Civil War In Full Force
At least 121 dead in Baghdad market suicide bombing.
Eeech.
Saturday, February 3, 2007
Friday, February 2, 2007
Global Warming Conspiracy Grows!!!
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The biggest liberal conspiracy on Earth got a little bigger today, as a new report states that Global Warming is, with 90 percent certainty, created by man.
PARIS - Scientists from 113 countries issued a landmark report Friday saying they have little doubt global warming is caused by man, and predicting that hotter temperatures and rises in sea level will “continue for centuries” no matter how much humans control their pollution.
A top U.S. government scientist, Susan Solomon, said “there can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities.”
Environmental campaigners urged the United States and other industrial nations to significantly cut their emissions of greenhouse gases in response to the long-awaited report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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The 21-page report represents the most authoritative science on global warming as the panel comprises hundreds of scientists and representatives. It only addresses how and why the planet is warming, not what to do about it. Another report by the panel later this year will address the most effective measures for slowing global warming.
There comes a point when we, as a society, need to tune out the crazies whose ideas would be a detriment to our way of life. I think that time has come. No longer should we even listen to the nutters who claim Global Warming isn’t happening, or isn’t manmade. It is important to us, as a civilization, to begin acting on this threat, and if that means we need to let the nutters on the right babble on with false claims, simply because they are not smart enough to understand science, in a small dark room somewhere, while we make meaningful policy to save ourselves, then so be it.
Why we even give the opinions of the politicos on the right any weight compared to scientists is beyond me, but it needs to end. Most nutters don’t even believe in science, anyway.
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NIE Tells A Story
From the little details that have come out of the Iraq NIE, one thing is clear. Whatever good happens in Iraq, it will have to come from within, not from a foreign power trying to accelerate change.
In a discussion of whether Iraq has reached a state of civil war, the 90-page classified NIE comes to no conclusion and holds out prospects of improvement. But it couches glimmers of optimism in deep uncertainty about whether the Iraqi leaders will be able to transcend sectarian interests and fight against extremists, establish effective national institutions and end rampant corruption.
The document emphasizes that although al-Qaeda activities in Iraq remain a problem, they have been surpassed by Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence as the primary source of conflict and the most immediate threat to U.S. goals. Iran, which the administration has charged with supplying and directing Iraqi extremists, is mentioned but is not a focus.
Completion of the estimate, which projects events in Iraq over the next 18 months, comes amid intensifying debate and skepticism on Capitol Hill about the administration's war policy. In a series of contentious hearings over the past two weeks, legislators have sharply questioned Bush's new plan for the deployment of 21,500 additional U.S. troops and the administration's dependence on the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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