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POPSSuperstruct Begins The human species has a long history of overcoming tremendous obstacles, often coming out stronger than before. Indeed, some anthropologists argue that human intelligence emerged as the consequence of the last major ice age, a period of enormous environmental stress demanding flexibility, foresight and creativity on the part of the small numbers of early Homo sapiens. Historically, those who have prophesied doom for human civilization have been proven wrong, time and again, by the capacity of our species to both adapt to and transform our conditions. It is in this context that the Global Extinction Awareness System (GEAS) offers its forecast of the likely extinction of humankind within the next quarter-century.
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POPSI'LL BE JUST FINE, SAYS PLANET "Look, I'm just a planet doing its thing, alright? If you want to live on me, that's your business, but I've got important planet stuff to do, okay? "Try being in elliptical orbit for five minutes, or balancing your gravitational pull with a medium-sized moon. Let me assure you, it's no fucking picnic." The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'. Earth added: "Okay, so there may come a time when, for a variety of reasons, I am no longer able to support pandas, polar bears, and humans, but you know what? Life goes on. UNFORTUNATELY, IF WE KILL THE OCEANS, THIS MAY NOT BE TRUE, SATIRE OR NOT.
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POPSI'LL BE JUST FINE, SAYS PLANET From The Daily Mash. The planet said environmental campaigners should change their slogan from 'Save the Planet' to something more relevant such as 'Save Your Sorry Arse'.
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POPS Governor Of Alaska Challenges Polar Bear Listing "Inappropriate implementation of this listing decision could result in widespread social and economic impacts, including increased power costs and further increases in fuel prices, without providing any more protection for the species," he said. Deborah Williams, a former Interior Department special assistant for Alaska and an advocate in the state for global warming response, said Palin's lawsuit was not a prudent use of state money. "Clearly Secretary Kempthorne put a tremendous amount of thought into the listing decision and concluded correctly that listing was required," she said.
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POPSThe Meaningless of Meaning <<<To Nabokov, skimming the Present without sinking into the Past is a miracle that befits only the most experienced: "Otherwise the inexperienced miracle-worker will find himself no longer walking on water but descending upright among staring fish" (if I may add) under the weight of past associations.>>> Thus do we think we have thought and felt and experience the One, the Abyss, the Edge, the Love.... yet the graceful lightness of being is elusive and we are weighed down always, especially 'Now' (oh, its 'Power'!) by the depreciating luggage of our conceptual memories and ossified identities.
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POPSSilver Coins Highly Valued as Dollar Declines from former Treasury Sec'y Paul Craig Roberts, who should know. Look at the value of silver coins--if you have or find any horde them! A silver quarter is worth $3.55! The article is worth reading, takes you from dollar decline to coming war with Iran, which he says will be the last financial straw.
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POPSWelcome to the New Ice Age Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon. The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased. It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.
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POPSGore A ``Crook'' Presiding Over An Eco-Business That Pumps Out Cash Allegre doesn't deny that the climate has changed or that extreme weather has become more common. He instead emphasizes the local character of these phenomena. While the icecap of the North Pole is shrinking, the one covering Antarctica -- or 92 percent of the Earth's ice -- is not, he says. Nor have Scandinavian glaciers receded, he says. To play down these differences by basing forecasts on a global average makes no sense to Allegre. Paris bookstores brim with guidebooks -- including one shaped like a toilet seat -- that tell readers how to help save our planet. Yet the dissidents refuse to shut up, even now that Al Gore has won the Nobel Peace Prize and the U.S. government has agreed to negotiate a new global-warming treaty by 2009. Exposing the Global Warming Myth! http://plancktime.blogspot.com/2007/12/gore-called-crook-by-french-education.html
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POPSJoy For complete article: http://www.peterkreeft.com/topics/joy.htm
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POPSClimate change: a common human interest Climate has fluctuated through the eons with glacial and interglacial periods. The strong link between CO2 rises and the rate at which temperature rise and changes in sea levels are occurring is undeniable and exceeds 'natural' fluctuations. Can society cope with the rate of change? We don't have unlimited resources and time while producing excess CO2 or any other kind of pollution through fossil fuel subsidised technology. Western lifestyles overemphasize consumption at the expense of reusing and recycling. People's habits will not change through mere will power but rather government enforced programs to develop sustainable markets that can salvage our economical structures as much as humanly possible,. Cocentrate on preserving what is still good on Earth!! If we do nor unite as a planet the fall of capitalism is not far away, much like the Roman Empire rose and fell....
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POPSMidwest Battered by Ice Storm Hope an some ice is growing on Gore's nose.. but then we all know he is burning enormous amounts of fossil fuels to keep his mansions warm and his aircraft flying, as he peddles his fiction.
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POPS 'Prophet' In Oslo, Amid Winter Weather Warnings
Environmental Prophet Al Gore warned a stunned Congress today of the dire consequences should we puny humans refuse to obey him. Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Earthquakes. Plagues of locusts. The deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis. Terrifying, indeed – but just a taste of what’s in store for us all should we continue to blatantly defy Gore. The time has come to cleanse ourselves of our capitalistic sins and save the earth from total obliteration - but it won’t be easy. Preserving the future for our children will involve tough choices and personal sacrifice. Most importantly it will require tax increases, wealth restribution, government control of production, and the abandonment of the free market system – by pure coincidence, the exact same things liberal democrats have been calling for since before global warming was ever an issue. We're all going to die unless we do exactly as Al Gore says http://blamebush.typepad.com/blamebush/2007/03/obey_me_or_die_.html
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POPSManmade Global Warming Recap If you believe the recent track record (seeding the ocean with algae,for example), the odds that we would really screw terraforming up are almost 100%. Toss in the UN and that goes to 150%. Indeed, given the fact that all the proposed programs -- Kyoto, etc. -- have zero chance of any meaningful effect other than shifting the wealth of the first world to the soon to be first world, let's go the full 200%.
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