Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

Zephyr, thank you for being. Some days, I feel like I am the only one of my "kind" here. lol Some days I think I'm surrounded by members of the Flat Earth Society!

Hey, don't forget me!! Annie

No I think there are 4 of us, just kidding. I know that we are few.

So basically, it comes down to the pocketbook for you. Good for you. I hope you remember that should you ever need any kind of assistance from any group. Just say home and die. That will save us all a lot of money.

That global warming is now taking place is beyond doubt, as can be seen from the melting icecaps on top of mountains around the world and the reducing in sea ice cover in the north pole. The issue then is whether this global warming is man-made. Now it is true that there have been variations in temperature in the past, possibly caused by volcanic activity or meteor strikes causing the equivalent of nuclear winters and blocking the heat of the sun. I am not a scientist but that said, the very vast majority of scientists believe that the global warming we are now experiencing is due to man made activity. Only a few scientists are now left in the man made global warming denyer corner. The vast majority of research on this subject supports to man made global warming hypothesis. My view is one of the precautionary approach, or in other words 'a stich in time saves nine'. It may be that we can't be absolutely 100% sure that global warming is man-made (despite the vast majority of scientific evidence, research and papers telling us that it is), but the consequences of doing nothing could (I am not saying will, but could) be catastrophic and could prove very expensive to rectify (and maybe too late to do so). And so therefore, we should take action now as an insurance policy against the possibility of such a catastrophe by taking a number of measures, many of which won't require great sacrifice on our part. For instance, we can step up efforts to find alternative sources of energy and how to best to harness these. We can do simple things like ensuring that future houses that are built have sound insulation so to reduce energy consumption. We can pay grants to persuade householders to better insulate existing homes. We can insist that manufacturers of electronic goods design their products so that they can be switched off and not have a silly stand-by light that wastes power. And on an individual level, we can all do something that will cut our energy use and which won't affect our standard of living (make sure our tyres are well pumped up, drive smoothly and more slowly on motorways, replace old type lightbulbs with energy efficient ones, switch off gadjets and lights that are left on unnecessarily). Many of these things won't cost us money, indeed will save us money by saving on the cost of electricity and fuel, so one does not need to be altruistic to do these things.

[i]The vast majority of research on this subject supports to man made global warming hypothesis. [/i] That doesn't matter to some people. As long as one scientist or nut denies it, it gives some people hope that their money won't be spent. Most people can't be bothered to even do the simple things, like keep the air pressure checked in your tires. Remember when McCain made fun of Obama for saying that? I thought any idiot should know to do that, but evidently it's too simple for McCain to accomplish. Good ideas, but convincing people to do the simple things is just about impossible; they're waiting to be saved by someone else.

Your knowledge on the subject simply astounds me. The polar bear is indeed a threatened species. The global warming theory? lol It's not a theory, dear, you're living in it. Most animals and plants that are extinct are because of man. That is a simple fact. We either kill them all, destroy their habitats or destroy their food source. Or all three in the case of the Dodo. Like anything we could do to the earth would effect it worse than what it does to itself. I don't even have an answer to that. Let me just say that that is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. I'll give you the DUH award for that one.

Not even the experts agree so there is no way to tell for sure. I can't determine a fact of global warming on a film that blatantly steals faked scenes from movies and portrays them as being a matter of scientific proof.

Seems federal and state officals may disagree with that statement. http://www.adn.com/front/story/416432.html

[i]The primary cause of global warming is from human activity, most significantly burning of fossil fuels to drive cars, generate electricity, and operate our homes and businesses. Clearing tropical forests contributes to about 20 percent of global warming emissions. When too much global warming pollution is released into the air, it acts like a blanket, trapping heat in our atmosphere and altering weather patterns globally and here in the U.S. We need to deeply reduce the heat-trapping emissions causing this effect if we are to address global warming. [/i] You can find that passage here, and much more: http://www.ucsusa.org/ For the questions about polar bears: http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/ask-the-experts/population/ And by the way, Al Gore isn't one of my sources.

I'm glad you didn't include Al Gore. I don't mind him saying there is global warming but stealing scenes from movies and passing them off as fact is playing dirty and if we want the truth we should insist on the whole truth.

I'm an activist, too, geniouslea. Too few of us are. Most people seem to be too busy to care about the earth around them. They are just too self-centered. Yes, Palin is a sorry excuse for a woman. I can't imagine being a woman and not being for women's rights, but evidently there are plenty of them who love her. Four more years of conservative republicans should get them exactly what they want; they won't be satisfied until they turn the clock back on all women have accomplished.

Here, here! I can't wait either! Annie

Yes, I know; I don't need any more reasons to keep me from voting for her, either. Like I said, I voted for Hillary in the primary; and after much thought and study, am supporting Obama. Biden is icing on the cake for me. Election day can't come soon enough! And I didn't forget you, by the way. You and Zephyr rock! lol

Well, Taskr, I thought you were smarter than that. You said, "She's already acknowledged that there's a possibility that human's activities could have something to do with global warming." Well, then, that just makes it all better, doesn't it? Bless her heart for acknowledging what most of us know for a fact. Of course human activities are affecting global warming! Have you been watching the Bush/Cheney science show again? Tsk. You also are screwing up what I said. If you go back and actually read it, I said, I am not posting this just to "attack" poor Sarah. Before someone says it is nitpicking, let me say that it is not to those of us concerned about the earth and living creatures other than ourselves. Of course I am blasting her for her lack of knowledge, for her lack of concern about the earth and everything living on it! I never said I wasn't. I'm just not doing it just to have something to bash her about! Of course I said she has selfishly abandoned the love of all natural things. Watch this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EQobIUE1zTU That film makes me sick. I cannot believe that any hunter, any honorable hunter, would hunt like this. This is the kind of thing that makes those of us with a conscience or a moral compass want to ban hunting altogether! It's absolutely sickening. And for the record, I am not against hunting. This is not hunting, this is bloody slaughter. This alone would keep me from voting for McCain with her on the ticket.

"Bless her heart for acknowledging what most of us know for a fact. " Nobody knows it for a fact because it hasn't been scientifically proven. Everyone knows that global warming is happening, but there is no proof that it is cause by man. There's nothing wrong with believing it is, but then there's nothing wrong with seeing it as part of the planet's evolution since there have been great climactic changes historically long before modern technology.