In these recent months of perpetual senseless death in the Ukraine bolstered by the Russian billionaires - not much unlike the political forces of ALEC descending into the depths of the mystical state of Texas like a holy convention, seeking a revival of catching prominently crafted legislators with green backs. The ALEC army is growing with the widespread sale of guns and legislation to defend the perceived aggressor. The Bundy Ranch square off is but an example of highly funded, legalized organized billionaire war lords vying to institute Facism in each state. The state support of big business in return of business support of the state.

Is it any different in Russia? The country behind the shooting down a commercial plane with 298 souls?

through the 60's, there were voices of hope. JFK, Robert, Martin....

Were are our voices of hope?

AIW ~ :-)

Mark Saulys ~ I read it, Mark. I didn't comment on it because I agree with every word. Well said!

Excerpts from the 2014 IPCC Report: Summary For Policymakers

2014 IPCC Report Summary

Quote PG 9: A3: The DeAdaptation and mitigation choices in the near term will affect the risks of climate change throughout the 21st century (high confidence)

Quote PG 12 Assessment Box SPM.1: Human influence on the climate system is clear. 33 Yet determining whether such influence constitutes “dangerous anthropogenic interference” in the words of Article 2 of the UNFCCC involves both risk assessment and value judgments. This report assesses risks across contexts and through time, providing a basis for judgments about the level of climate change at which risks become dangerous.

Five integrative reasons for concern (RFCs) provide a framework for summarizing key risks across sectors and regions. First identified in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, the RFCs illustrate the implications of warming and of adaptation limits for people, economies, and ecosystems. They provide one starting point for evaluating dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Risks for each RFC, updated based on assessment of the literature and expert judgments, are presented below and in Assessment Box SPM.1 Figure 1.All temperatures below are given as global average temperature change relative to 1986–2005 (“recent”).34

1) Unique and threatened systems: Some unique and threatened systems, including ecosystems and cultures, are already at risk from climate change (high confidence). The number of such systems at risk of severe consequences is higher with additional warming of around 1°C. Many species and systems with limited adaptive capacity are subject to very high risks with additional warming of 2°C, particularly Arctic-sea-ice and coral-reef systems.

2) Extreme weather events: Climate-change-related risks from extreme events, such as heat waves, extreme precipitation, and coastal flooding, are already moderate (high confidence) and high with 1°C additional warming (medium confidence). Risks associated with some types of extreme events (e.g., extreme heat) increase further at higher temperatures (high confidence).

3) Distribution of impacts: Risks are unevenly distributed and are generally greater for disadvantaged people and communities in countries at all levels of development. Risks are already moderate because of regionally differentiated climate-change impacts on crop production in particular (medium to high confidence). Based on projected decreases in regional crop yields and water availability, risks of unevenly distributed impacts are high for additional warming above 2°C (medium confidence).

4) Global aggregate impacts: Risks of global aggregate impacts are moderate for additional warming between 1–2°C, reflecting impacts to both Earth’s biodiversity and the overall global economy (medium confidence). Extensive biodiversity loss with associated loss of ecosystem goods and services results in high risks around 3°C additional warming (high confidence).Aggregate economic damages accelerate with increasing temperature (limited evidence, high agreement), but few quantitative estimates have been completed for additional warming around 3°C or above.

5) Large-scale singular events: With increasing warming, some physical systems or ecosystems may be at risk of abrupt and irreversible changes. Risks associated with such tipping points become moderate between 0–1°C additional warming, due to early warning signs that both warm-water coral reef and Arctic ecosystems are already experiencing irreversible regime shifts (medium confidence). Risks increase disproportionately as temperature increases between 1–2°C additional warming and become high above 3°C, due to the potential for a large and irreversible sea level rise from ice sheet loss. For sustained warming greater than some threshold, 35 near-complete loss of the Greenland ice sheet would occur over a millennium or more,contributing up to 7 m of global mean sea level rise.

Quote PG 28 Conclusion:Climate-resilient pathways are sustainable-development trajectories that combine adaptation and mitigation to reduce climate change and its impacts. They include iterative processes to ensure that effective risk management can be implemented and sustained. See Figure SPM.9.77

Prospects for climate-resilient pathways for sustainable development are related fundamentally to what the world accomplishes with climate-change mitigation (high confidence). Since mitigation reduces the rate as well as the magnitude of warming, it also increases the time available for adaptation to a particular level of climate change, potentially by several decades. Delaying mitigation actions may reduce options for climate-resilient pathways in the future.78

Greater rates and magnitude of climate change increase the likelihood of exceeding adaptation limits (high confidence). Limits to adaptation occur when adaptive actions to avoid intolerable risks for an actor’s objectives or for the needs of a system are not possible or are not currently available. Value-based judgments of what constitutes an intolerable risk may differ. Limits to adaptation emerge from the interaction among climate change and biophysical and/or socioeconomic constraints. Opportunities to take advantage of positive synergies between adaptation and mitigation may decrease with time, particularly if limits to adaptation are exceeded. In some parts of the world, insufficient responses to emerging impacts are already eroding the basis for sustainable development.

2014 IPCC Report: Summary For Policymakers

Humanity is too stupid to save itself, evolutionary experiment failed.

Concerning climate change it should be noted that there is a big difference between the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the NIPCC (Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change). The first is an official government sponsored panel of real scientists doing a serious and objective job. The second is a pure scam of the oil industry sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and apparently using a very confusing pseudonym for the obvious purpose of trying to confuse people. A very desperate attempt at subterfuge if I ever saw one. The conclusion of the IPCC was that climate change was indeed man made and offered political leaders various solutions to deal with the problem. The conclusion of the NIPCC is to defend climate change denial and protect the fossil fuel industry.

One can check out the two websites here,

http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg2/

http://nipccreport.org/

It is quite obvious after seeing the first page of the NIPCC website that the emphasis is commercial protection of the fossil fuel industry. The overt effort at pandering is quite blatant. If further reading about this nasty attempt to fuel the fury of climate change deniers is desired, a good article can be found here. Happy reading!

http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/10/31/nipcc-and-climate-change-denialism/

Yep! The facts are the facts, Mr. Mills. And just today I learned from Thom Hartmann that the NIPCC, or “Nongovernmental International Panel On Climate Change”, is funded by the Heartland Institute! And according to Thom, the Heartland Institute is all about climate change denial. They are even looney enough to compare people like us (those who believe the scientific consensus among real climate experts) to the Unabomber.

I just knew something smelled fishy about your argument and repeated references to the NIPCC! So much for all that sanctimonious drivel about how “intellectually lazy” you think we are, and how people are “entitled to their own opinions, not their own facts” ad nauseam.

Mr. Mills, you can just kiss my royal ass. - Aliceindunderland

I heard today that the walmart brothers were active in alec. The brothers pulled out after being exposed but still have a mole in alec.

I say that we declare ALEC an enemy subversive organization and severely limit their activities in the US if we don't ban them all together. Send them packing without a dime in their pockets. They are your typical Southern Redneck Pricks like the Cock Brothers.

And all these liars will be going to the same place as the oil pigs when they die.

Where are they having the meeting, 411 Elm Street ?

Scrap EVERYTHING !!! We need universal health care NOW. Yes, socialized medical care is effective both with delivery and costs.

The insurance run "for profit" scam is immoral. Gee, wouldnt it be novel if our health care dollars (that WE pay) actually went for......HEALTH care!?