Do you worry for global warming?

[adam kondor]

Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2009 Report


some good news (if you tend to believe)

[adam kondor]

"One reason why enthusiasm and programs maintain their forward momentum in the face of changing facts
and circumstances is the culture of corruption that inevitably comes to envelop these kinds of self-selecting
leadership groups organized around a crisis."

[Jeff Harrington]

Global worming! Nah... I think that the more worms the better and promoting globalism amongst our wiggly friends is a good thing.

Global warming... yeah. Although I tend to believe that humans are just a lot better at FREAKING OUT than they are at either fucking up global systems or repairing global systems. So, I just worry (and don't drive, etc...).

Thanks for the good news! Although I think you're promoting a right-wing pseudo-libertarian think tank's take on the subject. ;-)

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I really think that if we could just get more power into women's hands, that we'd slowly begin getting our population and wars under control and things would probably fix themselves. Free birth control and good basic education, clean water for everybody could be given to the world for the cost of us removing our sorry ass' from Irag, Afghanistan, Germany, all the other 70 or so countries we have troops...

[adam kondor]

Prior to the arrival of climate change as
a crisis issue, the largest single U.S. government science research project was the acid rain study of the 1980s
(the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Project, or NAPAP for short), which cost about $500 million,
and which concluded that the acid rain problem had been vastly overestimated. (Public opinion polls in the
late 1970s rated acid rain the most significant environmental problem of the time.) Today the U.S. government
is spending multiple billions each year on climate research—through so many different agencies and
budget sources that it is impossible to estimate the total reliably.

[adam kondor]

Good eye, Jeff, I corrected the spelling.
Jeff and Greg, tx for the background, I must admit I didn't know about all these important contexts.

(btw: better not to worry too much about anything)

[Jeff Harrington]

These people spend a lot of money so that you don't even think about questioning their viewpoints. They spend money to hide their corporate patrons and they spend it to get their message out. It's sooo corrupt and sooo clever it's really nauseating and the end result they want is a science that is easily disputable, easy to create doubt - a science that isn't science. Their success in hiding and creating doubt is almost as scary as climate change itself.

adam kondor said:

Good eye, Jeff, I corrected the spelling.
Jeff and Greg, tx for the background, I must admit I didn't know about all these important contexts.

(btw: better not to worry too much about anything)

[adam kondor]

"We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye"

[J.C. Combs]

I pretty much worry about living in the US to sum it all up. Altho global warming is a "global" issue obviously, its among the many other things there are to worry about in this fucked up world!

I don't think there is a perfect enough place for liberal composers. We're right, they're wrong. End of story!!!

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

I'll let Mr. Carlin field this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

[J.C. Combs]

"Sparky" John Prokop said:

I'll let Mr. Carlin field this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

He's great - er was. Can't believe I disagree with him!

[Johnny & Faith]

Who's getting the money to hide the patrons?

Jeff Harrington said:

They spend money to hide their corporate patrons

adam kondor said:

Good eye, Jeff, I corrected the spelling.
Jeff and Greg, tx for the background, I must admit I didn't know about all these important contexts.

(btw: better not to worry too much about anything)

[adam kondor]

Carlin is great! Wit and physicality are in beautiful harmony in his performance. (My aspirations in music...)

"Sparky" John Prokop said:

I'll let Mr. Carlin field this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eScDfYzMEEw

[adam kondor]

Gayan Utteyak Orchestra