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Posted by: ebrage 2 years, 2 months agoSix years into his presidency, isn't it ironic that George W. Bush now claims to be "solving" the global warming debate?
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mschannon
July 7, 2006, 4:28 p.m.Wow. Al Gore invented the internet. Reagan invented the presidental nap. Clinton invented a new use for cigars. Now Dubya's going invent a way to solve global warming. Do we have great political leaders or what?
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ebrage
July 7, 2006, 4:42 p.m.Each president needs to lay claim to some form of inventiveness (yes, I know that's a softball for anyone to counter with a Clinton-oriented rejoinder).
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rushran
July 7, 2006, 4:53 p.m.I hope he can do it but if look at everything else BUSH has done this planet is going to hotter than mercury
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Kenoryn
July 7, 2006, 7:41 p.m.God, what a moron. His solutions: "advancing new technologies, burning coal cleanly in electric plants, or promoting hydrogen-powered automobiles, or advancing ethanol as an alternative to gasoline."
Advancing new technologies- fine. Burning coal cleanly? That will help acid rain and airborne pollutants such as mercury that come from coal, but there is no way to burn coal without producing CO2. It's the very most basic chemical reaction involved. Hydrogen-powered automobiles? Hydrogen still takes more energy to make than we get from it! It's not a fuel source at all and won't help anything without other technology. Advancing ethanol as an alternative? Ethanol is a hydrocarbon! Again, the reaction involved in burning it produces CO2, just like coal and gasoline. It's a little bit cleaner in terms of toxic byproducts, and it's renewable, but it won't help global warming. What an idiot.
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dlsawyer
July 8, 2006, 1:39 a.m.LiterateWolf:
Coal is modern technology.
Over half of domestic US electricity comes directly from Coal. Coal is running your computer right now.
Many industries use it directly as a fuel or raw material. Used to produce lots of products including metals, glass, rubber, rubber tires, ceramics. Used to cook limestone to make concrete and asphalt and linoleum. It is also the main ingredient in Anilyn dye material and pigments used in textile production and plastics production.
Coal ash (Potash) is used to make thousands of products and to produce many chemical bases for the chemical and petrochemical industry.
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dogskyd
July 8, 2006, 8:03 a.m.Kenoryn:
You should use a little more caution before labelling Bush an idiot. You have criticized ethanol as it involves the burning of CO2. If a crop is used to make a fuel the balance of CO2 does not increase in the atmosphere as the photosynthesis used to grow the crop consumes CO2. The net effect is neutral. This is not the case with fossil fuels.
There are also some other problems with your assumptions of fuel choices as you are not considering increased efficiencies. The energy situation is a tough problem and not easy to solve. Few solutions are perfect.
If you are really concerned about global warming, you might want to consider nuclear energy. It does not release CO2. If the fuel is reprocessed then over 90% of it can be used again to minimize the creation of radioactive waste.
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bonaroo
July 8, 2006, 8:46 a.m.The nuclear regulatory commission just approved the first uranium enrichment facility in the U.S. in 30 years in Sante Fe, NM. Another example of Bush hypocracy. We don't want Iran to have reactors because they might build a bomb, but its O.K. for us because we are so peaceful.
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Obtruder
July 8, 2006, 10:12 a.m.While I agree with the reduction of toxic byproducts entering the environment from the use of various fuels, the whole CO2 part of global warming theory is pretty much a scam.
Changes in the wind patterns in the upper atmosphere have pretty much proved that the sun is heating up at the moment.
Advances in technology involving the separation of oxygen and hydrogen from plain water are already being used on a few US submarines.
The REAL danger about ignoring the reality of the scarcity of certain fuels will come in the form of international competition for the diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas.
Global Scarcity is REAL. Global Warming is BS.
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Obtruder
July 8, 2006, 10:12 a.m.While I agree with the reduction of toxic byproducts entering the environment from the use of various fuels, the whole CO2 part of global warming theory is pretty much a scam.
Changes in the wind patterns in the upper atmosphere have pretty much proved that the sun is heating up at the moment.
Advances in technology involving the separation of oxygen and hydrogen from plain water are already being used on a few US submarines.
The REAL danger about ignoring the reality of the scarcity of certain fuels will come in the form of international competition for the diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas.
Global Scarcity is REAL. Global Warming is BS.
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Obtruder
July 8, 2006, 10:12 a.m.While I agree with the reduction of toxic byproducts entering the environment from the use of various fuels, the whole CO2 part of global warming theory is pretty much a scam.
Changes in the wind patterns in the upper atmosphere have pretty much proved that the sun is heating up at the moment.
Advances in technology involving the separation of oxygen and hydrogen from plain water are already being used on a few US submarines.
The REAL danger about ignoring the reality of the scarcity of certain fuels will come in the form of international competition for the diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas.
Global Scarcity is REAL. Global Warming is BS.
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Obtruder
July 8, 2006, 10:13 a.m.While I agree with the reduction of toxic byproducts entering the environment from the use of various fuels, the whole CO2 part of global warming theory is pretty much a scam.
Changes in the wind patterns in the upper atmosphere have pretty much proved that the sun is heating up at the moment.
Advances in technology involving the separation of oxygen and hydrogen from plain water are already being used on a few US submarines.
The REAL danger about ignoring the reality of the scarcity of certain fuels will come in the form of international competition for the diminishing supplies of oil and natural gas.
Global Scarcity is REAL. Global Warming is BS.
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ameliog
July 8, 2006, 11:02 a.m.Watch the press never mention this verbal flub again. As compared to the oft-repeated "I invented the Internet" quote that the Goracle never actually said. Damn liberal media!
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Kenoryn
July 8, 2006, 11:26 a.m.dogskyd: Hm, that's a good point- I didn't think of that. Does it work out equally though, the amount produced by burning and the amount taken up by photosynthesis? (As for labelling Bush an idiot, well, it's not the first idiotic thing I think he's said.) As for the rest of my assumptions - I assume you mean hydrogen, which isn't exactly the most efficient fuel out there as in every step of production there will always be energy loss (we're not good at that yet) so there is loss not only in burning but also in creating hydrogen (that is to say, it takes more energy for us to create it than it should). Nuclear is okay for now but it has its problems too.
dlsawyer: I think Literatewolf's point was not that we don't use coal, but that we shouldn't, and really it's unbelievable that we still do, because it's so incredibly dirty and causes such a vast array of environmental problems. It's also very expensive to clean some of the most persistent toxins, such as mercury, out of coal.
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Kenoryn
July 8, 2006, 11:36 a.m.Changes in the wind pattern in the upper atmosphere have proven that the sun is heating up? News to me. First of all, we wouldn't need changes in wind patterns to tell us that. It's very easy for us to find out the temperature of the sun by using its blackbody spectrum, and it's about (let me pull out my first-year astronomy text here): 5800 K at the surface or 15.5 x 10^6 K at the interior. I can't see anything about the sun getting hotter here, nor can I see why it would since it's still in its fusion stage, nor can I see why we'd use wind patterns to decide that. I also don't think it would have a huge impact on us. Think of how much closer the sun is to the earth in north american winter and how much of an effect THAT doesn't have. Anyway, it's pretty much accepted that the greenhouse effect is responsible for the increase in global temperature. What's disputed is whether or not it's our fault.
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roho331
July 8, 2006, 12:34 p.m.To Obtrder:
Before you conclude that global warming is BS, why not see the Gore movie. I know that many of you do not like listening to Gore's "wooden" pedantic style; so when the DVD comes out, why not rent it, turn the sound down, and just look at the pictures. They are fairly astonishing! They just may change your mind a bit.
Never hurts to take a fresh look at things, right?
Regards,
roho331
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roho331
July 8, 2006, 12:46 p.m.Obtruder:
RE: Is Global Warming "our fault"?
By the way, I forgot to mention the evidence presented as to the INCREASE in the rate at which the earth is warming since the industrial revelution suggest that WE, as a civilization, need to take some corrective measures.
Regards
roho331
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Tcaros
July 9, 2006, 12:16 a.m.Bush is going to solve global warming because "we need it to fight terrorism."
"Now some people say I'm the President who started the war on terror. That's true, but you see global warming is some sort of act of war in itself. So, you fool me once shame on me. You fool me twice, well that's twice. We all know wars are bad, except this good war.. because we need it to stop the warming or terrorism will win."
-bush
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Tcaros
July 9, 2006, 12:18 a.m.That's your boy... the last few conservative holdouts just make me laugh.
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atlantis
July 9, 2006, 10:47 p.m.By his own admission, dubya "doesn't read" and he's "not the analytical type". He possesses the intellectual capacity of a cinder block (point me to one single statement he's made that wasn't scripted, where he was actually coherent and intelligent). I wouldn't trust him to solve a third-grade crossword puzzle, so to say he's going to do anything about global warming or any other crisis is just laughable. And to those who believe the global warming crisis is still open to debate, I say, simply, read.
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alxnsc
July 13, 2006, 6:35 a.m.Dear friends,
There is no solid proof that global warming can be caused or substantially influenced by industry greenhouse gas emission… Volcanoes produce most of all these gases and mankind has no control options at all, its contribution is just negligible.
So presidential, summit, etc. influence on global warning is negligible as well. Laws and votes cannot cause or stop natural phenomena.
So what is all this about?
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SS454
July 13, 2006, 8:52 p.m.GWB cant even grasp the most basic consept of human skills
a typical redneck ****** talking moron.
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