Our World and Everything in It

I had another post I was going to do, but this news has been in my face 3 times. First my husband brought home an article in the Free Press about calculations and the rising water due to global warming. They were wrong. It’s worse.

Then the news this morning that Sen. Henry Waxman and his House Reform Committee are investigating the Bush administration’s role in suppressing facts about global warming and it’s effects - I’m writing to him later. Don’t you think this is a waste of taxpayers dollars just to make something official? Heck, I already wrote about that in my 3rd blog.  I watched it on BBC TV. They showed documents that were altered and questioned the culprit from the White House. Now we’re going to spend how much to make it official? We need to quit wasting time. It’s obvious someone altered something in this country. I’ve been in many arguments with global warming naysayers in the Free Press blogs. And yes I moonlight. I blog all over the place. I have to say, Monroe is slow to blog and comment about a lot of current issues in the news. Jeff’s blog “Spiritual Wickedness In High Places” raises some excellent issues regarding Iraq.

I’ve digressed. Anyway, the next thing on the news is that global warming has been miscalculated. We are losing to it much more quickly than we thought. Friday there will be a new announcement from a consensus of 500 scientists from around the world. They converged in Paris for the purpose of presenting a new picture to the public regarding global warming. it isn’t going to be pretty. What’s new about the announcement is that it implicates and defines man’s part in global warming. The discussion is closed as to whether we’re to blame because many other parts of the world are out right scared. China is investing 54 billion dollars to divert their rivers from the south. They have polluted and raped their country so badly, there are no trees to stave off the effects of global warming. The Gobe desert is now only 100 miles from Beijing. They are running out of water there. Indonesia is already witnessing a rise in water. They would know. There are 18000 islands in that chain. They fear they will lose at least 2000 of them in the next 23 years.  

So now I ask you, what is going to happen to American energy companies when all of a sudden they’re asked to cap everything?  We’re rushing to put up another 150 coalburners in the country in order to bypass the gasification requirements which capture harmful emissions and essentially store them. We’re drilling for oil in some of the most pristine parts of the country and obvious, like Livonia. Yet the writing is on the wall for the environment. Greed seems to hand out blinders to companies. They put them on and forge ahead like mules for the almighty dollar only to end up in trouble. What happens when the status quo is stopped or restrictive controls put on their methods? Who is going to pick up the cost of that fiasco? Correct me if I’m wrong, but the general public is going to bear the brunt of most of it. I don’t call that fair and am fed up with it. Should we be able to sue big energy or any other corporations for this type of neglect? What about citizens mobilizing to build, own and operate alternative energy plants? The Farmers Associations do it with ethanol plants. Something needs to be done. I can see our entire energy grid in this country, which is old, and outdated, coming to an end in the future. What do you think?

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