Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Universities? Don't hold your breath, they are too busy having sex and smoking dope.

W hether or not his goals are ambitious enough, John McCain made it clear Monday in Portland that he will be the anti-George W. Bush when it comes to global warming and alternative energy policy.

"I will not shirk the mantle of leadership that the United States bears," the presumptive Republican nominee said to an audience of journalists and Vestas employees. "I will not accept the same dead-end of failed diplomacy that claimed Kyoto."

If he is elected president, McCain promised to propose a cap-and-trade system designed to ratchet down the volume of carbon emissions, which contribute to greenhouse gases. He also enthusiastically endorsed nuclear power -- though he barely mentioned such "well-known drawbacks" as the problem of how to safely store spent nuclear fuel. As a guest of Vestas, he spoke warmly of wind power and went on to mention solar power, fuel cells and cleaner-burning fuels.


He vowed to cooperate with other nations to help big polluters such as China and India reduce their emissions. He promised that federal purchasing practices will reflect his administration's "low-carbon" policies. He said his energy policies could benefit rural America, which could store carbon in the soils of farms.

His speech was immediately assailed by critics from Hillary Clinton to conservation groups, who said that McCain isn't aggressive enough in seeking to reduce greenhouse gases or in developing a credible plan to wean Americans from fossil fuels.

But what's noteworthy now is that McCain has joined his Democratic rivals in pronouncing global warming a serious problem that requires prompt and concerted action and international cooperation.

After months of jogging toward the right, so as to outflank such Republican rivals as Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani, McCain on Monday angled sharply toward the middle of the field, closer to the Democrats' position. He even went so far as to applaud the leadership of Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, the Democrat who introduced Vestas America President Jens Soby, who introduced McCain.

Fights will surely follow about how a cap-and-trade system is constructed, what safeguards are needed to expand nuclear power production, how and whether to subsidize the development of alternative energy technologies and how to engage China and India on global warming. But for one day, at least, McCain's new tune played well in Portland.

If he is elected president, McCain promised to propose a cap-and-trade system designed to ratchet down the volume of carbon emissions, which contribute to greenhouse gases.

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If he is elected president, McCain promised to propose a cap-and-trade system designed to ratchet down the volume of carbon emissions, which contribute to greenhouse gases.

Man, Americans have the choice for the next presidency between an arbishop and a cardinal (unless that ends up to be mother Theresa) of the AGW church.
Not much choice for a country of presumable over-abundance

Yep. What do you think? You have room for an aging part time insurance specialist, part time teacher/mentor in France somewhere?

Mon dieu, quelle surprise: a member of the French conservative party turns out to be a commie .... at least Obama is a "left".
(However, McCain seems to have said something similar, though not [yet] at the UN assembly.

Proof of that : Kouchner is a pure socialist and he is French foreign affairs minister for our president Sarkozy, a conservative, who accessorily has vowed to "protect the climate" (no less, man) when he began his presidency.

I'd thought that Kouchner became a member of the French government because they needed some gastroenterologistic advice? :wink:

I've been accused by some of you of being too pessimistic, of having a dark cloud hanging over me, when talking about the economy and the credit crunch. But I don't make up the data, I just report and interpret it. I have been bearish and I continue to be bearish.

I.........Supply has peaked in the N Sea and Mexico. Production is declining in Russia. Only 20% of the worlds oil now comes from non OPEC countries. And they (OPEC) have been lying about their resources. A greater and greater percentage of the worlds oil will come from just 5 OPEC countries in future, Iraq Saudi Arabia UAE Kuwait and Iran. And the biggest field of all Ghawar in Saudi is now depleting. They're getting more out by increasing water injection. .

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I.........Supply has peaked in the N Sea and Mexico. Production is declining in Russia. Only 20% of the worlds oil now comes from non OPEC countries. And they (OPEC) have been lying about their resources. A greater and greater percentage of the worlds oil will come from just 5 OPEC countries in future, Iraq Saudi Arabia UAE Kuwait and Iran. And the biggest field of all Ghawar in Saudi is now depleting. They're getting more out by increasing water injection. .

Ghawar and nearby fields have been using massive water injections for 30 years that I know of and possibly longer.

And yes, the tales of the OPEC reserves do seem related to the tales of the thousand and one nights, but that's due to the fact that the cartel dictates production limits to its members as percentages of their own reserves estimates. Not unreasonably the members inflate their numbers for their recoverable reserves so as to increase their production quotas.

It's not just OPEC, though: Royal Dutch-Shell has admitted inflating its own estimates of recoverable reserves in order to raise capital for drilling test wells - a practice not unknown to other oil companies in the private sector.

And you really, really, don't want to know about the nationalized oil companies of Venezuela, Brazil, or Iran.

I.........Supply has peaked in the N Sea and Mexico. Production is declining in Russia. Only 20% of the worlds oil now comes from non OPEC countries. And they (OPEC) have been lying about their resources. A greater and greater percentage of the worlds oil will come from just 5 OPEC countries in future, Iraq Saudi Arabia UAE Kuwait and Iran. And the biggest field of all Ghawar in Saudi is now depleting. They're getting more out by increasing water injection.

Many of us will live long enough to get a proof about who was right ...

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Many of us will live long enough to get a proof about who was right ...

Walter, we already have plenty of proof that doomsters have repeatedly been wrong. The bet is long over.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report

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Climate researcher Dr. Tad Murty, former Senior Research Scientist for Fisheries and Oceans in Canada and former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, reversed himself from believer in man-made climate change to a skeptic. "I started with a firm belief about global warming, until I started working on it myself," Murty explained on August 17, 2006. "I switched to the other side in the early 1990s when Fisheries and Oceans Canada asked me to prepare a position paper and I started to look into the problem seriously," Murty explained. Murty was one of the 60 scientists who wrote an April 6, 2006 letter urging withdrawal of Kyoto to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper which stated in part, "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary."