It… should not be surprising that the U.S. Pentagon states that global warming is a larger threat than even terrorism. “Picture Japan, suffering from flooding along its coastal cities and contamination of its fresh water supply, eyeing Russia’s Sakhalin Island oil and gas reserves as an energy source”, suggests a Pentagon memo on global warming. “Envision Pakistan, India and China — all armed with nuclear weapons — skirmishing at their borders over refugees, access to shared river and arable land.” The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has said that climate change needs to be taken as seriously as war and, further, that “changes in our environment and the resulting upheavals from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land are likely to become a major driver of war and conflict”. Fighting global warming may be one way to prevent future wars, simultaneously increasing energy security and physical security….
[I]ncreased suffering and increasing numbers of environmental refugees, along with greater anxiety over access to food, water, land, and housing — the material essentials of life — often lead to unstable conditions that give rise to anger, ethnic violence, terrorism, fascism, and war. “It’s the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who are going to be the worst hit,” states IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri. Those who needlessly degrade and destroy the environment to satisfy their own selfish pleasures are like the pre-revolutionary Queen Marie-Antoinette, declaring “Let them eat carbon dioxide”!
This is part of a long, excellent article, Are You Taking Global Warming Personally?, by Dan Brook, Ph.D and Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D. over on world.edu this week.
After an well-communicated, detailed intro on global warming and concerns related to it, like those above, the authors delve into the action side of things in detail as well. And as you can tell from the title, they don’t just talk about macro-scale action, but focus a lot on personal action.
As we did a bit in Going Green Tip #3, they focus their personal action suggestions around the topic of food. One of the best ways to address global weirding is to switch to a vegetarian or (even better) vegan diet. If we are serious about addressing global weirding, this should be on our list, and it should be near the top.
The authors and many others have compared addressing global warming to fighting a war. In order to mitigate the great risks we are facing from altering the Earth’s climate, we need to mobilize to a great degree. But while mobilizing to fight an “enemy” on the other side of the world may be easy for us, mobilizing to change our own habits seems to be much more difficult. Can you do it? Can you help your friends and family to do it?
As Buddha is credited with saying, “Though one man conquers a thousand men, a thousand times in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.” An old Aztec saying is basically the same, “The strongest warrior is he who conquers himself.”
It is time for us to take up this hardest of battles a little more forcefully and effectively.
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On the contrary, Pal. Global Warming is indeed a political. manifestation that has been materialized by the New World Order to socially engineer the entire global population under the aegis of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development. There are protocols already in place for the UN to assemble a standing army to enforce the Agenda 21. Have any of you heard of HR3534 which will effectively confiscate ocean shores, Great lakes, land resources to be placed under UN jurisdiction? The Global Warming agenda has been unscientifically interjected into the global community without true debate among objective discussions. Those who did not agree or did not support the radical narrative were suppressed or ignored. Millions were funded by the UN for climate research that supported Global Warming while they rejected teams findings who found that the global warming theory was inconclusive and unsupportable without further evidence. The truth is people we are in a cooling period even the University of East Anglia personnel admitted it in emails that were leaked and were actually sharing ways of altering their data to come up with results that supported Global Warming. It’s a scam. Climatologists found that 500,000 years ago the earth had 20 times present carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere yet the mean temperature of the planet was 200 degrees below zero-conclusion carbon dioxide does not drive global warming.
Global warming is cyclical by natural processes. Without carbon dioxide in our atmosphere in the atmosphere there would be no photosynthesis no plant growth no crops to plants to consume carbon gasses to create oxygen we would perish without carbon dioxide it is a noble gas and is essential to our existence yet the Obama White House has declared it as a toxic substance. This insanity is emblematic of the BIG LIE which though out history has been used by liberals, Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and globalists to justify tyranny. The new globalist agenda is to control resources, reduce the human population, re-establish huge wilderness areas, restrict human travel and habitation in UN contracted dwellings that have no structural warranty or liability. People like Aaron Russo, Norman Dodd, G.Edward Griffin have warned us of these charlatans and control freaks who want to force others to accept their faulty theories. Wake up. This is not the ancient era of Druids!
Doc, I’m sure your intentions are good, but you are far off the mark here.
The Understanding that we are causing considerable and concerning global warming and climate change is the result of about a century of research.
There is now a clear scientific consensus amongst climate science experts that this is the case: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-consensus.htm
Even oil companies have acknowledged this now!
There is no huge global conspiracy behind all of this. This is a manufactured fear that is spread by some politicians and media. Thousands upon thousands of scientists have simply not colluded to take over the world.
Cooling? Heat records are 14 times more common than cold records these days: http://planetsave.com/2012/03/20/14-to-1-2012-heat-records-to-cold-records-in-u-s-1000s-of-heat-records-set-in-one-week/
2000-2009 was the hottest decade on record: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling.htm
“The globally-averaged temperature for May 2012 marked the second warmest May since record keeping began in 1880. May 2012 also marks the 36th consecutive May and 327th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average.”: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/
“Climate reacts to whatever forces it to change at the time; humans are now the dominant forcing.”: http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
Numerous independent studies have show that the scientists at East Anglia did not alter data or do anything wrong scientifically: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Climategate-CRU-emails-hacked.htm
Yes, without CO2, we’d be dead. But with too much CO2 it’s the same. The key is keeping things in balance. And that’s what we’re not doing.
Regarding Obama: actually, it’s the Bush administration that declared CO2 a pollutant, and the Supreme Court that upheld that.
I imagine that from your huge supply of misconceptions and false facts, you probably won’t absorb much of the above, but try to look into it with an open mind and consider the facts for what they actually are.
Doc Vega: I cover these issues almost everyday. 2010 was the hottest meteorological year on record (http://planetsave.com/2010/12/28/top-10-global-weirding-environment-stories-of-2010/2/), according to NASA. and it was clear throughout the year it would be or would be close to the top, given that several months beat all-time time records (links to some of those stories in the link above). yes, there were cold record set in 2010, but there were far more heat records set, as has been the trend for the past couple decades (see the charts here: http://planetsave.com/2010/12/15/nasa-november-2010-hottest-november-on-record-2010-likely-hottest-year-on-record/). For a little explanation on how the NE U.S. & Europe happened to get such a cold winter in the midst of clear global warming, check out this piece: http://planetsave.com/2010/12/29/one-more-time-does-the-cold-in-the-northeast-europe-disprove-global-warming-heck-no/
We even hit a new hottest world temperature this year: http://planetsave.com/2010/06/05/hundreds-killed-in-india-from-heat-waves-new-hottest-temperature-record-in-asia/
Truthfully, where it your proof of this supposed cooling? I’m truly sorry that you think you’re getting correct information from somewhere on this matter, but it is clear you are not.
Wow, Doc Vega, looks like you’ve got one or two conspiracy theories running through your mind, & a ton of misinformation. when 97% of heart doctors give you advice on what to do to avoid a horrible heart attack in the near future and you ignore them, you can tell us all again that global warming is a fraud. no, not 5 or 6 such doctors, but hundreds and hundreds of them. i’m sorry you have a problem with liberals in the U.S., but use a little common sense and don’t take it out on your children and grandchildren