Wow! That is more disgusting than funny but I’m still laughing. What a strange world

From the time he assumed leadership of the British Labor Party in 1994 until he stepped down as prime minister in 2007, he showed exceptional intelligence and foresight, and demonstrated moral courage and leadership.

Tony Blair has consistently asked the important questions and thought deeply about the interconnected world of the 21st century. Early in his prime ministership, he came to two beliefs that guide him to today: first, that it is a mistake for the world to wait for America to solve all of the tough questions, and second, that there are some things a state may do within its borders that justify intervention even if the actions do not directly threaten another nation’s interests.

Upon stepping down as Prime Minister, Blair was appointed as the Middle East Quartet Representative. As envoy for the united Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States, his goal is to bring stability and peace to the Middle East.

Throughout his career, Tony Blair has acted on the basis of what he believes to be right, a hallmark of leadership.
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The same foundation gave an award to Gore last year for Social Responsibility with Special Emphasis on the Environment!

http://www.dandavidprize.org/index.php/laureates/laureates-2008.html

Annan called on Member States to reach a
“global, effective, fair and binding” outcome
on climate change, as the report
warned that the talks could “well be the last
chance for avoiding global catastrophe.” CNN

Last chance to for avoiding global catastrophe well that doesn’t sound good. A little secret this report is being nice this little problem moving faster and effects gaining speed. Will cap and trade to the trick. No it sure will not. Think of this as kind of a war calm at peace one voice and get some boots. This problem is a third World problem and not going to happen in the States afraid not already started. I think that whole third World thinking is a little out of date anyway as the last time I checked America the greatest nation on Earth is broke. We do have a AAA rating still and that is called illusion. If you live in California only harder then harder. Cap and trade RRRRIGHT.

Morning,

So we in the greatest nation on Earth don’t want to drive small cars. Do you hear that wait there it is again that laughter off in the distance. Where are we all now?

The middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ”

We are not there want to bet on that? We all today are stopped on the road in a big truck and up ahead is a fork in the road the sign points to one road called the low road and also points to the other the high road. I wonder the low road or superstition the high road or knowledge. From what I understand six years and counting if we take the high road today. It’s going to be tuff to say the least but not boring. I have noticed some of the people I see on CNBC seem to be on the high road already so that’s what they call it. So far we have not made up our mind on the way to turn when do you think we should do that? Climate change will effect poorer countries first oops that means us. We are not a poor country want to bet on that.

One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheelwork of the universe [...] and the very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.”
—Nikola Tesla

A few years down the road if we can get down the road. So that’s what they call it.

Don

Mr. President, policy makers, business leaders do any of you read DV? Mr. President do you have that people of Earth speech ready? Because many of us out here who don’t live in the middle ground and use something called imagination and knowledge are very sure you will be giving that speech one way or the other. Kind of easy to see as the last time I checked we have telescopes now and computers. Take the high road go for it the light not shadows science not superstition knowledge not fear. What do we have to lose it’s called Earth third planet from the Sun a miracle of the known Universe. Think man think.

A few years down the road if we can get down the road.

30 years ago a book called the Limits to Growth came out and was recently updated, by Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. Excellent book and describes exactly what is meant by the hazards of such a pathological system and the policies that keep it going.

There is a twist to all this and Heinberg discusses it from a systemic perspective with regard to energy (fossile) peaks. That we keep dodging the “bullet” because we reduce our consumption, as we are somewhat now with the economic depression. These moments forestall the inevitable collapse (capitalist like to think this means capitalism is “resiliant” which is a pure fantasy).

But what we have working against this pathology is thermodynamics (which has never been overcome) and expotentiality of the problem. Once you hit a certain point, it is impossible to simply reduce and solve the problem. The problem is beyond human resolution for the most part. It will resolve itself through various (and frequently rationalized and denied) events that will push back on human existence as it is now playing out.

Prince Charles, a long-term environmentalist, said that while global warming is set to cause “the extinction of millions of species and organisms”, the majority of people are not willing to take action to prevent temperatures rising.

Addressing the Nobel Laureates Symposium at St James’s Palace in London, he said: “I don’t know about your own experience, but it seems to me that whilst there is now only a mercifully small (if vociferous) number of people who do not accept the science of climate change and who should know better, there are still a great many who fail to recognise the real urgency of the situation. Telegraph

Nobel scientists most scientists not on the payroll of those mercifully small (if vociferous) number of people who do not accept the science of climate change seem to asking for help. So how can we the average person help. We outnumber these mercifully small (if vociferous) number of people by about 300 to .01. I have to admit they are good at getting out there truth better known as bullshit. The truth is getting out just to slow. Six years is tuff but can be done with a Herculean effort total focus kind of like the last World war. Did they not nationalize bank’s much of the means of production to fight that war. This time we fight a war without the destruction we work together with the truth the knowledge and it’s got to be better than what we see now called insanity. You know doing the same thing over and thinking we will get a different result. I don’t think these mercifully small (if vociferous) number of people even think that they just don’t care as long as they can go out in style, style give me a break. These mercifully small (if vociferous) number of people have money and lies, bullshit lot’s of bullshit. Two million to start calm at peace Capital one voice. Al Gore are you out there those commercials don’t seem to be working. Anybody how do we do this?

I’ll bet Rush or Hannity or Glenn Beck will have a little to say about this. I think it’s called newspeak. There is another old saying, “transcend the bullshit”.

Up to 85 percent of the population in some of the poorest countries depend directly on crops, livestock, fisheries or forests for their daily income or sustenance, and estimates suggest that crop yields could reduce by a third in many poorer countries by 2050 as a direct result of global warming. Sub-Saharan Africa, the smallest contributor to CO2 emissions, will be the hardest hit.

Rajesh you wrote the truth. Crop yields could reduce by a third in many poorer countries by 2050 and that could be a little more than a third and sooner than 2050 and not just in poorer countries. It is somewhat slow nature of the beast but starting to add up. I already see the changes where I live in the Southeastern United States changes not good for crops and the best I can understand California is in a bit of trouble big trouble first. The same is true for Australia, Northern China some parts of India today. The danger of continuing such a ‘growth at all costs’ approach is amplified when only financially profitable solutions to the climate crisis are pursued by governments.