This is what Global Warming is all about.......

[JustRalph]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/10/BA8517HE1E.DTL

Air board pays $75K for columnist's speech
Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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Judging by the $75,000 speaking fee it paid to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has plenty of green to burn even in these lean times.

The agency, which gets its money from business permits and federal and state sources, booked the Pulitzer Prize-winning pundit to appear this past week at its big climate summit in downtown Oakland's Fox Theater, attended by 500 invited bureaucrats.

In addition to Friedman's speaking fee, the air board picked up his tab for a night at the Claremont Resort.

Air district spokeswoman Lisa Fasano put the summit cost at $200,000 - or about $400 per participant.

Fasano said the idea was to bring together managers and planners to "spark even greater movement" in the effort to reduce the Bay Area's greenhouse-gas footprint.

Friedman spent about two hours with the group, including answering questions and autographing copies of his latest book, "Hot, Flat and Crowded" - in which he argues that a national strategy of "geo-Greenism" is needed to save the planet from global warming and to make the country more productive.


more at the link...............

[PaceAdvantage]

Looks like a lot of these guys have a vested interest in continuing the "humans are behind global warming and humans can and have to stop it" claims whether they be true or not...

Good thing these guys aren't Republicans or they might actually have to answer for their bullshit.

[delayjf]

At least Friedman will have to pay CA income tax on the 75K, so it's not a total lost. :jump:

[dutchboy]

The sun is currently the least active it has been for the past few hundred years. The last time it was this inactive was before the last mini ice age.

Global warming advocates need to read a few history and science books.

[Cangamble]

This guy does a phenomenal job of explaining the Global Warming debate:
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[PaceAdvantage]

Global warming is easy to prove. What isn't so easy is the cause and the cure (if there is any).

[Tom]

Historically, the cure is time. We will warm and cool, both are naturally occurring events. It's been happening long before people came along.

What is new this time is that there is a profit angle to it.

[JustRalph]

I found it funny when reading this article


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5299351/African-tribe-populated-rest-of-the-world.html


Scientists have discovered we all came from the same place in Africa.

No problem........but read the article and tell me how in the hell all that climate change occurred with no automobiles.........no coal fired electric plants and the rest of the Shit Al Gore says is causing global warming?

[Cangamble]

I found it funny when reading this article


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5299351/African-tribe-populated-rest-of-the-world.html


Scientists have discovered we all came from the same place in Africa.

No problem........but read the article and tell me how in the hell all that climate change occurred with no automobiles.........no coal fired electric plants and the rest of the Shit Al Gore says is causing global warming?
Interesting article. Thanks for posting it.
There is no argument that changes occur naturally. Ice ages and warmings have occurred many times during the history of our earth. Volcanoes, asteroids, change in earths tilt, and changes in the magnetic field naturally bring about major swings in the temperature of the planet.
But if you watched the videos, there is nothing definitive as yet, but many climate scientists have observed real data that leans towards man having something to do with the current state of temperature change.