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Posted by: RickyDawkins 1 year, 2 months ago

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Earlier this year, the world's top climate scientists released a definitive report on global warming. It is now "unequivocal," they concluded, that the planet is heating up. Humans are directly responsible for the planetary heat wave, and only by taking immediate action can the world avert a climate catastrophe.

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    RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago

    You would think, in the wake of such stark and conclusive findings, that the White House would at least offer some small gesture to signal its concern about the impending crisis. It's not every day, after all, that the leading scientists from 120 nations come together and agree that the entire planet is about to go to hell. But the Bush administration has never felt bound by the reality-based nature of science - especially when it comes from international experts. So after the report became public in February, Vice President Dick Cheney took to the airwaves to offer his own, competing assessment of global warming.

    "We're going to see a big debate on it going forward," Cheney told ABC News, about "the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it's caused by man." What we know today, he added, is "not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy that's going to 'solve' the problem."

    -Rolling Stone

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      RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago

      Even former White House insiders were shocked by the vice president's see-no-evil performance. "I don't see how he can say that with a straight face anymore," Christine Todd Whitman, who clashed privately with Cheney over climate policy during her tenure as the administration's first chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, tells Rolling Stone. "The consequences of climate change are very real and very negative, but Cheney is not convinced of that. He believes - not quite as much as Senator James Inhofe, that this is a 'hoax' - but that the Earth has been changing since it was formed and to say that climate change is caused by humans is incorrect."

      Cheney's statements were the latest move in the Bush administration's ongoing strategy to block federal action on global warming.

      http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/1514...

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        cosmogenium1 year, 2 months ago

        Cheney still thinks Osama was sleeping with Saddam and that there are still weapons of mass destruction somewhere in the sand of the Iraqi desert. He's delusional at best, anti-humanity at worst. Now he wants to lie us into Iran as well. He should be impeached and imprisoned for too many crimes to count.

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        jordan111 year, 2 months ago

        during the G-8 conference, bush did propose a conference among the world's main polluters to address the issue. But that's bush's problem; he doesn't learn from past experience. It can't be left up to the polluters to monitor themselves. He did that in Texas, & the EPA had to step in, because the air was horribly polluted. There has to be independent oversight of business. And the only intelligent way to assess this, is by the evidence of science.

        Certainly not by the ramblings of dick cheney. The meeting should be with scientists, who propose specific problems and solutions. Governments need to then give criteria to business, with mandates to clean up.

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          liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago

          God, Dorkins you are such a blithering idiot.

          You're not this stupid. You're just plain old EVIL.

          leftist/george soros influenced by and paid for leading scientists from 120 countries is closer to the truth.

          The entire planet is NOT about to go to hell. That's just plain STUPID.

          The planet has warmed an Earth shattering 6/10th of ONE degree in the last hundred years. OMG, were going to FRY!

          We've only been keeping modern weather and temperature records for just over a hundred years.

          Now there are scientists stating we're headed for global cooling.

          Coffee's good for you - 9/4/99

          Coffee is carcinogenic - 4/23/01

          Coffe is full of antioxidants - 2/17/02

          Coffee causes heart disease - 6/29/03

          Coffee staves off alzheimers - 1/16/04

          Coffee causes alzheimers - 5/24/05

          Coffee is the female viagra - 7/14/06

          Coffee is from another planet and has slowly been taking over Earth since being introduced into Europe by the arabs nearly a millenium ago...... - 6/23/07

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          tiredofnonsense1 year, 2 months ago

          "We're going to see a big debate on it going forward," Cheney told ABC News, about "the extent to which it is part of a normal cycle versus the extent to which it's caused by man." What we know today, he added, is "not enough to just sort of run out and try to slap together some policy that's going to 'solve' the problem."

          Sounds like a call for reason over the political rhetoric of GW

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          RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago

          It is no secret that industry-connected appointees within the White House have worked actively to distort the findings of federal climate scientists, playing down the threat of climate change. But a new investigation by Rolling Stone reveals that those distortions were sanctioned at the highest levels of our government, in a policy formulated by the vice president, implemented by the White House Council on Environmental Quality and enforced by none other than Karl Rove. An examination of thousands of pages of internal documents that the White House has been forced to relinquish under the Freedom of Information Act - as well as interviews with more than a dozen current and former administration scientists and climate-policy officials - confirms that the White House has implemented an industry-formulated disinformation campaign designed to actively mislead the American public on global warming and to forestall limits on climate polluters.

          -Rolling Stone

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            liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago

            SCREW ROLLING STONE! How about citing a CREDIBLE source....?

            Why don't you cite "Hit Parader" or "Creem" while you're at it?

            ROLLING STONE?.......

            BWAHAHAHA

            HAHAHAHAHAHA....!!!!!

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          ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago

          Everything about this administration, its fiscal policy and its environmental policy; demonstrates its greed. Party now and screw the future generations.

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            Searchbeam1 year, 2 months ago

            Just like Dumbya's Yale days!

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              lvrofwolves1 year, 2 months ago

              No surprises-they seem to have hidden agendas for everything, mostly in their own best self interests.

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                liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago

                WOW, just like the DEMOCRATS!

                THOSE A$$HOLES want to give away my country to mexico and erase the borders.

                And this will benefit MY children (the future generation) in what way?

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              bubba21 year, 2 months ago

              Yes, ET ... in short, this administration DOES NOT CARE AT ALL about the environment or about fiscal policy or about poverty or disease or hunger or crime or health care.

              The only "fiscal policy" they care about is their own personal "fiscal gains". Everything this administration has done has been only for THEIR personal benefit and for the benefit of their corporate exec crony buddies.

              They do not give a cr*p about the American people - the best example of that is their so-called tax cuts, their "war", and their do-nothing stance on the environment and poverty and health care.

              As I heard someone on the radio say - this administration has done more damage to this country and to its people and to its government and to its finances than any other administration in our history. IF the country can EVER recover from their disastrous 'management', it will take years and years.

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                quackpot1 year, 2 months ago

                Too bad the wealth does not "trickkle down" as fast as the sludge in our rivers, the crap in out air, and the rape of our envronment by Cheney's big buisness pals.

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                HomerJS491 year, 2 months ago

                But,But,But he SAYS he's a Christian!

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                liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago

                And you think Hillary will be any better or any different?

                And NO I am not happy with jorge bush the mexican.

                He will probably move to mexico and run for president.

                But the fact is :

                I voted for bush and GOT KERRY!

                I just thank God that putz, crackpot, schmuck al-jazeera gore will never be President.

                Oh, he'll run and put 'her thighness' the hildebeast out of the race and I'm thankful for that.

                BUT FRED THOMPSON IS NEXT IN LINE AND YOU LIBS ARE UP $HIT CREEK COME JANUARY '09!

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              2sidestoeverything1 year, 2 months ago

              Long read but I have to say I'm not really surpised. :~/

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                dandt16121 year, 2 months ago

                Just what I thought. Really Sad for All of us

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              Neophile1 year, 2 months ago

              America deserves better than to be deceived by its politicians.

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                HomerJS491 year, 2 months ago

                True, but we're either too self absorbed in our materialism OR

                just don't care.

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                  RickyDawkins1 year, 2 months ago

                  The world deserves better too!

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                Searchbeam1 year, 2 months ago

                When Cheney's day comes, I hope he is shown no mercy!

                He does not deserve any! He is a crook, a liar and a cheat!

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                  Daylight1 year, 2 months ago

                  searchbeam

                  When Cheney's day comes, I hope he is shown no mercy!

                  He does not deserve any! He is a crook, a liar and a cheat!

                  Be careful FBI is going to knock at your door soon.

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                  scriblerus11 year, 2 months ago

                  Yes, search, I hope against hope that the law will pursue these bastards till they are convicted and jailed for all their horrendous crimes.

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                  liberals_belong_in_mental_institutions1 year, 2 months ago

                  sergebum said:

                  When Cheney's day comes, I hope he is shown no mercy!

                  He does not deserve any! He is a crook, a liar and a cheat!

                  .............

                  I suppose YOU are a SAINT?

                  Sounds like JEALOUSY to me.

                  Hey why don't you liberal bedwetters impeach bush?

                  Cheney would be President then. I know how much you would love that.

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                  denier11 year, 2 months ago

                  I must ask myself, Are people stupid or are they lying? Well some of them are undoubtedly stupid. Some of them are undoubtedly lying for personal gain. People like Al Gore.

                  Anybody with an Internet connection, a browser and five minutes to spare can find plenty of qualified scientist who dispute the "stark and conclusive findings" of man made global warming. Unfortunately, when these theories are debunked, and they will be, the publics confidence in threats to our environment based on actual science will be undermined.

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