Thousands of marines face involuntary recalls. Here.

enforcemnt of the contract?

70% of the glaciers in Greenland have been retreating since the 1880's. So much for the thought that human induced global warming is the cause of glacial retreat.

MYTH: Human activities contribute only a small fraction of carbon dioxide emissions, an amount too small to have a significant effect on climate, particularly since the oceans absorb most of the extra carbon dioxide emissions. FACT: Before human activities began to dramatically increase carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from natural sources closely matched the amount that was stored or absorbed through natural processes. For example, as forests grow, they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis; this carbon is then sequestered in wood, leaves, roots and soil. Some carbon is later released back to the atmosphere when leaves, roots and wood die and decay. Carbon dioxide also cycles through the ocean. Plankton living at the ocean's surface absorb carbon dioxide through photosynthesis. The plankton and animals that eat the plankton then die and fall to the bottom of the ocean. As they decay, carbon dioxide is released into the water and returns to the surface via ocean currents. As a result of these natural cycles, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air had changed very little for 10,000 years. But that balance has been upset by man. Since the Industrial Revolution, the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil has put about twice as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than is naturally removed by the oceans and forests. This has resulted in carbon dioxide levels building up in the atmosphere. Today, carbon dioxide levels are 30% higher than pre-industrial levels, higher than they have been in the last 420,000 years and are probably at the highest levels in the past 20 million years.

This isn't to say that human induced global warming hasn't aggervated the condition, undoubetedly it has, but it is not the cause of the retreat, no matter how badly Lester Brown and Al Gore want it to be.

So much for the thought that human induced global warming is the cause of glacial retreat

The effect of the rising temperatures in the 1920s and 1930s was "visible dozens of years later, and that of the 1990s will be (visible) in 10 or 20 years," Yde said, adding that he expected Greenland's glaciers to melt even faster in the future. The shrinking of the glaciers since the 19th century is "the result of the atmosphere's natural warming, following volcanic eruptions for example and greenhouse gases, created by human activities, which have aggravated the situation further," he said.

........No doubt the invasion of Iraq and occupation of Baghdad were contemporaneous with the drafting of the Middle East partnership initiative and the "Greater Middle East Initiative" endorsing democratic reform and freedom in Arab societies. Regardless of differences concerning any given reading of the true goals and intentions behind these two initiatives, at the time, no Arab politician, activist or intellectual, could help but reject the initiatives, irrespective of ideology, for they were but new episodes in the saga of imposing American hegemony on the Middle East and breaking Arab will.

On the other hand, the ideological convictions of the current resident of the White House, and many symbols of his administration, prevent an effective understanding of the complexity and interconnectedness of Middle East conflicts, pushing interpretations in a perilously reductive, unilateral direction.

Reflecting its obsession with American power and overeager pursuit of national interests, the Bush administration is further characterised by impetuousness in dealing with international and regional developments as strategic opportunities for reinforcing American hegemony without the least regard for international legitimacy or material and human cost.

As for the project of endorsing democracy and freedom in the Arab world, it was born an orphan, due to the administration's hesitation in prioritising its strategic importance as compared with other American interests, be they hegemony, oil or Israeli security, and because it lacked any realistic mechanisms enabling its implementation in the light of Washington's friendly relations with most of the regimes in power.

But then I don't know Texas.

hotfroggy - Actually the atmosphere is cleaner now than a 100 years ago around all of the major population centers. Why? Because 100 years ago the vast majority of them heated with wood or coal. Same with auto emissions as compared to 30 years ago. Look at LA as an example.

think of it as the "k-mart" effect: while each individual is putting out fewer pollutants, the number of individuals is many billions more than it was 100 years ago.

the vast majority of those new comers are not in the world of comsumpation...check your birth rates in Europe and N. America.

I'm sure you wouldn't support Ted Kennedy because his father also had financial interests with 1930's Germany?

newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act

My only explanation is that you are on the side of republicans and you will pull out any study or statistic, distort the conclusions and misrepresent the science to obscure and confuse,

And the Demos/Left won't? Please, be serious

So much for the thought that human induced global warming is the cause of glacial retreat

This isn't to say that human induced global warming hasn't aggervated the condition, undoubetedly it has,

Excerpt: 2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001

Excerpt: QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it?
BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what?
QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center.
BUSH: Nothing. Except it's part of - and nobody has suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a - Iraq - the lesson of September 11th is take threats before they fully materialize, Ken. Nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq.

And then just recently bush said:

Nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq.

Can we impeach him now?

There is no scientific debate on that, it is fact.

The fact is that humans are a part of, not the cause of global warming.

Not only is there vast failure to comply by the countries that have signed on, but too many countries are exempt. All an artificial cut in emissions will do is shift the pollution from countries who are signatories to countries who are exempt.

We're probablly never going to see a reduction in the amount of emissions used for agriculture, unless population levels drop off a significant amount. Starvation is too high a price to pay for reducing emissions.

Plus industry would seek out cleaner alternatives, because they are ultimatly more efficient. Pollution = waste = loss of product. That simple equation is enough to ensure R&D continues.

Doing a bit of reality checking, the only way that we are going to see cutbacks in emissions is if they do not harm the economy.

Sounds like paradise to me.