Good article, K&R.

"Well, Al Gore, where's your global warming now"

But people who have been personally affected by these drastic climate changes, won't be laughing along with them. And every year more and more Americans will be personally affected. And eventually they won't be able to hide the reality and the giggling will stop.

Hope it won't be too late.

tipping point has passed.
One example:
"Hansen believes that point already has been reached, now with about 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere.
He has a lower tipping point of 350 ppm, where global warming is certain, and we are beyond that.

Other experts place the tipping point at 450 ppm, beyond which no actions taken by humans will prevent permanent and increasing global warming until all life on Earth is severely threatened, if not destroyed.
A “bombshell” report by the International Energy Agency in late 2011 notes that without positive action now,
by 2017 all carbon dioxide emissions will be “locked-in” by existing power plants, factories and vehicles.

“Rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change,” the report noted."
http://journalstar.com/news/opinion/editorial/columnists/local-view-tipping-points-and-climate-change/article_1781c6bc-b6f4-5f41-9504-f7694164de3f.html

Just one of many many articles about the tipping point. Lots of good ones can be found in the Environment and Energy group here.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1127

...that when the giggling stops and the reality is undeniable--that the Republicans will deny EVER saying that global warming wasn't real. They'll insist that the science wasn't unanimous before the shit hit the fan. They'll say that they never denied that changes weren't happening.

Watch and see.

I also believe that very soon (within the next 5-10 years) the horrendous weather will force Republicans to do and say something that doesn't make them look like complete idiots when the seas rise, coastal properties and businesses are affected and extreme weather is the norm.

They'll concede that climate change is upon us--but it's not man made--and that there is no need for us to stop fracking or digging for oil and no need to invest in solar and wind. They'll continue to toe the line for the oil industry as long as possible. Those companies have paid our politicians handsomely for their denials.

Just look at how our politicians stand back and allow Fukushima to worsen. That situation is worse than Chernobyl, yet our politicians won't dare take a stand or speak the truth. Their slavemasters in nuclear energy have wussified our elected officials.

All of this just makes me sick. While so many of us are trying to get these bastards to do the right thing--they hunker down, licking the boots of these greedy energy CEOs. It blows the mind!

somehow. And maybe Obama, too, just for good measure.

Republicans . . . Libertarians . . . hypocrisy . . . Never!!!

when we had our second 12 inch snowfall in the NC mountains (Asheville area) a couple of winters ago. He was in my driveway with another neighbor when he made that inane comment. I resisted the temptation to tell him how stupid he looked saying that and simply said "this is exactly what the scientists said would happen -- weather extremes." Hey, they were shoveling me out at the time, I had to be nice!

the wildfires will just be allowed to run amok. The earthquake damage will be watched and nobody will rush to save or repair or salvage. The hurricane destruction will simply leave an empty place where towns once stood.

There will simply be too many, too often and we will have run out of resources to do anything much to address them all.

Scary times ahead.

It's God punishing America for electing Obama.

One ended up pointing out on the day Obamacare passed the Washington Monument cracked from a hurricane.

These people really believe God brings the rain and causes the sun to rise every morning.

I half expect to hear of a mass prayer for mercy and cooler weather with a promise to get that abomination out of the White House.

for not supporting Obamacare and acting like complete idiots towards the gift he has bestowed upon this land and the people.

And it never occurs to them that a god that punishes people for the choices they make didn't really give out free will in the first place - their raison d'etre as to why God lets evil happen despite his power to stop it. If he keeps stepping in to manipulate the situation with contrived punishments, then he's not really allowing natural consequences to occur. His gift of "free will" was just bullshit all along and he never really meant it. Their whole line of thinking turns their god into the persona of a totalitarian jerk.

Do you forget the PRIDE they have in calling themselves "God Fearing"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/science/earth/lonnie-thompson-climate-scientist-battles-time.html?pagewanted=all

COLUMBUS, Ohio — One day in 1991, high in the thin, crystalline air of the Peruvian Andes, Lonnie G. Thompson saw that the world’s largest tropical ice cap was starting to melt. It was the moment he realized that his life’s work had suddenly become a race.
Temperature Rising


This series focuses on the central arguments in the climate debate and examining the evidence for global warming and its co
The discovery meant other ice caps were likely to melt, too, and the tales of past climate that they contained could disappear before scientists had a chance to learn from them.

Besides the obvious of stopping what we are already doing to cause this, like pollution, like signing on to the Kyoto agreements and not doing business with any country that does not follow environmental regulations.

If Al Gore still cares about the environment, he should be rallying against free trade agreements. This treasonous legislation which he promoted resulted in not only the loss of millions of jobs(but record profits for the 'job creators'), it is the reason almost all of our products are now created in countries with no environmental regulations. As if all the pollution is China is just going to cause global warming in China?


Why aren't the billionaires who are concerned about this, instead of giving out vaccines, they could be funding a massive tree planting campaign. Instead of giving vaccines to Africans, they could bring water....water that could then be used to plant massive amounts of vegetation. WE could be planing trees everywhere, plants everywhere, gardens on every rooftop.

Cows can be put in large barns to harvest the methane rather than release it into the atmosphere, as they have been doing in South America for 20 years. Scientists have developed algae that rapidly eats CO2 and produces Oxygen. Wind and Solar are just getting started. Then their is tidal power, why haven't we all been harnessing the power of the ocean, what could be more powerful?

Imagine if we put our collective intelligence to work to fix our problems, if we put our treasury into building things rather than destroying....

WE have the resources to fix this, we have the solutions... it is just stupid rich people only concerned with hoarding their wealth are getting in the way of every good decision we could be making for humanity right now.