desmogblog.com — An outspoken supporter of the U.S. coal industry, Obama has presented himself as someone who can overcome the Bush legacy of inaction on climate change. But he is campaigning on a greenhouse gas reduction ?target? that the U.S. won?t have to meet for 42 years....
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0rion16Jan 4, 2008
Begin 11 months of Obama smearing,On your mark, get set....GO!
Closed AccountJan 4, 2008
If you are going to blame the recent warming trend on volcanoes, you need to show an increase in volcanic activity that coincides with the warming trend. This may be difficult as such an increase does not exist, but I'm sure that won't stop you from trying.
rhabd0mancerJan 4, 2008
Osama bin Bush bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan. Are you saying that we can't go after him?
rivasjJan 4, 2008
I like Obama, its about time we got someone in the White house who grew up as one of the working poor. Instead on a typical rich lawyer...those types always make awesome sounding campaign promises but then do a 180. I'm glad to see the common folk support one of their own.
cyberdorkJan 4, 2008
Yeah, and he has to ignore that volcano eruptions mostly create sulfur-rich gases and not CO2. A study in 1991 showed that the anthropogenic CO2 emissions are around 150 times larger than all global volcano eruptions combined in that year. And that was 16 years ago!Plus, sulfur combines with water vapor in the stratosphere to form dense clouds of tiny sulfuric acid droplets. These droplets take several years to settle out and they are capable to decreasing the troposphere temperatures because they absorb solar radiation and scatter it back to space.So the average volcano eruption has actually a cooling effect on the atmosphere.
iceberg007Jan 6, 2008
Climate scientists haven't deleted volcanism from computer models. That is an outright lie. Volcanism, however, does not influence decadal or century-scale climate patterns. Why don't you actually read about them before spewing out verbal diarrhea.