February 16, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

"AMERICA HATER"

If you don't buy into the demented "logic" of right-wingers, you're an "America hater." If you detest the policies of George W. Bush, it's not because you hate the policies; it's because you hate Bush. That's the recurrent theme in letters to the editor in The Fresno Bee from the right-wingers in the Central Valley. Today's letter was about global climate change, which our man doesn't believe is real, of course. You see, someone gave him a book years ago predicting bad things by the 1990's. Didn't happen, he said, so that proves you don't have to worry now. He didn't cite the scientific credentials of the author, or the specific predictions. Probably just an oversight.

What is truly amazing is how these cretins think the effort to stop global warming is a diabolical plot against the United States. This guy said the United States had done a lot to improve the environment. The Bush administration didn't even agree to the Kyoto accords. Bush and company keep subverting the legitimate science that proves global warming. The oil companies buy off people who could tell us the truth and effect policy changes so we'll keep using their oil.

Even if you could dismiss global climate change, oil is a finite resource. It's going to run out. It's prudent to look for alternative energy sources now. Oil was the energy of the industrial age. We are leaving the industrial age for something new. The people who claim that global climate change isn't a concern are the same people who once claimed the earth is flat. They are the same people who believed demons caused people to get sick. They should be given their meds and put in a safe place where they can't hurt themselves or anyone else.

EVEN EXXON-MOBIL ADMITS GLOBAL WARMING

I wonder if the wingnut I mentioned above will read the story about Exxon-Mobil's chairman admitting that global warming is a reality. Rex Tillerson said "there is no question" that the world is getting warmer. I wonder if Mr. Tillerson is an America hater. This story by Dan Piller is at www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16689019.htm:

Exxon Mobil Chairman Rex Tillerson told a world energy conference today that "there is no question that the world's climate is getting warmer," and said that technological advances and a global strategy will be needed to combat the rise in carbon emissions.

"It is foolish for individual countries to engage in their own actions because it won't do much more than make them feel good," Tillerson said. "It is particularly important for the emerging economies of the Pacific Rim, where the biggest increases in carbon emissions will occur, to take part in the discussions."

Tillerson's remarks, to the annual Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference, marked a continuation of Exxon Mobil's growing strategy to make itself part of the global climate debate rather than denying that the problem exists. More than 2,000 people from 44 countries are attending the CERA conference.

Tillerson also said Exxon doesn't feel threatened by the rising interest in alternative or renewable energy.