Kraken Loc: Barry's Bay

Like you said about the doorway, I wish people like him would just get out of the way.

anotherview Loc: California

Propane as an alternate fuel source receives no attention here.

Because propane results from the process that produces gasoline from oil, the higher cost of oil will then raise the price of propane. Econ 101.

This raise will affect a variety of activity dependent on propane: RVs, solar power backup generators, home heating, vehicles, remote users, utility uses (like forklifts), etc. Automobiles such as public transportation (buses, shuttles) can and do run on propane.

This citizen doubts that the President took detailed account of the impact of his Executive Order stopping the Keystone pipeline project. He more likely went with the environmental movement and its representatives with green faces.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Any somewhat intelligent independent thinking person knows there is no such thing as 'settled science'. Yet we are told that 'Climate change', the most inexact science of them all, is settled. They say, listen to what the the 97 scientists say because you are just a stupid layperson. Just stop questioning it. Don't you know ALL the reams of scientific data and analysis in opposition has been debunked, Not!

Don't you know by now that you won't find any skeptical papers on Climate change by Googling it? All you will find there is Climate change propaganda by the UN IPCC and prominently fostered by Leftist Big Tech and the Left media. The truth demands intelligent thinking and research on your own part and realizing when you are being led around on a leash like part of the ignorant masses that you are.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

You can hang-in there with your Make-Believe Science -- I'm siding with NASA along with the rest of our Planets Organized Science -- Global Warming is absolutely REAL -- AND -- HUMAN activity is its greatest contributor

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Took your advice -- Got this by GOOGLING:
Sorry - just the facts - no slick CARTOONS

Responding to Climate Change
NASA is a world leader in climate studies and Earth science. While its role is not to set climate policy or prescribe particular responses or solutions to climate change, its purview does include providing the robust scientific data needed to understand climate change. NASA then makes this information available to the global community – the public, policy- and decision-makers and scientific and planning agencies around the world.

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Climate change is one of the most complex issues facing us today. It involves many dimensions – science, economics, society, politics and moral and ethical questions – and is a global problem, felt on local scales, that will be around for decades and centuries to come. Carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping greenhouse gas that has driven recent global warming, lingers in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, and the planet (especially the oceans) takes a while to respond to warming. So even if we stopped emitting all greenhouse gases today, global warming and climate change will continue to affect future generations. In this way, humanity is “committed” to some level of climate change.

How much climate change? That will be determined by how our emissions continue and exactly how our climate system responds to those emissions. Despite increasing awareness of climate change, our emissions of greenhouse gases continue on a relentless rise. In 2013, the daily level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in human history. The last time levels were that high was about three to five million years ago, during the Pliocene Epoch.

Because we are already committed to some level of climate change, responding to climate change involves a two-pronged approach:

Reducing emissions of and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (“mitigation”);
Adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline (“adaptation”).
Mitigation and Adaptation
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Mitigation – reducing climate change – involves reducing the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, either by reducing sources of these gases (for example, the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat or transport) or enhancing the “sinks” that accumulate and store these gases (such as the oceans, forests and soil). The goal of mitigation is to avoid significant human interference with the climate system, and “stabilize greenhouse gas levels in a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner” (from the 2014 report on Mitigation of Climate Change from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, page 4).

Adaptation – adapting to life in a changing climate – involves adjusting to actual or expected future climate. The goal is to reduce our vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change (like sea-level encroachment, more intense extreme weather events or food insecurity). It also encompasses making the most of any potential beneficial opportunities associated with climate change (for example, longer growing seasons or increased yields in some regions).

Throughout history, people and societies have adjusted to and coped with changes in climate and extremes with varying degrees of success. Climate change (drought in particular) has been at least partly responsible for the rise and fall of civilizations. Earth’s climate has been relatively stable for the past 12,000 years and this stability has been crucial for the development of our modern civilization and life as we know it. Modern life is tailored to the stable climate we have become accustomed to. As our climate changes, we will have to learn to adapt. The faster the climate changes, the harder it could be.

While climate change is a global issue, it is felt on a local scale. Cities and municipalities are therefore at the frontline of adaptation. In the absence of national or international climate policy direction, cities and local communities around the world have been focusing on solving their own climate problems. They are working to build flood defenses, plan for heatwaves and higher temperatures, install water-permeable pavements to better deal with floods and stormwater and improve water storage and use.

According to the 2014 report on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (page 8) from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, governments at various levels are also getting better at adaptation. Climate change is starting to be factored into a variety of development plans: how to manage the increasingly extreme disasters we are seeing and their associated risks, how to protect coastlines and deal with sea-level encroachment, how to best manage land and forests, how to deal with and plan for reduced water availability, how to develop resilient crop varieties and how to protect energy and public infrastructure.

How NASA is Involved
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NASA, with its Eyes on the Earth and wealth of knowledge on the Earth’s climate system and its components, is one of the world’s experts in climate science. NASA’s purview is to provide the robust scientific data needed to understand climate change. For example, data from the agency’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) missions and from radar instruments in space have shown rapid changes in the Earth's great ice sheets. The Jason-3, Jason-2/OSTM Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) and Jason-1 missions have documented an increasing sea level since 1992.

NASA makes detailed climate data available to the global community – the public, policy- and decision-makers and scientific and planning agencies around the world. It is not NASA’s role to set climate policy or prescribe particular responses or solutions to climate change. NASA is one of 13 U.S. government agencies that form part of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which has a legal mandate to help the nation and the world understand, assess, predict and respond to global change. These U.S. partner agencies include the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, each of which has a different purview depending on their area of expertise.

Started in 2010, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is a forward-looking initiative established under direction by the U.S. government. The CMS is improving the monitoring of global carbon stocks (where carbon is stored around the planet) and fluxes (how carbon is cycled from one stock to the next). The ultimate goal is to make breakthroughs in quantifying, understanding and predicting how worldwide carbon sources and sinks are changing, since this could have major ramifications for how our planet will respond to increasing emissions and/or efforts to combat climate change. The work will also help inform near-term policy development and planning.

NASA’s related Megacities Carbon Project is focused on the problem of accurately measuring and monitoring greenhouse-gas emissions from the world’s biggest cities. About three-quarters of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions come from about 2 percent of the land surface – the cities and the power plants that feed them. At present the focus is on pilot projects in Los Angeles and Paris that sample the air there. The goal is to add other cities around the world and to ultimately deploy a worldwide urban carbon monitoring system that will enable local policymakers to fully account for the many sources and sinks of carbon and how they change over time.

Although NASA’s main focus is not on energy-technology research and development, work is being done around the agency and by/with various partners and collaborators to find viable alternative sources of energy to power our needs. These sources of energy include the wind, waves, the Sun and biofuels.

Related Articles
For further reading on NASA’s work on mitigation and adaptation, take a look at the articles listed below.

NASA test: Jet biofuel may reduce climate-warming clouds
Targeting megacity carbon emissions
Cleaning the air would limit short-term climate warming
Building a better soybean for a hot, dry, hungry world
Just 5 questions: Hacking the planet
Nuking the sky
Climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations
Just 5 questions: Community initiatives against climate change
U.S. Navy bracing for climate change
A tale of two cities
Key Points
Responding to climate change involves two possible approaches: reducing and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (“mitigation”) and/or adapting to the climate change already in the pipeline (“adaptation”).
NASA's role is to make detailed climate data available to the global community, including the public, policy- and decision-makers, and scientific and planning agencies.
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A tad? They've already risen 50 cents a gallon where I live.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

And your programming is complete, go in peace.

http://newswithviews.com/the-fraud-of-climate-change-and-the-drive-for-control/

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

What a complete BOZO: TOM DeWeese
I'll stick with NASA


About Tom DeWeese
Tom DeWeese has built a career of issuing scary warnings about Agenda 21, a completely voluntary United Nations set of principles for sustainable resource management. Where others see sensible environmental guidelines, DeWeese finds sinister land-grabbing socialist UN initiatives that threaten national sovereignty, private property rights and freedom, not to mention turning our children into one-world government zombies.

In His Own Words

“But citizens of European nations and the United States that express concern – ‘“non-violent’” words – about the flood of immigrants rushing across their borders, especially an invasion of radical Islamists who seek to change their culture, rape their women, and dismantle their governments – that’s a threat to world peace.”
—American Policy Center column, November 2015

“For the globalists, A/R [animal rights] is a perfect pawn. The globalists want to reduce the human population by up to 85%, what better ally to have than the A/Rists who hate humans; who want to erase humans from the face of the earth so the lion can lie down with the lamb (just don’t tell them that the lion is having lamb for dinner) and no human will be there to intervene.”
—American Policy Center column, January 2011

“Sustainable Development is code for a policy designed to transform human society, essentially eliminating individual life decisions and replacing them with top-down, one-size-fits-all government control. In steady fashion, the agenda for this new policy, designed at the international level, is put into place piece by piece with a new government council here, and new regulation there, each designed to appear as a ‘local’ development program. Like the proverbial frog in the slowly boiling pot, many Americans fail to notice the rise in government heat.”
—American Policy Center column, April 2013

Background
Tom DeWeese spends months on the lecture circuit each year, warning of an imminent danger to liberty and freedom — sustainable resource management. His principal target is Agenda 21, a set of voluntary “smart growth” principles signed by then-President George H.W. Bush and 177 other world leaders at a 1992 United Nations conference. In reality, he claims, Agenda 21 is really “international forces … turning [American] communities into little soviets.”

On the surface, Agenda 21 might seem an innocuous target. It is a completely non-binding guide for dealing with overpopulation, pollution, poverty and resource depletion. But it has been a deep — and lucrative — topic for DeWeese as he rails against threats to American national sovereignty. He has used it to build a career opposing alternative fuel sources, immigrants, climate change science, environmental regulation, affordable health care and education reform, among other things.

Obsessed with the impact of environmental policy on property rights and freedom, DeWeese charges that “sustainabilists” are conspiring to destroy America through creeping socialism. Ultimately, he says, the goal of Agenda 21 and the UN is to force the United States and other countries into a tyrannical, one-world government in which bicycle paths and wildlife refuges will be vastly more important than human beings. What is more, he says, our children are being used to hasten this future, through U.S. Department of Education-funded UN programs that turn them into little one-world government zombies.

“It sounds so friendly. So meaningful. So urgent,” DeWeese wrote in a 2009 report. “But the devastation to our liberty and way of life is the same as if Lenin ordered it.” The plan, he adds, is a “complete agenda of control” that has been “wrapped in a green blanket, scaring us with horror stories about the destruction of the environment — and so we are now throwing our liberties on the bonfire like a good old fashioned book burning — all in the name of protecting the planet.”

The effects of this fearmongering by DeWeese and like-minded conspiracy theorists have been far-reaching. Not only have some counties passed resolutions opposing Agenda 21 (along with state legislatures in Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Virginia), but the Republican National Committee (RNC) in January 2012 passed one as well, decrying Agenda 21 as a “destructive and insidious scheme” meant to impose “socialist/communist redistribution of wealth.” The RNC recommended that the resolution be adopted as part of the Republican platform at its August 2012 convention (in fact, a much watered down version of the resolution became part of the GOP presidential platform). In addition, Alabama passed a law aimed at outlawing any effects of the plan, and one chamber of the legislatures in Arizona, Missouri and Oklahoma have passed similar needless statutes.

Born and raised in Newark, Ohio, DeWeese graduated from Ohio State University with a journalism degree in 1971. According to his biography, he has been the editor of two newspapers, a candidate for the Ohio legislature, and a campaign manager/field worker in a couple of congressional races. He moved to Washington, D.C., in 1982, working as a fundraiser and PR man for legislative policy organizations. In 1985, he launched The DeWeese Company, a direct marketing and publishing company, which today is the newsletter arm of his principal concern, the American Policy Center.

Founded by DeWeese in 1988, the American Policy Center (APC) is a privately funded 501(c)(4) tax-exempt nonprofit with two broad goals: to promote free enterprise and to limit government restrictions of commerce and individuals. It advocates an unregulated trickle-down approach, flogging the notion that free market checks and balances and private property ownership will create wealth, employment, goods and services, and even protect the environment.

DeWeese has managed to spread his propaganda into Tea Party groups and various conspiracy theorists of the antigovernment “Patriot” movement, from the John Birch Society and Texans for Accountable Government to off-the-rails media personalities such as Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. The APC website offers a variety of anti-Agenda 21 fact sheets, petitions and handouts for citizen activists, including documents intended for presentation to local public officials.

DeWeese works closely with the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity group, speaking at many of its regional meetings as an expert on Agenda 21. A DeWeese appearance at the Kansas Americans for Prosperity chapter in 2012 was described like this: “Tom DeWeese, President of the American Policy Center, will explain the U.N.’s Agenda 21 initiative, and help you translate the vague terminology associated with Agenda 21. (Think ‘community visioning,’ ‘sustainable development,’ ‘livable communities,’ etc.).”

A quick scan of DeWeese’s APC columns gives a sense of his worldview, carrying such menacing headlines as “Is the U.S. Being Colonized by Red China?”; “The Alamo: Hallowed American Ground or UN Captive?”; “Sustainable Development: The Evil Facing America”; “The Growing Threat of Smart Meters”; “Sustainability Marxism”; and “Private Property Ownership is the Only Way to Eradicate Poverty.”

In fact, just about any effort to address critical social and environmental issues facing society, particularly on a global scale, is smeared by DeWeese with the same broad brush: It represents the onset of tyranny and the loss of personal rights.

In an April 2014 column entitled “The Principles of Freedom vs. Agenda 21,” he elaborated: “The basic principles of freedom are consistent with man’s nature and that’s why they work. When the principles of freedom are recognized and adhered to, there is prosperity, justice and happiness. When the principles have been ignored or rejected, men have suffered poverty, stagnation and political tyranny.”

Therefore, he concludes, climate change is a lie intended to bolster environmental restrictions; immigration protects Third World environments by transferring people to our regulated society; alternative energy research tilts the U.S. into “the socialist, sustainable global noose”; education reform is a “sustainabilist” conspiracy to indoctrinate children; and health care reform ushers in death panels staffed by faceless bureaucrats.

Despite overwhelming consensus among scientists to the contrary, DeWeese claims that the idea of climate change “has been so discredited in the true scientific community that proponents have become almost silly in their continued attempts to push it.” The reason they do, he says, is that “Agenda 21 policy is built on the premise that man is destroying the Earth. Climate Change is their ‘Proof.’ To eliminate that premise is to remove all credibility and purpose for their entire agenda. They are willing to go to any length, even lies, to keep the climate change foot on our throats.”

Environmentalists support immigration, DeWeese says, because “[t]hey argue that the US has a greater ability to control them [immigrants] and protect the environment than if we left them in third world countries. … That’s because the Greens have already strangled our nation and our industry with massive environmental regulations.”

And he argues that the real goal of Agenda 21 is to destroy the free market system. He claims that the UN, congressional representatives, the media, and Hollywood types have issued “statement after statement” deriding the free market as evil, corrupt and a tool of the rich to hold down the poor. “Now suddenly, they are worried about the poor – if it leads to their ability to raid our bank accounts,” he adds. “So, are they really worried about protecting the environment — or honoring the tactics of Jesse James? Redistribution of wealth is behind every policy that comes out of the UN, and now the Obama Administration as well.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, DeWeese continues, is an “attack dog” with the goal of shutting down entire industries like coal, along with making it difficult to operate a manufacturing business in the U.S., let alone start a new one. On top of that, he says, green policies are “vigorously” blocking fracking, oil drilling, coal mining and other traditional energy acquisition methods, while wasting billions of dollars on alternative energy sources such as wind and solar.

But here is his bottom line: “What is the motivation to put such shackles on the US economic engine? The excuse is that energy use drives up CO2 emissions and accelerates global warming – the excuse necessary to ‘harmonize’ the US into the socialist, sustainable global noose.”

Federal educational reform programs, such as Goals 2000, School-to-Work and Outcome Based Education are thinly disguised “behavior-modification programs, according to DeWeese: “To reform a nation that has been created on the ideals of limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty into one that unquestioningly accepts government top down control — will take time,” he says. “They must wait out those of us who were educated in the old system, we who were taught that we were born with our rights and that government’s job is to protect those rights. The sustainable system says government will grant us our rights. To enforce such a radical turn around of our society requires that the children be indoctrinated to accept it.”

Health care reform is yet another dangerous erosion of national sovereignty, DeWeese says. “Sustainable medicine makes decisions through visioning councils (usually bureaucrats with little or no medical knowledge) assigned the power to determine what shall be done or not done to each body in its ‘group’ in its ‘native habitat.’ Sustainable medicine experts do not refer to citizens in sovereign nations, but to ‘humans’ in their ‘settlements.’ ”

Serving on the APC board of directors are Bonner Cohen, who, according to Sourcewatch, once ran “EPA Watch,” a Philip Morris-funded newsletter that accused the EPA of "everything from destroying the U.S. economy to trying to stop people from taking showers," and John Meredith, son of civil rights hero James Meredith. The center’s board of advisors includes Alan Caruba, the APC’s communications director and an adjunct policy analyst at the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a similar organization. Caruba also blogs for Tea Party Nation, the only Tea Party group listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Another member of that board is Sam Rohrer, a former Pennsylvania state legislator.

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

And when you spend all your time looking for agreement and proof of what you want to believe, you will find it.

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

You got it ---

From SCIENCE-BASED REALITY RESOURCES

Certainly not from this FOOL !!

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

Ken, you are the crackpot, and a well programmed one to boot!

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

You're best shot here is using the pathetic Tom DeWeese as a resource?
Calling me the "crack-pot"

phcaan Loc: Willow Springs, MO

You are a "True Believer" I'll give you that.

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

A true believer in Modern Fact-Based SCIENCE