Jay Bookman

By @@

September 29, 2008 9:32 PM | Link to this

despite international agreements and national policies aimed at curbing climate change.

In other words jay, the costly policies haven’t paid off?

Never fear, Al’s on top of it.

Al Gore calls for “civil disobedience” against new coal plants

Maybe Al should climb one of those smoke stacks and plug it with his big ol’ azztrick.

By JAY BOOKMAN

September 29, 2008 9:39 PM | Link to this

What “costly policies” would those be, @@?

We haven’t adopted any.

By ByteMe

September 29, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Jay, you know that no matter how much science is involved, there are too many people in this country that think that “creationism” is more correct than science. You’re spitting into the wind with carbon emissions = global warming.

Instead of equating carbon to temperature, go with something that’ll attract the interest of the “no science is enough” crowd: incidences of childhood asthma are on the increase because of carbon-based pollution. It’s that simple: more pollution means more childhood breathing problems.

You want your kids to breathe easier, right? Start working on a plan to decrease carbon emissions so that you can see from Vinings into Atlanta like we used to be able to about 15 years ago. And so that your kids — and your grandkids — can breathe.

This way, the global warmers get the outcome they want without being able to take credit for it. And my kids and yours get to breathe clean air.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 29, 2008 9:46 PM | Link to this

Ever heard of China?

Too skeered to take them on?

America, the easy enemy.

Amazing isn’t it, the libs lie awake at night dreaming moron dreams of a world with no fossil fuels, but when they find their neighborhood gas station empty……….

By AmVet

September 29, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this

Correct, Mr. Bookman. @@ and the neo-cons are obsessed with the people involved, like Mr. Gore, and not the problem itself.

Despite mountains of evidence, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the entire world without a global warming policy.

Thank messiers Bush/Cheney et al and their flat-earth society enablers for that.

But VERY bad news looms ahead for them.

Neither of the two major presidential candidates is an ostrich on this topic…

By AJC/DNC Management

September 29, 2008 9:51 PM | Link to this

Ministers are planning a U-turn on Britain’s pledges to combat climate change that “effectively abolishes” its targets to rapidly expand the use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power.

Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that Gordon Brown will be advised today that the target Tony Blair signed up to this year for 20% of all European energy to come from renewable sources by 2020 is expensive and faces “severe practical difficulties”.

You libs don’t want to go down this road.

Cold out tonite, ain’t it?

By getalife

September 29, 2008 9:53 PM | Link to this

We had bad news for 8 long years so we are use to it Jay.

Gore is smart to stay out of politics. Like President Clinton’s Global Initiative, they can do better work than our broken government.

Great Americans are hard to find these days but the Clinton/Gore team are still doing good in the world.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 29, 2008 9:59 PM | Link to this

Oh, I get it.

The libs failed miserably today with their bail out and expand government welfare package, so now it is back to the old stand by, “global warming.”

Stick it where the Sun don’t shine.

By NRB

September 29, 2008 10:05 PM | Link to this

If Carbon emissions can increase the earth’s temperature, how come it hasn’t happened yet?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, indeed. Keyword: governmental. Keyword: mental.

By Truth

September 29, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this

…and could translate into a global temperature rise of more than 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century…

What exactly is the ideal global temperature?

By @@

September 29, 2008 10:10 PM | Link to this

Oh kiss my butt AmVet. I’ve always been one of the diversify energy sources crowd while applying the precautionary principle. Do not turn a food source into an energy source.

I’m one of those rare individuals who finds wind turbines not only attractive, but hypnotic. California girl, remember?

jay:

It’s how you constructed your sentence. Here, let me show you….

nternational agreements and national policies

The brits national identity can be found in the U.K. They’ve adopted a climate change policy. The brits have been complaining about paying out the nose for their governments climate change policies with little to show for their efforts.

That’s all jay. I didn’t know that you were speaking of the U.S. exclusively.

By AmVet

September 29, 2008 10:12 PM | Link to this

I predict this topic is going to provide a great deal of laughter for most of us. And it’s already started.

The modus operandi of an ostrich:

A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to “win” an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic. This sort of “reasoning” has the following form:

This sort of “reasoning” is fallacious because merely changing the topic of discussion hardly counts as an argument against a claim.

As for the germane topic of man-induced climate change, sadly for them, the “creationists” as ByteMe so correctly calls them, will have no friend in the White House come January.

Even if Senator McCain wins the White House.

*After Karl Rove finally managed to sink McCain’s candidacy in 2000, McCain went back to Washington and held hearings in the Commerce Committee on global warming. Real hearings, with real scientists. And then, last fall, he managed to force the first real Senate vote on actually doing something about the largest environmental peril our species has yet faced. The bill he drafted with Senator Joe Lieberman was modest to a fault, and it lost 55-43, but at least, 15 years after the issue first surfaced in the public consciousness, there’d been a vote. “We’ll be back this year to do it again,” he said when I talked with him in Washington earlier this year. “Campaign finance reform took us seven years. This may take longer, but we’ll stay at it.”

McCain’s emergence as Washington’s most important champion of global warming legislation raises some interesting questions — about him, and about the rest of the Republican Party. Is he an isolated outlier or an early sign that some in the GOP might be ready to soften their anti-environmental stance?

So maybe, if you were looking for the reason that John McCain has become the Senate’s only western Republican to take environmental issues seriously, you could point to the pure power of landscape. “The ecology of the desert is very fragile. Obviously climate change could have a very serious effect there,” he says.

And Teddy Roosevelt and even Ronald Reagan would be happy.

By getalife

September 29, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

Yeah, getting off of Arab oil and creating many green jobs is a bad thing.

Why do you hate America Andy?

By RW-(the original)

September 29, 2008 10:37 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

In case you’re interested in learning anything, an ostrich doesn’t put it’s head in the sand to hide from the unknown. An ostrich puts it’s head in the sand to reposition it’s eggs and promote the existence of the species.

By GodHatesTrash

September 29, 2008 10:41 PM | Link to this

You know, Mr. Bookman, my damn dog is smart enough not to defecate in his eating and sleeping areas.

So why do so many of your bloggers insist on trashing the air and the environment as it is somehow their birthright?

Pigs and earthworms love to wallow in their own waste - as well as many regular Bookman bloggers, I guess.

By @@

September 29, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

jay likes attributions here. I’ll correct your failure to do so, but just this once.

McCain’s emergence as Washington’s most important champion of global warming legislation raises some interesting questions — about him, and about the rest of the Republican Party. Is he an isolated outlier or an early sign that some in the GOP might be ready to soften their anti-environmental stance?

By Bosch

September 29, 2008 10:54 PM | Link to this

Jesus Christ, Jay, we’re in the middle of our economy melting away, and YOU’RE worried about a silly thing like global warming! We are soooooo wayyyy past that. Keep up.

My mom and dad, whom I just got off the phone with, are facing soup lines, and you’re worried about global warming? Damn man, what’s wrong with you?

Ha ha just kidding. I was playing the part of ADD American - it’s just killing us, huh?

By Felix

September 29, 2008 10:58 PM | Link to this

We’re all going to die in a big pile. Apologies to Davo for calling him Davey.

By @@

September 29, 2008 11:10 PM | Link to this

RW:

Could AmVet be one of the bathtub crew?

The myth that an ostrich will stick its head in the sand, in an effort to hide, may have begun with that great Roman thinker, Pliny the Elder (23-79AD). His real name was Gaius Plinius Secundus. Pliny was a man of intense curiosity about the world around him. His nephew, Pliny the Younger, wrote about him, “He began to work long before daybreak. He read nothing without making extracts; he used even to say that there was no book so bad as not to contain something of value. In the country it was only the time when he was actually in his bath that was exempted from study. When travelling, as though freed from every other care, he devoted himself to study alone. In short, he deemed all time wasted that was not employed in study.” — abc.net /science articles

Ostriches also lower their heads flat to the ground to take in pebbles and sand to aide their digestion.

Another thing about that Plinius fella. When Vesuvius erupted, he ran towards it out of curiosity. He died.

By AmVet

September 29, 2008 11:12 PM | Link to this

Hey Ricky, I saw your John Rocker-like diatribe last night!

Good going, cracker.

Jeez Louis, the ostrich reference is cultural, dufus.

And I guess it hit close home to home.

i knew this topic of man-induced climate-change would set you off!

And how bout your newly-beloved Rangers?

I guess that prediction of .600 baseball was a tad idiotic, huh?

They finished 79 - 83.

Maybe you’ll have better luck finding those holes in the fossil record!

Sweet dreams!

By RW-(the original)

September 29, 2008 11:26 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

Let’s see a link to what you’re accusing me of with this Rocker tirade business. One thing Jay B is pretty fair about is disabusing false accusations. So, as the saying goes, put up or STFU.

While you’re at it, moron, find where I said the Rangers would finish at .600 for the season. Since you’re apparently nominating yourself for dullard of the year tonight, I said they would probably play .600 for the next few weeks from the time you painted them as Bush’s folly. I was wrong, they played .5999 for the next few weeks and we already had the discussion where I told you the few weeks were over.

By GOPs got to go

September 30, 2008 5:04 AM | Link to this

@@ find wind mills hypnotic? I knew those GOP types liked spin but who knew how much?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 30, 2008 5:28 AM | Link to this

Geez, look at the front page of the Urinal, I don’t think the libs have been this excited since Roe V Wade:

Bailout plan fails; Dow plummets 777

With Bushie’s picture, no less.

And of course, nary a mention of a democrat to be found, they didn’t have nothing to do with it, hmmmmm??

By AJC/DNC Management

September 30, 2008 5:34 AM | Link to this

We at thee Urinal/Jihad, on behalf of the cuththroat women and children killing terrorists, are pleased to announce the following message, blessed be to allah:

Supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr oppose the accord, arguing U.S. forces should leave Iraq as soon as possible. Neighboring Iran also has been speaking out vociferously against a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq.-Urinal/Jihad

You reckon?

By AJC/DNC Management

September 30, 2008 5:45 AM | Link to this

Palin intently studies for debate-Urinal/PMS

This story being captioned with a picture showing Sarah’Cuda before another massive, adoring crowd on Monday, yeah, “studies intently.”

Lower expectations Urinal.

By AJC/DNC Management

September 30, 2008 5:53 AM | Link to this

Further, according to House Oversight Committee staff, Emanuel has received assurances from Pelosi that she will not allow what he termed a “witch hunt” to take place during the next Congressional session over the role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the economic crisis.

Emanuel apparently is concerned the roles former Clinton Administration members may have played in the mortgage industry collapse could be politically — or worse, if the Department of Justice had its way, legally — treacherous for many.-American Spectator

Covering up the crimes?

By Taxpayer

September 30, 2008 6:49 AM | Link to this

What a beautiful sight. The Republican “Party” imploding right before our very eyes. They will stand, so they say, on the single solitary principle that capitalism will not die so long as they have a single breath left to utter a defense. Their leader, Bush, will come out again today and try to sway more of his rag tag fugitive fleet to exercise a little compassion for their brethren and their livlihoods. Their leaders to be, McCain and Palin, will stand by, clueless. McCain will ponder the issue and search for a mavericky remedy while Palin looks to the sky and struggles to get her bering straight while so far from home. Let’s see, I think it’s that way…no, that way….

By GOPs got to go

September 30, 2008 7:17 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I think Palin keeps a compass hidden in her cleavage so as always to be able to face the nothern lights……

By Joey

September 30, 2008 7:56 AM | Link to this

Big Science is not unlike Wall Stree, Big Oil or Big Pharmaceuticals in its drive for more and more money. The difference is that most of the money for Big Science comes from federal research grants.

Recipe for funding. Manufactor a problem, publicize it, submit reports showing that more study is required and apply for grant money. And for the big bucks, get the UN to buy into your hoax.

By Kia

September 30, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Well, we can thank the GOP and their supporters for the mess America is in right now. The greed and selfishness of the GOP and their cronies are to blame for the housing problem, unemployment concerns and credit crunch.

If they actually cared about the little guy, then maybe the corruption and lies oozing out of the White House, never would have came to be.