Sabotage: Climate Edition

Posted on 02/15/2009 at 11:55 am by Bob Cesca

Another repercussion of the Bush years:

Despite widespread concern over global warming, humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere even faster than in the 1990s, researchers warned Saturday.

Bad, yes. But here’s the kicker:

“It is now outside the entire envelope of possibilities” considered in the 2007 report of the International Panel on Climate Change, he said. The IPCC and former vice president Al Gore received the Nobel Prize for drawing attention to the dangers of climate change.

Of course the IPCC projections underestimated the climate crisis. When the IPCC results were released in April, 2007, the AP reported:

The United States, China and Saudi Arabia raised the many of the objections to the phrasing, often seeking to tone down the certainty of some of the more dire projections.

But I’m sure when it comes to fixing this, the Republicans will suddenly demand to be included — you know, because of their awesome credibility on the climate crisis.

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  • Dan in DE

    I took part in a seminar on the potential for ‘Carbon Sequestration’ based on this IPCC report in a University in Germany. The most interesting/feasible possibility would be to separate CO2 from industrial emissions, compress it and pump it in liquid form deep into the earth. Problem is it would cost a hell of a lot to do, there are very few places with the right kind of geology to pull it off, and the risks of leakage are generally quite high.The only real solution is to cut back on fossil fuels. Period.

  • Dan in DE

    Scientists are wasting enough time and resources on fantastical solutions. The last thing we need is for the politicians to jump on this as they did with corn ethanol.

  • SillyGit

    Dan -We have no choice but to stop relying on fossil fuels.There are only so many things we can easily turn too. Nuclear, Solar, and wind spring to mind.We should have already started deploying orbital Solar Electric generation stations, but with idiots like Bush in charge, that was not going to happen.We still have a significant percentage of our population that believe that there is no problem. This is not going to be easy to solve.I wish I could be more positive.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    “It’s thirty degrees outside. All this global warming bullshit’s just so they can take away my gun.”–Actual sentence uttered in my presence last week

  • GIthePotato

    Matt,I apologize for making that statement in front of you. I really loves my guns.”Obama is going to raise ammunition prices 500%!”–Actual sentence uttered in my presence last week

  • gypsy

    i had a buyer for a house that wanted price deductions for the eco improvements i had made such as rain barrels, solar panels, waterless tanks, etc. he stated that they were “trendy gimmicks” that “he wouldn’t buy”. i countered with his deduction amount added to orginal price thanking him for giving me the price he thought such improvements was worth. hehe…

  • CycloCynic

    The better the climate models get, the scarier this stuff is. The four or five major global climate models now give similar results, thanks to recent increases in computing power.Even more frightening, it’s now been shown that the models employed in the 1990′s were too conservative, and the damage is worse than we thought.

  • http://www.politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ politicalpartypooper

    Yes, yes,It’s now been shown that in five minutes, our atmosphere will melt, and we’ll all be dead. Also, too, position flexible on climate change and such, being that the, ahhh. it is the vice president’s job to be, ya know, sort of flexible on all these important issues that Reagan and Washington found important. But here in the great independent state of Alaska, we’re doin’ more to warm up the climate than anyone else, and I think having been that, umm, done that, shows my global affairs are in order and I have the experience, due to being able to see russia from my porch, that, in the end, if it should come to it, or, in the absence of a gotcha media, that corn cannot replace oil in the commodities market as that, ya know, sort of catchall patriotic energy source. Real Americans want oil, and they want it now. And ya know, Bob? The greatest thing about bein’ American is driving that SUV across the heartland of this great nation where Washington drove his horse, where guns and ammo are cheap, and people worship two sticks perpendicular to each other? You betcha, Bob. It don’t get better for real Americans than to drive a thirty gallon gas tank that leaks. In fact, if you aint leakin’ gas, you aint really American.Also, too…we gotta get us a maverick in that ol’ Congress. Someone who’ll fight for the rights of Joe 12 mpg, so that he can feel assured, guaranteed, of his right to drive his 1976 Cadillac Eldorado, and ya know, Bob, can I call ya Bob? It aint about the climate. People just want to be real Americans, and ya know, drive their SUV’s and buy their DVD’s and their IPOD nano’s, and slow cookers, and they don’t wanna have ta be told that they can’t waste all that ol’ oil they want, and dump pollutants into the atmosphere, ‘cus that’s what being American is all about.