Gore to Crank Up Heat On Senate as Snow, Ice Hit Washington
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Posted by John under: Time to Look Up
Former Vice President is urging Congress not to be sidetracked by the current financial crisis and to take ‘decisive action’ this year to reduce greenhouse gases.
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“And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy•Strongs 1311:diaphtheiro, dee-af-thi´-ro; from 1225 and 5351; to rot thoroughly, i.e. (by implication) to ruin (passively, decay utterly, figuratively, pervert):—corrupt, destroy, perish.
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WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore is urging Congress not to be sidetracked by the current financial crisis and to take “decisive action” this year to reduce the heat-trapping gases responsible for global warming.
Gore, scheduled to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, planned to tell lawmakers that a bill capping greenhouse gas emissions is needed if the U.S. is to play a leading role in negotiations for a new international climate treaty.
He also was pressing Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan, saying investments in clean energy and green jobs will help dig the country out of its economic rut, according to his prepared testimony.
The Bush administration pulled out of the last treaty, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, because of the lack of participation by developing countries. Negotiations on a new agreement are scheduled for later this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gore — recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize whose book on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” became an Oscar-winning documentary — said the economic recession and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should not cause another delay.
“The road to Copenhagen is now very clear. It starts with the passage of President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill in its entirety. And then, secondly, we need to put a price on carbon by passing cap and trade legislation,” Gore said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. “In other words, this crisis is an opportunity.”
Gore’s appearance is another sign that the Democratic-controlled Congress plans to act quickly on climate change. It comes days after Obama signed orders that will boost the fuel efficiency of the nation’s cars and trucks and could allow states to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from exhaust pipes.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also named a special climate envoy this week to lead U.S. negotiations on a new international treaty. She picked Todd Stern, a former White House assistant who was the chief U.S. negotiator at the Kyoto talks.
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he asked Gore to testify before the panel so “the message can go out loud and clear that the committee is going to be relentless and super-focused” on preparations for Copenhagen.
Gore is the perfect messenger, Kerry said.
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L Bones says Comment posted on January 28th, 2009
Where are the voices of Christian Scientists regarding this issue?
Why are they not invited to Capitol Hill to dissent and set the congress straight on the real deal?
YeshuaAgapao says Comment posted on January 28th, 2009
I think global warming is still real, but it is definitely being over-exaggerated for the warming that has occurred thus far (0.8 degrees Celsius since 188)
Calendar year 2008 was the coolest year since 2000, according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis [see ref. 1] of surface air temperature measurements. In our analysis, 2008 is the ninth warmest year in the period of instrumental measurements, which extends back to 1880 (left panel of Fig. 1). The ten warmest years all occur within the 12-year period 1997-2008
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2008/
The runaway warming that people talk about I don’t think will happen until the bowl judgements of revelation. Volcanism can still spew out many times more CO2 into the atmosphere than us pig slop humans can. The scientific thoery of runaway warming is as the planet’s warms up, the ability to absorb and retain CO2 goes down. When Humans’ 1-2 degrees of global warming add to the 4+ degrees volcanic-induced global (likely stimulated by comet impact) warming (after the volcanic winter wears out) will cause the oceans to release their already dissolved CO2 (like spraying soda) and then the planet really warms up, enough to describe these two bowl judgments (the sixth is likely to be a symptom of the 4th).
Rev 16:8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
Rev 16:9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.
Rev 16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
L Bones says Comment posted on January 29th, 2009
Thank you YeshuaAgapao.
Very interesting.
James says Comment posted on January 30th, 2009
dont forget the problem is exponential and as the earth heats up not only are we still producing more and more C02 but is is being released naturally through the icecaps (the polar icecaps are basically large storage areas when melted release everything thye had trapped in them) and on top of that most of the C02 that is recycled into oxygen comes from alge in the sea, they are dying off as well. (cool fact, when an alge dies it uses more oxygen than it produces its whole life) so naturally you would want to make sure they keep a high population. however i do agree with you that we will not die of global warming, at least not as a whole. sadly it is only one of the many thing just about to happen to this planet beyond our controll. thankfully i know that if i die or live to the end, im going up and not down. maybe i’ll even be here for another 1000 years for the millennial kingdom of Jesus. i hope so.