With a really close vote 219 to 212, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act late yesterday evening. This was too close for me. If we do not start moving toward independence from forms of energy that produce pollution and find ways to eliminate and recycle our ever growing piles of garbage we’re doomed. Human beings continue to increase in population as third world countries progress. We need to get a handle on what we leave in our wake on a daily basis or we will be swimming in it some day.
There is no other way to put it our earth has finite qualities. Because we pray that it is never ending does not mean we can’t screw it up to the point it rights itself and purges that, which causes the problem. In our case that would be us.
The earth is a closed ecosystem pure and simple. A good model would be suspending a ball within a clear sphere. On that ball is a great amount of natural occurring things that cancel out pollution, but considering the size of the ball to the sphere, those natural cleansers better be super powerful because the next step is to pump all sorts of gases into that sphere’s air, while the ball grows in size due to mounds of garbage that emit more gases into the air. Imagine what this closed sphere will come to be? And I’m not adding water and or it’s pollution into the scenario. The natural occurring cleansers like trees begin to disappear due to population increase. The garbage mounds grow. Do you want to live in this sphere? How can anything live there for long?
We need to get out of our own little worlds and consider the bigger picture on this. The environment does not have boundaries. Whatever we or another country does affects us all. Did you know that at the latest International Climate meeting in Bonn, Germany there were some countries that called for penalties on the U.S. for the affect it has pollution-wise on other countries? We are a country of 300 million people that creates approximately ΒΌ of the earth’s pollution.
We can point fingers at China, but with a population of over a billion people, it’s hardly apples to apples. And what about India, another billion people plus country? India is having quite a bit of success producing power from their sewage and animal waste. They are smart enough to harness the methane, while we complain about Canadian goose poop instead of scooping the stuff up for power.
The U.S. needs to step up to the plate and the U.S. House of Reps did it. The senate may not be as easy. This was a tough fight and the bill not without concessions. If you want our country to get out of the dark ages and be a model of progress for a cleaner future, please urge your senators to vote on this important bill coming up before them. There are people waiting for new green jobs for the future. Progressing forward offers more long-term employment, than professions tied to fossil fuel industries that will struggle with the uncertainties of the near future, especially as global warming advances. Fossil fuel is a finite source that will eventually run out anyway. It’s time to move on.
If we don’t remind our senators that the environment was the number 2 concern during the elections, than they just might succumb to the deep, deep pockets of fossil fuel industry lobbyists, or listen to Republican senators that it will cost them a vote. How it can cost them a vote when the environment was clearly on our minds when we voted in November is beyond me. It’s the little guys against the big ones here folks, no different than the health care struggles.
The Earth needs our vote again and again.
Read about passage of the new energy bill: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/politics/27climate.html.
Hello, me again.
They had to bribe a few in the house to change the vote…the same will be in the senate.
why not just make everthing nuclear and we’ll be done with it already. no bill needed. just get your libral friends to allow nuke plants to be built and we’ll have our “green world.”
al gore’s net worth has gone from a few million when he left the white house in 2000 to about 120 million today. you asked me a while ago what he stood to gain from all this. that was in response to me saying everything is political. now do you see what al gore has to gain from this?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
my dear this is all political, all of it. you are well intentioned but have been fooled. for the last 12 months we have been driving less, maufacturing less etc. everything you want. yet you still yell and scream we’re in trouble. i don’t get it. besides WE”RE COOLING over the last ten years and you increase over the previous 90 years was 1/2 a degree.!!!!!!! who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you guys are nuts,,,really and I’m not saying that on a whim, you are. this is stupid and you are in the process of the largest tax increase every. thanks a lot and its all for nothing.
what green jobs my dear???????? this is nuts.
then heath cae for all and rationing…then buy a chrysler or gm “gov’t owned car…..then all the 40,000,000 imigrents that ae here illigally get in free…what’s next?
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/boehner-climate-bill-a-pile-of-s–t-2009-06-27.html
I’ll stay on top of this for you and your readers……..
It took you this long to come up with Al Gore making $120 million compared to the $40.1 billion net in one quarter the Oil Industry stands to lose?
You are bringing up the same things I’ve already explained. Can you read and comprehend? The cooling is global warming and I’m not wasting my time on you again. Go back and read my answers to all of your questions again.
As for the ever tan Boehner, it’s not likely most of the readers of an environmental site would give a hill of beans what he said. As for staying on top of this–get your own blog. Obama doesn’t like the bill either. As long as it passes to pave way down the road.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/us/politics/29climate.html?th&emc=th
warming is global warming and cooling is global warming…….
just stop and think about that for a moment. now do you see why most people don’t get/belive this……
just because “you’ve answered already” doesn’t make this issue dead. You are much like al gore…”the debate is over.” sorry, its not……..
oil company’s are suppose to make money, that’s what they are in business for. i don’t begrudge al gore any money either but you asked the question…”what does al gore stand to gain from this?” well apparently a lot of money…
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grr/history/?m=9
i’ve included this articule so your readers can see septmeber weather reports from the 100 – 120 years….notice when record temps are set. also take note that “weather” extremes always occur. this is a living breathing planet, Gods creation that is EVER changing.
I explained global cooling to you before and also put it in an editorial in the paper. Not all of the earth will heat up. Parts of the Northern Hemisphere will freeze over rapidly due to dilution rate of saltwater that directly affects the Gulf Stream. You don’t find it odd that Great Britain is decidedly farther north than the U.S. yet has hot seasons? It’s only because of the Gulf Stream. If our gulf stream continues to slow, we’ll freeze over rapidly also. The weather is an intricate process that involves more than just temperatures and records. Somehow you cannot comprehend and I’m tired of arguing with someone that will not take a scientific answer seriously. It’s beyond you obviously.
so my responses are being removed? was it because i brought up the scientific method? again yours is not scientific agreement but rather a consensious. that is not science, its a belief……
look at my link in the previous post. the weather in the last 120 years, by date, in the month of sept, in the state of michigan, various greatly…look at he dates. i suspect in the next 120 years it will also.
please don’t delete this response either.
as to your comment, i get global warming, i understand it and it’s claims. i just don’t believe it to be fact nor do i see the evidence you FEAR. look at my link again and the dates of severe weather.
Yup you’re a troller: http://curezone.com/forums/troll.asp and I’ll delete you. Get your own blog if you have this much to say.
You’re remark about “global warming is a religion” came almost verbatim from Inhofe’s EPW press blog. Real science there, Inhofe-in-the-pocket-of-big-oil-skeptic politician?
Other countries are getting tired of bought and paid for skeptic propaganda from big oil too: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment
But if you do believe the NOAA, let me say that I beat you to your little report years ago. I went to the NOAA and printed out all the extreme weather reports around the world, not just Michigan, from 1990 to 2002. In 1990 it amounted to 1/3 of a printed page. By 2002, it was multiple printed pages.
#1 you didn’t respond to the scientific method being applied, or not applied should i say, to global warming. if it is science then the scientific method should be applied and it should pass that test. that’s the only way it can be considered a fact.
#2 tripling of the report since 2002 – might i suggest its proof of propaganda?
#3 please respond to obama’s cap and trade bill that will GREATLY increase the money you spend on energy.
#4 please explain all the new jobs that are going to be created. start with all the jobs that will be lost at coal plants that will be put out of business.
I’m not a troller either. My goodness you really are like al gore. “there will be no debate.” just answer the scientific method question for me and i’ll be all finished.
also, if the global warnming crowd were as pure as you believe and it isn’t political, then we would already be building nuclear plants all around the country. EVERY ONE on the conservitive side agrees with doing this. coal burning power plants generate a very large % of green house gases, correct? nuclear is 100% clean/green…just consider that comment and give a resoned answer why this isn’t happening. this whole arguement would be over the second we all agreed to build nuclear plants. its the green side that doesn’t want to do this…..therefore i’m left to believe, with many, many , many others, it’s political….please comment.