Katie Couric's Notebook: Global Warming

By: Katie Couric
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Notebook: Global Warming

Yesterday was Earth Day -- and more and more Americans see global warming as the most important environmental issue.

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by petersemkiw April 24, 2007 8:22 PM EDT: And please stop it, you Katie Couric critics!; Reply to this comment


by petersemkiw April 24, 2007 8:11 PM EDT: Thank you. And well said, Misty and Eric.; Reply to this comment


by ericmichael1 April 24, 2007 5:40 PM EDT: And well said, Peter, also.; Reply to this comment


by ericmichael1 April 24, 2007 4:23 PM EDT: Well said, Misty.; Reply to this comment


by smithncustom April 24, 2007 3:21 PM EDT: I am starting a website that will sell toilet paper credits. What do you think katie, do you think I could advertise my site on the evening news.; Reply to this comment


by smithncustom April 24, 2007 3:18 PM EDT: I refuse to watch cbs news or any other major network news, but i wanted to get on the katie couric train just to say something about "global warming". Even if we did get rid of all of the fossil fuels and all the factories that cause pollution, does anyone honestly think that it would affect the avg. temp. of the earth. Maybe if Algore and all these podium hogs would practice what they preach including you little katie, maybe we could revert back to the global cooling scare. HUMANS CANT CHANGE THE TEMPETURE OF PLANET!!!; Reply to this comment


by lilbean6 April 24, 2007 7:28 AM EDT: you will let me know when "humans" begin to control the gulfstreams.and let me know when you convince the communist chinese and soon to be re-communist russia that they must conform to un mandates.good luck with that.
and when do all these multi-millionaire fat cats start giving up some of their luxuries?
witness the all out socialist blitz. prepare folks, its gonna be baghdad in america.; Reply to this comment


by petersemkiw April 24, 2007 2:57 AM EDT: Dear Katie,
The United Nations report you cite is a strong warning to all of us to do something about global warming now, and it is good that the UN has been aware of global warming as a world problem for quite some time, but much more needs to be done. I think that the United Nations celebrates its own UN Earth Day on the vernal equinox around March 21. Secretary General U Thant signed a proclamation in 1971 about the UN Earth Day stating:
"May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."
That quote certainly paints a beautiful picture, but it is too bad that Earth Day this year co-occurs so closely with the horrific events at VT, and as VT resumes classes today,I want to reiterate that our hearts, thoughts, and prayers continue to go out to the students,and their families, and the teachers,like heroic Professor Librescu, and his wife and family, and all the staff and families at VT affected by this trajedy.; Reply to this comment


by ericmichael1 April 24, 2007 12:54 AM EDT: Is George the only coherent person on this blog on Mondays?

Katie is the woman with Everything. What does she need to complicate that with a Man for?

:)

But, just to make sure this blog is not wiped out due to lack of sticking with the subject, I have something to say about global warming.

We need to get rid of the fossil fuels, people. But powerful lobbies face us against all change. Oil companies. Car companies.

We have no right to play pollution Manifest Destiny with the world when it affects our children. And theirs, too.

Its time to give up our toys, girls and boys.

And Katie: stay single. We are more trouble than we are worth. That's what I hear, anyway! :)

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by ericmichael1 April 23, 2007 10:53 PM EDT: Katie,

Global destruction is no longer just the fantasy of science fiction writers. If nothing is done, I believe that we have been the writers of our own epitaph:

We were made for the earth
and the earth was made for us,
but we were poor stewards of the planet
so that we could maintain our standard of living
and so we could keep our SUVs.

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