Comment from Barry Warner
February 25th, 2009 at 4:01 pm

It is a known factor that nothing will be done until we start to do it. Stop putting the issue off. GM had a viable electric car several years ago but decided to not market it even after those who were able to test it were fully satisfied. The first act in getting something done is to start. Stop talking about it and start. Much time and money is wasted on surveys, analysis, etc. Just start. It will all work out in the end.

Comment from joseph j. saxton
February 25th, 2009 at 4:04 pm

dear sir:
the climate bill would have been a good idea years ago but we will never see clean and pure air because americans really do;nt care deep down inside.we are a very selfish countryand i told the presidentwe are a nation of corruption.this planet has been around 4.5 billon yearsand it will be here after we are all gone.

Comment from Mamen
February 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

thank you very much for letting us raise our voices and doing things from EEUU for the rest of the world, because normal people, we have no voice without people like you who take care of every us! i do support you and will, hoping someday this world change their mind and be concious about what we are doing with the only place we have for living. thank you very much!

Comment from Jesse almendarez
February 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

I think this is gonna be the funniest thing I will ever see. The congress hasn't made a move to save the enviorment in a long time. And now they have to send the President a piece of legislation that has nothing but a loss for all the people who have investments in oil and things like vehicles that depend on oil. I am looking forward to see what answers our congress comes up with for us:)
"To truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America."
Every word i what I have been waiting for from a president. Enjoy reading the words that made me laugh. We can make money every way possible, thats what gave us the words: The American Dream. We are a dream, the way our country is built and operates is unbelievable to me, and other countries. It is a change in time. We need to change to save our lives. The vehicles can be redesigned and the others used in many different ways to work for the economy. I hope you all make good decisions!

Comment from Neal J. King
February 25th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

It's very important to cut emissions of CO2. However, I'm a bit concerned that there is a focus on cap & trade: The experience of Europe, as well as analysis of the approaches by, for example, The Economist, lead me to the conclusion that cap & trade is a bit inflexible and "fussy": If the parameters are not chosen correctly, it will not work properly; and the decisions made in early years haunt the process for some time. My impression is that the carbon-tax approach may be more easily tunable to the situation, and more adjustable.

Comment from Paul Korda
February 25th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

Our atmosphere is paper thin when one gain's a Planet Earth in the Universe perspective.
Health is directly relative to what we fill our atmosphere with.
The integrity of Mankind is based upon what we breathe, what we eat, how we feel, and what we believe.
Allowing ourselves and our children to breathe poisonous gases is akin to the holocaustic murder of present and future generations.
Barack Obama is the peoples gateway to end the silent majority approval of mutual self destruction.

Comment from Sheila Baker
February 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

We need to steeply bring down the car population.
In our area, neither the Sierra Club nor any mainstream
enviros support car de-population, rather they support
""clean cars"", a total and complete ecological bogus concept,
with ecology defined as 'the study of spatial distribution
of organisms'.

Comment from Sandra Sleight-Brennan
February 25th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

The speech is a start in the right direction. And that's what we need, a starting point. Things need to happen – and happen quickly (I've heard 2015 as a tipping point for climate change). I'd like to see mountaintop removal mining outlawed. That would be a great next step.

Comment from Mike
February 25th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

I feel bad for people who believe that man actually has something to do with climate change. Stop and think about it for a minute. Even if man tried to heat up the earth, he couldn't do it. My friends, it's all about the money. If you don't believe me, just search online and you will see exactly what I am talking about.

Comment from Keerthi
February 25th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

We need to have more pollution check centers to control and monitor pollution from vehicles. We need to have an active team to check the factories.

Comment from Mia S.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

I believe that a groundswell of opposition is growing against big businesses that reject sustainability: oil, agribusiness, shipping & transportation, food production, automobile manufacturing, etc. It is no longer strange to make choices that are "green:" to support animal welfare, to think beyond our shores to the oceans that surround us, to imagine a lifestyle where we conserve resources every day, to recyle, carry cloth bags to market, refuse purchases manufactured and transported without sustainability in mind, and so on. We are at a crossroads. The choice is clear. Setting off in the right direction will mean imagining a better way. I salute today! It's a day I feared might never arrive. But with Obama's presidency it's clear it has.

Comment from James Dollhausen
February 25th, 2009 at 4:47 pm

I am presently developing a hydrogen generator "Dry Cell" system for my car and household appliances. This system is 90% complete. Basically this system uses electrolysis created through the vehicles existing battery and alternator (no additional batteries, alternators or modifications to the engine are necessary)to "split" hydrogen and oxygen molicules from water, and burns the hydrogen and oxygen immediately. These systems can be developed as pure hydrogen or hybrid (gas and hydrogen mixed) systems. The reason for running them as hybrid systems is that the emissions from burning hydrogen are oxygen and water vapor. Water vapor will rust the valves, valve chambers ans exhaust systems. Gas acts as a lubricant and therefore helps prevent rusting.

The overall cost of a system that will power the average car is approximately $1,000. Dry cells can be puchased from various internet websites and Ebay or can be manufactured by a handyman at home using stainless steel and other parts and materials that are readily available at auto parts, hardware. Videos demonstrating these systems can be seen on YouTube. If you are interested

Comment from David Rush
February 25th, 2009 at 5:12 pm

This planet is our only hope for mankind, Carl Sagan brought out this on NOVA series. We have perhaps 100 years as is before man starts to die off as a race, due to pollution and all our carbon imprint, our killing most all life off, destroying the majority of plant life. Such a beautiful world we once had. Now all countries need to do something very quick, or we go the way of the DO-DO..
Good Bye To The Human RACE…

Comment from Debra Couch
February 25th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

PLEASE include something about moving towards a plant-based diet. The United Nations IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), a group of 2800 scientists, issued a report indicating that the meat industry is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation *combined*. Yet we focus only on cars and energy.

Eating plant-based (vegetarian) foods for just one of every five meals reduces your greenhouse gas emissions by the same amount as switching from a regular car to a Prius. Eliminating meat from your diet reduces your greenhouse gas emissions by 1.5 TONS! Its free, its better for your health, and it addresses a whole host of environmental problems. It can also be adopted now, as opposed to waiting for something to be built or developed.

Reducing our dependence on meat needs to be a major focus of our battle on climate change.

Comment from jennifer Jensen
February 25th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

Every step we take to move in a sustainable direction will benefit all ultimately. Even if Obama is just carrying out the elite agenda, which may include global warming protections, it seems to be waking up and mobilizing a portion of humanity that actually desires to see real changes happen. It seems the momentum this time actually may get us somewhere. If we are all prepared to hold him to his promises which got him elected, I believe we will empower ourselves immensely and strengthen our resolve even more to co-create an enlightened human community.
We are beginning to create Methane gas from our table scraps and Horse Poop that we will run our gas appliances off of. It is a very simple mechanism and can be created at home.(You can find many styles on the internet.) I believe everybody must create solutions at home by challenging ourselves to eliminate the need for gas and oil on a smaller scale as well.
I would propose including in the environmental legislation money for a mass bike and horse lane/trail system for those people who actually prefer the option of a slower, pollution free, community enhancing form of transportation.

Comment from gb
February 25th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

I have solved dark matter in June of 2007 and found free energy, nobody cared, I sent it out to 10 thousand places.
My web page went down two weeks ago. Even after 10 thousand invitations to selected scientists I had two visits in a year so fu all.

Comment from Coralie Embree
February 25th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

I haved hoped for this moment since President Carter convinced me to put on a sweater and lower the thermostat. I grew the family's food, recycled and believed that The Greening of America was going to happen. I still do what I can but have been very descouraged. No one wanted or was willing to shake the status quo. Well, who likes the status quo now?? We have been too comfortable to risk change, but no more.
This is a perfect opportunity to do what needs doing. We have a president who gets it and communicates it well and has strong support. If the Dow was 15,000, businesses, banks, workers and home owners were still purring along nicely, it would be a much harder sell.
I am still very angry that in our mid 60's, our hard earned retirement accounts have tanked and that we will need to work until we drop. At least we have a very small business so we can't get laid off. We'll just try to keep it from getting too much smaller. And it didn't need to happen.
With all of that, if the opportunity to try to save the planet is a byproduct of the pain, we'll keep on chugging with hope and excitement toward a much healthier and saner world. For children and grandchildren everywhere, oh and critters too.

Comment from weatherdude
February 25th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

PEOPLE IT IS A NATURAL CYCLE! THIS WORLD WILL END SOMETIME! JESUS IS COMING BACK! HE IS IN CONTROL! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Comment from gb
February 25th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

I say (pun) restore the good old days where a priest chopped off environmental hippie heads and threw it off the wall. And there was not much reason between those priest heads on why he must oppose the environmental hippie who cares about this planet and humanity and the environment.

I say (pun) restore power as it was in the old days, do not oppose the ancient bigfoot. He needs it. He needs those whispering forests and trees. 75 witches were burned at once in the 1700's in France. He needs his entity. Entity is all he seeks.

Comment from R. J. Nida
February 25th, 2009 at 6:15 pm

It is unfortunate that our new president is taking the extreme position with global warming that he is insisting upon. This environmental craze is one more issue that will lead this country into further financial chaos with a despot mentality. The scientific community has properly identified the facts in this issue and I only wish that the American people could be exposed to these facts in their true light before pushing our country into unnecessary further financial difficulties at this time. We as a nation have important issues for survival that we need to be dealing with now but the Congressional priorities seem to have gone astray in favor of special interest groups who supply them with a more lucrative lifestyle. No effort is being made to control illegal immigration that is choking many states financially and nothing has been done for the near future to reduce our depencency on foreign oil. America needs to wake up to our real and immediate problems.

Comment from gb
February 25th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

Recycling became a horror. It came in the 1970's, but it went as follows: Recycle everything, the movement began, and not only individuals but giant industries turned to recycle. Among those things ended up recycled is poop water. Now the water is filtered and comes right back. Nowhere more than in the UK. But let's ask a question. If in a science lab the scientist was to poop into a glass of water, then filter the water, would you drink it? I think humanity is not ready for the notion recycle and environment. The result was seen in the UK. The IQ of people fell dramatically, and even English school teachers fall far behind in international school tests. The IQ was very high in the 1970's among teachers in the UK. Americans started this recycling of poop water just recently.

Comment from SARA N. HAWKINS
February 25th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

WE MUST USE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES. WIND POWER, SOLAR POWER, WATER POWER. WE MUST INVENT CAR THAT DON'T RUN ON GAS AND FURNACES THAT DON'T RUN ON GAS. WE MUST STOP BEING WASTEFUL IN ALL AREAS. WE MUST RECYCLE. WE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER AND GET SERIOUS ABOUT OUR COUNTRY'S FUTURE.

Comment from gb
February 25th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

Is licking cigarette ash off Crayons dipped into ashtrays environment safe?

Comment from Jacques Datus
February 25th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

To fight global warming, it requires a lot. For now we bet on the Stimulus Bill.It contains provisions for a good start. But we should leave the big task to scienists,decision-makers and ecologists and focus on some easy steps affordable to each of us to reverse the global economic downturn and counter the menacing climatic changes.
We need to recover lost values that used to keep us together and go to ancestors’ archives to retrieve a "dumasian" sort of formula “All for one. One for all".We should learn to live, taking and giving with joyful abandon. And we will find love. Differences and self-interest put aside, we will then achieve some sort of unity and strive like one toward a commun good, the safeguard of our planet.
It is amazing. This poem I wrote it for 5-6 year old Kenyan kids two years ago for the end of the year school party and now "One people one nation" is repeated so often with our president. Here it is.

The American Dream
One People
One Nation
One Nation
One people
All of us in each of us
Each of us in all of us
Living together loving
Loving together living in harmony
Peacefully happily
In a wonder world
Of peace love and happiness

Comment from gb
February 25th, 2009 at 6:35 pm

Environment matters get 27 comments. Other matters get thousands of comments in seconds. This is comment number 28.

Comment from Ana Eisenhauer
February 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Man-made or not, the US needs to catch up with the world. It seems like we are always behind the innovation waves in the world, and we have been paying the price. For example, we never cared for automobile quality in the 1970's, just about engine power, because we thought that that was what was important. Then Toyota swept us out of our feet and we are still trying to catch up. Just 10 years ago, people made fun of small European cars and said that "Americans love their big cars". Co-workers made fun of my 2003 VW Bettle TDI (50 mpg) when I bought it 5 years ago, and now several of them have asked me if I want to sell it.
My point is – Global Warming or not, the "urgency" of this subject is sprouting innovation everywhere. Indirectly, by reducing carbon emissions countries are becoming more self-sufficient and more efficient. To those that say that carbon cap will break America, look at the facts: EU has been at it for a while, and who is broke right now? The EU is not as broke as America…
The global warming cause may be painful in the short term, but it will result in a better world later on. It may sound "idealistic", but think about it: No war over natural resources; less money going towards energy will allow people to invest in activities that actually add value; there will be a reduction in the pollutants that are byproduct of burning fossil fuels…
Look at Brazil: In the 1980's oil crash, the government started the "Pro-Alcool" program to increasingly reduce the country's dependence on oil. 20 years later, Brazil achieved self-sufficiency in energy and is about to be delisted from the UN group of countries that is eligible for carbon credits under the CDM program because it is not underdeveloped enough anymore. Yes, when the program first started, it was a pain. Gas stations had to convert one of their gas tanks into ethanol (there were corrosion problems, etc). Car manufacturers had to make and push ethanol-powered cars to consumers. There had to be a heavy subsidy structure to get this all done. But it paid in the end.
Bottom-line: Let's take advantage of this "urgency" to become a better country.

Comment from weatherdude
February 25th, 2009 at 6:52 pm

FOSSIL FUELS IS A NATURAL RESOURCE TOO. GOD GAVE US FOSSIL FUELS TO USE FOR ENERGY, AND THERE IS NO REASON TO STOP USING FOSSIL FUELS.

Comment from LAMIRI Mustapha
February 25th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I can contribute by three propositions which are the following ones:

1) Stop(arrest) the engines of vehicles in red lights and especially in the traffic jams
2) Make filch gases brought out(loosened) of factories in solutions of lime, we obtain the CaCO3 which by decarbonation we can recycle CaO and bury the carbon dioxide in the deep ground coats(layers)
3) For a good environment, it is the convenient moment to improve and to use the new inventions as the car with compressed air invented by the engineer Guy Nègre or the car of whom works with the sea water invented by the engineer John Kanzius
I am in your capacities(measures) for ample information
lamiri_mustapha@yahoo.fr

Comment from charlotte1
February 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

I live in California, where it is still illegal to build Nuclear Power Plants. My fellow environmentalists are blocking Governor Swarzenegger's attempts to build pipelines to carry wind generated electricity from the desert to Los Angeles. Well, we can't have it both ways. Coal is ruining the world; there's no such thing as Clean Coal, Mountaintop Mining is destroying Appalachia, and I'd rather take the risk of a Nuclear Accident than the known definite destruction that Coal provides. I advocate an approach that focuses on reducing our carbon emissions as best we can immediately, because I don't want to see our planet become a giant fry-o-later, devoid of plant and animal life, including us.
Charlotte Erwin

Comment from Mitch
February 25th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

I don't want my family to suffer financially to support a theory, or save an ice cube.
The environmentalists' hugh and cry when I was in my 20s was the "Modern Ice Age" hoax by Al Gore and other "imminent environmentalists. Which is it?

Comment from Scarlet Y Wharton
February 25th, 2009 at 10:26 pm

I personally would love to see major changes in our environment, no it won't be done overnight and yes the wait has been ridiculus but to hear people say that Americans don't care? Thats the most asinine thing I've ever heard! I'm American and I care, some people don't believe there are real problems because there are cover ups that they would rather believe over science. I see there point, all that money handed out to cover things up helps to support some people while the scientists are just doing their jobs and and basing their information on proven theories….why would we listen to them? LOL

Comment from juliet s. roscom
February 25th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

it has always been repeatedly said what Confucius taught us: a journey of a thousnad miles begins with the first step. we are all facing this gargantuan climatic problem but very few have so far done something about this problem. the message of Mr. Al Gore is very clear – - we are approaching the worst in the inevitable climate change. i firmly believe we each and individually should start this in our own selves: start walking – - preferrably get a job near your house or move in to a house near your job; just like in China, let us use the bicycle – - it will do us more good than harm. congresses all over the world should start to legislate these two ideas.

Comment from Richard Turner
February 25th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

Dear Sir,

All bold and refreshing talk from the President. However, given that direct fixed emission cuts have been bandied around apathetically by Congress for a decade now, America should be looking instead to actively participate in 'easy fix' situations in the developing world such as helping…yes helping…the Chinese to reduce dependency on coal-fired power stations. Once infrastructure is built there is no financial incentive to shut it down until it has paid for itself. America's domestic inertia in matters of energy (let's all switch to gas we don't have…and create a post-oil dependency on Russian reserves!) needs to be taken as logical fact. Too many entrenched commercial interests are at stake…so instead let's use the new spirit of internationalism embodied by Obama and find out where the US can help prevent ultimately harmful energy structures from forming globally by offering guidance and leadership in alternatives energy solutions.

Comment from weatherdude
February 25th, 2009 at 11:52 pm

The Bible + Science= Go Together

2005- Warmest on Record 1st
2006- 6th Warmest
2007- 5th Warmest
2008- 8th Warmest

All of this from NOAA. If Man-Made GW was real, EVERY YEAR should be NUMBER 1, EVERY YEAR. BUT IT'S NOT. IT HAS BEEN COOLING EXCEPT FOR THE Exception for 2007. I BELIEVE 2009 WILL BE EVEN COOLER. THE SOLAR ACTIVITY HAS SLOWED DOWN. BUT ONE DAY, THERE WILL A DAY AFTER THE RAPTURE, AND DURING THE TRIBULATION THAT THE EARTH WILL GET WARMER. EARTHQUAKES WILL HAPPEN, ONE BIG WORLDWIDE EARTHQUAKE WILL HAPPEN, AND JESUS WILL DESTROY THE EARTH, AND MAKE A NEW ONE WITH A NEW JERUSALEM, AND A WORLD WITHOUT SIN FOREVER. GLOBAL WARMING IS A NATURAL CYCLE…PERIOD! WE ARE COOLING DOWN. FOSSIL FUELS ARE FOR US TO USE,AND B/C GOD GAVE THEM TO US, I INTEND TO USE THEM.

BECAUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PEOPLE IN AFRICA ARE DIEING! B/C THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS WILL NOT LET A POWER PLANT BE BUILT, IF THEY HAD ELECTRICITY, THERE WOULD BE LESS DEATHS!! IF ANY OF YOU PEOPLE ON HERE ARE TRUE CHRISTIANS, YOU SHOULD BELIEVE THIS TOO!

AS I have said again and again, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with this! I have to email the President, not only on this. But Abortion, and same-sex marriages. OUR NATION IS TURNING HER BACK ON GOD, and GOD'S WRATH WILL SOON BE ON US, IF WE DON'T TURN BACK. LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH.

Comment from Rina
February 25th, 2009 at 11:53 pm

This issue is one that really needs to be faced immediately. The global average temperature has already increased and if it continues at this rate the frozen methane in the ocean may very well make its way into our atmosphere and global warming would almost certainly be unstoppable. We take for granted the amount of oxygen we have to breath. If we don't take action, the whole world will have to experience what it means to not know what you have until it's gone.
There are plenty of good ideas out there and plenty of resources but we refuse to change. Well I for one am tired of this and feel that those of us who have fought against global warming should not have our efforts be wasted, or be punished because the rest of the world decided to live on in ignorance. We know this threat is real, but it may never truly sink into the average person's mind until it is too late. We need to act now and act quickly, efficiently, and smartly. Now is our time to care about ourselves, our nations, and our planet. It is time that we become better as a nation and maybe even as a planet.

Comment from Sreekumar V
February 26th, 2009 at 12:33 am

plastic usage is getting more compared to last few years. This materials are used once and it is thrown to roads, rivers etc. We should try our level best to avoid the usage of plastic bags. We can see the plastic bags everywhere and it will change the environment. for example, plastic bags in drainages will affect the flow of drainage water and thereby increases the mosquito population, increases the diseases. Moreover, retail giants to be taxed heavily for the abundance of plastic they move to environment. One more thing, every change needs to come our side. Use renewable bags, say no thanks when people offer you plastic bags.

Comment from Mustakim
February 26th, 2009 at 12:51 am

Living in the tropics in Indonesia where almost everybody is poor, I often wonder if the 5% of world's population that enjoys the 80% of total world's resources would be able to control their greed, in order to create a more equitable sharing system of the earth's wealth …
If they would, then our job at improving the quality of life and environment for our descendants would be so much easier!

Comment from rviohl
February 26th, 2009 at 1:26 am

"We will never see clean and pure air because Americans really don't care deep down inside. We are a very selfish country". We care – as long as our efforts to clean things up make sense. If fossil fuels are as bad as some think, then encourage the building and use of railroads. Put the brakes on NASCAR races. Forget the cap and trade – that won't help. All that is doing is lining the pockest of government. And, to government officials on all levels… lead by example! But, yes… "this planet has been around 4.5 billon years and it will be here after we are all gone". Indeed, LONG after we are gone. We can't do enough to damage the ecosystem… one volcano can do more damage in a few minutes than we as humans have done over all the years we've been populating the planet.

What's happening to our freedoms… we're being told that we shouldn't eat meat, we need to use more efficient light bulbs, drive green cars, and so on and so on. Government doesn't belong in business. It is still a free country – and I will work where I want. That is not being selfish – I have a good job and I'm not going to work closer to home just to stop killing mother Earth, that actually can kill us in the snap of a finger with an earthquake, tsunami, tornado, and such.

Bethlehem, PA is now considering fining those who don't have enough recyclables in their bins. Why? Because recycling costs too much. My town stopped collecting recyclables just for that reason.

Why not have more nuclear power? Seems to be working just fine in France.

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 1:27 am

Dear fellow Earth lovers,

Thank you for your dedication to protecting our environment. Clean air and clean water are essential to preserving life on planet Earth. Protecting all species and natural lands and forests are admirable priorities. Recycling and a green lifestyle are wonderful. Making the environment the most important thing in your life is a good thing, not a problem. I support you. But we do have a problem.

You have vigorously embraced the Man-Made Global Warming predictions of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore and you are using Mr Gore's warnings of environmental calamity to campaign for elimination of fossil fuels. Your environmentally conscious friends in politics and in the media have united with you and we are experiencing a barrage of frightening news reports, documentaries, TV feature reports, movies, books, concerts and protest events to build support for your goals. With your support the war against fossil fuels has become a massive scare campaign that is even being taught as an undebatable truth in our schools leaving children with nightmares.

Here's what's wrong with that: the science is wrong. There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

I know many scientists are part of your movement and they have tried hard to give your uncontrollable climate change panic a scientific basis. Al Gore has a professional staff and millions of dollars and his status as former Vice President to support his campaign to sell the "big scare". And thousands of well-intentioned politicians and the media of the world have supported your movement. It must seem to you that there can be no doubt: fossil fuels are destroying the environment and will lead to uncontrollable global warming unless we act now. With all that powerful support for your anti-fossil fuel movement, and with the worthy goal of saving the planet from the disastrous consequences of runaway Global Warming, how can you fail?

Here's how: The science behind your global warming scare is bad. There is has been no significant anthropogenic global warming in the past, none seems to be happening now and none is likely in the future. Dissenting scientists have produced convincing evidence that the cornerstone of your scientific argument, increased atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing a rapid, irreversible rise in temperature, is invalid. All of the various "signs of global warming" you have so widely publicized have been proven unrelated, considerably overstated or in many cases, just plain wrong. There are normal variations in climate that result mostly from the cycles of the Sun. For instance, as the Sun cycle has changed from active to passive in the last decade, the warm up of the 1990's has reversed itself. Arctic ice melting and polar bears dying, shrinkage of glaciers and the rise of ocean levels, increased intensity and number of hurricanes and intensified droughts have all been touted as signs of global warming. They are not. They are part of this natural variation in climate. The intensified hurricane claim never happened. Katrina was an isolated, random event. The droughts are part of the natural cycle and are reversing at this time. Glaciers are stabilizing. The Arctic ice cap is largely back to normal.

Here is what I am suggesting you do. Campaign for your environmental goals on the basis of their own merit. Let go of the global warming frenzy before it leaves you discredited and embarrassed. Stop screaming, "The sky is falling." It is not.

Do your good work. Devote your lives to our environment. In many ways you will succeed. We are all grateful for your love of the planet. But, don't use scare tactics.

Most of all I urge you not to become extremists. And, may I encourage you to live your lives in a loving way, love your fellow human beings and our wonderful advanced standard of living and way of life as much as you love the Earth.

My very best regards,

John Coleman

P.s. – If you will read my briefs on the science that debunks the global warming frenzy and follow the links there, you will begin to realize the folly of Global Warming.
Go to ICECAP.us for a starter.

JC

http://www.kusi.com/weather/colemanscorner/12661711.html

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 1:30 am

The Earth is only maybe 6,000 yrs. Man has been here from the beginning and will be here when Jesus comes at the end.

Comment from Paul Korda
February 26th, 2009 at 3:11 am

Dear Mr. Coleman
This was released by the Associated press today. If only you were right, but if you don't want to be scared, we'll understand.

Antarctic glaciers melting faster than thought
By ELIANE ENGELER – 9 hours ago

GENEVA (AP) — Glaciers in Antarctica are melting faster and across a much wider area than previously thought, a development that threatens to raise sea levels worldwide and force millions of people to flee low-lying areas, scientists said Wednesday.

Researchers once believed that the melting was limited to the Antarctic Peninsula, a narrow tongue of land pointing toward South America. But satellite data and automated weather stations now indicate it is more widespread.

The melting "also extends all the way down to what is called west Antarctica," said Colin Summerhayes, executive director of the Britain-based Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJ-62rD3AVr6zA422y7R7bTiQP-wD96IRLR00

Comment from Syed Osama Kadri
February 26th, 2009 at 4:01 am

Dear Sir

No, doubt climiate change is indeed a problem that we have to address in the future. See the basic issue is that our Ozone Layer is diminishing. It is due to the environmental pollution that is we are causing daily. Now for this effective measures are to be taken at the earliest. The bill if passed by the Congress will help us but the unless we change ourselves, nothing can be done. Whether we are American, British, French or any developed nation, we need to change our living style. Any pollution creating industry, we shift or outsource to the third world country. We do so much research in technology that we forget this environment when test that technology and a very good example is the testing of latest weapons under ground & under sea. So first we ourselves as developed nation have to change and then we have to help the developing or third world nations in order to save our Mother Earth.

A student of BBA Hons.
Last Semester
Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi

Comment from saffet tufekci
February 26th, 2009 at 4:21 am

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February 26th, 2009 at 4:26 am

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Comment from Dhaivat
February 26th, 2009 at 4:45 am

the climate bill would have been a good idea years ago but we will never see clean and pure air because americans really do;nt care deep down inside.

Comment from saleh or sally
February 26th, 2009 at 6:14 am

I think its very fantastic that there are donors who are much concern to contribute on environmental protection but we have to be cafull in avoididing mis allocation of fund all the money for helping the protection should go directly to the targeted objectives

Comment from tunde adesokan
February 26th, 2009 at 6:15 am

I took time sir to peruse various opinions on climate invasion by various pollutants with specific regard to carbon bearing in mind d oil-petroleum sector.My observation is this,President Obamma has taken d bull by d horn by given global pollution an immediate attention,one month into his 1st term.This is laudable.One area dat people have failed to look into is dis and no matter d opposition d time is ripe for global pollution to be addresed.On daily basis,ozone layer is depleted hence all over d wor.ld no more protectn from various rays,diseases accumulate as a result of this,d atmosphere suddenly becomes dangerous and harmful.D harms dat neglect of global pollution 'll do far outweighs d benefit.D problem w ith those opposing d tackling of global pollution is dat t hey hate CHANGE.Naturally humanbeings are very reluctant t o change

Comment from Mary Ann
February 26th, 2009 at 11:54 am

Too much time has been wasted already. If we make it our priority to invest in clean-renewable energy now for our future, we will have a chance to save our environment from total chaos. We cannot afford any more delays from private interests, we need to adopt a policy of "Do No Harm" to the environment. Stopping the careless depletion of our natural resources and encouraging conservation is the right path for our country.

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Well, people sorry, but nothings going to change my mind. Nobody is going to make me use something other than gas, and when people see in the next few years that we are cooling, and that Al Gore and the rest of them were wrong, I'll be able to say I was right.

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

"…As for me and my House we will serve the LORD…" And we will Trust Him, and not worry about this.

Comment from Umaru Yusuf
February 26th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

I am from Africa South of Sahara, Our enviromental problem is more on uncontrol desert encrochment. We, the vast mejority of this part of the world are poor to afford gas for cooking most of us never hard of it! So the only cooking power source is firewood. The problem is that we cutting more trees then we are planting especially in the Savanna Region, thus helping the expantion of Shahara Desert. I am therefore calling on individuals, governments and organisations to take positive action in the form aggressive planting of trees, the likes of date planting in Libya that almost transform adesert into forest.

Comment from bonbayel
February 26th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

President Obama used 2 dirty words in his speech,
"CLEAN COAL."
I haven't seen anyone else comment on those words.
"CLEAN COAL" doesn't exist if you take coal's entire lifecycle into account. Think of the mountaintops being removed into fishing streams in what used to be incredibly lovely Appalachia. Think of the slag water spills this Christmas time.

Luckily both investors, judges and local governments are discovering this, so that not one new coal power project has been approved recently.

It is also very bad business, since all the restrictions that are being placed on coal, as well as the "CLEAN COAL" technology, are pricing coal higher than renewables will be very very soon.

And, by the way, the life-cycle of nuclear power plants is just as ugly, they take a decade to build, and without subsidies are also far too expensive. Are you aware that they want to mine uranium right next to the Grand Canyon?

Let's work really hard to get a renewable economy. We can do it!

Comment from Ana Eisenhauer
February 26th, 2009 at 3:47 pm

Dear weatherdude
You've done your part (whatever that is): We won't be able to convince you, and you won't be able to convince us. So please, let it go. Let us foolish people have a serious discussion about the issue.

Comment from Andre Girnau
February 26th, 2009 at 4:26 pm

To the environmental Defense fund and those who are mistakenly believing in MAn made climate change. The warming actually began in 1800 at the endof the littlke ice age that covered greenland with a Glacier. Co2 on the other hand has been higher in the past and is actually at 229 parts per million not 100 parts per million as it has been in the past when the earth was more lush and fertile. Using oil will not harm the planet and neither will using nuclear power ince both are actually part of the planets natural resources so you can't pollute the earth with them even though you'd like to believe so yes getting coated in oil is terrible but thats not pollution. And its way more likely to happen bring oil from overeas then if we'd be responsible and use our own. Im not saying we shouldnt find new energy sources but that we should use what we have while we're discovering and perfecting them. the EDF and others that push man made global warming have as their base the erroneus idea that mans a problem that the earth would be better without. But mankind is the reason for the earthas we're part of the earth given to us by God.
to those who think that mankind is the problem our wrong but if you do believe that then your only half right its you that the earth would be better without. Stop trying to take CO2 a necessary componet for plant life which in turns gives us oxygen. If you lower CO2 you also lower the amount of oxygen and eventually will kill the planet. In closing the earth is a greenhouse so greenhouse gasses are not harmful to anything stop lying and scaring people it only works in the short run buit in the long run always deceiving the people to lose all.

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm

Andre,

I agree! I don't deny GW is taking place, but I deny that man has anything to do with it. I believe that now since solar activity has settled down, we are in a cooler period. This is a Natural Cycle…period.

Comment from weatherdude
February 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pm

Genesis 1:27-31 (New International Version)

27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

Comment from Dr. James Singmaster
February 27th, 2009 at 12:09 am

The major point being missed here, there and everywhere is the carbon dioxide being needlessly reemitted from massive ever-expanding messes of organic wastes and sewage that presently get mishandling to let natural biodegrading to occur. If some environmental group got activated to call for controlling this reemitting from those messes, it could call for a pyrolysis process to be applied to those messes. which would convert the biochemical carbon to inert charcoal stopping the reemitting. And a big added benefit would be the destroying of germs, toxics and drugs resulting in great reductions of water pollution from escapes of those hazards no longer being present. Dr. J. Singmaster

Comment from GLN PRASAD
February 27th, 2009 at 2:37 am

Dear All earth beings especially humans!

We have one earth and only place to live. Do what ever best you can to improve the living situation. Do not do that hurts environment.

There are scholors, politicians and social activists. What I can tell more? Live with nature and preserve the environment for the future generations

Comment from wanyama moses
February 27th, 2009 at 7:55 am

daer
to all lovers of this great environment we live.
to me this a great pressure for the new begining to embrass the new changes for the change we witness at the inoguration day.,what a powerfull change for deliverance of a climate bill, to save the feature of my decendants to come,but now the task remains for our politicians to fight corruption in the offices ,which would prevent the easy flow of the funds ,i say let there be an easy path for flow of the funds to do it's intended work to save ,air,trees,soils,waters,birds,clear etc..the sewadge systems,and if i see any one tempaling with any of this i will make a big shaut to expose them out to helpless shame.
wanyama moses/mengo/kampala/uganda.

Comment from Vijay Vittal Rao
February 27th, 2009 at 9:27 am

If the Bill comes up to you, go to the Clinton and ask for ATM Card, that you can pay the Bill of Barrack Obama.
We must stop using the man made materials. If we depend only on earths resources for only food purpose for several years, we can go back to the years of earths newly formed climatic nature. Does it happens? Who were with us or not with us ? please poll for it. Thank you.

Comment from weatherdude
February 27th, 2009 at 5:20 pm

Just wait people when we non believers are right!!

Comment from Leslie Keith
February 28th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

We also have to consider the other countries that are driving old cars from the 70's that are also polluting the air with those big engines and diesal transport buses they drive in India and alot of those old cars do not even have mufflers….maybe we should go back into time and walk more, and even ride bicycles like they do in Japan..I heard their air was great in the mountains.–Maybe we would still have an ozone layer if the 70's era hadn't came and stayed awhile.

Comment from ttabot
March 6th, 2009 at 7:36 am

President Obama seems to be just the catalyst we all needed. But I think that in as much as global warming has universal dimensions,The developing world should not be left out. If for instance, cleaner cars are to be made, measures should be taken to ensure that the less clean cars of nowadays do not end up in the developing world, but scrapped and remodelled, so that we all should benefit from clean technology at the same pace. One other thing – The president may have to clearly address the issue of outsourcing for Biofuel production.

Comment from Maila
March 9th, 2009 at 9:56 am

Regardless of this legislation, I just hope that it would reach into action. So far the Philippine Government requires each gasoline station to put a percentage bio fuel and that's it! I don't feel any new actions.

Comment from Ajay Talokar
March 20th, 2009 at 3:18 am

Plant as many trees as you can grow. use Bicycles and non conventional sourceses of energy.