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[Brian Brown's Official Website] Climate Change May Be Civilization-Threatening | Brian Brown's ...: Jon Huntsman Jr., a former Utah governor and ambassador to China, isnt a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. And thats too bad, because Mr.
[Marion in Savannah] The Pasty Little Putz and Krugman « Marion in Savannah: Perry, the governor of Texas, recently made headlines by dismissing evolution as “just a theory,” one that has “got some gaps in it” ” an observation that will come as news to the vast majority of biologists. But what really got peoples attention was what he said about climate change: “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects.
[Larvatus Prodeo] Climate clippings 41: As the Australian conservative politicians are waiting for countries such as Sudan, Somalia and Zimbabwe to take assertive climate change action, the reverse logic suggests that if Australia steps forward with such action, then this will trigger a cascade of Carbon Abatement Compliance amoungst other like minded National Conservative Politicians, leading to a significant drop in global CO2 emissions, not to mention Global Prosperity driven by Alternative Energy Infrastructure Investment coupled with imported energy reduced improved national trade balance sheets .
[Alaska Pipeline] Alaska Pipeline » Blog Archive » Cook Brothers and the rise of ...: While greed has no limits, and you can cook are bad enough to threaten civilization solely for the sake of sales. But in the case of climate change, the stakes are higher cooking other priorities, such as changing the tax code, or dismantling government agencies, all of which are dangerous enough.
[The Volokh Conspiracy] The Volokh Conspiracy » An Inconvenient Truth: Christie Is Right on ...: This is an example of much of Republican policy today.There is one, and only one, acceptable position on a host of issues, among them tax policy (no tax increases at all), healthcare (McConnell has vowed that ACA will not become law), social issues (gay marriage is verboten), climsate change, and others.Republicans have even gone so far as to sign pledges (Norquists pledge against tax increases is an example).This is an example of a rigid, doctrinaire policy, that seems to characterize much of the Republican party today.I would note that Huntsman has just made a statement lamenting the possibility that the Republican party will be known as the anti-science party for its stands on climate change and evolution.He is making an appeal to the moderates in the party-both of them.
[The Finance Professionals' Post] The ... - The Finance Professionals' Post - New York Society of Security: What the report does not make explicit is the BIG CHOICE: Barring a miracle technology advance in the next decade (keep working brilliant scientists and entrepreneurs), if we want to avoid civilization-transforming and global security threatening climate change, we must absorb a global security threatening a $20 trillion write off (thats 40 percent of global GDP) into our already stressed global economy. Even if gradually spread over a decade or more, with partial offsetting value creation in sustainable energy industries, this is an unprecedented challenge.
[Science Scope | SmartPlanet] Climate change may incite aliens to destroy humanity, scientists ...: A preemptive strike would be particularly likely in the early phases of our expansion because a civilization may become increasingly difficult to destroy as it continues to expand. Humanity may just now be entering the period in which its rapid civilizational expansion could be detected by an ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] because our expansion is changing the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere, via greenhouse gas emissions.
[GetLiberty.org] GetLiberty.org >> As the climate scare fizzles, Canada's celebrity ...: especially when it is used to justify slashing the hydrocarbon energy on which our jobs, living standards and civilization depend. In reality, the IPCC solicits reviews of its publications but is under no obligation to address any criticisms that scientists raise —
[Indecision Forever | Political Humor and Satire Blog | 2012 Election] Could Science Tear the Republican Party in Two? | Indecision ...: The collision between Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry over climate change and the evolution of human life threatens to widen the central rift in the Republican electoral coalition even as it helps each man sharpen his image in the party's crowded 2012 presidential field.
[Clusterfuck Nation] History is Not Your Therapist - Clusterfuck Nation: The chauvinism to which Michele is catering with her talk of deferring to her husband on major decisions is so extreme even within the family values community that probably well under a quarter of conservative Christians really subscribe to it. If she hadn't mentioned it, I would have assumed that it was by now a slander by the secular left based on long-gone holdouts of Victorian hysteria or Arkansas hillbilly bigotry.
[Broward Politics] Broward Politics | Sun Sentinel Blogs | Climate change could bring ...: The inflicted global economic damages from diminishing and costly energy resources, with continued CO2 emissions from remaining fossil fuel, combined with the environmental damages caused by accelerating global climate changes, can easily develop into a condition where an economic recovery may take many years, or more than a generation. The only readily available energy resource for global population sustainability is hydrogen (11%), obtained from the oceans and by developing my proposed hydrogen energy regeneration processes to replace fossil fuel, which require a large national/ international hydrogen energy development program.
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