Comments on: Glacial Melting Accelerates

By: Science and Religion Misused at The Liberal Walrus

Science and Religion Misused at The Liberal Walrus — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:39:06 +0000

[...] I am loving this column so much, and it seems like such a reflection of some previous blog posts of mine, that I encourage you once more to read the original. He deals with global warming, [...]

By: Wadard

Wadard — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:17:04 +0000

and once you accept it then the stupidity of the Bush Admin response becomes clear

By: Wadard

Wadard — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:16:00 +0000

“Am I becoming some sort of left-winger?”

I don’t like being boxed in – I’m left on some issues, right on others, up on some and down on others.

But you don’t have to be left or right to accept the evidence that man-made global warming is occuring. Just open to the facts.

By: The Liberal Walrus » Blog Archive » More Bad News on Global Warming

The Liberal Walrus » Blog Archive » More Bad News on Global Warming — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:24:12 +0000

[...] Also, for more on the hilarious White House approach to this problem, see this previous entry about Greenhouse Gas Intensity. [...]

By: The Liberal Walrus » Blog Archive » Global Warming is Here Now

The Liberal Walrus » Blog Archive » Global Warming is Here Now — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 06:33:20 +0000

[...] More and more, recently, it has become apparent that the gloomy predictions of the past thirty years are beginning to happen. I blogged here about the acceleration of glacial melting that exceeded even the direst predictions. As the man says, Global Climate Change is here, now. It is occurring, with disastrous results. The tiny beetle has always lived in high areas from Arizona to northern British Columbia, and occasionally populations have grown in limited outbreaks. In Canada, where the beetle’s favored lodgepole pine thrives, it has been controlled by winters with early cold snaps or long killing spells of 20 degrees below zero. But for more than a decade, forestry experts say, the weather here has not been cold enough for long enough to kill the beetle. [...]

By: walrus

walrus — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:03:44 +0000

I wouldn’t say you are becoming “some sort of left-winger” at all. I wouldn’t say that because the term seems only to have meaning in a pejorative sense these days, so I think it is not terribly useful in a serious discussion. It is perfectly respectable to be a moderate who thinks some policies of the administration are silly. Every administration has silly policies.

Though I’m having a hard time thinking of another one as silly as this ridiculous standard for measuring greenhouse gas emissions. As you say, I don’t think paying off the environment with our extra money will accomplish much.

Thanks for reading!

By: Bob S

Bob S — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:20:36 +0000

You know, it’s not often this moderate finds himself agreeing with a shrill liberal full of snarky things to say. Lines such as “We don?t want to prevent people from doing anything they want in the quest for more money” smack of the resentfulness of the have-nots, or something like that.

So it kind of worries me that I agree with that statement, and many others of yours, 100%. The notion that we can set sustained economic growth as a precondition to any action on global warning is “insane” — that word describes it perfectly — in light of our increasing understanding of the situation, which seems to be continually worse and more urgent than we thought in any previous month. Are we going to negotiate with the environment to hold off on the global warming until our economy gets to a state where we’re ready to start tackling the problem? Maybe offer it some tax breaks…

Am I becoming some sort of left-winger?