U.S. Global Warming Denial Will Help China Overtake America, Experts Warn

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ABC News: U.S. prestige falling as world has ‘pretty well given up’ on any American leadership facing climate change.

The legendary Peter Raven has a must-see ABC News interview. Bill Blakemore has a terrific piece on it, ”Global Warming Denialism ‘Just Foolishness,’ Scientist Peter Raven Says.”

Raven and biologist Paul R. Ehrlich co-invented “the bedrock concept of co-evolution,” in 1964. Raven tells ABC bluntly “It’s not a matter of conjecture anymore,” he said. “Climate change is the most serious challenge probably that the human race has ever confronted.”

Raven quickly summarized the virtually unanimous understanding of the world’s climate scientists and other responsible experts about the great upheavals manmade global warming is now producing.

Blakemore has a great video interview of Raven “in the now world-famous, immense and exquisite gardens that .. he had turned into an expansive vision of what a peaceful and balanced world could look like — a sort of international botanical metaphor.”

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/04/05/456978/us-global-warming-denial-will-help-china-overtake-america-experts-say/?

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“Climate change is the most serious challenge probably that the human race has ever confronted.”

[dipsydoodle]

1. Indeed

[MindMover]

2. OMG, now that is funny.....and I am gonna rip it off....ty

[lunasun]

3. World Has ‘Given Up’ on Hoped-for U.S. Leadership- well no doubt

Like with any relationship , the world has decided to move on
once we showed we were in denial of our true self
and refused to seek help............

An extensive “disinformation campaign” in the United States about the scientific solidity and gravity of man made global warming has been described in detail by a number of academic analyses and extensive professional journalistic enquiry

For example, “Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming,” by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, details how ideological, political and fossil fuel industry interests have been able to confuse and intimidate many leaders in legislature and media.

Oh I think the ca$h helps with the legislature/courts, and media too

in other words - willing sell outs

greed has us doomed

[saras]

4. Not will, has.