Arctic ice melt is changing the world's weather and releasing contaminants into the food chain

Talleyrand: Is that what global warming means to you, a carbon tax? Is this what you're real and only objection is i.e. that you don't want to pay a tax? Has your desire not to pay a "tax" completely warped your ability to see what is in front of your nose?

Do you understand WHY you're don't accept the fact the world is warming, because EXXON/Mobil, Shell, Citgo don't want you to accept it. You're the one who has bought into THEIR hype. You and the ones who think like you, are the sheeple i.e. the vast ignorant mass that is so easily conned and then sold down the river by corporate America.

Science has NOTHING to gain from making this claim whereas the aforementioned companies have everything to lose. Do you think those multi-billion dollar entities are going to stand around and do nothing as their investors desert them? No. They will lie, cheat, fabricate, confabulate and even kill if necessary to maintain PROFITS. Then, when the world begins to burn, they'll sit in their centrally air conditioned mansions and say 'who could have known?'. And people like you will deny you had anything to do with this horrific failure of common sense and reason.

All this because you don't want to pay a tax, which if one was ever passed, would be WAY less than you spend on your cell phone bill each month, or even your internet connection.

So I guess my message to you is stop confusing your fundamental selfishness with some form of enlightenment because in my line of work (environmental regulatory), foolish people like you (i.e. fix it as long as it doesn't cost you anything) are a dime a dozen.

Dont you sheeple read the news ? the whole thing is a scam , remember the emails from the scientists of the UN , they were lying to all of us. They will keep on pushing the idea of global warming HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO wake up you sheeple, dont believe everything they tell you. They are lying to you.They want to charge a carbon tax.

Global warming is here to stay, I think we have to accept that we are not going to make the changes that will make a difference. What we need to do is start figuring out how we are going to deal with higher sea levels and increased weather variations.

The GOP would rather see the world come to an end as we know it than assist the Dems on passing bills that can make a difference.

Wait a minute. It was snowing! In Texas! kidding... (50 degrees in vancouver)
Writing on message boards does nothing. Write your congressman. I doubt it will actually do anything, but people on the current.com message boards sure can't do anything.

I fear that nothing will be done until it's too late. Politicians, especially in the US, drag their feet on everything, even when there's public outcry for something. Look at heath care reform... Iraq war... they do what they want until they can't find any more excuses.

I have heard they are actually considering ending any sort of carbon suppression laws because it was snowing this winter! If that's the way laws are created (or ignored) we're all in big trouble.

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Congress should take note of Mass. report on cutting carbon
February 16, 2010
CRITICS OF the climate-change bill approved by the House last year insist it will end up costing households far more than the postage-stamp-a-day estimate by federal agencies. And those criticisms are finding a receptive audience among skeptics of government programs, weary of watching costs go up in health care and Social Security. But the history of environmental regulation is quite different from health subsidies and pensions: In most cases technology quickly catches up to environmental rules, making the cost of even substantial improvements in clean air and water far less than initial project.
More evidence of the affordability of reducing greenhouse gas emissions came earlier this month with the report showing that Massachusetts is on target by 2020 to reduce emissions by 18.6 percent below 1990 levels. Much of the reduction comes from the state’s highly cost-effective energy efficiency programs.

A copy of the report should be Fed-Exed to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to bolster his support for congressional climate-change legislation. Graham is one of the few GOP senators who has stepped forward to work with Democrats on a bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions, earning him the furious enmity of right-wing groups for daring to break the party’s unified opposition to the Obama agenda. Supporters of a bill were taken aback recently when The New York Times quoted Graham writing off the so-called cap-and-trade plan endorsed by the House and a Senate committee. “Realistically, the cap and trade bills are going nowhere,’’ he was quoted as saying.

Before the day was out, Graham had changed his tune. “To jump-start nuclear power, wind and solar and the green economy, you’ve got to price carbon,’’ he said.

That reassurance comes as a great relief. Even before the Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate, it was clear that supporters of climate change legislation would need at least a few Republican votes to offset “no’’ votes from Democrats in states most dependent on high-carbon coal. The legislation is vital: Without it, it would be next to impossible getting fast-growing countries like China and India to reduce their own emissions .

In recent months, GOP committees in two South Carolina counties have voted to censure Graham, in part for his stance on climate change. The senator’s remarks to the Times appeared to be a surrender to his home-state critics. If, instead, the remarks simply indicate a determination to round out a cap and trade agreement with incentives for greater domestic energy production, that is fine - as long as they pass environmental muster.

Hopefully the new Massachusetts report on cost-effective ways to curb emissions - and the proven history of environmental regulations costing less than advertised - can help Graham be a poster child for the bipartisanship that Americans want to see in Washington.

Climate Change is no Hoax
The gulf stream is slowing, the arctic is thawing, methane is being released in enormous quantities from the permafrost which is thawing in Siberia and now Alaska and the northern reaches of Canada Methane is twenty times more powerful as CO2. Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica is losing sixteen meters per year in depth. Several years ago a chunk of Antarctica the size of the state of Rhode Island broke away. CO2 is at the highest levels in the atmosphere in recorded history. Ocean temperature has risen one degree worldwide with three degrees being catastrophic. The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than scientist ever thought it would in our lifetime. Droughts are becoming prevalent where they never were. Scientist are alarmed at the rate of change happening around the world and the Republican party is still worried about corporate profits instead of focusing on climate change legislation. The Chinese leadership has acknowledged climate change and altered their own economic goals. Can you say catastrophic, you better because what is happening is we have reached a point of no return we just won't acknowledge it in terms of the earth is undergoing monumental changes that threaten the very existence of mankind. Our failure to act has caught up with us, I feel very sorry for future generations we have let them down in a bigger way than can ever be imagined.

hey let me ease your mind a bit an do some real research on H.A.A.R.P WANNA STOP GLOBAL WARMING START BY WRITING LETTER TO THE US GOVERMENT.... END LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO SHOUT DOWN HAARP.........

Oh please, make it stop!

Please Stop Stop with this nonsense climate must change i found seashells in the mountains atlantis lies at the bottom of the sea ice melts You cant stop it You cant save it You have no control over the damn weather Stop!your guilt your need to feel like you matter isnt worth my liberty.

Some people are selfish and just dont care about the environment or dont educate themselves. I sign petitions and all that good stuff but I always feel like its not enough, but when you do your part and others dont you start to realize how fucked up everything is and you start to lose hope. There is very little one person can do especially at my age (18) I'm just going to continue what I do and hopefully do more as I get older.

What we do effects all.