Jim

You can always find some wingnut on the interntet who says the world is flat. Dolts. Since 2001, 32 national science academies have come together to issue joint declarations confirming anthropogenic global warming, and urging the nations of the world to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. The signatories of these statements have been the national science academies of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, the Caribbean, China, France, Ghana, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, India, Japan, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, New Zealand, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 2001-Following the publication of the IPCC Third Assessment Report, sixteen national science academies issued a joint statement explicitly acknowledging the IPCC position as representing the scientific consensus on climate change science. The sixteen science academies that issued the statement were those of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Caribbean, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.[16] 2005-The national science academies of the G8 nations, plus Brazil, China and India, three of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the developing world, signed a statement on the global response to climate change. The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action, and explicitly endorsed the IPCC consensus. The eleven signatories were the science academies of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 2007-In preparation for the 33rd G8 summit, the national science academies of the G8+5 nations issued a declaration referencing the position of the 2005 joint science academies' statement, and acknowledging the confirmation of their previous conclusion by recent research. Following the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, the declaration states, "It is unequivocal that the climate is changing, and it is very likely that this is predominantly caused by the increasing human interference with the atmosphere. These changes will transform the environmental conditions on Earth unless counter-measures are taken." The thirteen signatories were the national science academies of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 2008-In preparation for the 34th G8 summit, the national science academies of the G8+5 nations issued a declaration reiterating the position of the 2005 joint science academies’ statement, and reaffirming “that climate change is happening and that anthropogenic warming is influencing many physical and biological systems.” Among other actions, the declaration urges all nations to “(t)ake appropriate economic and policy measures to accelerate transition to a low carbon society and to encourage and effect changes in individual and national behaviour.” The thirteen signatories were the same national science academies that issued the 2007 joint statement. 2009-In advance of the UNFCCC negotiations to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009, the national science academies of the G8+5 nations issued a joint statement declaring, "Climate change and sustainable energy supply are crucial challenges for the future of humanity. It is essential that world leaders agree on the emission reductions needed to combat negative consequences of anthropogenic climate change". The statement references the IPCC's Fourth Assessment of 2007, and asserts that "climate change is happening even faster than previously estimated; global CO2 emissions since 2000 have been higher than even the highest predictions, Arctic sea ice has been melting at rates much faster than predicted, and the rise in the sea level has become more rapid." The thirteen signatories were the same national science academies that issued the 2007 and 2008 joint statements.

Slow morning.

Did you actually read this? Chris Horner - the famed lawyer from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and reciepient of over $2M in funding from Exxon Mobile over the last few years, "believes" NASA is hiding something. How can you not write sarcastic emails about this crap. Some non-scientist writes a pop-fiction book about global warming skepticisim, has an opinion based on nothing in a field he knows nothing about, and it's put on the Moonie's Washington Times banner. Got any other gems?

True it is. Wilson chose as Interior Secretary Franklin Lane, the former San Francisco City Attorney, and that was the final nail in the coffin.

did you use a sled to drag that large plastic bin up to this extreme alpine destination?

.....but they do have some nice buildings.

Uh-huh Teaching evolution for instance.

Actually, I think god is a childish crutch for those afraid of the dark. That and handguns.

The responses to this post were hilarious: TTK immediately went into the equivalent of libtard gesticulations and siezures with eight consecutive posts. j_b pasted his (Huffingtonpost-approved) health care manifesto. Again. Jim called his local chapter of World Can't Wait to get the proper form-letter response--profane insults included. Prole fell back on his usual "I'm a really smart guy and you're not you teabagger Glen Beck stooge". Well done All!! Tools. If there were an argument in here somewhere I would respond - but that's not the case.

As usual your diatribe is full of the typical Fox news distortions. It's not a "government-run" anything. Hospitals, doctors, nurses, event the friggin insurance companies will remain as they are - privately owned and run. There would be one public option - the insurance companies are scared they might actually have to compete with a entitiy that was not out to gouge the citizens. The latest polls (Pew Research, Harvard Medical School, others) (http://www.everybodyinnobodyout.org/DOCS/Polls.htm#NHI) show that Americans are in favor of a single payer system and that they want change. And, as usual you haven't come near to addressing and of the issues raised in the original post. The market-based system of health care delivery is not working. Except for the folks stuffing their pockets with huge profits at the expense of everyone else.

And what else are you doing to help the veterns today. Let me guess. You hung up your flag.

WTF are you talking about? Freedom from what or to do what exactly? Get sick and die in the gutter, drain your family's bankaccount, help pay million dollar salaries of the CEOs of insuranace companies, suffer trade imbalances because Toyota pays no health insurance for its employees, or do you just mean the freedom to pay a bloated insurance bureacracy? Great jigoism. No logic. The ususal.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/view/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=proglist&utm_source=proglist This was a repeat of T.R. Reid's trip around the world to see how other countries handle health care: UK, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Switzerland. Worth watching. They range from the total government program in the UK to private insurance in Switzerland. Several common themes - no one wants a US style program, the vast majority of folks give their system high marks, wait times are minimal, even in the UK and mostly for elective surgery, they deliver health care at a fraction of the cost of the US, they are all healither populations, if they have private insurers they have strict cost controls and insurers can make only minimal profit. Oh yea - and no one goes bankrupt over medical costs and lacks care just because they lose their job. How civilized. In Switzerland, with the highest administrative costs of these countries it is a staggering 5.2% - compared to the 22% of the US. And we're arguing about this in Congress. Idiots.

Gotta agree there while I'm in the middle of ripping apart and putting back together a basement space. Nice elements - knob and tube wiring, galvinzed pipe, lead pipe, single pane windows, non-bolted pony walls, creaky oil furnace, leaky underground oil tank, 3x support beams on tiny footings, asbestos tile - Yea, I like the newer materials and workings.

I hear ya and agree. But I think regulating it as a futures market would have taken off the edge

Great show on Frontline last night. Another indictment of Greenspans hands off policy, via Ayn Rand. What a friggin moron - he's quoted as saying that he doesn't think it's necessary to even have regulations aganist fraud because the market will take care of it! Brooksley Born gets beat up and shut by by the financial wizards when she tries to regulate the black box of derivatives. Later, after the tumble - Greenspan admits he was wrong and that markets need regulation - Thanks! Unfortunately a couple of these Masters of the Universe - Summers and Geitgner - are in the current adminstration. How can these guys be so wrong and have any credence? "We didn't truly know the dangers of the market, because it was a dark market," says Brooksley Born, the head of an obscure federal regulatory agency -- the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC] -- who not only warned of the potential for economic meltdown in the late 1990s, but also tried to convince the country's key economic powerbrokers to take actions that could have helped avert the crisis. "They were totally opposed to it," Born says. "That puzzled me. What was it that was in this market that had to be hidden?"

where was that taken? Forbidden WR?

In the book The Shipping News Quoyle's boss is trying to explain the news business to him out on the warf. "Now look at those black clouds on the horizon - what headline can you imagine?". Quoyle stares blankly. His boss continues "Dangerous Storm Threatens Life and Limb". -- "But what if the storm never makes landfall?" asks Quoyle. "DISASTER AVERTED"

“The Nobel gang just suicide-bombed themselves. Gore, Carter, Obama, soon Bill Clinton. See a pattern here? They are all leftist sell-outs. George Bush liberates 50 million Muslims in Iraq, Reagan liberates hundreds of millions of Europeans and saves parts of Latin America. Any awards?” Limbaugh says “Obama gives speeches trashing his own country and for that gets a prize, which is now worth as much as whatever prizes they are putting in Cracker Jacks these days.” “This fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama. It is a greater embarrassment than losing the Olympics bid. And with this "award" the elites of the world are urging Obama, THE MAN OF PEACE, to not do the surge in Afghanistan, not take action against Iran and its nuclear program and to basically continue his intentions to emasculate the United States. They love a weakened, neutered U.S. and this is their way of promoting that concept. I think God has a great sense of humor, too.” ----Whoa there Rush, don't pop a vein.

You just preempted the next 18 posts!

There are likely a dozen other worthy candidates, but I think here in the US we underestimate the breath of fresh air felt by he rest of the world after moving form the tiny minds of the last admistration. The right has turned into a continual mantra of negativity. Naive, maybe a bit - but Obama and his efforts are a inspiration to many folks, and given that, I'll choose optimism and inspiration over the basement level cynicism offered by the right. I'm parapharasing Chompsky but - You can choose to be cynical and do nothing or you can do your part to make the world a better place. The choice is up to you.

Oh yea. There's a non-controversial pick !

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will donate the roughly $1.4 million award from his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to charity, a White House spokesman said Friday. ----Any competent, thinking person would have been a change worthy of note given the previous Idiot who went through world diplomacy like a deaf, dumb, and blind bull in a china shop. Hey, who was the last right-wing nutjob who won this prize?

Don't you outgrow twitter by what, 13?