Just an observation. There is no picture of New York City with a 6' sea level increase, as indicated in today's column. And there is at least one grammatical error. I only write this because this happens quite frequently, and the quality and Information of the article is worth writing with proper editing and attention to detail.

Just an observation. There is no picture of New York City with a 6' sea level increase, as indicated in today's column. And there is at least one grammatical error. I only write this because this happens quite frequently, and the quality and Information of the article is worth writing with proper editing and attention to detail.

I think making a law that caps carbon, taxes and passes back to the people the profits of the fossil fuel industry is a great idea. However, an even better idea is a law that would make the fossil fuel industry directly responsible for all losses and damage incurred by the climate change they are causing. In fact, we could take a little lesson from the USPS and make that law to cover future losses and damage as well. That would not only include things like the BP oil spill but things like Katrina, Snowmageddon, coastal flooding, loss of cities, and all those record breaking midwest twisters. Profits are the main motivation for pushing fossil fuels on the public. Start stripping those industries of those profits and you starve those executives of all their motivation real fast.

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Stecoop01 ~ That was a beautiful poem. Shame you don't have the name of the author.

Great poem, "stecoop"!

Skip in Boulder ~ "Christofascist" is a brilliant and accurate term. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much for all your kind words folks, I was thinking I wasn't being heard 'cause I just didn't employ effective verbeage, i.e., I wasn't at all clear about what I was saying and was just rambling on like some irrelevant old clown. I was hoping, therefore, for people to try to read it once more and try to get past the funky wording to the basic gist of it - which I thought was worthwhile.

Should really write more clearly so people don't have to go through so much to figure it out. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks so much again, everybody, for your supportive words.

I'm going to go a little off topic and share with you something I culled from the internet over a decade ago. The prevailing attitudes in the United States, and for that matter, the world, it seems very appropriate now:

The Cold Within

Six men trapped by happenstance, in black and bitter cold;
Each man possessed a stick of wood, or so the story's told.
Their dying fire in need of wood, the first man held his back;
For on the faces around the fire, he noticed one was black.
The next man looking across the way, saw one, not of his church;
And wouldn't bring himself to give his little stick of birch.
The third man sat, in tattered clothes, he gave his coat a hitch;
Why should he put his log to use, to warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought, of the wealth he had in store;
And how to keep what he had gained, from the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man's face bespoke revenge, as the fire passed from his sight;
For all he saw in his stick of wood, was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group, did nothing except for gain;
Giving only to those who gave, is how he played the game.
So, their logs held tight - in death's still grasp - was proof of human sin;
They died not from the cold without, they died from the cold within.

-- Author Unknown

He may not qualify for being totally sociopathic and may be 'familiar' with the word:empathy, but I doubt he ever felt it or thought about it.

Mark S -- We have so many victims if is hard not to defend them. The one thing the RW points out that no one seems to respond to is the accusation if the victims would have worked harder they would not be where they are. No one seems to say how hard do you think they should work? How smart do they have to be?

I think the underlying economic force we should look to is the law of supply and demand (duh). The key supply and demand force would be the labor force vs the corporate suppliers. With this in mind, I think the answer to how hard they should work is how hard they work when the unemployment rate is around 4%. Greenspan gave more power to the suppliers by trying to say the unemployment rate should be around 5.4%, so the workers had that level of insecurity.

thumper -- That is not a spoon they are feeding them with. It is a bag of cash.

AIW -- Sven was referring to the IPCC not the NIPCC. The IPCC is the report put out by the UN. The IPCC warns us how bad climate change is. Sven is referring to 5 or 6 pages in the 1400+ pages of the IPCC. Those 5 or 6 pages are why your course of action (97% of scientists agree) is appropriate. I am still anlayzing those 5 or 6 pages. It seems the contributors to that section do not understand detecting a signal in a very noisy sample.

Mr. Leroy H. Jones was executed today in Huntsville, Texas for the murder last week of the Govenor's pet German Shepherd, Pee Wee. The execution was the first to use a drone for that purpose. Regarding the twelve witnesses killed as collateral causalities, the Governor said "swift justice has its benefits and it's drawbacks. You can't make a salad without breaking a few eggs." Munitions stocks went up three percent upon the news.