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Dear climate change doubters,
Please leave the planet to us. We intend to save it so that mankind (including you) and all other living things can survive.
In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap-and-trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.
Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because “climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming … concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,” said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.
To the Palins of what would be left of the world, life takes a back seat to BP and Oil Volcanos.
The recommendation is that a central agency would be in charge. Adapting to the inevitable would include moving entire populations away from coasts. Another is finding ways to protect water supplies in the Southwest.
In other words, major measures must be taken, and we better get on this, and fast:
The conclusions of the new reports generally reflect those of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in 2007, but reflect a greater urgency because committee members had an additional five years of research to draw on, Matson said. As a consequence, for example, the academy panels concluded that ocean levels could rise by as much as 5 feet by the end of the century, compared to the IPCC estimate of a foot and a half increase.
The doubters will yawn and stretch and ask what the big rush is. Hey, we have 90 years, why push it?
Meanwhile, drill, baby, drill.
Meanwhile #2: Per Thom Hartmann just now, BP admits that more goo is gushing into the ocean than they previously thought. Heavy sigh. Another bang head on wall moment.
Meanwhile #3: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA reported that 2009 was the warmest year worldwide in human history.
Meanwhile #4: Most scientists believe that things will get worse.
Drill, baby, drill!
So what should we do? Besides all that drilling, I mean:
The panel recommended that the United States restrict its carbon emissions to a total of 170 to 200 billion tons of greenhouse gases during the period 2012 to 2050, which would represent as much as an 80% reduction of carbon compared to current projections.
Yeah right, the corporate puppets will go right along with that.
Meanwhile #5: While the naysayers are busy manufacturing Al Gore dart boards, the rest of us will be doing everything we can to save their miserable lives.
Please read the entire piece here.
You can find the reports online here at http://www.nationalacademies.org.
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