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Will someone just put my head in a vice and get it over with!

I’m putting my head into a vice now. Climate disruption has begun and these self destructive petty political games are being played out by these hypocrites.

This is just the beginning. It’s probably best to keep your head in there for the next 2 years. The very, very best we can hope for is for nothing to happen in the next 2 yrs, but I don’t think that’s what’s in our future. Probably best to take the time away from watching these fools and just work on some political change – no matter how small or local.

The problem of climate change — “solved” the Republican way!

Mission accomplished, yet again.

Climate change isn’t a problem so long as no one is talking about it. The way Republicans have set their agenda for the next Congressional session, I don’t think they’ll be around after 2012… That’s if there is anything left worth governing after that.

Sand is actually an excellent insulator, dig down a bit build a hovel and re-cover it. That’s probably the way our great-grandchildren will be living, what with the mid-west turning into a desert and all…

Meet the new Boss….same as the old Boss…..We won’t get fooled again???

There is a reason why only 6% of all scientists are Republican. Conservative dogma is contrary to rational thought http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/10/only-six-percent-of-scien_n_229382.html

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Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

I can’t wait until I hear about Congress killing the GOP. Wouldn’t that be a nice surprise…

Atta boy! You can always count on this Group Of Pedophiles to do the wrong thing.

Those “scientists” probably graduated from the Institute of Intelligent Design and are paid to vote Repubican.

I dunno about the last part. The electoral process in the US is like a giant bottle of shampoo: lather, rinse, repeat.

That 6% can call themselves scientists, but I don’t.

Goons Oligarchs Patsies

The die is cast. Based on what is known from core samples we may be teetering on the climate cliff right now. Add to that planetary and galactic cycles that may be in play. How many of you remember the wobble ball toy. The earth and its core resemble that as it tumbles through space. The solid core is held in place by tremendous pressure and maybe the magnetic field. If the field were to suddenly change and the pressure became uneven the result could be cataclysmic. Imagine the magnetic field collapsing and an undersea crustal rift allowing major molten ejections from deep in the earth. The solid core shifts suddenly into the vacuum created by the vacated molten mass. The result would be a change in the earths axis and wobble and cataclysmic subduction and thrust earthquakes worldwide. It’s happened before, Atlantis and Lemuria. Government leaders worldwide know of this, and that not much can be done for most of mankind. They’ll cover there arses and those close to them.

So many names so little time…

‘Very disappointing’? That’s all they could say? Both the GOP and the Dems deserve nothing but contempt from the world’s citizens.

I happen to agree that the committee is a money waster. We ALREADY know what we need to do, there’s just no will to do it.

(Quote)…they were disbanding the chamber’s committee on battling global warming, calling it a waste of money.(Quote)

Republicans are a waste of life!

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Very little in the way of anything concerning natural events like climate change will get done .In the meantime the wildlife will suffer and even become extinct if the Pubs are allowed to make the decisions.

Agreed. We don’t need a climate change committee. We need a climate change policy.

Of course, instead it looks like (yet again) the winner will be the standard Republican solution: “Just suck it up and die if you don’t like it and give us all your money when your done.”

And so it starts. This is just the beginning since it is the Religious Right that won the mid term election.

Be apprised: you’re going to see what Right Wing politics are all about in the next two years. These brilliant, smooth-talking, OK-looking people are fantasists and vicious sociopaths with minds swimming in illogic.

Because the Independent voters (aka dunces) abandoned the Demos, the Nihilists/Philistines now get to really show their hands. Please study these truly weird people, the media they now control and how destructive they are to people and civil structures. They’re actually lunatics.

So I wonder: when are we going to Hit the Streets??????!!!!!

Well…so far they have decided to not extend unemployment for families right before Christmas .. why should the world’s global economy be any different? Nothing they do surprised me anymore. I am starting to wonder if their obsession about money in the White House actually had anything to do with the common man as much as their own pocket books. If you doubt this, check out the Republicans in Roosevelts’s plans for the WPA in the depression … they were against that also even though the American citizens were starving at the time. Today they are dropping more unemployment checks yet they are too busy fighting against Democrats in the White House to prepare any new jobs for these same people. How exactly are they to live and feed their families ? They sure aren’t supplying any answers here, are they? Are they forcing unemployed and poor citizens to anger and rage, in order to force Martial Law on us? I bet you our precious Republicans are getting a check this month .. and the next .. .and the next. Plus they have plenty of insurance. Maybe they should donate their viciously earned money to the unemployed since they are unable to say the word YES. All I can say is .. YOU voted them in, I did not.

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The cowardly in-action of the Democrats is as vile as the hatred of the Republicans! Our leaders are a yin/yang of corruption!

They will reduce spending in one are then apply it to more military operations in foreign lands. The result will be no reduction in spending and likely an increase in spending.

NEWS ALERT: Global Warning is causing another record cold winter in Europe!!! (or whatever natural weather cycles may come)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11895107

All this religion talk, and on and on you blather about your own disproven religion: Global Warming!!!! Run for the hills, the world is coming to an end. Meanwhile, record cold winters slam into South America last spring, and now AGAIN in Europe.

But, But, But the paid for, research funded, Scientists say its true! Just look at their temperature sensors sitting on hot tarmacs and air conditioning exhausts ports. They “prove” it! Hisssssss, go away you DENIERS!!!!!

The idea of global warming (AKA CLIMATE CHANGE) does postulate that winters will be colder you uneducated moron.
Temperature swings become more erratic in some parts of the world as we are now seeing.

There’s a difference between climate and weather. The models indicate a high likelihood that Europe will get COLDER as a result of disruptions in the Atlantic currents [one issue is the increased movement of ice from the north and south pole as their glaciers break up].. while the overall energy of the planet increases. 2010 looks to be one of the top 3 hottest years.. GLOBALLY.. in recorded history.

So yes.. Thank you for pointing out that climate modeling has again proven accurate.

As I replied above.. Climate is different than Weather. It’s colder in Chicago than Arizona but that doesn’t tell you anything about the state of the world climate.

The fact is, 2010 has already proven to be one of the 3 hottest years GLOBALLY in recorded history.

No one, but skeptics, have claimed that it will be hot everywhere. We’re talking about small changes in average world-wide temperatures. What has been predicted is an increase in erratic and extreme behavior. It will get much hotter in some areas and cooler in others as local weather patterns change. It will get drier in some areas and wetter in others for the same reason.
Among the predictions from the modeling.. Europe may get much colder as the Atlantic currents cool.

What we know.. the world is getting hotter (retaining more energy). This is a fact. We directly measure this. Average global temperature cycles up and down year to year but the long term trend is decidedly up. I believe the previous decade will have 4 of the hottest years on record (including 2010).
More anecdotally, we see an increase in violent erratic weather, as predicted. Massive flooding in Pakistan this year. Nashville under water. I was in Philly a couple months back and they flooded upstate (9′ over banks). That was the storm that looked like a hurricane over the middle of the US. In my mid-west area, we had 2 storms that they called ‘storms of the century’ and at least one more that was abnormally violent. 70 mph winds in the mid west isn’t common.

P.S. The D.C. blizzard that the right-wing derided as proof that global warming was a fraud… that’s EXACTLY what we would expect if global warming was true. What happens in winter when there’s MORE moisture in the air because ocean currents are warming and evaporation increases? Gee.. it snows more. Climate Change doesn’t mean it will be 70 degrees in D.C. in Winter. It means it might be a degree warmer but the south pacific pumps a lot more moisture across the continent.

Yes, of course. You guys are always right, regardless of what the weather does. Sorry, you can’t have it both ways. I knew what you were going to say before you said it. The tiny amount of ice melt, if that is even the case (more ice is growing on Antarctica, while some slips into the sea, btw) doesn’t amount to a tinkers dam when looking at the vast oceans we are talking about.

The Earth will take care of itself. Spare me your Carbon TAX

I’d bet they also cover 99% of all religious scientists as well. Most scientists are atheist.. so it stands to reason that sane, rational, smart people are Liberal Atheist.

Funny how Newt, in his call for destroying “the left”, wants to better educate children. Educated people tend to be Liberal unless they went to an Ivy League school (all about the money to those types).

Oh wow, OK that makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Wow.

http://www.real-privacy.edu.tc

Front-Line City in Virginia Tackles Rise in Sea…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/science/earth/26norfolk.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

if it gets dark outside, that means the sun has been destroyed…

No one ever said the Earth won’t take care of itself. The point is, it might not take care of us…or millions of other species that can’t cope with such a rate of change.

The Earth isn’t going to implode, it’s “just” going to become less habitable more difficult to support our population or the Earth’s ecosystems.

No one ever said the Earth won’t take care of itself. The point is, it might not take care of us…or millions of other species that can’t cope with such a rate of change.

The Earth isn’t going to implode, it’s “just” going to become less habitable more difficult to support our population or the Earth’s ecosystems.

Who, Dems or Republicans? I think its freaking great we get rid of crap like this. This is not what we created the federal govt to do. Thanks Tea Party Republicans for eliminating crap like this.

If you want free money, go to a Communist country. It’s not the federal governments jobs to pay people to not work. I lost my job and guess what, I started 2 online stores and run them with a credit card and I don’t need a freaking hand out from anyone.

Get off your ass and work for yourself instead of begging for me to take care of you.

Why don’t you move to a Europe where governments are in such deep debt for giving it away to commies like you. Don’t you have any idea of how this country is suppose to operate? 90% of what the government is doing is unconstitutional and leeches like you that want our tax money for nothing is the reason this country is in the toilet.

Pull up your boot straps, take care of yourself and quit asking for handouts.

Why are there so many commies here? We are going to kill the Democrats and sweep them under the rug. It’s a free country, not a socialist state, so if that’s what you want, go to France and get all the benefits you want and quit sucking down my taxes you parasitic leech.

Please read the above comment – 100 times or until you understand what it means. The GOP is demonstrating that they are a disease, NOT a political party.

Wow – the stupidity of the American people (many of them GOP) ……. Gloobal warming doesn’t mean it’s all the sudden gonna get REAL HOT……what it means is: A array of Irratic weather patterns…MOre Floods, More Droughts, More Heat, More Cold,Blizzards……stronger Tornados, stronger Hurricanes…… education msut really hurt some peoples brains.

Perhaps, when you’ve made enough arguments that are easily dismissed by reality, you would come to the conclusion that.. yes, these guys are always right. You may even one day think; maybe the guys who have devoted their lives to studying a topic actually know more about it than the TV/Radio jock that I listen to.

You can, of course, easily win the argument by demonstrating that the earth is not warming (it is). You could partially win the argument by demonstrating that all of our throughly understood knowledge about the physics and chemistry of Carbon [and other green house gasses] are wrong. Have at it.

Your problem is that you have a small mind. You’re willing to take the easy answers from the people who have agendas [politicians, pundits, businesses] instead of accepting the difficult reality from the people who devote their lives to understanding these issues.
The last time I saw a poll, 97% of researchers IN THE FIELD believe that we are contributing or causing climate change. Of course, you’ve probably heard of all of those researchers who disagree (the Oregon poll). Go see how many are PhDs in a relevant field.. and not neuro-scientists and biologists or theologians (they finally got around to striking Fred Flintstone and a dozen other cartoon characters a few years back.. seriously).

I’m not a Climatologist but the Geo Physical Scientists that I work with are brilliant guys that could make a lot more money outside of academic research (I don’t design the climate models.. I support the machines they run the models on). They don’t have an agenda. In fact, if one of them could prove that Anthropogenic Climate Change ISN’T happening, they’d be famous and they’re probably win a Nobel. Every one of them would love to be able to say ‘we were wrong.. it will all be alright’.

BTW.. Antartica IS gaining ice.. Sea Ice. It’s loosing land ice. Thing is though.. Antarctica’s sea ice melts in the summer (increasing absorption of solar heat) and then re-freezes over the Antarctic winter (more moisture in the air). It’s the same phenomena going on in Greenland.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice.htm

And “the tiny amount of ice melt” I’m talking about is glacial shelfs the size of U.S. States. Icebergs from these melts are roaming farther north and south than in the past.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3621685.ece
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-ice-shelf-collapse-picture.html
and for balance.. a 97 mile^2 ice chunk off Greenland..
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/08/massive_iceberg_breaks_off_gre.html

This free country wants center-to-left (liberal) representation on many topics, so this free country votes for Democrat and Independent representation more than Republican or Tea Party most of the time. It never ceases to amaze me when right-wingers say the American free vote and the people’s choice in 2010 is unconstitutional or socialism that must be eliminated. It’s democracy, moron. Just because you didn’t get what you wanted doesn’t mean the other side is an enemy. Learn to live with balance, rather than domination. You people talk about god and freedom – and yet have really no idea what any of those things mean.

I would pull up my bootstraps, but I don’t wear boots. I lost both legs in an accident that could have been avoided if my employer and their work site had been properly regulated. Unfortunately, Republicans don’t like regulation, or they have also stripped enforcement powers from agencies that were supposed to protect me on the job. Now I can’t do the work I was trained the do. I don’t know how to do anything else. If I’m able to learn new skills, I’d do that. But if I’m unable to work because of my handicap, I’d like to know my fellow Americans – the ones I’ve fought for all my life – would come to my aid.

By the way, this isn’t my story – but it’s someone else’s. Just wanted to point out to “Sparky” that life is much more complicated than he seems to understand right now.

Republicans don’t care about bootstraps. They only care about people who can take care of themselves under any circumstance = e.g., the super rich. Everyone else can just go die, apparently.

I would be glad to take care of Sparky, if he really could not support himself – in exchange for asking Sparky to support me, if my luck were to change. It’s a fair exchange. The alternative is to make America a country where no one cares for anyone else, and we’ll let our disabled and injured, and even our own parents, just starve and die in the streets. Yes, that’s much better than paying taxes to government programs.

Oh, and by the way, read the Constitution, before you go saying something is unconstitutional. The first sentence pretty much sums up what our representation are supposed to be trying to do here in America: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”

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One huge overarching purpose of the federal government is to ensure the safety and security of the country’s population … that is when the government is doing what it’s supposed to do.

However, under the GOP/Tea Party, the role of the federal government is to ensure rich people get richer and poor people can just go to hell.

I agree with the GOP:

There was an episode of the Simpsons where a meteor was going to strike Springfield, so the town destroyed the space observatory that discovered the meteor so it would never happen again!

The GOP’s logic is exactly the same and is irrefutable: end the climate change committee and that will stop climate change instantly!

You are such an anti-Christian, heartless, bastard.

You and Ebeneezer Scrooge.

How can you take pleasure is knowing your fellow citizens are starving to death because they can not find a job?

Well said.

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Hi Sparky,
you’re an amazing person, as your post is way beyond deserving a detailed response. Best of luck as you proceed through life thinking the way you do.

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Actually, most scientists are NOT atheist. Most of us have no problem between our religion and our science.

Scrooge get’s such a bad rap. Remember, he did repent and reform. I doubt Boehner and McCoonel will.

Weather ≠ Climate.

If a dog bites your dick off, it was caused by microscopic increases in man-made CO2

i can definitely tell your brain is suffering from oxygen deprivation…

This was novel. I wish I could read every post, but i have to go back to work now… But I’ll return.

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