Global Warming Should Be Our Fear Issue!

[Quixote1818]

On Chris Matthews they were talking about Kerry struggling with Women because they thought Bush would protect their children better on the War on Terror. Kerry needs to fix this problem however I hate to break it to these Mothers but even the Pentagon sees Global Warming as a bigger threat to our National Security than terrorism. I don't know about you but I fear the demise of our environment ten times more than a few terrorist attacks that may kill a few thousand. The Environment can kill millions or even Billions if it changes too quickly. Droughts around the world can destabilize things and lead to all out World War. A recent Pentagon report gave a worse case scenario that said that in as little as 15 or 20 years drought and loss of crops around the world due to changing weather trends from Global Warming could cause widespread starvation and Wars around the world. Kerry needs to bring up that Pentagon Report and it's time for the Democrats to be the Child protectors! I think that will win back a lot of Women voters. He sure would make me feel a little more at ease as well. Global Warming is an extremely important issue that could mean life or death for our Children and Grand Children if we are not careful.

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Yes! nt

[billbuckhead]

2. In Florida it sure should be

Tony Blair blamed the hurricanes on global warming.

[donsu]

3. yes, absolutely the most important issue is world pollution

which causes global warming.

if the bloody bushgang stays in power the world will crumble and fail even faster.

[DemBones DemBones]

4. In a rational, intelligent world, yes, global warming should be

a major concern.

Given the electorate we have, which is not well educated about scientific or political matters, I doubt it will resonate. They've had the phrase "tree hugger" drilled into their heads and they believe "people are more important than the environment." They've got to be educated before they'll see the importance of this issue, before they realize how dependent we are on our planet's ecological health.

[BiggJawn]

5. Won't work. Rush says it's baloney...(call it "Climate Change")

"Global WARMING???? Why, friends, how can there be 'GLO-ball WAR-ming' when resort owners in Michign are hurting because there was only ONE day above 90 on the beaches? Why, it got into the FORTIES in Chicago in AUGUST! Global 'warming'??? Oh, that's just the LI-Bu-Rals trying to scare you into driving dinky little foriegn-made cars again...."

Call it "Climate Change", like I do. When someboday says "Rush says global warming is bullshit because it was cold this summer up north..." Say, "Yeah, sure seems like the climate is changing, though, don't it?"

[BillZBubb]

6. Yawn!

Not enough voters will care about global warming until their own asses are scorched. Until then, it's a losing issue.

[henslee]

7. True. Like the draft issue, it won't hit youth voters until too late.

[Quixote1818]

10. This issue is not for youth voters it's for Mothers! To win back the

women Kerry has lost becasue they think Bush will protect their children better.

[henslee]

12. Mothers. Agree. Goes without saying. Youth vote, too. On topic,

I heard CNN said there were 240,000 Nat'l Guard in Iraq. That # seems largeto me, maybe they just mean activated. Either case, with the bullets flying the way they are, I do not see how the families of all these brave men and women as well as families of unactivated guard can vote Bush. And this does not even address the families of future draftees in general, that you and I are discussing. How can this election not be a Kerry landslide? Folks can say what they want but when they enter that booth and pull the curtain, they have to be thinking about the possibility of their kids/grand kids/ coming home in boxes or missing limbs.

[Quixote1818]

8. Not if we bring up the Pentagon Report!

We just need to say it over and over and over and then it will become an issue. That's what Bush does. A candidate can dictate what the issue is and the more he says it the more it sinks in. Bush and Chaney say FEAR FEAR FEAR all the time and if we are going to win we need to do the same thing only with another issue. That's the way the game is played.

[Quixote1818]

11. Thats why Kerry should put it this way:

Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the seemingly remote climate risk may hit home sooner and harder than we ever imagined. In fact, the prospect has become so real that the Pentagon's strategic planners are grappling with it.

[Quixote1818]

9. Here is the Report!!!!

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/pentagon_report_global_warming.html

Pentagon Says Global Warming Is a Critical National Security Issue
Report claims climate could change radically, and fast


Print-friendly Page By David Stipp
Published by Fortune Magazine January 26, 2004


Editor's note: The Pentagon's recent warning of the potential for catastrophic climate change is notable for contradicting the Bush Administration's campaign to obscure the scientific consensus on global warming. While the Clinton Administration also did little to tackle the threat, Bush is aggressively disabling public health laws that limit emissions from carbon-based fuels. The Fortune writer, however omits mention of Bush, his administration's gutting of environmental laws, or the Kyoto Accord.
Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the seemingly remote climate risk may hit home sooner and harder than we ever imagined. In fact, the prospect has become so real that the Pentagon's strategic planners are grappling with it.

The threat that has riveted their attention is this: Global warming, rather than causing gradual, centuries-spanning change, may be pushing the climate to a tipping point. Growing evidence suggests the ocean-atmosphere system that controls the world's climate can lurch from one state to another in less than a decade--like a canoe that's gradually tilted until suddenly it flips over. Scientists don't know how close the system is to a critical threshold. But abrupt climate change may well occur in the not-too-distant future. If it does, the need to rapidly adapt may overwhelm many societies--thereby upsetting the geopolitical balance of power.

Though triggered by warming, such change would probably cause cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, leading to longer, harsher winters in much of the U.S. and Europe. Worse, it would cause massive droughts, turning farmland to dust bowls and

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/pentagon_report_global_warming.html