Are carbon emissions increasing? It depends on the context. When alarmists try to justify Hansen’s failed predictions, they claim that CO2 emissions are slowing – i.e. scenario B.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction.htm
But the rest of the time they tell the opposite story.
Bush admits U.S. has big role in global warming
Tuesday, June 12, 2001By Ann McFeatters, Post-Gazette National Bureau
WASHINGTON — After the White House admitted badly handling its abrogation of the global warming treaty, President Bush yesterday conceded as he left for his first diplomatic trip to Europe that the United States is a major player in heating up the Earth.
Calling for more scientific research into how carbon dioxide emissions damage worldwide climate patterns, the president said: “Our country, the United States, is the world’s largest emitter of man-made greenhouse gases; we account for almost 20 percent of the world’s man-made greenhouse emissions. We also account for about one-quarter of the world’s economic output. We recognize the responsibility to reduce our emissions.”
All this political posturing — plus a multimillion-dollar propaganda effort funded by the fossil- fuel industry — has led to confusion in the minds of many people. A Gallup poll this month finds that 51 percent of Americans “worry a great deal or fair amount” about climate change, down from 66 percent in 2008.
This is the worst kind of ostrich-like behavior. A 2009 study from a think tank headed by former U.N. Secretary-General KofiAnnan revealed that global warming is causing 300,000 deaths annually and affecting 300 million people. By 2030, the report warns, half a million individuals could die every year as a result of climate change.
Kofi blames CO2 for his own actions.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Km3dx7wppA]
“hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared and making straight for the president”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8]
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Apparently Joey Heatherton wasn’t hot enough for him. He thought he could do better with a 10 year old.
