If Man Made Global Warming is Real, These People Are Going to Kill All of the Humans on the Planet
June 19th, 2007 by Maria EvansLast weekend, my favorite currently serving Delaware Governor, Ruth Ann Minner, did her annual “Wade-In” event, where she gauges the cleanliness of the Rehoboth Bay by how far out she can walk and still see her feet. It’s all really scientific.
Here’s Ruth Ann from last year’s event, when she was up to her neck in it.
The best part about the “wade-in” is that Governor Minner holds the event on Tower Road, bayside, just about as far as she can get from the Indian River Power Plant, one of Delaware’s worst polluters, and still be on the bay.
Where Governor Minner saw her sneakers and where one of the worst polluters in the state is located.
Next year, to really get an idea about how clean the bay is, the Governor should stand close to the power plant for a few days, and after we brush the soot off of her, we’ll look for her sneakers. This year, incidentally, she didn’t get as far as she did the year before. (For the record, I’m so freaked out about the backslide in the “sneaker index,” that I’ve started hoarding food and ammo like it’s Y2K all over again).
Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General, blamed the genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan on, in part, the global warming.
Ban Ki Moon sitting in a chair wishing there was some way to stop hunger and genocide.
While I read Moon’s heartwarming op ed piece for the Washington Post, I couldn’t stop wishing that there existed some sort of international organization that could help countries suffering from drought and maybe get those people some food and water. Maybe that same organization could put together international troops to stop horrific crimes like genocide. Yeah, that would be great. But until then, people like UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, will have no one to blame for mass starvation and genocide, but the global warming.
And finally, Al Gore. The former Vice President is so concerned about the global warming that he’s having a huge rock concert in 7 different venues around the globe. It’s called “Live Earth” and according to THIS article it’s going to be incredibly green.
Live Earth producers want the world to watch what they do. “We want to make the concerts themselves part of the solution,” Live Earth’s Yusef Robb says. “What we’re working very hard to do is something that has never been done before: establish a new green event standard that Live Earth will not only follow but hopefully future live events will follow as well.”
My question is, how “green” can Live Earth be when just one venue is going to have an estimated one million people attending? Even in the best case scenario, you have hundreds of thousands of cars traveling to the concert. If they set up Park-and-Ride type places, you’re still talking about thousands of bus trips. And do I even ask how the rock stars will get to the venues?
Al Gore will try to assassinate the planet on 7-7-07
Even Roger Daltry, lead singer for The Who, thinks the “Live Earth” idea is stupid:
Speaking exclusively to Bizarre, Roger said: “Bo***cks to that! The last thing the planet needs is a rock concert.
“I can’t believe it. Let’s burn even more fuel.
“We have problems with global warming, but the questions and the answers are so huge I don’t know what a rock concert’s ever going to do to help.
“Everybody on this planet at the moment, unless they are living in the deepest rainforest in Brazil, knows about climate change.â€
Roger Daltry thinks Live Earth is stupid.
But don’t worry, “Live Earth” is concerned about their “carbon footprint.”
Live Earth is going to significant lengths to actually quantify how green it will be, i.e., its carbon calculation. It is also gearing up for its carbon audit.
“We are looking at setting up boundaries and going through the processes and methodology of how we’re going to calculate this stuff so we have a clear understanding of what our carbon footprint is going to be,” Rego says. “All of this will be in our final report after the event and shown transparently, setting benchmarks again for the industry saying, ‘This is how green we were, can you be greener?’”
Yeah, I can be “greener.” Have the concerts live on the internet instead of live in stadiums and other venues. That way hundreds of thousands of cars, possibly over a million cars, won’t be spewing their emissions into the atmosphere while sitting in bumper to bumper traffic. And since Gore invented the internet, it makes perfect sense.
June 20th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Does that map indicate the areas that were flooded because Governor Minner entered the bay?
June 20th, 2007 at 8:48 am
Points taken, including the sarcasm.
That aside, Maria, you did not, never have, addressed “charismatic” George Bush’s non-contribution in the fight against global warming. You should have!
And yes, it is more than Bush who are failing. It is we individuals as well.
You should have, Maria, because we are the worlds largest emitter of carbon dioxide on a per capita basis, by far. This is derived from the fact that we 300 million (out of 6.7 billion) emit 25% of the global carbon dioxide emission.
It is going to be very difficult for us to change, but change we must, not only to combat global warming, but also to save money and protect our health (environment).
Regarding money and health, the supply of global oil is near the peak as demand is about to surpasses it in about four years! So what more will be happening to the price of oil in a few short years.
We will turn to our 300 year supply of coal, which is where health comes in, due to the pollution, even with “clean” coal, and its carbon dioxide emissions as well.
So there is still nuclear, in short supply as well, about 100 years worth of uranium they say. And we have yet to solve the associated radio active waste disposal problem.
Ethanol: It takes almost as much energy expended to produce it from corn, not to mention the impact already beginning to be felt on the price of food.
So we are left with solar, wind, tides, and hydrogen (from water) all appealing, most except wind requiring technological advances to order to be efficient and affordable.
Sounds bleak for our children and grandchildren, does it not? But we are not thinking about them, only about ourselves for today’s needs, for today’s lifestyles.
It’s time we wise up, almost past time, almost too late!!!
This is what Al Gore, in his sometimes inept and ill-considered manner is trying to tell us. We must pay attention anyway!!!
June 25th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-05-31-bush-emissions_N.htm
Bush called for a 20% reduction of gasoline usage in 10 years in his last State of the Union Address.
And if you’re bummed about Kyoto, blame the 1997 Byrd Hagel Resolution, it passed the Senate 95-0 and prohibits the US from signing on to Kyoto in it’s present form.