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We are now mostly in a stage where the general public does accept that global warming is occurring. However, what to do about it is still widely debated.
Transportation accounts for one-third of America's greenhouse gas emissions.
In the United States, 51 percent of electricity comes from coal; 20 percent, nuclear; 16.5 percent, natural gas; 7 percent, hydroelectric; 3 percent, oil, and the rest, renewables—geothermal, wind and solar.
About a year ago, the Senate voted on four climate amendments to the energy bill. A nonbinding resolution passed, urging the Congress to enact mandatory, market-based limits to slow, stop and reverse the growth of emissions. Though it's nonbinding, the fact it passed with the word "mandatory" in it is interesting.
In January 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives created a new Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming [1], and Republicans and Democrats in both the House and the Senate have introduced legislation to curb greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the next few decades.
In February 2007, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [2] (IPCC), representing the work of 2,500 scientists from more than 130 countries, stated that human activity "very likely" has been the primary cause of global warming since 1950.
President Bush issued an executive order to give federal agencies until the end of 2008 to continue studying the threat of greenhouse gas emissions and determine what can be done about them.
The Bush administration is scaling back efforts to measure global warming [3] from space. A confidential report to the White House [4], obtained by The Associated Press, warns that U.S. scientists will soon lose much of their ability to monitor warming from space because of technology glitches and a near-doubling in the original $6.5 billion cost, the Defense Department has decided to downsize and launch four satellites paired into two orbits, instead of six satellites and three orbits.
G8 conference is coming up and global warming will be discussed.
Quotes
In the end, countries will do what is in their national interests- Eileen Claussen (President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change and Strategies for the Global Environment)
People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.- Elizabeth Colbert
With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.-James M. Inhofe
Global warming is indeed a scam, perpetrated by scientists with vested interests, but in need of crash courses in geology, logic and the philosophy of science.- Martin Keeley (Geologist, and a Visiting Professor at University College London)
Man-made climate change is a lie and the biggest scam of modern times. Global warming as "a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry, created by fanatically anti-industrial environmentalists, supported by scientists peddling scare stories to chase funding, and propped up by compliant politicians and the media.-Martin Durkin (director of Against Nature, British film debunking global warming)
Global warming -- at least the modern nightmare vision -- is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.- David Bellamy (botanist [5], author [6], broadcaster [7], environmental [8] campaigner, and a global warming [9] sceptic.)
There is a significant minority of genuine experts in the field who believe that the Armageddon scenario is grossly oversold, especially by climatologists in pursuit of government funding and research grants.- Dominic Lawson (British journalist and columnist for the Independent)
Commercials, Etc.
Heritage in Focus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9pLyCvrGac&mode=related&search [10]= [11]
We call it life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGKvDNdJNA [12]
Newsnight broadcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKUblhXJw8 [13]
Ask a CEI policy expert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjO8ivCdtc [14]
SNL Will Ferrell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1wogkDmLlQ [15]
Tick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghUVT_Z5oDs [16]
Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-_LBXWMCAM&mode=related&search [17]=
Blue Man Group
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_feature.asp?id=0 [18]
No consensus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0jay740Tc [19]
Motivations behind the debates……
Companies that attempt to prove global warming is “nothing to worry about” have/use products, and production that environmentalists say are causing the problem.
Who funds who? Usually stands taken by big name politicians, leaders, etc. are often explained when seeing what kinds of funding they receive or what companies they are invested in.
Environmentalists, climatologists, etc. are playing it up in order to receive excess funding.