President has 4 years to save earth.

[doodlebugg 10]

Question: Isn't the end of the world per the Mayan's 2012?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009...im-hansen-obama

President 'has four years to save Earth'US must take the lead to avert eco-disasterRobin McKie in New York The Observer, Sunday 18 January 2009 larger | smaller Article historyBarack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added.

Soaring carbon emissions are already causing ice-cap melting and threaten to trigger global flooding, widespread species loss and major disruptions of weather patterns in the near future. "We cannot afford to put off change any longer," said Hansen. "We have to get on a new path within this new administration. We have only four years left for Obama to set an example to the rest of the world. America must take the lead."

Hansen said current carbon levels in the atmosphere were already too high to prevent runaway greenhouse warming. Yet the levels are still rising despite all the efforts of politicians and scientists.

Only the US now had the political muscle to lead the world and halt the rise, Hansen said. Having refused to recognise that global warming posed any risk at all over the past eight years, the US now had to take a lead as the world's greatest carbon emitter and the planet's largest economy. Cap-and-trade schemes, in which emission permits are bought and sold, have failed, he said, and must now be replaced by a carbon tax that will imposed on all producers of fossil fuels. At the same time, there must be a moratorium on new power plants that burn coal - the world's worst carbon emitter.

Hansen - head of the Goddard Institute of Space Studies and winner of the WWF's top conservation award - first warned Earth was in danger from climate change in 1988 and has been the victim of several unsuccessful attempts by the White House administration of George Bush to silence his views.

Hansen's institute monitors temperature fluctuations at thousands of sites round the world, data that has led him to conclude that most estimates of sea level rises triggered by rising atmospheric temperatures are too low and too conservative. For example, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says a rise of between 20cm and 60cm can be expected by the end of the century.

However, Hansen said feedbacks in the climate system are already accelerating ice melt and are threatening to lead to the collapse of ice sheets. Sea-level rises will therefore be far greater - a claim backed last week by a group of British, Danish and Finnish scientists who said studies of past variations in climate indicate that a far more likely figure for sea-level rise will be about 1.4 metres, enough to cause devastating flooding of many of the world's major cities and of low-lying areas of Holland, Bangladesh and other nations.

As a result of his fears about sea-level rise, Hansen said he had pressed both Britain's Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences to carry out an urgent investigation of the state of the planet's ice-caps. However, nothing had come of his proposals. The first task of Obama's new climate office should therefore be to order such a probe "as a matter of urgency", Hansen added.

[Uncle Wally 2]

Hey Al Gore- what's this all about?

http://www.weather.gov/climate/

[mawilson 2,133]

Take your time, Barack. No pressure.

[NickD 202]

While some people may think the world will come to an end December 23, 2012 because that is the end of the Mayan calendar, the true reason for the Mayans' stopping at that date is because they didn't use a rock large enough to make their calendar. That ran out of rock.

Do you see any rock left to write more dates?

I believe the true end of the world is secretly encoded in the some old 1,025 forms of the IRS, they all can be downloaded and printed. If everybody did that, would have to cut down every tree in the world to get enough paper causing oxygen depletion. We would all certainly die if that happens.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Sheesh.

[Reba 2]

While some people may think the world will come to an end December 23, 2012...

It is actually December 21, 2012. The Winter Solstice.

And it'll just be the end of the world as we know it. Not The End Of The World. If you follow. Even Nostradamus said so.

[alienlovechild 75]

If the world doesn't end in 2012, Obama can claim he saved the world.

[Nessa 23]

If the world doesn't end in 2012, Obama can claim he saved the world.

i wouldn't doubt that

[Jasman0717 9]

Question: Isn't the end of the world per the Mayan's 2012?

Claudeth thinks something is going to happen in 2012, just not sure if it will be the end of the world or not

[Donna A 4]

it took 8 years to get us into this mess...dont see it taking 4 to get out of it.

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Wait a minute! Yesterday, you told me we only had 48 hours, and now you say we have to wait until just after Obama gets reelected/defeated, and before Christmas 2012, before the world ends? I just don't think there is enough pizza in the world to last until then!

[Jasman0717 9]

Wait a minute! Yesterday, you told me we only had 48 hours, and now you say we have to wait until just after Obama gets reelected/defeated, and before Christmas 2012, before the world ends? I just don't think there is enough pizza in the world to last until then!

I just made pizza for breakfast! Num Num

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Wait a minute! Yesterday, you told me we only had 48 hours, and now you say we have to wait until just after Obama gets reelected/defeated, and before Christmas 2012, before the world ends? I just don't think there is enough pizza in the world to last until then!

I just made pizza for breakfast! Num Num

I have a question for the astrophysocists out there 1) How do you spell your profession and 2) When the Earth crosses the galatic eliptic in December, 2012, will we notice any change in the motion of the stars, or is that completely dependent of the motion of the Earth? Will there be any noticable change in the migration of the stars?

[doodlebugg 10]

Wait a minute! Yesterday, you told me we only had 48 hours, and now you say we have to wait until just after Obama gets reelected/defeated, and before Christmas 2012, before the world ends? I just don't think there is enough pizza in the world to last until then!

Well the 48 hour plan was a concept but now that we have the end date in sight you can make it a 3 or 4 year plan, intensifying as the 48 hours approaches. I'd make as much money as I could, pray fervently and then when the end is near just blow all that cash on whatever it was you wanted to indulge in.

[Danno 1,228]

Question 1. As the Man made Global warming scare begins to loose steam, will those who have gained the most from it.... take credit for the "recovery" ... or press on for more funds?

Question 2. when the earth is still doing fine, 4 yrs, 8 yrs and 20 yrs later will those of us who "believed" in the Man-made G/W theory admit they were wrong... or claim they never believed in it?