NEW YORK. April, 14, 2007
Global Warming Protests Held Across U.S.
More Than 1,300 Events Urged Congress To Require 80 Percent Cut In Emissions By 2050
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Participants with the "Sea of People" project march down the street in Lower Manhattan during the Step It Up 2007 rally, Saturday, April 14, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh)
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More than 1,300 events were organized in every state under the banner Step It Up 2007 to push Congress to require an 80 percent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.
“When it comes to global warming, I don't exactly think President Bush is doing such a hot job,” said 12-year-old New Yorker Tiffany Cordero. “A lot of people are thinking just of now. But we won't have a 'now' if we don't focus on the future.”
Tiffany delivered a speech for a rally in lower Manhattan's Battery Park, overlooking New York Harbor, where people dressed in blue — some equipped with scuba gear and beach balls — gathered to form a Sea of People human line to symbolically mark New York's future coastline.
Scientists say melting polar ice caps and glaciers will cause ocean levels to rise, although estimates vary. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has projected that ocean levels will rise 7 to 23 inches this century, but other scientists warn the sea level could rise 10 feet or more, enough to flood Lower Manhattan and other low-lying coastal areas.
The threatened rise in the ocean also was dramatized by a New Coast Parade in Portland, Maine, one of more than 30 observances in that state. “The most important things that we have a responsibility to do in government are to prepare our children for a bright future and to preserve and protect our natural resources,” Maine Gov. John Baldacci told a gathering in Portland.
The nationwide events were spearheaded by a group of recent graduates from Vermont's Middlebury College, who organized a campaign of blogs, e-mail messages and word of mouth communications.
“We see this to be the most pressing issue of our time, and our generation,” said Will Bates, 23, one of six former Middlebury students who helped organize the event with author Bill McKibben, a scholar in residence at the college and among the first to write about global warming, in his 1989 book “The End of Nature.”
In Chicago's Daley Plaza, about 500 people listened to speeches from a panel of environmental experts who called for a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. The crowd also waved signs exclaiming “Step it up Congress.”
In California, 200 hikers made a strenuous, hour-long climb up a steep canyon to a point just below the famous Hollywood sign.
“It takes real passion to make a big difference — strength in numbers,” said Kara Thurman of Santa Monica.
Earlier, hundreds gathered along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade just east of the Pacific Ocean to listen to lectures and listen to makers of “green” products pitch their wares.
“We have such a wonderful planet and it is really tragic for us to ruin it with global warming,” said organizer Jim Stewart of Earth Day L.A. “The bottom line is everybody needs to be carbon-neutral.”
In one of the day's first demonstrations, skiers unfurled a protest banner in April snow on Whiteface Mountain near Wilmington, N.Y. Another group made an early morning hike to the summit of Maine's Cadillac Mountain, which is the first spot in the U.S. to be lit by the rising sun.
The Whiteface Mountain skiers fear long-term temperature increases promise trouble for native plants, wildlife and people in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York state.
“It's subtle,” said Nola Royce, who has been going to the Adirondacks since 1971. For example, she said, the region's notorious, biting black flies are emerging earlier in the season.
Neil Woodworth, executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, said less obvious concerns about warming include pests moving northward. He mentioned tick-borne Lyme disease, now a problem farther south in Connecticut, New Jersey and southern New York, as well as the Sirex wood wasp, hemlock woolly adelgid and Asian longhorned beetle.
“All these tree eaters normally prefer more temperate climates than the Adirondacks,” Woodworth said. “And as the Adirondack climate gets warmer in the winters the below-freezing barrier that has held these pests at bay is going to be lost.”
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See all 74 CommentsLet's hear it.
Come on Hawksprings, Jimfinster,Didntinhale and all of the other deniers, as well as those with the Al Gore mental block.
One of these days you will be overwhelmed by Global warming evidence, and yourselves will be willing members of the enlightened ones.
rheola, what is the point of your post here?
This article contains no "evidence" proving human caused global warming. It's about a bunch of people protesting. It's not "proof" of anything other than the herd mentality of human beings.
I have no problem standing in the minority against the "consensus" to make my own prediction that the doom and gloom predictions of the global warming sheep will ultimately be proven wrong.
Besides, if you look more deeply in what most of the human-caused global warming experts are saying, it's already too late to stop the devastation that's supposedly already happening. We're already dead from Global warming, it's already ready a foregone conclusion.
For me, the saddest things about this Global warming fad are:
1. The increased control that the populace will willingly give over to government.
2. The children that will live in fear that they are going to die from it, and the guilt they will carry every time someone or some animal dies from a weather event, because they are being told it's their fault.
You will gladly give up your freedoms for the promise of safety.
You're being fooled.
The Weather Channel is predicting 6 - 8 inches of global warming Sunday through Monday in the middle of April.
WooHoo
Good night all, gotta get to sleep. It's FINALLY going to be warm enough tomorrow where I live so I can replace my front brakes.
Global warming's good for something I guess.
Here we go again. [my fault]
I consider you wrong on both points, and I can not see that I would have to give up any freedoms, as you suggest.
Maybe you could explain which freedoms, and at the same time if you do and/or any, why they would not be worth giving up for the freedom of a possible continued healthy and happy life, which if the so called prophets [like myself] of possible doom are correct.
By the way there are sheep on both sides.
The very first Earth day 4/22/1969
"global warming" !!! Yeah, right.
The Weather Channel is predicting 6 - 8 inches of global warming Sunday through Monday in the middle of April.
WooHoo
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As a student in the field of paleoclimatology, I can answer EGMD's observation. As observed in temperature records over the last 50,000 years; during times of climate change, cooling or warming, which are relatively abrupt following long stretches of stability, the temperature readings become much more volatile and irregular than stable. In other words, warming or cooling do not occor in a straight line. More volatility, or exteme change in short time scales back and forth, is to be expected in a rapidly changing climate. My professor used the analogy that Earth's climate is like a stumbling drunk. Nudge it, and it wanders all over the place. In the long-term, a generally warmer climate is projected when using scientific analysis.
The American Elite love to see what nonsense they can get the American People to swallow.
Y2K. The Cold War. 9/11.
There were Protests in Russia today. Did that make CBSNBCABCCNN news?? Nope.
Stay tuned folks and in the mean time vote liberal
Nothing more. Nothing more.
There was a time when people thought an "Ether" existed for light rays. People also thought the Earth was the center of the Universe. We also had a Dark Ages for HUNDREDS of years because people thought Jesus was coming back.
But sit right back and accept Fiction for Reality. Get worked up over nothing. Keep seeing things that DO NOT EXIST. Trust your Government.
It is indeed pleasant to see a rational person posting, makes a difference from some of the irrationality of the deniers, not all of course, but certainly some.
There were also many things in the past that people thought, that turned out to be correct, I notice you gave them no credit, maybe to do so would not suit your weak argument.
"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness," says God in Genesis 1:26 "and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."
On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it "May no-one ever eat fruit from you again. . . . And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, "Master, look! The fig tree which you cursed has withered." [Mark 11:12-25]
Comsidering the time of the day in your neck of the woods, they certainly are.
Yep, my bedtime too! I will check back in tomorrow, maybe have some fun with some of these flat-earthers...
Watch the global warming swindle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
cows and dead leaves emit far more carbon dioxide then humans do. In addition carbon dioxide is less then 1 percent of the atmoshpere. The increased solar activity is driving up the temperature of the earth NOT US.
wake up people
stop acting like sheep
they are finished, they will have confiscated via
taxation any little savings that the average American has left & any remaining personal freedom.
Of course they will continue & expand their extravagant lifestyles augmented by power & public money.
What remarkably knowledgeable persons you two are. you have my sympathies.
Anyone notice FOX News didn't think this News Item was important enough to cover?
Its funny how FOX seems to always put a positive spin on any news (bad) that concerns the Bush Administration, or GOP. For example:
Wolfowitz gets new lifeline in SCANDEL. It dont matter that the man broke the law, or rules, FOX, will always find a reason, or excuse for their actions.
I agree that a lifeline should be extended to Mr. Wolfowitz, but it should be a little short of target, and have a noose on the end of the rope. Same courtesy should be extended to all the other Bush administration CROOKS.
.The very first Earth day 4/22/1969
"global warming" !!! Yeah, right.
The Weather Channel is predicting 6 - 8 inches of global warming today through Monday in the middle of April.
WooHoo
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Ron Paul '08
Posted by t_barr
Your right we are populating ourselves straight into oblivion!!!!!! Thanks to you religious freaks who are ignorant enough to not believe in any form of birth control. They day is coming when the quality of life on this planet will be 0! There will be a human being on every square foot of this planet! Most of you had better hope this is what your God wanted!!!! Your going to be in deep s... if it isn't!
That's OK. You keep believing your right wing politicans and the oil companies. I'll believe the thousands of climate scientists who say global warming is real. Only ignorant people will consider one or two freak events as proof of anything over decades of long term data.
Since you are not supplying remedies for GW, just trying to "data overload" anyone with an opposing point of view, which I can match...let me ask you a few questions.
Please sir, think on your own and tell be....in your own words, what YOU are doing to reduce GW?
What should the rest of the planet be doing to reduce GW? Do you really believe that changing light bulbs is going to reverse CO2 levels to preindustrial levels. Peer reviewed studies show CO2 levels lag global temps...what about that little peice of trivia?
Since we are relying on computer models to predict the future of weather patterns 20-30-50 years from now, with computers that currently are not capable of predicting with 50% certainty where a hurricane in the mid-Atlantic will land fall...please convince me that man has the data to produce algorithms of the infinite variables of our atmosphere that far out. You know as well as I do, man doesn't have that capability and where it can't, he puts in fixed data and assumptions. That is what is wrong with the with ALL GW alarmist and AGW deniers alike. Period. Dot.
After all, the hysterical bleating from your side are based on computer models predicting the end of the world as we know it...based on the woefully inadequate knowledge that man has about this blue ball called earth.
Please convince me we can predict the future....from the same folks that predicted the wide spread terror throughout the world AFTER Y2K.
Try again.
Your ignorance is astounding. Computer models are just a way to evaluate the long term effect of GW. The basic evidence is in the DATA used in the models. CO2 measurements, temperature measurements, ice melt rates, etc etc.
Your ignorance is astounding. Computer models are just a way to evaluate the long term effect of GW. The basic evidence is in the DATA used in the models. CO2 measurements, temperature measurements, ice melt rates, etc etc.
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I will slow down so you can understand the facts. The DATA is incomplete by any measurement. Humans have an extremely limited amount of data points to draw from. We have only had equipment: thermometers, barometers, set measuring points across the globe...for a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of weather time.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to take that limited historical data and the inability of today's computers to accurately calculate the 5 million varibles that our atmosphere (conservative estimates) can create and predict what many GW alarmist (algore included) say is going to happen in 10-20-30 years. Those are FACTS.
If you want another display of current science ignorance...try disputing what I said...besides "YOU'RE ignorant"....which is a NON-answer.
You're just demostrating your inability to deal with the randomness of life and the world we occupy.
Try again.
Page two of the CURRENT IPCC report states:
"The statements presented here are based largely on data sets that cover the period since 1970." This is also stated at least one other place in the report.
Can't anyone see the fallacy in using data from 1970 on. The 70s were when global COOLING was the rage. So we come out of a period of cooling, start warming up and these lunatics take the last 30 years of warming and project them into the future.
An incredible display of political arrogance...cause it ain't science.
WE'll GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT!!
Now I know how people come to accept stupid ideas like -
The Earth is Flat.
Or the new one -
Jesus is coming back if you start a WAR in the Middle East.
I do think we need to start cleaning up our act and find other means for fuel, but where are the scientists who feel this is part of the earth%u2019s cycle? Why have they been silenced?
Why are Americans buying into the media-hype about global warming? Of course we are warming! As I stated, we have been for thousands of years! Ask where the scientists who do not believe that this is dooms day for the planet to have their voice heard! Why is there only one side to this story being printed? This is not true journalism; this is hype and chasing for ratings!
Every story has two sides; we are not hearing the other side on global warming!
Now it is warming. The weather is always changing.
There is so much frenzy and so little science involved in this blind movement it is truly scary. Yes, CO2 and temps are connected. But it is backwards.
CO2 FOLLOWS global warming - it does not created it.
Check the ice records! Or greatest warming trend in the last century was the first 40 years of the 1900's. We used little CO2 then. The next 40 years - when we exploded our CO2 use temperatures dropped - and we had the global cooling scare. Duh. Is something a little backwards here?
Hey- could the "sun" have anything to do with the cooling and warming cycles? I mean have you checked the coincidence of sunspots, cloud cover, and global warming for the last 500+ years?
Could all the shill global warming cries have another agenda not so apparent - since science is NOT supporting it? Check the bandwagon you are riding on....
dlpracer:"
Unfortunately, those are your personal set of facts. Scientists actually have multiple lines of evidence that go far back beyond written records. One example: ice cores provide data going back at least 600,000 years. But you would not know that, because you have never studied the subject....
"temperature leads CO2"
"too complex to model"
"cooling was predicted in the 70s"
"iceland used to be temperate"
sad sad sad...
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