When is the sea going to boil already? Checking the latest data from most weather outlets...the earth is cooling and has been for the last 11 years. Yet we still get this "global warming" drivel. The public is catching on to the lie. I am doing my part to educate the masses and teach the truth. It's the largest money grab in the history of mankind. Do not fall for the Global Warming pap! Read about it, get all the facts. Educate yourself! Or, pay 6X's what you pay now for food, fuel, heat. That's what your up against. Good Luck

Hal

I doubt he would have gotten much blowback even if this caught a regular news cycle. At some point it will become clear that we aren't pulling out of Iraq but he will remain above the criticism for that too.

Look guy, the oceans aren't going to boil anytime soon. (Water has an enormous thermal capacity and by the time it did most life forms would be dead.) That doesn't mean "global warming" is a hoax. It's not! However, for folks like you who think that short-term weather is similar to long-term climate, maybe "climate change" is a better phrase to use. As energy (heat, in this case) increases, the climate patterns around the globe will change. In some cases short-term weather patterns will manifest themselves with more intense rainfall, in others warmer summers, in yet others colder winters!

More importantly, as climate changes, the infrastructure that was initially designed for generally anticipated events (think reservoirs, flood control channels, harbor jetties, etc.) no longer "work". In California the biggest reservoir of renewable water is the Sierra snowpack. If the climate warms and the snowpack melts faster than "normal" then the water reservoirs will not perform their anticipated function and water shortages can occur. This is not good for both the folks in California and those around the U.S. who eat food grown in California.

So climate change can cause disruptions in, to name one, our food source. As one sage fellow mentioned: we're all just seven meals from anarchy.

Salsipuedes!

"Questioning, at this point, the commitment of the Obama administration to tackling the challenge of climate change is just silly."

Obama's plans are demonstrably too moderate. We have maybe fifteen years to drop our GHG emissions by over 80%, not forty years to do 50%. This president clearly has a go-slow approach to reducing coal use and has no plans whatsoever to ditch the steel wheelchair driven transportation "system". In my city, where cars account for over half of all GHG emissions (northwest, lots of hydro), the city is spending twice as much money this year as its previous record on repaving surfaces for cars. No money is being spent for public transit, sidewalks, bike lanes and paths, traffic law enforcement, or any other aspect of transportation that does not involve surrounding oneself with tons of steel and terrorizing those who don't. Where did the extra money come from? Two guesses and the first one doesn't count.

Lest we forget that after eight long years and two elections this great disgust the Bush presidency generated "early" in his administration took an awfully long time to take effect.

Dana Perino also said that there were some "positive" things about global warming. Damn if Dana didn't say some the most entertaining (and fabulously bizarre) things during her tenure as Press Secretary. Leave Dana alone, poor thing; she's the only one I liked from those horrible eight years.

This article seems quite biased towards a lone Democrat versus Republican world. I think we should step back a ways, and start to be more critical of these policies not as an Administration issue, but as a Human issue.

Whether you have "faith" in these newly elected leaders of ours or not. You must be as critical of them as you have been to the last, and as you will be to the next. If we base our trust on faith and time, it might just run out before we can second guess it. And this chance just may disappear in a sea of future policies, if we do not direct our attention to what answers the experts have already given us.

If you have the ability to fix what's wrong now, don't wait. This is not an Obama or Bush issue, this is Our issue.

Obama lies, his stooges lie, everybody lies, and those lies satisfy fanatics who bashed Bush but can't bash their holy Dear Leader. I don't see any cap on emissions. I don't see an FDA crackdown on emissions. I hear lies. I hear hoax proposals which can never make it through Congress.

How can you tell the Obama administration is lying? There's somebody standing at the podium. Why can't sycophants get it through their heads that Obama talks differently from Bush, tells them what they want to hear, but isn't doing anything but making bankers frighteningly rich at the expense of taxpayers, our kids, and generations unborn?

People in the future, looking back on the Obama administration will see nothing but the colossal transfer of wealth from ordinary citizens to Wall Street pseudo-royalty.

... could be the result of global climate change. While the world, overall, is warming, some places could get colder. I'm freezing up here in Minnesota, and it seems cooler over the last few years during the summer - yet we had about 7-10 years of warmer winters. It can be understood as El Nina, a short-term event.

Any weather experts see evidence that the polar air is flowing south now because it is warming at the north pole?

...just graduate from High School, or what?