Hell On Earth Is Coming, Fast!

“The End of the World Is Near”. You could start carrying that sign and you would not be thought of as a nut-job by scientist and those people in the know. Is this Scary or is this “Good News”?
The answer to this depends on if you trust Science or only your Religious beliefs. Mr. Bush, his Administration and many Christians continue to not only say that “Global Warming” is only a theory, but they are using our world as a testing ground to prove their positions and religious beliefs. We are their Guinea pigs.

They are being disingenuous. Ask any of them to jump off a tall building, and you will find most of them do believe in theories. After all, gravity is “just a theory”!

Dominionist professor, Dr. Wagner has actually asserted that George Bush is divinely leading us into Armageddon, and that this is a good thing. It’s like Jim Jones getting people to drink the Kool-Aid.

Here’s what our elected, unsworn-in President, Mr. Gore has to say on this issue:

I have made a series of speeches about the policies of the Bush / Cheney Administration towards the major challenges that confront our nation: national security, economic policy, civil liberties, and today: the environment.
For me, this issue is in a special category because of what I believe is at stake. I am particularly concerned because the vast majority of the most respected environmental scientists from all over the world have sounded a clear and urgent alarm. The international community – including the United States – began a massive effort several years ago to assemble the most accurate scientific assessment of the growing evidence that the earth’s environment is sustaining severe and potentially irreparable damage from the unprecedented accumulation of pollution in the global atmosphere.
In essence, these scientists are telling the people of every nation that global warming caused by human activities is becoming a serious threat to our common future. I am also troubled that the Bush/Cheney Administration does not seem to hear the warnings of the scientific community in the same way that most of us do.
~Mr. Al Gore~
speaking at the Beacon Theater, New York
January 15, 2004.

Isn’t it amazing to read the words of a man with an actual, thinking brain? A man who understands the science and believes it? A man who has plans to save our planet and us. Instead we are stuck with a man selected by the Supreme Court to act as President, who does not have the brains nor the will to even acknowledge the problem, and if he did, he could not come up with a solution. Too harsh? What other problem has he found a workable solution for?

Worry? Bush Says No, Scientists Say Yes.

Who will you believe? Who has told us the truth most often?
We can not afford to ignore the Science! It is not in the distance future. It is in ours and our children’s lifetime. The Sky is falling, folks. Really!

Global Warming: The newest studies include a doubling of present carbon dioxide levels and rising temperatures that could potentially eliminate 56,000 plant and 3,700 animal species in the 25 hot spot regions. The report’s findings echo those of a 2004 study, in which a team of international scientists suggested that over a million species—15 to 35 percent of those they studied—could be at risk of extinction by 2050.

Okay, we Americans are safe from this happening to us. No worries!

“There’s no question that the poles are experiencing the greatest climatic change,” said Stuart Pimm, an expert in extinctions and biodiversity at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. But polar species are far fewer in number and may not face the same extinction risk as those that live in more confined hot spots with greater biodiversity. “While polar bears and caribou are being harmed, they are not as vulnerable as the species that live in these hot spots because of [the hot spot species’] very narrow geographic ranges.”

Okay, we Americans are safe from this, except if you live in Alaska. No worries!

Other experts warn that it’s not just the hot spots featured in the new study that face an imminent extinction risk. “Many species are indeed struggling to hold on in locations all over the globe, not just in hot spots,” said biologist Terry Root, of Stanford University’s Center for Environmental Science and Policy, who was not involved in the study.

Okay, well maybe we Americans should think about being worried!

“This is not some activity that will only be occurring ‘overseas.’ The likely extirpations and extinctions will also be occurring within a couple hundred miles of all of our back yards.”
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Worry? No, be afraid!

Bush Administration tells us: “No Net Loss of Wetlands”. Mr. Bush’s 2004 Earth Day pledge to restore or protect as much as 3 million acres of wetlands over the next five years. The lower 48 states had an estimated 220 million acres of wetlands and streams in pre-colonial times, but 115 million acres of them had been destroyed by 1997. In 2004, in the contiguous United States, almost 108 million acres, was covered with wetlands as reported by the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service. It found a net gain of 191,800 acres of wetlands since the last report in 1997. Bush administration officials cast the report as evidence that the nation has turned a corner on years of wetlands losses.

Okay, we don’t need to be that worried now. This Administration is doing something about it.

The Fish and Wildlife Service reported a gain of 715,300 acres of shallow-water wetlands. These are mainly artificial varieties of ponds. What does that mean? Artificial, varieties of ponds. These offset a continued loss of 523,500 acres of marshes, swamps, and other more traditional and natural wetlands that are the so-called nurseries of life.
Those swamps, marshes, fens, tidal marshes, peat lands and other water-laden ecosystems which filter pollutants and sediments, control flooding and protect against coastal erosion. They also provide clean water and homes for fish, shellfish and wildlife, and stopping points for migratory birds. But we have a reported gain of 715,300 acres of Artificial Varieties of Ponds.

Great! We are winning this battle. Wait a minute.

“The ‘no net loss of wetlands’ is largely due to the proliferation of ponds, lakes and other deep water habitats,“ as the Fish and Wildlife Service report points out. “These ponds include ornamental lakes for residential developments, storm water retention ponds, waste water treatment lagoons, aqua culture ponds and golf course water hazards.“{Source}.

Worry? Hell no! It’s way beyond being worried.

We are losing real, working wet-lands and this Administration thinks it’s a good thing because we are replacing this lose with golf course water hazards. Are they crazy? Are they idiots? Be afraid! Be very afraid!

Greenhouse gas: As concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere continue to rise — a consequence of the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil — a third of the gas is returned to the oceans, where it dissolves as carbon dioxide. The result is that the oceans are becoming more acidic.
The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is acidifying the oceans. The first victims could be cold-water coral, which are believed to populate the edges of all continental shelves. Another endangered species is the plankton in the open oceans — the basic building block of the marine food chain. The effect of carbon dioxide on cold-water corals is much like osteoporosis in humans.
“Cold-water corals could be the first organisms to fall victim to the acidification of the oceans,” Ulf Riebesel, a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-Geomar) at the University of Kiel in the German Baltic Sea city. Also experts working with John Guinotte at the Marine Conservation Biology Institute in Bellevue, Washington report that 70 percent of the current habitat of coral branches may no longer be suitable for these organisms by as early as the end of this century. Contrary to popular belief, the light-flooded waters of the tropics aren’t the only habitats for corals. Some members of this family also thrive in cold, pitch-black bodies of water. The crucial factor for cold-water corals is water temperature, which must range from 4-13°C (39-55°F) for the millimeter-sized coral polyps to survive.
“If greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated,” says says André Freiwald of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, “we could see the highest level of ocean acidification in the last 300 million years.” Indeed, there has already been a noticeable change in the PH level of sea water — a measure of its degree of acidity — an effect researchers believe will only worsen between now and 2100.
Scientists are especially worried about armored plankton organisms such as single-cell algae, coccolithophorids and tiny marine winged snails. These organisms play an especially critical role in the marine ecosystem, because they form the base of the entire food chain. Researchers are granting the algae a somewhat longer reprieve because their shells are made of calcite, a somewhat more resilient form of calcium carbonate. But winged snails, which have argonite shells, could disappear completely from some parts of the oceans within a few decades. The fishing industry would suffer as a result because economically important fish species such as salmon, cod and mackerel are at the top of the marine food chain.
“For many mussels, snails or corals, it could become very difficult in the future to form or maintain their shells and skeletons,” Freiwald explains. This is because the dissolved carbon dioxide reduces the availability of carbonate in seawater, a raw material animals need to develop their calcareous skeletons. This makes the animals more fragile and causes them to grow at a considerably slower rate. If the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doubles, tropical corals will presumably only be capable of forming skeletons with half their normal thickness. {Source}>

Worry? Hell no! Be afraid! Be very afraid! Start screaming! This is not a nightmare, this is reality. And some scientist have voiced their fear that it is already too late.

Glaciers disappearing: The glaciers on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro are melting, but nobody really knows why. Researchers have turned the peak into an extreme laboratory to find the answer. But it’s a race against time — the information archived in the ice must be unlocked before it melts. “The ice mountain at the equator is legendary. As recently as the 19th century, geographers were arguing over whether ice could even exist there. Nowadays, Kilimanjaro’s tropical ice is once again the topic of heated discussion among experts. Is it true that the glaciers of Kilimanjaro will soon melt away completely? If so, how fast? Is this the result of global warming? And will streams fed by the glaciers dry up when they disappear”? The glaciers, he announced, are receding more rapidly than previously thought, losing more than half a meter in thickness each year. More than 80 percent of tropical glaciers, including those on Mt. Kilimanjaro, he believes, have already vanished within the last hundred years”. Lonnie Thompson, a 57 year old researcher very familiar with glaciers says. {Source}

Worry? Hell no! Be afraid! Be very afraid! We may have already killed ourselves.

By allowing these Neanderthal’s to take over our Government and govern with their religious beliefs, we have gone back to that dark era. Those early men who believed in tales and magic. Those Neanderthal’s didn’t have or know there was such a thing as science. But we do.

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”

~Mark Twain~

Paraphrase: ‘The man who does not change his policies because of the science, has no advantage over the man who does not have science’.

Worry? Who me? No, I am afraid!