Lieberman McCain team up global warming law

The We're all global warmers, now crowd ever-pressing (and it's snowing in April where it shouldn't...)

Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (Introduced in Senate)
Jan. 12, 2007
Introduced by Sens. Lieberman and McCain

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.280:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 12, 2007
Contact: Erika Masonhall, 202-224-4041


Lieberman, McCain Reintroduce Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act

Bill Improvements, Mounting Warming Impacts Attract Co-Sponsors to Bipartisan Measure

WASHINGTON – Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) reintroduced the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act (S. 280) today with his longstanding ally, Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Co-sponsoring the bill are Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), who had co-sponsored the 2005 version of the bill, and Senators Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Susan Collins (R-ME). The most bipartisan of the Senate proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across all major sectors of the US economy, the new bill quickly won endorsements from the National Wildlife Federation, Environmental Defense, and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.

http://lieberman.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=267559


Summary of McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2005

http://www.pewclimate.org/policy_center/analyses/s_1151_summary.cfm

The Bill's History

First introduced into the Senate in 2003, the Climate Stewardship Act was voted on in October of the same year, receiving surprisingly strong support from senators on both sides of the aisle. Though it didn't pass, the 43-to-55 vote demonstrates that our country is within reach of passing legislation that would protect the Earth's climate without risking economic setbacks.

http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=4315

Don't forget to check out the Great Global Warming Swindle video locate info at sidebar or search feature on this site

Climate of Fear

Glenn Beck: Exposed the Climate of Fear

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/gb.html

Hilarious there has not been any more warming of the planet for ten years (a little under, nine years) says the Skeptical Environmentalist author on Beck's program...

but after reading and re-reading do not miss the fact that it isn't President of the United States Al Gore is sweating for, it's President of a New World Order. Don't believe? Just read the original United Nations Charter and material put out by the World Federalists. It's been going on 15 years since I've learned about the plan for a new Constitution of the World. A smattering of my research ongoing, at Truth Online, includes bibliography.

Bloodless Revolution: A More Perfect Treason

http://dirtline.tripod.com/ArticleVbib.html

Al Gore You Tube video testimony Congress

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7rmajxxnc

clip and re-read again and again in the early dawn

CNN GLENN BECK
Aired April 5, 2007 - 19:00:00 ET
BECK: At this year`s Academy Awards, Al Gore got nothing by love, riotous applause for his efforts on behalf of Planet Earth. Well, unfortunately for Al, those days seem to be over. The real story is, Al Gore is still getting a vocal reaction during his appearances to warn all of us about the apocalyptic effects on, you know, the warming of the globe, but nowadays the cheers have been replaced with boos, and not just from the right, but from the left, as well.

As I give you this story, I`m going to try really hard not to gloat, but I`m not making any promises. Concordia University, it`s in Montreal, Canada -- remember, Canada, a university. They just gave Al Gore an honorary doctorate. And during his address, he was stopped twice by angry cries of dissension and disbelief from the crowd. Sacrebleu, in Canada, really?

Gore responded by saying, "I don`t know if you guys are from the left or the right wing." You know why that is, Al? Because both sides now know you`re full of bull crap!

Those on the left who do agree with the perceived immediate dangers of global warming think you`re a hypocrite. Not only does your palatial mansion use more electricity in a month than the average American home does in a year, but the meat-eater that he is also contributes to cattle emissions, which are infinitely worse than driving a fully loaded Hummer.

Now, that`s not my opinion. That`s the opinion of those crazy conservatives at the U.N.

Now, those on the right have long believed that, you know, something is going on with the Earth`s climate, but it`s impossible to deny that so much of Al Gore`s science is unsubstantiated and his doomsday language is just out of control and counterproductive.

Even the "New York Times" has said that Al Gore is writing checks that his research couldn`t cash. Usually the only thing you find out about Al Gore in the "New York Times," love letters.

Al, the world is onto you. Your self-promotional, politically motivated science fiction -- I say, forget, you know, the diet, grow the beard back, invite your old friends, Ben and Jerry, over for a little reunion. The jig seems to be up!

Chris Horner, he is the author of the "Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism." Chris, aren`t you absolutely shocked that the mainstream media didn`t pick up a story about protesters at Al Gore`s speech from the left?

CHRIS HORNER, AUTHOR: Well, wait a second. It took the "New York Times" about 15 months to pick up on the fact that his movie was pure science fiction before they found some scientists who were willing to say this, so I expect in another year or so they`ll figure out that maybe it`s worth reporting, because we`ll figure out -- in about a year, it will be almost 10 years since we`ve experienced any warming, Glenn. You have to remember that it hasn`t warmed since 1998.

Maybe on that anniversary that they will notice that, in fact, some college students jeered him. And the reason that`s odd is -- you`re noting he does tend to now speak only before reliably left-wing audiences, sure, but typically elites.

College students may come from the elite strain, but they aren`t yet there. They haven`t figured out that his agenda is really about other people. They realize they`d like to create wealth, and he`s going to make it quite difficult for them.

BECK: Let me go -- because you said it`s been 10 years, almost 10 years, been nine now since we`ve experienced any warming in the globe. Let me show you that we seem to have collective Alzheimer`s. From the "Washington Post," greenhouse doomsday, the year is 2035. Phoenix is in its third week of temperatures over 130 degrees. Holland is under water. Bangladesh has ceased to exist. This is not science fiction. It`s based on current projections.

At what point do the projections start to catch up on them?

HORNER: Well, when they assign years to them. I believe that article assigned 2035, so back then it was a long time in the future. Right now, remember, Al Gore has been saying for nigh on five years that we`ve got 10 years to live, so pretty soon, you know, those chickens are going to come home to roost.

BECK: I don`t know if you saw this, but in "USA Today," I think it was yesterday, the lead story in the "Life" section was scientists say it`s too late, it`s too late to turn this around.

HORNER: Right.

BECK: I thought, "Well, I should go buy the Hummer then."

HORNER: That`s when the schism starts in the movement, because at that point, the funding drives up. What`s the point? Remember, Glenn, we spent $5 billion with a "b" researching this that`s purportedly settled and now it`s too late. Why don`t we spend the money productively to help with adaptation, which is how successful societies have always dealt with something that they always face, climate change.

BECK: Chris, thank you. I want to leave you with one quick quote here. It is from "Discover" magazine. "We have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have," "Discover" magazine, 1989. Seems like the playbook...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/gb.01.html

And there's more re-read late night to keep you laughing

That`s "The Real Story" tonight. And in the spirit of equal time, I want to give Al Gore a chance to respond, and I mean this sincerely. Here it is.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AL GORE IMPERSONATOR: I want to talk to you today about global warming. We all know the dangers it presents, so I`m not going to try and scare you. I`m just going to present you with the facts.

Here`s fact number one. If you don`t act soon, the Earth will suffer many, many explosions! Deaths! It`s going to be Hell on Earth. Your skin is going to bubble. You`re going to burn alive, and you`re going to be dead, dead! So dead you won`t even believe how dead you are!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This message brought to you by the Committee to Keep Al Gore`s Ongoing 2012 Presidential Campaign Secret.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0704/05/gb.01.html

Meanwhile

Beware of Newt Gingrich watch closely what he says... April 10 debate...

Don't have to warn of Kerry, he can't tell the difference between a joke and a slur...

Kerry, Gingrich announce climate showdown
By Jeremy Jacobs
April 05, 2007
Former House Speaker and possible presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) are set to square off on climate change next week, their staffs announced Thursday.
The debate, hosted by New York University’s John Brademas Center for the Study of Congress, will take place next Tuesday, April 10, at 10 a.m. in the Russell Senate Office Building.

Kerry, who bowed out of the 2008 presidential race earlier this year, has been dubbed an “environmental champion” by the non-partisan League of Conservation Voters. His website touts a long record of fighting for the environment. He and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry also recently wrote This Moment on Earth, which addresses climate change and preserving the environment.

"Newt’s a guy who has spent a lot of time wrestling with climate change and the environment. He reads about it, he teaches about it, he writes about it,” Kerry said Thursday. “We don’t see eye to eye about everything, obviously, but that’s what makes for a good debate.

“As a father, when someone tells me that within the next decade, if we don't deal with global warming, our children and grandchildren may deal with global catastrophe, that tells me I damn well better do whatever I can to help make Washington deal with this responsibly,” Kerry added. “We need these good old-fashioned debates and forums and discussions to get everyone thinking creatively on both sides of the aisle.”

Gingrich, the architect of the “Contract with America” that led to the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, recently teamed up with conservationist Terry Maple to author A Contract with the Earth. Like his Contract with America, A Contract with the Earth, due out Nov. 1, 2007, is based on a 10-point “contract” calling for a bipartisan approach to solving climate issues.


http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kerry-gingrich-announce-climate-showdown-2007-04-05.html

Al Gore's SOS = wannabe the Earth God

Save our Selves?
In the midst of quite a long period of artic cold weather, in the middle of winter, February 2007, in the United States of America, Gore and the global warmer climate change gang have to pull something extravagant out of their biodegradable bags.

Out pops a musical international (global) concert tour.

Sing it again, "we're all global warmers now..."

Planned to be coordinated around the world on the date of 7/7/07, the we're all global warmers now group obviously expects that date to be hot.

Overly hot.

Surely they looked at the Old Farmer's Almanac to see what to expect that day.

How The Old Farmer's Almanac Weather Forecasts Are Made

Our weather forecasts are determined by the use of a secret formula (devised in 1792 by the founder of this Almanac, Robert B. Thomas), enhanced by the most modern scientific calculations based on solar activity, particularly sunspot cycles. We also analyze weather records for particular locales. We believe nothing in the universe occurs haphazardly; there is a cause-and-effect pattern to all phenomena, including weather. It follows, therefore, that we believe weather is predictable. You can read more about how we predict the weather.

Modesty requires, however, that we add this caveat: It is obvious that neither we nor anyone else has as yet gained sufficient insight into the mysteries of the universe to predict weather long-range with anything resembling total accuracy.

http://www.almanac.com/weather/

Al Gore Announces “Save Our Selves” Global Climate Crisis Campaign Concert - February 15, 2007
February 15, 2007 - California Science Center
Los Angeles, California USA

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====260437&nbc1=1

SOS-Save Our Selves is designed to trigger a mass-scale movement to combat our climate crisis. Our climate crisis affects everyone, everywhere. That’s who SOS is aimed at. The magnitude of the climate crisis makes it so that only a global response can begin to address it. SOS asks all people to Save Our Selves because only we can. SOS is more than a distress call. The most important part is how people respond. As we move forward, SOS will not only issue the call, but will provide the solutions individuals, corporations, governments and the world can use in answering it.

SOS will reach people in every corner of the planet through television, film, radio, the Internet and through Live Earth, which will bring together more than 150 of the world’s top musicians for 24-hours of music from 7 concerts across all 7 continents. Live Earth alone will engage an audience of more than 2 billion people. That audience, and the proceeds from the concerts, will create the foundation for a new, multi-year global effort to combat the climate crisis led by Vice President Al Gore.

http://liveearth.org/who_we_are.html

Al Gore plans climate-change mega-concert
Thu Feb 15, 10:22 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Former US vice-president Al Gore and the producers of Live 8 plan to rock the world with top artists like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mana in a massive 24-hour global concert to save the planet from global warming.

Scheduled to take place at key capitals around the globe on July 7, Live Earth is expected to pull an audience of two billion people across multiple media -- live, online, by broadcast and on wireless devices -- Gore and the promoters said Thursday in a press conference.

Under the banner "Save Our Selves" -- SOS -- the mega-concert will be held "on 7/7/07 across all seven continents" aiming to trigger an international movement to combat global warming...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070216/ts_alt_afp/afpentertainmentusmusicclimatepeople_070216022939

Goodman: Global Warmer Deniers par with Holocaust Deniers

There it is in print, finally, for months the We're all global warmers, now club has been using phrasing "global warming deniers" to tag skeptics of global warming as exclusively caused by mankind's use of fossil fuels. Now we know why - they want to discredit legitimate, educated skeptics to the point of generating distain... As well, if you can't convince with scientificly proven evidence, just bring in the world's children, as Robert Bolman does If we truly love our children, we must find the strength to end our denial and do what must be done...

No change in political climate
By Ellen Goodman | February 9, 2007

On the day that the latest report on global warming was released, I went out and bought a light bulb. OK, an environmentally friendly, compact fluorescent light bulb.

By every measure, the U N 's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change raises the level of alarm. The fact of global warming is "unequivocal." The certainty of the human role is now somewhere over 90 percent. Which is about as certain as scientists ever get.

I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future....

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/02/09/no_change_in_political_climate/

Hyperventilating

Bold leadership needed to avert environmental disaster
By Robert Bolman
Published: Friday, February 9, 2007

The Register-Guard's Feb. 3 editorial responding to the new report
from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ended with a call
for our leaders to act with "boldness, courage, vision and, above
all, hope." Boldness, courage and vision have heretofore been
lacking, driving me to use quotation marks when referring to our
"leaders." I encourage them to think deeply about their
responsibilities to future generations as we ponder the converging
catastrophes of the 21st century.

As you read this, ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating and
permafrost is releasing methane and carbon dioxide. This is a result
of the greenhouse gases released as of today. If the human family
were to somehow stop releasing greenhouse gases tomorrow, the global
warming trend would continue at its current rate.

As white, reflective snow and ice are replaced by dark, light-
absorbing sea water and land, the rate of global warming will
increase. Given that humans are obviously not going to stop burning
fossil fuels any time soon, the rate will accelerate further still.

The panel's report predicted a sea level rise of 7 inches to 23
inches by the end of the century, but didn't factor in the melting of
the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Perhaps even the IPCC wasn't
prepared to ponder a 20-foot sea level rise and hundreds of millions
of refugees. While our "leaders" talk about reducing greenhouse gas
emissions to 1990 levels by 2010, we desperately need a 90 percent
reduction now, coupled with a worldwide program of forest
restoration.

Meanwhile, Matthew Simmons, chairman of Simmons & Co. International
in Houston, a close friend of President Bush and a towering figure in
the world of petroleum exploration and development, said that the
world has now reached peak oil. Modern industrial civilization has
been built upon cheap, abundant, highly concentrated liquid
petroleum. Once on the downhill slope of the peak oil bell curve,
world petroleum production can be expected to decline 2 percent to 3
percent annually.

Try pushing your car the distance you can drive on one gallon of
gasoline. Nothing is going to fully compensate for the coming energy
shortfalls. Not hydrogen. Not biofuels. Not "technology."

The human family should have begun preparing for peak oil 20 years
ago. While our "leaders" talk about slightly increasing automobile
fuel efficiency and using different light bulbs, we desperately need
a dramatic, sweeping plan to use the remaining petroleum resources to
rebuild the world's transportation infrastructure.

The attitude shared by Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury after
his presentation of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" slideshow Dec.
11 in Eugene is that politicians can't be expected to pass dramatic
legislation without broad public support.

It is historically true that dramatic, sweeping changes have resulted
more from popular movements than from bold leaders. But most
Americans are terribly uninformed, relying on a small handful of huge
media corporations to spoon-feed them nonsense posing as worthy
information.

We cannot allow our "leaders" to invoke a "lack of popular support"
to avoid doing what must be done. By the time rising sea levels,
worldwide famine and economic collapse awaken the masses from their
slumber, it will be too late.

Bold, visionary leadership on the converging catastrophes of climate
change and peak oil will take many forms. Locally, it will consist of
a halt to road building and development that leads to sprawl.

On the state level, it will consist of aggressively promoting
renewable energy industries and ending clear-cut logging. Gov. Ted
Kulongoski should partner with the governors of California and
Washington to build a high-speed rail system along the Interstate 5
corridor.

On the national level, a U.S. gasoline tax should be ratcheted up
incrementally to force people out of their cars. The Bush
administration's absurd military policy of aggravating the rest of
the world by trying to dominate the remaining petroleum reserves
should be replaced by exhibiting the true world leadership for which
we were once known. We should launch something akin to a global
Marshall Plan.

Our "leaders" know that doing these things would elicit deafening
howls of protest from those who benefit from business as usual. But
that outcry could serve as the perfect forum for educating the
people.

Business people would claim that real action will harm the economy,
but inaction will destroy the economy. We must all sacrifice now to
avoid a far greater sacrifice during the coming century.

If we truly love our children, we must find the strength to end our
denial and do what must be done. From Kitty Piercy to George W. Bush,
bold, visionary leadership is key.

Robert Bolman of Eugene is director of Maitreya EcoVillage (www
.maitreyaecovillage.org).

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/02/09/ed.col.bolman.0209.p1.php?section=opinion