from CNS news
Here Comes 'Climate Crisis Action Day'
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
March 08, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - Environmental activists and liberal politicians will join forces in Washington, D.C., on March 20 for the first "Climate Crisis Action Day," which is billed as a "carbon-neutral global warming event."
Snicker.
Speakers at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol will include Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and others concerned about climate change.
"Visuals will include a giant inflatable earth on fire, hybrid cars, and thousands of advocates in crimson T-shirts," the news release said.
Environmental groups that are sponsoring the event expect thousands of Americans to come to the Capitol to meet with their senators and representatives -- and "urge them to support swift, steep reductions in global warming pollution and protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
Are they all going to walk to DC? Will they stay only in buildings with no concrete in them (concrete production is a large source of CO2) and only eat food grown in DC that doesn't have to be transported? Will they refrain from (ahem) eliminating? (CO2 and methane emissions!) If one of them gets injured or ill, will they refuse to be transported in an ambulance or to be treated by people who drove in one? I'll bet the red t-shirts they'll all be wearing weren't made by hand, either. And I'll also wager that the Park Police or whoever gets to clean up after this event will end up with bags and bags full of plastic water bottles. Do 'environmental activists' have any clue at all how the world really works?
Questions (and answers) to be addressed at the event include:
- Why must we act now to fight global warming?
Activists' answer: "Science tells us that we can prevent the worst effects if we cut emissions enough to keep temperatures from rising more than 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit above today's levels." (Skeptics say the science has been hyped beyond what the facts support.) ; - If ALL the restrictions in the Kyoto treaty were implemented, not only would the US and European economies be destroyed, we would possibly save 0.06C (0.11F) worth of warming. And that's only if the climatologists have got the warming effects of CO2 right to begin with, which I doubt.
- What is at stake?
Answer: "The Arctic and other pristine public lands face thawing, drought, forest fires and other warming effects. Sea level rise could create millions of 'eco refugees' as people flee coasts." (Scaremongering, some Americans insist.) ; And they would be exactly right. - What can we do?
Answer: "Support investments in efficiency and renewable energy, reduce global warming pollution, and protect the Arctic wilderness." (Reducing greenhouse gas emissions will "shut down the machine we call America," says Sen. James Inhofe, a leading critic of the argument that human activity is causing climate change.) He's also exactly right.
If these people are really serious about being 'carbon neutral' (whatever that means) and reducing CO2 emissions, they should stop getting themselves all riled up. That only makes a person's breathing rate go up and causes him to release more CO2. Fortunately, all this angst is just plain irritating to sensible people and it doesn't make any difference at all to the earth. No matter how much the 'climate activists' whine and stamp their little feet, the earth is going to go through its natural cycles of warmth and cold until the sun exhausts its hydrogen supply, goes into the red giant stage and consumes the inner planets of the solar system. I wonder if anyone will claim that human beings cause THAT.
Many other groups are listed as "supporters."
See title of post.
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