NEWS: The Biggest Failure of All

POLITICS: The Biggest Failure of All

Years from now, as we look back in time, one glaring stance of the Bush administration will stand tall over the others. Bush's assault on the environment will forever be the worst that was done by his White House. As someone who went to college to study the earth and learn about its complexities, I believe the majority of men will not live through this century. The impact of global warming obviously goes far beyond shit just heatin’ up. We're already seeing very dangerous symptoms.

Global warming will hamper plants and animals ability to fight off infection and disease. Early warning signs are coming in the form of a massive bee die off, a massive bat die off, and an impending wheat fungus that is poised to sweep across the planet, possibly killing 80% of wheat crops.

Bats, bees and plants are fragile, much more so than man. The threat of global warming does not come from man getting a little hotter; it comes from a breakdown in the food supply, floods, a lack of water and dying crops. All of those things are already happening. We are already dying, just very slowly.

The few global warming deniers are wrong and shockingly stupid. Even if they were right, their argument is to keep polluting, which makes them serious idiots. My father is one of them. He sends me email after email from his right wing leaders, who simply cherry pick data and pass it off as proof that global warming is not occurring. They believe carbon dioxide levels have been rising for the past ten years and temperatures have gone down. Whatever argument they can make, consistency be damned. As I said, they are idiots and they are wrong.

The scary thing is that scientists are discovering their models are not at all what they predicted -- because as time passes, the results are turning out to be far worse.

Scientists are alarmed.

And the fear is now that a quick change will occur.

This is, quite simply, far worse than the worst-case scenario. All the doom and gloom predictions were actually rosy predictions. The suffering humans will endure this century is unimaginable.

This week, the Obama administration released satellite photos that detail what we are dealing with. These photos were “classified” by the Bush administration. They are photos of disappearing ice. The only reason to classify them is because they are damaging evidence against global warming deniers. Enjoy the horror.





The Bush administration released the photos to scientists, but would not allow them to be released for public use. Maybe they thought terrorists would get a hold of the photos of less sea ice and make non-sea iceboats to attack Alaska. Or, maybe they just wanted to keep the lie of no global warming alive because they only served big business, not the people. Either way, this is very, very bad. Overall, 1,000 photos were released by Obama, who seems to actually believe in science.

The results of human created gases will be extreme. Our forests will die. The ice caps will melt, causing massive flooding. Larger storms will kill more people. Islands will disappear. Diseases will spread. Crops will fail. Large animals will die off. Allergies will worsen exponentially. Tropical insects will die off, while temperate insects will flourish. Water wars will be common. They've already begun.

And there is no stopping it. That time has passed.

Besides the war and destroying the world economy, George Bush will be known as the man who did nothing while the dam was breaking. It’s his legacy. It’s also the legacy of idiots who deny global warming, who cherry pick evidence to prove their lies while mankind slowly drives off a cliff.

Is there hope? I seriously doubt it. The only remote hope we have is that the the sun is cooling. So, you can hang your hat on that. But, I think we’re toast. We are parasites and we are being removed through the old classic: A fever. You are about to live through the most horrifying century man has ever known.

FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. More from FearTheReaper can be found HERE. You may also enjoy his blog, Stop All Monsters.

Well that settles it - Zagnuts and Tastykakes for breakfast.

I actually worked with a chemist who would teach his students that global warming was a myth, instead of teaching them....you know....chemistry.

My only comforting thought is that when there are no more polar bears or elephants or coastal cities anymore - these deniers will be the first ones up against the wall.

This is why I'm getting into ecological landscaping & urban hydroponics. The massive agribusiness farms will begin to draw more & more water, which will up the prices of produce as well as the price of raw materials to grow crops with.

Meanwhile, a city boy will be producing enough fresh fruit & veg to feed his immediate neighbors for a modest price. My biggest overhead will be electricity to run the sunlamps, if I can't get a house with land to build a greenhouse.

I'm already learning to live with less & conserve my energy/water because I believe we're headed for hard times!

'punk

You know what, that's fine. It's high time we got killed off. I always expected that we'd go out via a massive worldwide nuclear war - and that's still possible and would be faster - but we've made our beds and we should sleep in them in any case.

Damn those profiling, racist, white cops! Its all their fault!

I'm going to party like it's 1999.

So we are screwed....I'ts time I start building that bunker, with lots and lots of greenhouses.

I hope that you are wrong...but whatever happens, we are all in it together.

I actually believe that we are not fully responsible, there have always been periods of global warming, followed by periods of global cooling. I think we have certainly helped it along far quicker than it would have happened normally, and I do think we need to make A LOT of changes. Things cannot be reversed, but some changes can be made to help. I used to think one person cant make a difference, but i dont beleive that anymore, we can all make changes, even small ones that will help.

When stating, "I hope that you are wrong," is the "you" the author of the SG article or all of the scientists, environmental experts, and various governments cited in the news stories that were referenced for the article?

One of the biggest problems with people who argue against global warming is that they don't understand the concept of climate change and what the models actually predict will happen. They say, how can there be global warming when we have had more rain this year than any other (this is happening in Eastern Canada this summer).
If you check out the model predictions this actually fits exactly with climate change models which predict that places that get rain will get more of it, and places that don't will get even less - so prepare for floods and drought, depending on what part of the planet you live on.

Wow reaper, I would be interested in seeing some stories about Obama, Six months in and you are still holding on to the past,

Please tell me, at what point does the new administration take responsibility? Just curious, please let me know.

Meanwhile, in other new: Obama says do as I say, not as I do.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6729772.ece

More proof of liberal hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy alert!

A heretofore "unknown" 2004 interview with Barack Obama by leftwing radio host Randi Rhodes has just emerged. And basically, as you shall hear, Obama is saying do as I say, not as I do. In this case he was referring to quickly forcing legislation through congress. As you can hear in this interview, uncovered by Naked Emporer News, the hypocrisy seems so massive that it is destined to go viral on the Web. It features Randi Rhodes back during her Air America days interviewing then senator-elect Barack Obama on November 22, 2004. And despite the fact that Randi is currently pretty well hidden from public view, you can be sure she will soon be talked about again because of her inadvertent exposure of incredible hypocrisy on the part of Obama. And what was the hypocrisy? His complaint that the Bush administration was rushing legislation through congress without giving the legislators time to read the bills or allowing for much debate.

To get the full flavor of the Obama hypocrisy, be sure to listen to the YouTube clip which also includes a video of MSNBC's Chuck Todd discussing why Rahm Emanuel felt the need to Rahm, I mean ram, legislation through congress. Here is the transcript which picks up at the 55 second mark:

BARACK OBAMA: ...When you rush these budgets that are a foot high and nobody has any idea what's in them and nobody has read them.

RANDI RHODES: 14 pounds it was!

BARACK OBAMA: Yeah. And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these kinds of things happen. And I think that this is in some ways what happened to the Patriot Act. I mean you remember that there was no real debate about that. It was so quick after 9/11 that it was introduced that people felt very intimidated by the administration.

Listen to your Father FTR he is correct.

There are thousands of budgets ,careers and egos banking on global warming yea and wall street, al gores hedge fund trading scam.
blah blah whats the next boogeyman?

Either one. Environmental / weather changes can and will occur due to natural events or influence by man. Whatever happens, we will still all have to deal with the results, no matter which side of an argument you are on.

I guess it's just strange to me that anyone would think for a second that we don't make a significant impact on our atmosphere and climate. I mean, look at what we did to the Ozone layer and how it was heading for an obvious doom before we corrected that particular problem.

Unfortunately, it seems like we were short-sighted in that we assumed the Ozone layer was the only part of our atmosphere that we were affecting and it's a bit idiotic when you realize that the same environmental experts didn't also address all of those countless tons of pollution that many nations spew into the air and how it could "somehow" affect our climate over time.



And now I am even more amazed at how many people claim that even though we have been polluting the fuck out of this planet and using up resources faster than it can replenish - that there is no way we are causing or at the very least pushing this serious change.

hahaha, wow, that's desperate.

"man, Bush really fucked up the environment."

"oh yeah!? well Obama isn't giving lawmakers enough time to deliberate over the bills he introduces! what's worse, huh!? oh, and it's not just Obama, it's TEH WHOLE LIBAREL CONSPIRESY DOENG IT"

Add solar panels and vertical wind turbines to your setup, and utilize the newer LED grow light technology, or even full spectrum fluorescents. You could almost be completely self sufficient.

Global warming is crap. Now if you excuse me, Jake Gyllenhaal and I are going to NYC to hang out in the library.

look out! that cold air is right next to you!

I'm confused by what you're pointing at here.

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So, the president wants to rent a vacation home from some wealthy Republicans AND pay for part of it out of his own pocket? FOR SHAME!!!

OMG!!! Bi-partisan real estate deals! When will it end!

The really funny irony here is, the deeper conservonuts dig to find these pathetically weak examples of bad behavior by Obama, the more ridiculous they look. This is turning into a delightfully predictable fracturing of conservonut idealism and a further unraveling of what has been a most ridiculous period of conservative American leadership.

Those photos are horrifying.

I thought maybe you were being sarcastic, as FTR has written a number of blogs complaining about Obama and the Democrats.

Here...

...and here...

...oh, and here...

...especially here...

...oh, and here...

...and technically here.

You see, the difference between conservatives and liberals is the latter have an innate distrust of authority. Conservatives only distrust authority if it doesn't kind of agree with them...THEN they are lock step behind it, 100% and they label any and all criticism of it unpatriotic and wrong. Because conservatives (with a few notable exceptions) seem to be overpowered by this intellectual fault, they tend to project it onto others....in spite of evidence to the contrary. Yes, liberals overwhelmingly voted for Obama, because he was the best of the two realistic options. That doesn't mean we don't criticize him or agree with everything he says. However, when liberals DO criticize Obama...such objections tend to get ignored, as the conservatives and libertarians wait for the next attack on the previous administration so they can lob a false charge of slobbering devotion to Obama--facts and evidence be damned!

So, I have produced amble evidence to show that FTR has attacked Obama and the Democrats on a number of issues a number of times. This is objective proof that your charge against him is incorrect. However, if it's all the same to you, I'll not wait around for a concession of guilt. I've learned not to expect such things from a conservatives and libertarians.

this is the argument i always make to my dad who doesn't believe in global warming. (i also throw in that he could save a little money.)

i really don't understand why people are so against doing something. regardless of whether or not global warming is happening if we put policies in place like it is happening we will absolutely end of with a
much better quality of life.