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Sane in Utah — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:26:58 GMT

I don't know why anyone would be surprised that this Administration has done everything in its power to squelch scientific findings on a host of issues. The damage inflicted to the world on issues such as global warming by this Administration is immeasurable -- all I can say to our children is "I'm sorry that these people were put into power" and "God Help Us All."

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codeker — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:33:33 GMT

Is it too much to expect an administration, democrat or republican, to govern competently?

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Earthman — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:35:25 GMT

Children in schools across America are learning about Climate Change by viewing the music video the "Climate Crisis Jam" created by the award-winning creative team at The Earthman Project. You can share it with your family at www.ClimateCrisisJam.Org. The Earthman Project is led by the 2006/7 North American Environmental Educator of the Year, "Earthman" Lanny Smith.

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mathman — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:42:12 GMT

Ahh the frivolity!

I thought global warming was the issue? Oh no, we can't show that temperatures are generally getting warmer- they are not- let's call it 'climate change'.

Wait, we don't really know how the climate works, so we can't really 'prove' anything that's happening to the climate. So, then, let's make sure everyone 'believes in' 'climate change' like a bunch of fascists.

Hey we do know how the climate works, that's why in the 19060's, the hippies were sure it was 'global cooling' being caused by 'the man'.

I can't even get an accurate local weather forecast, and you clowns actually think you understand - and can prove- that human activity causes a general warming of the climate.. ha.

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mohican — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:22:20 GMT

I haven't personally decided where I sit on the global warming topic. However, whether you believe in global warming or not what is to lose by finding alternate fuel sources, recycling, "going greener" and trying to take better care of the earth.

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hsineexas — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:26:38 GMT

Mathman is just another example of the pigheaded idiots who are afraid of change, and afraid of sacrificing their material possessions for the health of the Earth. They think change is bad, so they continue to pretend it is not happening. Let's be realistic! Hippies from the 60's and incompetent weathermen are poor excuses for firing off angry tirades containing absolutely zero intelligent information. Instead, people like him only draw attention to their own ignorance. Mathman, your angry outburst is a symptom of your lack of understanding of caring people and their driving focus to help others learn to respect and preserve our natural resources. We forgive you for your ignorance, and hope you find happiness in your SUV driving, polluting, selfish, wasteful life. A man of such intelligence as yourself certainly knows better than those pesky experts! Don't let them get you down, a little more ranting and we may all finally see your glorious point of view! Cheers!

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SupplyGuy007 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:35:52 GMT

What's to understand? These so called scientist can't be questioned. Warmer? When you haven't moved a weather recording station in over 100 years (what was once a rural location now centered in the midst of a city, can you say heat island?) because to do so would skew the results yet you get to claim that temperatures are rising. Until I hear these scientist answers questions like scientists, not politicians, I can not take them seriously.

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jenncoolidge — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:39:23 GMT

what gets me is people say "oh he is almost out of office..." NOT SO FAST.. a whole year left of this agony... THINK about what else he could do to us... to this country... to the world...

he's got to go. NOW.

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rp8 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:41:40 GMT

I am heartened by the ability of people and communities to bypass the filtering influence of the Administration on this issue. Not only has the Administration NOT met its objectives, it's been revealed as trying to lie to the American people. If the Bush Republicans in Washington had tried to attack this issue 5 years ago, they wouldn't have the egg on their face that they do now. It is heartening to see that idiocy and mendacity can never stay buried forever.

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bbote — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:45:29 GMT

I opened this article expecting to see a long overdue story about how anyone in the scientific community (or anywhere else for that matter) that dares to question the "religiously" held belief that man is the primary cause of rising temperatures was being censored and endangering their careers. Instead I find the same old garbage that the reason the general population hasn't bought in to the "man's the problem" cry is the really smart people are being censored. I challenge you to find many newspapers or new agenciesy that don't seem to have already decided that the "debate is over" about mankind's responsibility for destroying the climate. Many intelligent people (including well educated, non-scientists) are open to real facts but have yet to see any hard evidence that can link man's activities to changes in the weather or temperature of the earth. However, if these same people raise the point about the need for real facts they are shouted down by the new "priesthood" of global warming as either ignorant or dishonest with an evil, hidden agenda. Please tell me who is really being censored?

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bjrathburn — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:46:32 GMT

Firstly, the Bush administration has absolutely nothing to do with rather or not an individual "believes" in global warming. Come on, only 4 out of 5 dentists can agree on how welll toothpaste works so there is always going to be an opposing belief rather Bush is president or Hillary Clinton. My own peronsal beleif, I think humans effect the environment.. look at the skies above Atlanta and LA if you need proof. But I don't think we are effecting it fast enough to have an annual change. For instance, where exactly is all this increased hurricane activity that we were supposed to experience... i think we had exactly no hurricanes make land fall in the US in 2007! Yeah, really got that one right. Really, we are looking at about a 50 year segment of recorded weather patterns and climate change in a pattern that stretches longer than humans have existed and changed rather we were here or not.

So to some it up, yes we effect the climate, but no more than one valcano eruption and 10 pastures worth of cow flatulance (read up on that if you don't know what I mean). We should all have a greener lifestyle though for our own communiities sake. And quit blaming Bush everytime someone says the sky is falling.. he's gone next year anyway.

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williamportor — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:47:40 GMT

It does not really matter what Bush and Co. squelch regarding climate change. Most American's

just don't care about it anyway. Most American's would like to see a cleaner planet, but refuse to make the necessary changes in there lifestyle in order to make this happen. So....the pollution will go on, our country and planet will become more and more toxic, and few people in America really give a damn. So wave the flag and repeat after me... U S A! U S A! U S A!

(And remember....it's all those damn Liberals fault!)

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TiredOfTheIgnorant — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:00:51 GMT

I am surprised that Newsweek would even report this. Take a look at what they reported as "scienticfic fact" back in the 1970's. Here is a link to "The Cooling World" http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm

It talks about how the temperatures are getting cooler and the fear of a mini ice age, world starvation, etc.

As for more Hurricanes, that is a bunch of BS. I live in South Florida. The only reason everyone is hearing about all these "named storms" is because in the last couple of years they changed the way they name them. They never used to name storms until they came within a set distance from land. Now they name them at a farther distance. Hence, this increase in named storms. Same amount of storms, just they are now all named. I do agree we should get greener because we only have the one Earth. I do NOT agree that we should make crap up and try to shove it down everyones throats as fact. We do need to take care of this Earth. Some of the science is dead on while a lot of it is theory and bs. Please only report on the part that is fact.

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bigjer1995 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:03:54 GMT

How can anyone claim they have been denied the authoritative final word about global warming with Al Gore jet-setting across the country in his fuel efficient Lear jet to spread the gospel about the extreme sense of urgency that we all conserve energy and ride our bikes to work.

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bill_txus — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:14:40 GMT

I dont know why any one would be suprised that ANY administration would lie to the citiizens about a topic they find inconvenient. Its not like THIS administration invented lying to the citiizens. Its been happening as long as I can remember, probably as long as there has been print media in which to disperse lies. If we dont take all pronouncements by politicians and their staff with a great deal of skepticism we are very naive indeed. We must remember that first and foremost politiciians represent themselves. Why else would they be exampt from many of the laws that put us under?

Wasn't it the politicians of the day that put Galileo into jail for the observations he made?

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robert_craven — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:24:12 GMT

I find this article laughable in light of the media immediatly shouting down anyone who believes that global warming is NOT due to man-made CO2. Where is the media publicity about the UK court case that ruled that "An Inconvient Truth" cannot be shown in classrooms unless the multitude of errors in it are pointed out first and a disclamer read to the students. Any discussion quickly deteriorates to the word "consensus" which has no place in the scientific method. What if the "consensus" was that the world is flat? It is way too early for politicians on either side to be making judgements about our lives based on science that is still in question.

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rrotondo — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:25:26 GMT

The only scientists who are being squelched are the ones who point out that global warming is a scientific fraud. Global warming is an excuse for a power grab by the political elite over our liberty and freedom.

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jeffreycourtney — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:34:45 GMT

This article is a crock. This reminds one of the so-called White House conspiracy to expose Valerie Plame in retaliation against her stupid supersilious husband. No matter how much the Bush-haters, the father of the Internet, and the other hysterical crazies want to frighten (play) with themselves (and control us) about the global-warming non-issue, the rest of are going to speak even louder against the faked data to support their bogus claims. Al Gore is dead-wrong that the debate is over. It hasn't even begun! While overall, the planet may or may not be warming, 1) the cause is not anthropogenic; 2) if mankind eliminated 100% of all greenhouse gases, it wouldn't do anything significant to change the climate (and it might actually be dangerous if it did have an affect; 3) civilization is clearly incapable of even meeting the (and cannot afford the cost) 1990 Kyoto goals; 4) global-warming is actually a good thing--bring it on; and 5) the real issue is the devastation that will be caused by the worldwide peaking of liquid/gaseous hydrocarbon output that will occur in in the next ten years (which kind of negates the whole atmospheric carbon issue althogether anyway!).

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Bienville — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:38:03 GMT

We should all use less energy and recycle because to do otherwise is wasteful. There have always been times of increased hurricanes. They happen becuase of warmer water, but not a 40% increase over normal activity. That happens because of the shifts in location of the jet stream, under water current, and the location of precipitation. A scientist is being responsible when saying that the increase that we had a couple of years ago "MAY" be attributed to global warming. The last 2 years have been unusually low in hurricane activity and the forecasters couldn't have been much more wrong on their predictions for the last 2 years. Everyone wll benefit from more trees though. Plant a tree.

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mathman — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:08:16 GMT

MIT Meteorologist Richard Lindzen’s appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live on January 31, 2007 at 9:00 PM EST

Plus: Watch Video of Senator Inhofe & Senator Barbara Boxer on Larry King Last Night.

MIT’s Richard Lindzen called fears of manmade global warming ‘silly" and debated PBS’s Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and the controversial Weather Channel host Heidi Cullen on last night’s Larry King Live.

Lindzen corrected several of Nye's claims regarding climate science. "We are simply saying that if you wish to issue scare remarks, you should make them accurate, according to the science," Lindzen told Nye.

At one point, CNN host Larry King cautioned Nye against making a bet with Lindzen over who was correct about the science of global warming.

"[Lindzen's] from M.I.T. he knows what he's talking about," King warned Nye.

Lindzen mocked fears of global warming by comparing them to children’s imaginations. "I think it's mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves," Lindzen said.

Lindzen, a past UN IPCC contributor, also explained how only a dozen scientists were involved in writing the 2001(Third Assessment Report) IPCC media hyped Summary For Policymakers that purported to speak for thousands of scientists.

Cullen, who has been under fire for her call for the decertification of climate skeptics and her involvement in the politcially supercharged new documentary "Everything's Cool", praised former Vice President Al Gore's film "An Inconvenient Truth."

"I think the documentary is very well done and [Gore] really hits the science issues and he captures them very nicely," Cullen said.

Check out transcript below and see Lindzen confront Nye about his unsupportable climate claims and see Nye back down.

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nejking — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:52:11 GMT

Here's something that was ignored by the media from the Bali meeting:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=d5c3c93f-802a-23ad-4f29-fe59494b48a6&Issue_id=

But for those more inclined for videos, this gets the point across nicely:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uO9laiUXS1o

Includes interviews with children learning about CC in schools.