But not the one you’re thinking of
(Concord Monitor) One of these days, the tipping point will be reached. No, not the tipping point that leads to a continued warming of the globe. That one, unfortunately, is probably behind us. The even more elusive tipping point is the action, event or increased collective concern that finally prompts Americans to make combatting climate change a national goal akin to winning a world war.
Going to be tough to have a tipping point when a) no statistically significant warming in 17 years and b) Warmists refuse to practice what they preach
Hurricane Katrina didn’t do it, and neither have Hurricanes Sandy and Irene. So the notion that a slim book and a barnstorming state senator from Iowa will spur the nation to action seems far-fetched. But Sen. Rob Hogg’s book, America’s Climate Century, and his talks across the state this week should move the needle in the right direction.
Thanks for that science, since neither Sandy nor Irene were hurricanes when they made landfall. As for Hogg, it seems like he’s taking fossil fueled trips to push a book saying fossil fuels are evil.
Preventing an even bigger temperature increase will require U.S. leadership, which in turn, require bipartisan support. That support has been wanting among Republicans, but that too may be changing. Earlier this month four former heads of the Environmental Protection Agency, William Ruckelshaus, Lee Thomas, William Reilly and Christine Todd Whitman, authored a joint column in The New York Times. It was called “ A Republican Case for Climate Action.†They wrote, “The only uncertainty about our warming world is how bad the changes will get, and how soon. What is most clear is that there is no time to waste.â€
And they were roundly ignored, because they are Republican Progressives pushing un-scientific doctrine which leads to more Big Government and fascistic control.
The tipping point that will result in American leadership on climate change is approaching. Our hope is that it is no more than one election away.
We can start by all Warmists voluntarily making their lives “carbon neutral”. The editorial talks about everyone doing what they can to reduce their energy usage. That’s not a bad idea from an economic point of view. I do. But there is so much more Warmists can do in their own lives, like giving up fossil fueled travel. They won’t.
Sure. Sure there could be a national tipping point like when the US people finally got behind entering in to WW2 officially. But, you have to tell people the truth. You have to show them the facts, show them correct observable facts. If all you have is rhetoric, then you don’t have anything.
And, when you have people freezing in summer time, then you don’t have squat.
Well, like you say Teach, Sandy and Irene were barely hurricanes and not Major Hurricanes. Katrina is an interesting one. How often were we told that Bush caused the damage in New Orleans. He took advantage of that storm to wipe out something that he saw as a blight. So, in that view, Katrina was not a climate-based storm, but a Bushicane. If it is a Bushicane, then it is not a climate-created hurricane. Therefore we have to go back to 2002 for a major storm making landfall.
And? Why should I care about what some over-paid member of congress thinks? If he can’t prove anything and all he does is talk, what’s the point? And if you have to use evil petroleum to make your anti-petroleum point, then you’re a hypocrite.
So, by holding hands and singing Kumbayah! will lead to reducing temperatures? First, you have to tell us how our current temperatures are bad and why we need to “talk” to reduce temperature? And please, oh please, tell us how anything the US does will make a spit of difference across our entire globe?
Ummm.. who are these people? And again, why should we care about some politically-appointed government stooges? Wasn’t Whitman fired by Pres Bush?
These people are really bringing out the dregs aren’t they? Well, it is all they have left.