White House: Climate change damage happening now

[SpartanDem]

Source: AP

By SETH BORENSTEIN – 29 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House.

Global warming has already caused more heavy downpours, the rise of temperatures and sea levels, rapidly retreating glaciers and altered river flows, according to the document released Tuesday by the White House science adviser and other top officials.

"There are in some cases already serious consequences," report co-author Anthony Janetos of the University of Maryland told The Associated Press. "This is not a theoretical thing that will happen 50 years from now. Things are happening now."

The White House document — a climate status report required periodically by Congress — contains no new research. But it paints a fuller, more cohesive and darker picture of global warming in the United States than previous studies and brief updates during the George W. Bush years. Bush was ultimately forced to issue a draft report last year by a lawsuit, and that document was the basis for this new one.



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[RufusTFirefly]

1. Don't expect action though. Gotta keep that powder dry for more important things

Gib: (encountering a padlocked trailer while attempting to get out of the rain) It's locked! Good! This is very good! It's important that this place should have an air-tight security system... in the middle of nowhere!
Alison: (digs through her bag) I might have a nail file... I have a credit card. I have a credit card!
Gib: Credit cards work on a completely different kind of lock.
Alison: No, you don't seem to understand. I have a credit card!
Gib: You have a credit card?
Alison: I have a credit card!
Gib: (relieved) You have a credit card.
Alison: (suddenly crestfallen) Oh. My dad told me specifically I can only use it in case of an emergency.
Gib: (sarcastically) Well, maybe one will come up.

[The Hope Mobile]

2. Ummm, yeah!!! I will never understand the global warming deniers.

The corporations - yeah, I get their motivation. But the everyday people? C'mon!! So you had a blizzard last year. Read up on it! Climate CHANGE you can believe in!

[villager]

3. Of course, we don't dare risk upsetting either corporations or Republicans, by *doing* anything

...about it...

[SpartanDem]

4. the cap and tade bill is doing nothing?nt

[villager]

5. You mean the one with "major concessions to Big Business?"

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=479598

[SpartanDem]

7. It's still a very good piece of legislation

[villager]

8. It's still a band-aid

Our only alternative is "no band-aid." That's about it.

[Turborama]

6. Links to the globalchange site and report

Homepage: http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts

Download the report here: http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts/download-the-report

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[defendandprotect]

9. The average person could see t he changes 30 years ago . . and more . . .

and scientists could detect the harm being done by the Industrial Revolution
in the late 1890's.

The idea of telling us when it's too late doesn't have anything to do with preserving
capitalism and elite fortunes, does it?

And sparing the necks of those whose suicidal and violent tendencies moved America and
the world into the suicidal practices?

Those who have wanted to control the wealth and natural resources of the nation are
responsible for this -- and moving on beyond our own borders, naturally.

Genocide of Native was a good idea to these people!
Enslaving African Americans here --
Exploding atomic weapons --
Dropping atomic weapons on civilians --

If we want any opportunity to set things right we need to bury patriarchy and its
organized patriarchal religions -- it's system of capitalism/exploitation of nature
and man.