Rove/Cheney/Lieberman/Clinton/ what about GLOBAL WARMING?

[Harper_is_Bush]

Is it me or does it seem like there's next to no threads on this subject now?

This is the #1 issue we face.

It's far bigger than terrorism, it's bigger than mid-terms, it's bigger than '08.
I know having Dems in power means a greater likelyhood of action (repubs don't believe it requires any action beyond voluntary industry reductions) but we need to act NOW!

Any Dem running this November or in '08 should understand that this issue is #1 and you will not vote for them if they don't make it #1.

Write to your representative, ask them what their position is and what they're planning to do. If the answer is politics as usual, CALL THEM ON IT.

We need this talked about all the time. We need guidance and education. We need incentives. We need regulation. We need money spent on this problem.

Global Warming makes terrorism look like a pebble in our collective shoe, do not lose sight of that.

[bdamomma]

1. Global warming is indeed a big problem

it should be a major concern to everyone, but not to this regime/administration.

wait until those hurricanes start brewing up in the Atlantic again, global warming is not going away.

[checkmate1947]

2. Maybe

we are loosing more people to war than to Global Warming right now, when the troops come home and this lying war is finished, we will have a lot more money to fight Global Warming with. and a lot more people too,

[Harper_is_Bush]

3. On a worldwide basis, no. If your concern is only the US

then consider Katrina and consider that was only one year.

On a worldwide basis, it's already killing many many thousands.
50,000 died from the European heat wave of 2003:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_heat_wave_of_2003

You can expect many more deaths, soon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming#Increased_evaporation

I know you cannot pin one heat wave or one hurricane on global warming, but at this point that has become a skeptics view. If it walks and talks like global warming, then it probably is.

The time to fight global warming is now, not when the war is over.

[JDPriestly]

4. I notice the lack of threads too.

I'm really interested in this. Finding alternative, environment-friendly technologies is the key to the future. I like reading about it.

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. Yep. Clinton and Lieberman are more important I guess.

And I agree, alternative technologies are important, but we MUST start making some minor changes in our behaviour as well.

See my sig.