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tedatwood
Nov 10 2012 at 11:19 PM
I have spent 18 years working the topic of climate change. In the early days people dismissed it as a serious science. As a community we have picked away at the issue. This issue is to closely linked to political agendas. Republicans no climate // democrats - support climate. As a result this issue is a political football. The end result is a lack of direction and a confusing road map, yielding little if any progress. Well I'd like to make a clear statement. I am a republican that votes in favor
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of climate change and I don't believe that it hurts jobs. Rather I'd suggest that 2 republicans Nixon signed the epa into place and Reagan signed the Montreal protocol - sign enough for me. Why have republicans become the party of "no change is good"?

Marie Devine
Jan 21 2010 at 7:32 PM
The United Nations Climate Change Conference process is
COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE and DANGEROUS to the TRUE GOALS.
Reducing CO2 emissions cuts growth capacity of plants
necessary for SURVIVAL.
Signing a BINDING AGREEMENT under United Nations takes away FREEDOM.
Promising poor nations money to sign a binding agreement is bribery
to take their authority to govern their resources leading to conflicts and wars.
CAP and TRADE is a loophole for rich nations to avoid compliance and
it invites and creates bribery,
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corruption, bondage and servitude.
It redirects farmers from growing food to fuel creating a food crisis.
It continues the same lifestyle that pollutes our air, land, water
and food leading to disease and death.
It discourages animals that are vital to planet life because they give off gas.
Animals spread seeds and fertilize the land and are security in famine.
The lasting and sustainable solution has been given to the United Nation,
Ban Ki-Moon, US presidents Clinton, Bush and Barack Obama, Al Gore,
the EU, COP15, for the G-8, G-20 and to major religious leaders.
The employment lifestyle causes the world problems.
A garden paradise lifestyle would reverse and solve them easily, quickly,
fairly and inexpensively. It is the only sustainable lifestyle that reverses and
solves the pollution of our air, land, water and food, energy crisis, disease,
war, immigration, reoccurring financial crises, and social problems including
youth and elderly care.
New technology, jobs and money are not the solution;
they only create more problems and continue the lifestyle that created
the world problems.
Leviticus 26 God promises rain in due season and healthy crops, people and
animals for those who follow His wisdom.
To those who reject it, He promises terror and 4 x 7 curses UNTIL we
turn to follow as it is written in truth, not as religions teach.
If survival, freedom, peace, good health and good food are the true goals,
why does the United Nations Climate Conference turn to confusion, binding
legal agreements and oppressions that cannot do anything to stop pollution
and destruction of our planet?

Timothy
May 04 2010 at 12:15 PM
I am someone who studies a subject of importance to climate change. Global warming is an effect of climate change. Oceanic PH lowering is an effect of climate change. Change in species latitude and altitude in response to higher average temperature is an effect of climate change. The destabilization of methane stores, and increased biologic output of methane is an effect of climate change. In fact, there is a whole slew of ecological observations attendant to climate change. "Greening" is an effect
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of climate change (though it is exceedingly daft to think of excess CO2 as 'plant food') Studying in this field, it is in fact these ecological phenomena which constitute the bulk of the evidence for it.
So, whenever you hear people talking about the "IPCC" or the "Climate Data" or the "hacked e-mails" - you can rest assured they haven't actually done any research in ecology. It means they are armchair conspiracy theorists, who are not at all involved in the science, who have only been exposed to media hype, and the reaction to that media hype.
Please, do yourself a favor, and listen to field scientists, Not politicians. Not major media. Media does not inform you. They are corporations selling airtime. Anything otherwise is irresponsible, and imprudent.

Will
Jan 18 2010 at 9:29 PM
That's good to know, but a good system needs to be implemented soon.
Here's a rundown of the proposed Australian CPRS system: http://www.onecuckoosnest.com/search/label/The%20Development%20of%20the%...
It was rejected in December of last year for a second time in the Senate.











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