Speaking of children....(not conservatives with the minds of children) Global warming is already disrupting the planet’s weather. Now it is having an impact on the courts, as well, as adults and children around the world try to enlist the judiciary in their efforts to blunt climate change. In the United States, an environmental law nonprofit is suing the federal government on behalf of 21 young plaintiffs. Individuals in Pakistan and New Zealand have sued to force their governments to take stronger action to fight climate change. A farmer in Peru has sued a giant German energy utility over its part in causing global warming. And while the arguments can be unconventional and surprising, some of the suits are making progress. Last month, a federal magistrate judge in Oregon startled many legal experts by allowing the lawsuit filed on behalf of 21 teenagers and children to go forward, despite motions from the Obama administration and fossil fuel companies to dismiss it; the suit would force the government to take more aggressive action against climate change. The ruling by the magistrate judge, Thomas M. Coffin, now goes to Federal District Court to be accepted or rejected. Michael B. Gerrard, the director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, called the ruling a potential landmark. “It is the first time a federal court has suggested that government may have a constitutional duty to combat climate change, and that individuals can sue to enforce that right,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/11/s...on®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0
FC, At this point I am not that worried about people in the US that much anymore. We get it. There will always be a few outliers of no consequence. The real dangers are not the 350,000,000 people living here, it is the 1,000,000,000 Indians whole population lives on something like $3 a day. Imagine if they all got refrigerators and a car May we vaya con Dios. Imo, you should be posting equally as vehemently on the Indian social media sites the same way you do here. We will get a much bigger bang for the buck. India's Quandary: Climate Change And Coal Conjuring images of a dystopia, the shroud of bad air blanketing New Delhi in recent weeks has intensified global pressure on India to curb its greenhouse gas emissions. India will arrive at the climate change summit in Paris next week as the third biggest generator of fossil fuel pollution blamed for warming the planet, after China and the U.S. Half of India's emissions come from burning coal. A visit to the coal-rich northeastern Indian state of Jharkhand reveals how this stands to get even worse. Exposure of underground coal to atmospheric oxygen causes spontaneous combustion. And Indian coal, with its high ash content, ignites at a relatively low temperature, 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Coal seams burning at night in the state's Jharia coal region set off a ghostly, vermillion glow, releasing toxins including carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and volatile metals such as mercury. And yet India intends to triple its production of coal by 2030, extracting rich seams of "black gold" from cavernous open-cast pits. Coal-burning power plants supply 65 percent of India's energy today. The country has only limited reserves of natural gas, a cleaner fossil fuel.... http://www.npr.org/2015/11/27/456716184/indias-quandary-climate-change-and-coal
and the poles are cold and dry. so what. that does nothing to counter the science I have been showing you... additionally... More CO2 means more plants. Your implicit argument that co2 produces desert like conditions runs contrary to science, common sense and observation. I have produced multiple NASA studies showing that as we get more co2 we get more plants. Here is another... http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth Results showed that carbon dioxide fertilization explains 70 percent of the greening effect, said co-author Ranga Myneni, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University. “The second most important driver is nitrogen, at 9 percent. So we see what an outsized role CO2 plays in this process.”
Wow, that looks like hell. I never heard of that spontaneous combustion thing with coal. It really is a thing. Yes the world must get together, with the US leading to make sure GHG emissions are controlled. A huge obstacle to that are the ignorant, stubborn and dangerously short sighted conservatives in the US and other countries. In a very real way, the world's largest problem is conservatives. If the earth was smart, she would eliminate them only.
why don't you lead the way by refusing maintain or sell air conditions which have green house gases in them. If we could get the liberals to stop using ghcs in their big houses and taking jets to conferences which could be conducted via go to meeting... maybe we would consider emulating that behavior... since we have zero science stating man made co2 causes warming.
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