| Global Warming and Climate Change are widely | | | | unacceptable risks.. planet.. [U.S.] largest economy, |
| believed to be proven scientific fact, caused by | | | | second largest emitter.. intend meet responsibility.. |
| mankind's fossil-fuel emissions, notably carbon dioxide! | | | | phase-out fossil fuel.. bold action.. legislation.. clean |
| A colossal credibility-vs-cost confrontation is | | | | energy. America fulfill commitments: cut emissions 17 |
| inevitable, world-wide in scope - pitting world leaders: | | | | % - 2020, 80 % 2050.. financial commitments [to 3rd |
| the United Nations; Nobel Prize Committee; heads of | | | | world], America [pay most] fast-start - $10 billion, |
| all countries - against the verity of Science. The | | | | 2012; $100 billion, 2020." |
| consequences of reduced economic and industrial | | | | - Then came "Climate-gate" - leaks of emails |
| efficiency would be enormous - as also would be the | | | | disclosing data had been modified, with-held, even |
| egg-on-face embarrassment for world leaders, | | | | "lost" (e.g. "hockey-stick chart; erroneous prediction |
| including President Obama! | | | | of melting Himalayan glaciers in near-term); requests |
| - First came the prickling of consciences (the | | | | for data (Freedom of Information Act) ignored; |
| consequences of civilization); DDT - powerful | | | | technical papers by scientists who challenge |
| insecticide - both benefit and curse; Rachel Carson's | | | | data-base or extrapolation-theory are black-balled |
| 1962 book "Silent Spring"; some observations of | | | | from peer-review journals, etc. |
| seeming climate change, e.g. smog and ice pack | | | | - "Doubting-Thomas" scientists begin to be heard - |
| diminishment; | | | | 31,072 Americans with degrees in science, sign a |
| - Then extrapolation - for principle and political benefit | | | | petition flatly denying that proclamations of |
| (rebels with many causes): save planet Earth; save | | | | human-caused global warming is scientific fact; calling |
| the forests; protect "Endangered Species" on land | | | | for U.S. rejection; top scientists write articles of |
| and sea: whales, snail-darter, minnows; save the | | | | criticism - publication blocked (ignored by media). |
| environment, promote use of "green" energy, etc.; | | | | - Then, recent admissions by top UN scientists of |
| - The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on | | | | data modifications and false projections; resignations |
| Climate Change established in 1988, ultimate | | | | of UN's Climate Chief, Dr. Yvo de Boer; IPCC head, |
| authoritative body, showcasing the ideology - the | | | | Dr. Phil Jones; etc. |
| liberal world accepts the concept - plus all media; | | | | - However, the belief in Climate Change is still |
| - Climate Research Projects are funded; climatologists | | | | widespread, supported by leaders of all countries, |
| are responsive, recording and reporting data: the | | | | most technical journals and main-stream media. |
| "Hockey Stick" chart depicts the potential of | | | | However, against this solid front: |
| planet-heating harm; | | | | - A chorus of scientists in other fields, dismayed at |
| - The Kyoto Protocol convenes in 1997, stated goal - | | | | the disclosures, begin to speak up - righteous |
| combat global warming, "stabilization of greenhouse | | | | indignation at (what seems) to be blatant disregard |
| gas.. [to] prevent dangerous anthropogenic | | | | of scientific purity. |
| interference with the climate system". | | | | - Mother Nature is displaying her strength - the |
| - The Nobel Peace Prize of 2007 awarded to UN | | | | 2009-10 extreme wintry weather across America |
| IPCC and Al Gore - alerting the world to potential | | | | makes a mockery of global warming, adding ridicule |
| danger to our planet from industrial fossil-fuel | | | | to the awakening of U.S. citizenry to cost-realities of |
| emissions; | | | | the government-media agenda for "greening" the U.S. |
| - Obama, President and Democrat-controlled | | | | - Cost consequence - analyses by financial groups |
| Congress: Climate Control Act (Cap-and-Trade Bill) | | | | expose the potential costs and lost jobs due to |
| passes in House in 2009; shows U.S. aligns with Kyoto | | | | Obama's EPA program - imposed |
| Protocol (resistance in Senate). China has now | | | | carbon-dioxide-emission and reparation penalties on |
| surpassed the U.S. as biggest emitter of CO2. | | | | millions of mid-to-large-size facilities: factories, |
| - Obama's Environmental Protection Agency | | | | hospitals, even apartment buildings; plus scores of |
| establishes emission standards and penalties in the | | | | $Billions as "emission reparations" (Obama's |
| U.S. | | | | Copenhagen promises). Realization grows - even if |
| - The Copenhagen Conference is held, 2009, 192 | | | | humans do cause climate change, the "cure" will be |
| countries, all world leaders attend. Obama gives solid | | | | much worse than the "disease"! World leaders, the |
| endorsement - "We come together.. climate change a | | | | UN, Nobel Prize Committee, President Obama - all |
| grave, growing danger. You - like me, convinced | | | | seem to have painted themselves into a corner. How |
| danger real.. science, not fiction. [If] unchecked.. | | | | with will it end? |