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Science Teachers Reject Gore's Inconvenient Movie

Elaine Meinel Supkis

An Inconvenient Al Gore tries to give away his movie only the National Science Teachers Organization thinks this is like videos from al Qaeda and want nothing to do with truth, science or reality. They complain this video will alienate their sponsors such as Exxon-Mobile Oil. Meanwhile, the effects of CO2 fueled global warming alarm scientists who don't belong to that silly organization.

They call themselves 'teachers' but they are really idiots blindly serving the same people destroying our planet.

By Laurie David
Sunday, November 26, 2006; B01

At hundreds of screenings this year of "An Inconvenient Truth," the first thing many viewers said after the lights came up was that every student in every school in the United States needed to see this movie.

The producers of former vice president Al Gore's film about global warming, myself included, certainly agreed. So the company that made the documentary decided to offer 50,000 free DVDs to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) for educators to use in their classrooms. It seemed like a no-brainer.

The teachers had a different idea: Thanks but no thanks, they said.

In their e-mail rejection, they expressed concern that other "special interests" might ask to distribute materials, too; they said they didn't want to offer "political" endorsement of the film; and they saw "little, if any, benefit to NSTA or its members" in accepting the free DVDs.

I remember when all college biology books had case study after case study of diseases that afflict tobacco plants. I argued back then, the plants should die, not be saved. Got good grades for that cheekiness.

t's bad enough when a company tries to sell junk science to a bunch of grown-ups. But, like a tobacco company using cartoons to peddle cigarettes, Exxon Mobil is going after our kids, too.

And it has been doing so for longer than you may think. NSTA says it has received $6 million from the company since 1996, mostly for the association's "Building a Presence for Science" program, an electronic networking initiative intended to "bring standards-based teaching and learning" into schools, according to the NSTA Web site. Exxon Mobil has a representative on the group's corporate advisory board. And in 2003, NSTA gave the company an award for its commitment to science education.

They need technocrats. These are supposed to be people who ask no questions and tell no tales, sort of like 90% of the think tank denizens we see in the news all the time, trying to explain things they refuse to understand. So it is with science: if it makes interesting goodies that can be exploited or if it enables rulers to exploit, then it is good. And if it is all about understanding systems and changing our way of using things or dealing with people in a liberal fashion, this is evil with these people.

The marginalization of Al Gore continues. The need to fool people into hating him or covering their ears when they hear his voice, is nearly universal within our mainstream media which conspired to destroy his Presidency. The direction we would have taken if he was allowed to win as he did win, hurts to imagine. We got eight years of Skull and Boneheaded stupidity.

States are now suing the EPA and Bush to enforce treaties, laws and to respond to scientific research and I hope, the judge will play Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' in the courtroom.

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 29 November 2006

The Bush administration could be forced to take action on global warming using a 30-year-old piece of legislation to control the nation's vast emissions of greenhouse gases.

The US Supreme Court will today be asked to force the government to order its environmental regulatory body to control, as a matter of the public health, the amount of carbon dioxide pumped out by vehicles.

Amid a growing disparity between the Bush administration and many US states on the issue of global warming, it will be the first time the country's highest court has heard a case relating to climate change.

The Opus Dei gang wants a dead earth because then Jesus will come in all his Glory and say, 'Wow, you guys would wreck the Garden of Eden and Heaven! What a great job you did, destroying this earth! As a reward, you get to live here for all eternity. Welcome to Hell, dudes!' Um, can't they see this? Eh?

More data pouring in!

The global warming news just keeps getting worse. Things are deteriorating much faster than anyone anticipated, and the pace continues to accelerate. Now comes news that CO2 concentrations at the North Pole are rising 2.5 to 3 times faster than they were just a decade and a half ago. Guardian:

Like all systems ballooning, it gets worse and worse faster and faster until the peak is reached, the bubble pops, everyone dies and then things get back to normal. This cycle is not one we humans should want to have, we, the dominant species, are the ones slated to be eliminated.

One recent example of this process is the news that clouds over the North Pole are no longer ice clouds but rain clouds.

By BETH DUFF-BROWN
Associated Press

EUREKA, NUNAVUT TERRITORY — Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming.

The mystery is the droplets of water in the clouds. With the North Pole just 685 miles away, they should be frozen, yet more of them are liquid than anyone expected.

So the scientists working out of a converted blue cargo container are trying to determine whether the clouds are one of the causes — or effects — of Earth's warming atmosphere.

"Much to our surprise, we found that Arctic clouds have got lots of super-cooled liquid water in them," said Taneil Uttal, of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

With NASA reporting that 2005 was the warmest year on record worldwide, the debate over global warming marches on, but not here.

The death march of the debate over global warming is being conducted at gun-point by Cheney who shut down much of northern Florida this week so he could have a blast blasting away at tame birds and tame lawyers. Cheney can't tolerate talk of global warming. Gun in hand, he snarls at the American people and then swills beers with the Presidents of Exxon/Mobil and the Saudi Royals.

A little side story is the gigantic budget for 'The Pet Goat' Presidential library.

Even so, $500 million is a mighty high price tag for a presidential library. In comparison, Clinton's cost $165 million, which was more than double the tab for Bush 41's.

So why is Bush 43 shooting for half-a-bil? According to an insider, the amount is "so much bigger than anything that's been tried before. But the more you have, the more influence [on history] you can exert."

In other words, it's going to take a hell of a lot of money to try and perform the political alchemy of turning Bush's legacy of tragic failure into something future generations won't need a gas mask and an air sickness bag to study.

So where is the $500 million going to come from?

According to the New York Daily News, Bush fundraisers hope to raise half their goal -- $250 million -- in "megadonations" of $10 million to $20 million from "wealthy heiresses, Arab nations, and captains of industry."

They should make an oil well, a bed with a wax model of Bush kissing Gannon and the Saudi Royals and of course, the bin Laden Canis Cavum. You go inside and get it up the ass.

Bush shamelessly solicits money from the same people who are trying to keep us on this disasterous path, the inconvenient truth is, we continue this way, we get eliminated by Mother Nature who can be much nastier than Babs Bush. Much nastier.

Here is an interview with Gore from Sweden:

Here it the Exxon/Mobil cartoon making fun of this very serious, life and death topic:

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Another Storm From The South

Elaine Meinel Supkis

This is a picture of me playing solitare rather than playing online because a tree fell on the powerlines tonight and we had no electricity for a few hours. Yet another violent storm roaring out of the south this fall. It is 68 degrees F outside and the wind is howling from the south and thunderstorms are coming and what on earth is going on?

We grilled hamburgers at night, outside, wearing tee shirts and sandals. The wind smells of late spring warmth, the geese and ducks aren’t bothering with migrating south because the wind is blowing them north, not south. The naked trees are swaying in the strong winds and shedding branches and one tree gave up and fell on our lines, dousing all electricity flowing to Berlin, NY.

We lived for many years with no electricity so we activated the kerosene lamps and the only disruption is a lack of access to our internet. I read in the news today, this same storm has already spawned tornadoes and these have flattened nursery schools in the deep south and killed people in homes and trailers in the Carolinas and it is moving north to menace my own farm.

By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago
RIEGELWOOD, N.C. - A tornado flipped cars, shredded trees and ripped mobile homes to pieces in this little riverside community early Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said.

The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the South to 12.

Kip Godwin, chairman of the Columbus County Commission in North Carolina, said authorities had concluded their search of the area where the eight people died — a cluster of mobile homes and an adjacent neighborhood of brick homes — and had accounted for everyone.

Twelve people were hospitalized, including four children in critical condition, hospital officials said.

This is fall?

Feels like spring, to me! In the news today, Fairbanks, Alaska, is as warm as we are and it is most disconcerting, when one gets accustomed to seasons, having them all jumbled up feels menacing. Alaska and the Northeast are surprised by global warming but in all, it menaces us less than the equatorial regions that are facing flood/drought cycles of a very punishing nature. And tornados.

The Pacific ocean off of the shore of Western Mexico, hurricanes are still forming and the lastest one is becoming a catagory 4 and will probably shoot north like all the others this year and whack at my berg here in Berlin. I have been a bit sporatic about posting here lately because of frantic work, preparing for an eventful winter.

We have a generator left over from the wild and wooly tent days but it really isn’t worth activating unless the power if off more than 12 hours. I sort of feel like I am in Baghadad where power is sporatic and we have no power or influence and the people have no electricity.

Generators are a pain to use. I blew one out when it ran out of oil. Our present model has a low oil shut-off, do remember to never buy a generator that doesn’t have this nifty device. One wealthy neighbor has an automatic turn-on generator of great capacity because of his business. These things cost over $5000 with intallation and insulation, etc.

I would rather have what we had for years in the tent: solar energy and a battery bank. Our battery bank was a bunch of ordinary marine batteries in a continuous gang set-up. We had just one solar panel because of our poverty at the time and it ran several lights, a mini-tv and a small water pump from the 200 gallon tank under the sink.

We considered this set-up to be quite luxurious because prior to this, we had no electricity at all except a few flashlights!

Storms like this one reminds us of the precariousness of civilization. I really enjoy electrical power since I lived without for so long.

It will not be raining here this weekend so we might be able to see the Leonid meteor showers this year!

Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
SPACE.com Tue Nov 14, 3:15 PM ET

The annual Leonid meteor shower could produce a strong outburst this weekend for residents of the North America and Western Europe.

A brief surge of activity is expected begin around 11:45 p.m. ET Saturday, Nov. 18. In Europe, that corresponds to early Sunday morning, Nov. 19 at 4:45 GMT. The outburst could last up to two hours.

At the peak, people in these favorable locations could see up to 150 shooting stars per hour, or more than two per minute.

Thanks to free trade, all the greenhouses in Berlin are dark these years which means we can see these celestial showers. City lights pretty much white-out the night sky but here, it is a velvetly blackness and stars stand out with great clarity. Normally, I am very aware of the phase of the moon but right now, I so seldom see the sky, I have no idea except I know it isn't full moon which is better for meteorite watching.

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I'm Happy But Global Warming Is Getting Much Worse

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Before I go to bed, time to muse about events this week. Floods in Washington State did great damage and here, it is raining yet again, over and over, we are getting great storms out of the mid Pacific ocean and it was over 90 degrees Farenheit in Arizona in November, it is warm here, too. This isn't normal.

As global warming races onwards, humanity looks to the USA to stop messing up all the time.

mongabay.com
November 8, 2006

A new paper argues that ethics, human rights, and justice should be key components to international negotiations on global warming. It says that some countries, notably the United States, are currently taking positions that are "ethically problematic" and may violate basic human rights of people living in other countries.

Released at the United Nations Climate Change Conference meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, The "White Paper on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change" says that "nations that use scientific uncertainty, cost to their national economy alone, lack of action by other nations, or waiting for new, less costly technologies to be invented as justifications for not reducing their emissions to a level that represents its fair share of safe total global emissions, are acting unethically," according to a news release from the Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change.

We boast about how we are the leaders of the world and how rich we are and then whenever anyone asks us to stop polluting, we get all huffy and exclaim we need to make money so we need to pollute so drop dead, world! This Bush attitude has turned nearly everyone against us. We want Africa and China to not pollute! They should use new technology and systems while we screw around!

I will note, this is causing us to lose allies and friends in many places. Everyone today hopes the Democrats don't act so insane. We have to clean up our act or we all die. Just like WWIII, we, the USA, are the chief danger to humanity, no one else can nuke all other nations all at once. Ditto pollution: we still are the number one polluters despite China catching rapidly up with us!

African are pleading with us and all other people to please do what Ann Arbor and Johnny Appleseed begged us to do: plant tree.

By Daniel Wallis

NAIROBI, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The United Nations and Africa's Nobel laureate, environmentalist Wangari Maathai, launched a project on Wednesday to plant a billion trees worldwide to help fight climate change and poverty.

Kenya's Wangari Maathai, who in 2004 became the first African woman and first "green" activist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, urged people from the United States to Uganda to plant trees to combat global warming and to make a long-term commitment.

"Anybody can dig a hole, anybody can put a tree in that hole and water it. And everybody can make sure that the tree they plant survives," she said on the sidelines of a U.N. meeting on climate change in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

I not only plant trees, I have my own forest. And it is dying, what? What is killing it?

Acid rain! From all the polluters in the South and Midwest! And so planting trees alone won't fix things at all. This is an ecosystem and the solution means working with all the components of this system, air, water, earth and fire.

The trees are all burning up.

By NINIEK KARMINI, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago
MANTANGAI, Indonesia - Dozens of endangered orangutans have been driven from their dwindling jungle habitat in Borneo by months of land-clearing fires that have shrouded parts of the region in a choking haze, conservationists said Monday.

Around 43 orangutans have been taken for medical treatment to centers in the Indonesian provinces of Central and West Kalimantan, said Anand Ramanathan, an emergency relief worker with the Washington-based International Fund for Animal Welfare, or IFAW.

Most were beaten by humans after fleeing from the burning jungle to nearby plantations in recent weeks, but several are being treated for respiratory problems and burns, he said.

Homo sapiens killed all other great apes except for the ones hidden deep in jungles far away from questing humans. But now, we bestride the planet and are everywhere and we are rapidly killing them all.

And killing 'the earth's lungs' which is the belt of junglelands that grow on the earth's equator's landmasses. Once we turn it all to dust, we will see all sorts of very unhappy side effects. In other times of severe global warming, the oxygen levels suddenly collapsed like during the Greatest Extinction of all: the Permian collapse. Dare we try this again?

Already, the oceans are being ravaged by fishermen and the sun. This week, the sun spat out some more X-rays, facing away, but then, this is the story: the sun is old and shines ever harder and the earth wobbles on its uncertain axis and the whole sheebang moves through space, inside one of the spiral arms of this galaxy.

As Australia dries up and dies, Howard is as clueless as Bush.

November 7, 2006 - 9:29AM

The drought has been declared the worst in a thousand years, but a crisis summit on the Murray-Darling Basin delivered little help for the parched river system.

Labor premiers have jumped on the latest grim drought assessment by a government agency as evidence of "uncharted territory" caused by climate change.

But Prime Minister John Howard - already sceptical about "extreme" predictions of the effects of global warming - publicly questioned a top water bureaucrat's statement that the big dry was a one in 1,000 year event.

This is why there is some hope with the Democratic win in the USA: we might see some faint sanity! There is so little time. All over the place all the indications look grim. The amphibian family, the creatures that dominated the ecosystem before the Permian collapse, are going rapidly extinct. The great whales are disappearing and scientists can't find them. Polar bears are drowning and so are walruses.

And the Permian oil and gas and coal which is causing all this is also disappearing, too! And time is awasting! I am happy we might see some progress but the time for slow changes is past. We passed that during the Clinton years when energy was super-chief so the USA decided to supersize ourselves.

To hell.

I can't wait for something to stop this! Pelosi, Reid, you hear me? We have little time.

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