Of course, if everyone who believed that CO2 is pollution would hold their breaths for 5 minutes, they’d be doing the environment and society a world of good.

Do me a favor and make it 15. :)

Gore/Hansen 2012!

Interpretation: Hansen wants to shake down the major oil companies like they shook down the tobacco companies.
The problem here is that oil is a good, irreplaceable and critical substance and the oil execs are generally about three times smarter than the folks who sell cancer sticks.
Who never went to jail, by the way but who paid this extortion to Elliot Spitzer and those other slimey AG parasites and their “friends” aka business partners.

They’re grabbing the pitchforks!

Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 11:20 AM

I regret that you think it semantic that many ordinary folk have been convinced that trees are essential for the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere – to the exclusion of other factors. Obviously there are many who take the time to understand the process, but many others live in the realm of simplistic sound-bites and are fodder for alarmists.

Yes, you misused the term “create.” Just say they give off oxygen, then you avoid the silly semantic argument.

James Hansen, one of the world’s leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Wow. Hansen’s moved from climate change hysteria to Eco-Stalinism.

Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 10:12 AM

My (poor) understanding of the process is that a tree will scrub air, by retaining pollutants and re-releasing oxygen back into the atmosphere, while, during sunlight, reducing water molecules to separate out oxygen, which it then releases.

My original point concerned the creation of oxygen, which reduction does not do.

No, not at all. It’s too serious a subject for humour.

OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 10:01 AM

Then you must have been absent the day your school teacher taught about Photosynthesis. Yes, trees give off oxygen.

Was that suppose to be funny?

Maxx on June 23, 2008 at 9:51 AM

No, not at all. It’s too serious a subject for humour.

Some environmentalists blame the public’s doubts on last year’s Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle.

Warning, Algore, Warning! The Brits Are On To Your Scam!

“A DVD of the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, will be available from mid July (despite the strenuous efforts of those who support the theory of global warming to prevent its release). The DVD is an expanded and improved version of the film broadcast in the UK on Channel Four. More interview material has been added, covering a broader range of subjects than was possible in the broadcast film.” – The WAVE

Will FNC air it? Some of the MGW stuff I hear on “Friends” is worrisome.

Translated:
Despite all the publicity, money, biased studies, intimidation, cherry-picked data, celebrity hype, fear-mongering and ignoring of facts to the contrary, the public still isn’t completely buying our manufactured climate change scenario.

The other, earlier big scam that still has a great many people fooled is the assertion that trees create oxygen,

OldEnglish on June 23, 2008 at 9:21 AM

Was that suppose to be funny?

24×7 Debunking Machinery.

The arch super villain (cartoon op?) of our times, out to control not the US but the entire world.

Teen meelown doll-ers, heh heh, heh heh.

If these more-green-than-thou rich people really believed it was such a global emergency they would stop taking private jet flights and keeping houses that use 20 times the average amount of electricity.

In view of China’s huge increase in CO2 output, which has recently passed ours, they would also be protesting in front of the Chinese embassy.

Camilla’s tampon.

JiangxiDad on June 23, 2008 at 8:47 AM

That will never stop squeeing me out. Ick.

Less-Than-Bonnie Prince Charlie is going to be oh so upset with his subjects over their refusal to adopt his daffy views on the environment. Guess he and the Evil Witch Camille will just have to give more speeches so as to get people to see things their way.

pilamaye on June 23, 2008 at 7:13 AM

Give him a break. A few months ago he said we had only 18 mos. left before the catastrophe hit. Now it’s about 15. He must now make his peace with the world and his maker and his Mum. I assume he is using his last days as he always wished to–as Camilla’s tampon.

what I said was that James Hansen is a #ucking loon!

Sigy on June 22, 2008 at 11:04 PM

DSM code?

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