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Dalai Lama Urges Global Climate Action 

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth As climate change deniers continue to spread their disinformation and claim scientific data and evidence is unsettled science or not real science at all , public knowledge that the very corporations that stood to lose the most (impact on profit) were behind the campaign of disinformation is steadily growing. Ultimately the result will be to finally do the right thing. Something corporations seem incapable of doing unless forced to do so by public pressure and government representing the best interests of the governed.. CAMBRIDGE, MASS . — MILLIONS of Americans once wanted to smoke. Then they came to understand how deadly tobacco products were. Tragically, that understanding was long delayed because the tobacco industry worked for decades to hide the truth, promoting a message of scientific uncertainty instead. The same thing has happened with climate change , as Inside Climate News, a nonprofit news organization, has been reporting in a s...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth At one time being a skeptic of climate change (global warming) is what seemed to be a reasonable position. It even sounded plausible to me that left leaning scientists (most are for explainable logical reasons) were in cahoots with left leaning politicians who saw climate change as an avenue to enact legislation (cap and trade) and an pathway to exact more taxes on business. Taxes which could be used to fill the coffers of government so government could spend more on social programs that may ultimately lead to greater dependendency on government. Sound familiar? At this juncture in my thought process (aided by evaluating factual data) the narrative now seems more geared to preserving the bottom line profit motivation of companies whose business it is to grow exceedingly wealthy by exploiting and expanding fossil fuel consumption. Of course my re-evaluation has been an evolving process over time. But given the following (which certainly sup...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth According to new scientific data the earth has been warning at the same rate the past decade as it did during the previous decade. There has been no pause in climate change, aka global warming. The importance of the global-warming pause, conservatives explained, was that we needed to get the science right. “One lesson of the IPCC report is that now is the time for policy caution. Let's see if the nonwarming trend continues, in which case the climate models will need remodeling,” explained the Journal’s editors . But fortunately we now have an answer. A new paper released today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration finds that the apparent slowdown in warming was an artifact of mis-measurement. The Earth is not warming at a slower rate. It’s warming at the same fast pace as it did the previous decade: Full article BELOW THE FOLD . Via: Memeorandum

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth With the help of lawmakers apparently residing in la-la land Stewart has a ice and ice water segment on his daily program. The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook , Daily Show Video Archive h/t: Progressive Eruptions

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Not being a climatologist or a scientist in the conventional sense, thus being at the mercy of the "experts", could someone, anyone, sort all the confusing and contradictory data and info out for us average, normal, hard working people with bills to pay and family's to raise so we know for sure if we are being screwed or not by the purveyors of climate change and the catastrophe will strike us all unless we cap and trade the hell out of everybody crowd. Daily Mail - The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaigning on climate change. But seven years after his warning, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that, far from vanishing, the Arctic ice cap has expanded fo...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation U S A Lib e rty -vs- Tyr a nny It just gets so damn confusing. Which side does one come down on? Nature, that force that just keeps on providing surprises and the force humans have little to no control over. Wondering how Al Gore (Gorelione to some) will respond to changing data points. Just in from The Telegraph . A cold Arctic summer has led to a record increase in the ice cap, leading experts to predict a period of global cooling. There has been a 60 per cent increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, they equivalent of almost a million square miles. In a rebound from 2012's record low an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia's northern shores, days before the annual re-freeze is even set to begin. The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year, forcing some ships to ch...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny Climate change . The result of man's ultimate selfishness and disregard for nature and the cosmos. The only solution is adherence to the questionable "science" of global warming and the pontifications of the oracle of wisdom. The man who invented the internet... Al Gore . Or as I fondly refer to him, Al Gorelione. It should be apparent by now that our progressive President has bought into the arguments presented by Mr. Gorelione and his fellow climate change "scientists". While the U.S.A wisely opted out of the Kyoto Protocol and resisted overreaching climate change regulations and with Cap and Trade going no where, at least for now, our esteemed President has found it appropriate to do the ultimate end run around the opposition. Given the powers granted to the EPA {I wonder if they are constitutional} our knowledgeable President, no doubt with the a...