAGE, RAGE, AT WHAT MY GENERATION HAS DONE TO YOU, IS DOING TO YOU, EVERY DAY! By any and every objective, actuarial measure YOU, YOU, YOU, are paying 80% of the bill on my generation's every drop of oil, and every lump of coal burned today, and yesterday, and tomorrow. How? Well, 1. Most of the ACTUAL, tho carefully ‘hidden,’ price of fossil fuels is in the wreckage cost of Earth that you will be forced to pay for, fortifying our dozen or so sea level cities against climate change's rising of sea levels, for example; and 2. The multi-trillion dollar Debt accumulating hour by hour for our totally needless Oil Wars ongoing in the middle east, debt, you will have to pay off. Needless wars? YOU have 8 times as much wind, and 200 times as much sun in this country as you need for the entire economy, WITH TODAY'S TECHNOLOGY, AND IT IS CHEAPER, AND IT PROVIDES ABOUT 8 TIMES THE JOBS AS DOES FOSSIL FUELS. You are getting screwed, SCREWED, and so far, you are too stupid, to distracted with your self-righteous playing, ranting, self-indulgent experimenting… to do anything about it.
And soon, there will be nothing you can do about it. NOTHING. FOREVER, that is, unless 98% percent of the scientists qualified to weigh in on the matter are all lying to you, along with NASA, Lawrence Livermore Labs, the Pentagon, MIT, Cambridge, Stanford, Cornell...............
But today, you can head off 80-90% of this environmental armageddon that otherwise is an eternally irreparable certainty for you. You need to do what was done when finally, folks like you got off their asses, and said 'ENOUGH' to the cigarette cancer deniers. KEEP SMOKING if you want, they said, but YOU ARE GOING TO PAY YOUR HEALTH COSTS, NOT US, WE DON'T SMOKE. You need to do the same thing, get off your asses and tell the fossil fuel denier industry, ENOUGH! Burn your coal and oil if you want, but YOU, NOT WE, ARE GOING TO PAY THE WRECKAGE COSTS, THE WAR COSTS. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO. And anything else, anything less, and you're screwed, and your kids are screwed, forever. Uh, FOREVER. Period.
Here's how YOU NEED TO MAKE IT TO BE from now on - NASA's Jim Hansen has laid it out beautifully here - http://books.google.com/books?id=mwva_7dPyAcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+hansen+nasa&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1dNLT4HwKI2x0AHo0q2EDg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=fee%20dividend&f=false . Fee and dividend. Fee and 100% dividend to every US citizen of record, every month. $10 per ton of carbon fee, increasing $10 per year, collected on carbon fuels at the mine, well or port, distributed to citizens of record 100% as a dividend every month. NO CAP AND TRADE. NO TAX. Fee, and Dividend. The market will do the rest. You want to drive an SUV? Live it up. Waste your dividend endlessly, needlessly at the pump. Don't want to waste your dividend endlessly? Use it to get a plug-in hybrid, to get a few solar panels, for geo-thermal heating/cooling for your house. YOU DECIDE. BUT IF YOU AIN'T DOING THE WRECKAGE, YOU AIN'T GUNNA PAY FOR IT ANY MORE. THAT'S UN-AMERICAN. THAT'S STUPID. STOP BEING CRIMINALLY STUPID.
If any of you in Occupy get tired of playing activist, get serious about your future, please, PLEASE, let me know. I'm dying to fight alongside some courageous folks for your future, but I'll continue alone, with every breath, WITH EVERY BREATH, until then. xx Loving http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay.blogspot.com/
"Blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11 abc.news
“I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11,” former Democratic Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Sunday on the “This Week” roundtable. “It’s totally ridiculous.” [ABC News]
Himalayan Sherpas lament climate change devastation PhysOrg.com
Independent Online -
By Frankie Taggart Gati, Nepal - Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest increasingly treacherous to climb, some of the world's top mountaineers have warned.
Santorum, GOPigs, GOD IS TRUTH. STOP PISSING ON GOD: WashPo - Santorum's Lies, Kennedy's Truth
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/angry-rick-santorum-throws-up-on-jfk/2011/03/04/gIQA4tiidR_blog.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop
Joan Walsh over at Salon has a terrific deep dive on what Kennedy actually said, which is the opposite of Santorum’s characterization. “Of course, there’s no place in Kennedy’s speech where he said ‘people of faith are not allowed in the public square,’ or anything close to that, and Santorum’s saying it three times doesn’t make it true.” Courtesy of Walsh, here is what Kennedy said:
Joan Walsh over at Salon has a terrific deep dive on what Kennedy actually said, which is the opposite of Santorum’s characterization. “Of course, there’s no place in Kennedy’s speech where he said ‘people of faith are not allowed in the public square,’ or anything close to that, and Santorum’s saying it three times doesn’t make it true.” Courtesy of Walsh, here is what Kennedy said:
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.
I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.
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