-- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, talking about Superstorm Sandy with Rachel in the new Gotham magazine.
"This is climate change. And it’s not a political concept; it’s a practical concept. It’s not debatable and not ideological or philosophical; it is reality-based. "
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Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:27 PM EST
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By the Grace of their God, our Right Wing brethren have been attempting to hold back the cruel realities of nature!
All parties playing a political game regarding this unsettling natural transformation into intense climate conditions cannot hide behind Grace for too long, as they forget Grace is what we develop here and now for our place in the afterlife - it won't do any good for those living in low-lying coastal regions of our planet! -Kevo
I see. So is Cuomo ready to support heavy EPA fines on the international export of New York's natural gas?
The Carbon fracked in New York is part of the problem, but Cuomo is not willing to bite the hand that feeds him.
LNG is an acceptable economic boon if the carbon is captured and sequestered- either when burnt, or when refined into hydrogen. Channeling those emerging huge profits into US Jobs is impossible if economic forces encourage the export of that carbon pollution to other countries. It's not just exporting the pollution- it's not just exporting US energy independence- it's exporting green jobs.
The problem is, that carbon will wash back up on New York's beaches- just like it did with Hurricane Sandy.
The Koch Brothers are into oil, forestry, chemicals and agriculture. The Koch Brothers control the Republican Party. The Koch Brothers don't want to be fined for polluting and devastating the environment. There will be many in the Republican party who will advocate the deny climate change position.
Right, Jimes. It's hard to understand why so many people decide whether to believe a scientific theory based on what is in their financial interests or religious dogma.
A criminal comes up behind a Republican with a gun, sticks it into his back, and says "You're money or your life!" The Republican thinks about it and says "Hmmmmm."
G-d promised Noah that there would be NO more destruction of the Earth, so in RWNJ language that means there is NO such thing as "Climate Change". Course the next time a "natural disaster" happens, try asking them about "climate change" then - they may be singing a different tune.....
by water. That still leaves earth, wind, and fire. When they sing, we can worry.
God promised Noah that He would not destroy the Earth again; he did not guarantee that people would not destroy it. It is our greed for fast cars, high tech gadgets, over sized houses with central heat and air conditioning that is threatening our planet. Hurricains are nature's way of disapating heat. We heat the planet with our ignorance and God tries to delay the inevitable with more hurricains. After all He sent Noah's flood because of man's sins.
except for that big ole bang in Revelations 21:1?
I think you need to read the entire scripture. As D. C. said, by flood. He didn't say he wouldn't destroy it again. But God is not destroying anything. A natural cycle speeded up by man. We've abused this planet for 100's of years. We will now pay the price.
I wouldn't say, hundreds of years... Only since the development of the steam-powered engine, in the early 19th Century...
Before then, oil was just something used in lamps...
There is nothing more despicable AND stupid than the politicization of science. Oh, yes there is; the technically incompetent and ignorant press allowing it to happen with its fake-balance, false-equivalence cowardice.
Danger! Hemorrhoid scratching in progress below.
Sorry, don't believe a word of it. It's the new religion of the left.
Sort of like "evolution." Right, Bull?
Yeah. Our religion just happens to be reality.
Of course not. God created evolution... and the "big bang"
Of course not. God created evolution... and the "big bang"
And greenhouse gasses.
But apparently not absorbtion spectra.
Ah, yes . . . everything that happens is god's will. What a total copout, especially for the party that loudly preaches personal responsibility.
When's the last time NJ and NY were hit by this type of storm? Why are weather conditions world wide either colder or hotter than ever? Why are places with usually mild temps getting freezing weather? Why are places with high rainfal dry? No climate change? Look around you. Is it man made or nature? Nature speeded up by man. It's gonna get worse.
Certain people don't want to believe in climate change, or EPA regulations, simply because they would not be alowed to pollute at will, and would be subject to fines for the cleaning up of their messes. Thus, they make "climate change" a mere myth, to be scoffed at, minimized, and tossed aside.
It goes further than that.
It goes to the core of economy and who we really are. It exposes our whole m.o. as flawed.
Totally agree, Blue Wolf.
Pollution regulation is for other countries and peoples to sacrifice over and assume the cost for, while we the Exceptional US of A, continue to drive our SUV's and Ford F-150's and stuff our consumer culture waste into the landfills or shipping it off overseas along with our billionaires money...least corporations and Big Business not create enough profits for ever-wanting-more stockholders because they have reduce CO2 emissions..
China doesn't recieve just the interest payments on our loans, they also get our biggest export trash because we don't have room anymore.
I don't need more evidence of climate change than looking in my own garden. It is the second week of friggin' January in Massachusetts and my daffodil bulbs are already 2-inches above ground.
Climate change is the single most important issue facing this nation, and indeed the world. It pales in comparison to the importance we gave the debt ceiling debate.
There are simply two choices. Fix the problem or die. I wish the choices were better than that, but they aren't. We will not be able to adapt and make due.
This means we have to not only rethink the internal combustion engine, but we have to rethink the structure of civilization itself.