John Edwards to speak at global warming rally Saturday in Florida (push to cut CO2 emissions 80%)

[JohnLocke]

John Edwards at global warming rally Saturday
(Fort Myers, FL) News Press
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
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On Saturday, presidential hopeful John Edwards will join Southwest Floridians on the topic of global warming in an effort to urge Congress to cut carbon dioxide emissions 80 percent by 2050.

The event, which is from 1-4 p.m. at 2120 Main St., in front of the old Lee County Courthouse in downtown Fort Myers, is part of the Step it Up 2007 campaign, a day of citizen action focusing on global warming.

There will be exhibits on clean energy, energy efficiency, hybrid cars, and tips on what you can do. Speakers will address how this change will affect people, renewable energy, what locals are doing to help avert climate change and the proposed Glades coal-fired power plant.

Edwards, the featured speaker, will share his own concerns on climate change.

"Our generation must be the one that says, 'we must halt global warming.' Our generation must be the one that says 'yes' to renewable fuels and ends forever our dependence on foreign oil,'' he said in a statement. "And our generation must be the one that builds the new energy economy. It won't be easy, but it is time to ask the American people to be patriotic about something other than war.”
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Read the rest here.

More info about the Step it Up campaign at StepItUp2007.org.

[mrcheerful]

1. Didn't you hear the latest from right wing scientists? From the mid west to new england has been hit

by an april snow blizzard so global warming is a myth :sarcasm:. And just last week michigan's UP got up to 30" of snow. Right wing nuts are dancing in the streets because the snow proves them right and the progressives wrong, yet again. To bad the right wing don't understand how global warming effects the jet stream or that global warming scientists had already predicted that snow wouldn't arrive until late winter and keep going longer in the spring.

[kwolf68]

2. Yep

Sports hack Steve Szaban had some global warming doubter on his sports show this morning and they were in glee over the current weather.

I don't think warming is proven by a hot summer just as it isn't disproven by a cold one.

What we do know

-Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere DOES create warming, this is a fact
-The more Carbon-Dioxide you have, the more warming, barring an equilibrium removal account, again fact
-Our earth is warming, fact.
-Part of the warming IS INDEED natural. Yes, fact.
-However, the RATE of warming is an anomaly. Fact.

-The rise is simply TOO RAPID to be completely a natural phenomenon. This part is open for debate. Keep in mind previous periods of global hypoxia took effect over thousands of years. Just as we are creating extinction events that would otherwise take thousands or millions of years to occur, I suggest we are also speeding up atmospheric climate change in much the same way.

-If carbon-dioxide increase is leading to warming is human use of fossil fuels (carbon emiting) contributing to this warming? I have no problem with doubting science (it is our job to question), but to dismiss these postulates outright suggests a very cryptic agenda.

I can't see how the very basics escapes people...we emit carbon, carbon goes into the air, carbon stays there, carbon creates a greenhouse effect. How hard is this to understand?