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Live Earth is approaching this Saturday - you know, the massive music event, featuring 24 hours of music by 150 of the worlds top musicians. The goal? To raise awareness about global warming.

Frankly, there can be no better goal than that. But sadly, many Americans aren’t aware of it. And it’s their lack of awareness about raising awareness that’s at issue.

The interesting fact is you don’t need facts to raise awareness. Never mind that the science behind global warming is about as consistent as I am tall. Which… is not very. In fact, there is absolutely no consensus on global warming other than it may or may not be happening, and we have no idea what to do about it. Other than, of course, raising awareness.

What I love most about raising awareness about the planet is that it allows you to ignore the real problems in your life. Like hygiene, or your mortgage. By thinking globally, you neglect locally. You can see this in any celebrity crusader - from Sean Penn, to Paul Newman, to Al Gore. Intent on saving the planet, they lose their priorities. If Gore spent more time thinking about offspring instead of offsets, maybe his son would not have been caught on a freeway operating a pharmacy on wheels at a 100 miles per hour.

But thank God, Al the Third was driving a Prius, the ultimate environmentally friendly hybrid. And by being arrested in it, the punk did his part to raise awareness for global warming! Just like good old dad!

And that’s my gut feeling.

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What a great line, “When you think globally you fail to think locally.”

Be sure to watch Red Eye on Fox News at 2am EST.

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My favorite person in the world - aside from stage and screen actor Wilford Brimley - is Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic.

In a recent issue of the Financial Times, he writes that “global warming hysteria has become a truth versus propaganda problem.”

He says the issue is more about freedom than about small changes in average global temperature. And he’s right.

The only people who don’t get this are our celebrities, dumb politicians, our misguided media and hairless cats. Why is this?

The scariest thing we face right now is terror. At any moment we could be bombed by demented dipwads whose hatred toward our way of life is matched only by their desire for goat porn.

Every day, they plan our demise. Worse, it’s not like they’re in a rush. Unlike Americans, they don’t need their pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less. It took them a decade to take down the towers, and if it takes them ten years to blow up a mall in L.A., hooray for Hollywood.

What’s this got to with global warming? Everything. Our country is rife with cowards incapable of making objective moral decisions, of discerning good from evil.

Instead of focusing on a real war between civilizations, they`d rather screech about a phony war between us and the globe. Because with global warming there`s only one culprit - you.

And because it’s your fault - then it’s you who must change your life. Global warming is the perfect platform for the self-righteous – you can lecture me, and all I get is bored.

Terrorists aren’t so polite. They really want to kill you, and they defy lectures. They haven’t even seen an Inconvenient Truth!

But for cowards, it’s all about the mother earth, even though mother earth doesn`t fly planes into buildings, strap explosives to teens or execute homosexuals.

Mother earth just sits there, rotating lazily, absorbing Sheryl Crow’s compost. When you’re assessing real threats: terror is red meat, global warming is tofu.

So how do we convince global warmers that terrorism is real? Speak their language: Tell them that terrorism is BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.

I mean, seriously, when those towers fell on September 11th, imagine how all that debris and smoke increased carbon emissions.

The bombings in London on July 7th? Sure they killed people, but imagine what they did to our fragile ecosystem!

And the car bombs in Iraq? If they only switched to Prius’s - imagine how that would reduce our dependence on fossil fuels!

I think George Clooney, Leo Dicaprio and Laurie David should go to Iraq and discuss how terror affects the environment. I bet the terrorists will listen, at least while adjusting the blindfolds.

And that’s my gut feeling!

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I love you Greg.  Now if only we could get the environmentalists to help in the War on Terror.

FOXNews.com - One Scientist Thinks Global Cooling Is a Bigger Threat Than Global Warming - Brit Hume | Special Report
Global Cooling

The leader of a group of Canadian scientists says global warming isn’t the biggest climate threat to the planet — global cooling is.

Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre director R. Timothy Patterson writes in the Financial Post that core samples from the bottom of deep western Canadian fjords indicate climate change correlates to solar cycles of varying lengths — and show little correlation between climate change and carbon dioxide levels.

Patterson writes that the sun will begin its weakest solar cycle of the past two centuries by the year 2020. He says that could lead to unusually cool conditions that could threaten agriculture in extreme northern regions.

Global cooling isn’t a new idea — a famous TIME Magazine article raised the possibility of another Ice Age — back in 1974.

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Now wouldn’t that be a bitch if its true.

Lord Monckton VS Al Gore

http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/

More than 17,100 basic and applied American scientists, two-thirds with advanced degrees, have signed the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine’s Global Warming Petition, which says in part, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

http://downloads.heartland.org/18869.pdf (PDF of a list of Facts)

Anyone consider that warming would actually make places like Canada, Russia and Northern Europe better to live?  The increase in farm land alone should be no problem feeding the hungry.

Also the temperatures at the Poles are -30 degree Centigrade…even with a couple of degrees warmer any additional precepitation would immediately freeze, increasing the size of the polar icecaps (the poles are not going anywhere).

I wonder what scientists believe caused the previous 7 Ice Ages immediately followed by Global Warming cycles?

The real question is the rate of change of the temperature, how much effect are we humans having on it and is it something that we need to worry about?  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like breathing soot and I don’t like smog its just if you are going to make policy changes don’t make it so it ruins our economies or make it sound like a religion.

Hurricanes to Be Sapped, Not Strengthened, by Warming?
“Climate change could lead to stronger wind shear, a weather pattern that weakens hurricanes, a new study says. Some previous, widely publicized studies have linked global warming to stronger hurricanes.”

Looks like there are some benifits for Global Warming after all. After a really bad season of hurricanes two years ago, where we literally ran out of names, this might be a good omen.

Granted we would have alot less coast lines with the highented sea levels, but knowing that another Katrinia was less likely may put a silver lining on this cloud.