Supping Kyoto-lite in Sydney 12 January 06

they will reduce their GHGs on their own, without regs.

Then why haven’t they already reduced? If Americans love children, then why is it the U.S. has such a high abortion rate (in some states, 40% of all pregnancies)? Why are highest murder victim rates for 0-5 year olds? Why is it children have the highest poverty rate (v. adults & seniors)? What about the deadbeat dads problem? I could go on. America may be a child-hating nation, as author Sandra Kingsover claimed. Maybe that’s why high GHG emitters continue their attack on earth through GW, even though it doesn’t make economic sense to remain inefficient. They hate children.

except for that one article I unfortunately began to read. I consider it a joke, due to who’s involved. Maybe a best strategy would be to ignore it entirely, as if it didn’t even exist.

OTOH, they might be up to increasing GHG emissions by using creative accounting or something, so maybe they should be watched.

Maybe protesters could simply use placards and banners that read: JOKE! BIG JOKE! HA-HA, BUT NOT FUNNY!

and with the claim that the Medieval Climate Optimum was an artifact of the North Atlantic region of the globe? Probably not well.

“Although the story on glacier fluctuations in northwestern North America over the last 10,000 years has remained largely unchanged for decades, new evidence discovered by a University of Alberta researcher will rewrite that glacial history and offer clues about our climate history during the last several thousand years.

“The glacier data reported by Reyes and colleagues, together with other clues of past climate, support an emerging idea that climate in the North Pacific region has cycled from warmer to colder intervals several times over the last 10,000 years.”

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoa-rgh010906.php

I wonder how well these findings fit with the …claim that the Medieval Climate Optimum was an artifact of the North Atlantic region of the globe? Probably not well.

The old claim? Old news.

Smarter FUDders, please.

Best,

D

this latest stunt by the big polluters is clearly just an exercise in managing public opinion. By parading around stating how concerned they are about climate change helps to create the false expectation that they will do something serious to tackle the problem, i mean serious action on climate change should be the logical outcome following statements about the seriousness of the issue. Certainly in Australia I think it is becoming increasingly necessary for governments to adopt the appearance of being concerned about climate change given that the public is becoming increasingly more concerned by the threat it poses. In a recent survey I think more Australians ranked climate change over terrorism and employment security as the issue they were most concerned about and given the relatively low media profile of climate change as an issue compared to the other two issues that’s saying something. HOwever, the fact that these polluters refuse to adopt the very necessary emissions targets illustrates that they aren’t in anyway serious about the issue. Another indicator is that the Australian government has dedicated $100 million over the next five years to research projects into helpful technologies. That’s nothing. As one environment group pointed out it works out as being $20 million a year considerably less than the $55 million the federal government spent last year on trying to sell their very draconian workplace relations laws. Even more disheartening here is the fact that there appears to be a camp in the labor party emerging that supports the position adopted by the coalition government.

In America, many people know very little about the climate problem.

However, the weather is different and we have been having more hurricanes. No amount of media can hide changes in the weather and if these patterns continue, then it will be more difficult to attribute this to a mere weather anomaly.

I suggest like I have posted before not to give up or to despair as I believe we are closer to seeing a paradigm shift than it may appear in the present moment.

I encourage you to continue your efforts each and every day and give your best knowing and believing that a breakthrough will occur. That is all any of us can really do.

The shift will occur sooner or later and you Tara are ahead of the curve like most of us who write on this blog. One day, the people who were obstacles in the way of progress will be coming to you and all of us for viable solutions.

Even if I have no way to implement my own good ideas, I still have enough of them ready to go and even share many of them openly on this blog. The only real problem is damage control and hopefully we will have enough ideas to implement to reverse the worst of it.

In reality, as we all know, we have not begun to address these issues at any significant level and when we decide to do this, then I think we will be amazed at what can be accomplished in short order.

Keep at it. Saving the planet was never meant to be an easy task.

Best Wishes,

Dan

Which means we should even more profoundly be cutting our GHG emissions.

Hi Dan,

I think that what you say is very true and we do just have to keep on trying to tackle this problem and there is good news out there and really exciting things happening as Mark has recently reported. Good to hear from you.

Cheers, Tara