Letter from Natural Systems Blog.

Hello Bob... if the goal truly is to pass comprehensive legislation that will stand up to the best scientific evidence and analysis, then it should start with being honest with ourselves. After all, life on Earth and the future of Western industrial civilization is at stake. Although the latter must be seen as much less important than the former.

Thursday, Jul. 17, 2008Move Species to Save Them?By AP/RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

(WASHINGTON) — With climate change increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to move some species to save them. Dubbed assisted colonization or assisted migration, the idea is to decide how severe the threat is to various species, and if they need help to deal with it.

Two recent studies “in separate journals over the past few weeks, suggest that both industrialized and developing nations must wean themselves off fossil fuels by as early as mid-century in order to prevent warming that could change precipitation patterns and dry up sources of water worldwide… The world must bring carbon emissions down to near zero to keep temperatures from rising further.“

Hey all,

I thought this grassroots campaign to draft Al Gore to run for president in 2008 was interesting.

DQ on Gore: "I've never said anywhere that a short term focus on government is "a bad thing." What I've said is that changed minds are needed everywhere, including in the government. Al Gore is the closest we've ever come to putting someone with a changed mind in the White House. Every vote for Ralph Nader was a gestural vote--one that didn't count for anything, since Nader's chance of being elected was zero. If the votes cast for Nader had been cast for Gore instead, they would have been real votes--votes that counted--and we might well now have the most environmentally friendly president in history instead of the most environmentally hostile president in history. The fact that we must think about long term results doesn't preclude thinking about short term results."

This new documentary on global warming is coming out soon and supposedly has more of a positive, "This is what you can do to help prevent global warming" theme than "Inconvenient Truth":

From:  http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece

Walking does more than driving to cause global warming, a leading environmentalist has calculated.

Food production is now so energy-intensive that more carbon is emitted providing a person with enough calories to walk to the shops than a car would emit over the same distance. The climate could benefit if people avoided exercise, ate less and became couch potatoes. Provided, of course, they remembered to switch off the TV rather than leaving it on standby.

Tue 19 Jun 2007 Live Earth shows aim to set new green standard

By Ray Waddell

NASHVILLE (Billboard) - It would play right into the hands of critics if the seven Live Earth concerts to be staged worldwide July 7 were to come off in an unfriendly environmental way. And it's probably fair that no concerts in history will be more closely monitored for how well they manage power and waste.

This is From Grist an online magazine 

By Amanda Griscom Little

ON Global Warming.

Many environmentalists these days are almost universally livid at the prospects of global warming and our present governments inaction to stop it.  I’ve got to say though, global warming doesn’t really bother me all that much. Whatever carbon we are burning is carbon that used to be in the air anyhow, and the earth was just fine when it was there.

very interesting article, from Prison Planet.com (AKA Conspiracy Master Alex Jones). give it a read and let's talk.

from here: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/130207globalwarming.htm

The Creeping Fascism of Global Warming Hysteria
Man-made orthodoxy is a dogma of coercion, bias, and junk science

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, February 13, 2007