D3 International Day of Action on Climate Change

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Comical news from Montreal:

By DAN BEAULIEU

Sunday, December 4, 2005 Posted at 2:10 AM EST

Canadian Press and Associated Press

Montreal — Tens of thousands of people ignored frigid temperatures Saturday to lead a worldwide day of protest against global warming.

Bundled-up protesters converged on a downtown square after marching from two separate starting points to listen to speakers and musicians in a rock concert atmosphere.

The demonstration coincided with the 10-day UN Climate Change Conference underway in Montreal, where officials are reviewing and updating the Kyoto protocol on lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

"This is protest is important because time is running out to deal with climate change," said Steven Guilbeault, the director of the Greenpeace movement for Quebec.

"Ten years ago we thought we had a lot of time, five years ago we thought we had a lot of time, but now science is telling us that we don't have a lot of time," he said.

"Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with," he said.

Some of the protesters livened things up with colourful costumes — including several in polar bear outfits and another in a Grim Reaper costume — while others carried protest signs that ranged from the serious to the whimsical.

One read: Stop Worrying About Your Money — Think About Our Planet.

Another said, Mr. Bush, your White House is making our planet dirty.

"It's hot in here, there's too much carbon in the atmosphere," chanted one group to the beat of drummers.

At the end of the march, which included native American musicians, protesters symbolically held their breath for a minute.

"I hope we're saying to Canada, especially, that we have to stick by the Kyoto accord because we're not doing a good job," said Marilyn Gillis, 63, a retired Montreal teacher.

Quebec Environment Minister Thomas Muclair was among those at the head of the parade.

"I am here today to show the public that we (the government) are with them."

On average, Quebecers generate only half the greenhouse gases of other Canadians, Mr. Muclair said.

He said it was "no accident" he was leading the demonstration, following the failure of the province and Ottawa to finalize a deal to reduce greenhouse gases that had been due to be unveiled at the conference.

Several other Canadian and Quebec politicians showed up at the start of the protest, including Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew and the leader of the separatist Bloc Quebecois, Gilles Duceppe.

Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair pledged that if he becomes premier, he will enact a law to ensure the province meets its six-per-cent greenhouse gas reduction target and invest in public transport.

The head of the national Green Party, Jim Harris, called on the federal government to invest in sustainable development, including in Canada's large auto industry.

"The unions want jobs, but they'd be happier producing hybrids. But Canada doesn't produce hybrid cars. Why? Because we give subsidies to outdated industries," he said.

However, a spokeswoman for the demonstration, Isabelle Gareau, said politicians had been warned to resist the temptation to politicize the non-partisan event amid the federal election campaign, which began Tuesday.

Ms. Gareau also estimated the crowd at 40,000 people.

Some protesters travelled from the United States, which has been critcized at the conference for trying to tackle climate change through new technology and incentives for business.

Jennifer Morgan, International Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Change Program, urged politicians to "listen to these tens of thousands of people."

She placed the blame for a lack of progress on reducing greenhouse gases squarely on her native country.

"The U.S. administration is the biggest obstacle to progress at this meeting, they have come here to try to (destroy) and slow things down," she said.

"The best way to put pressure on the Bush administration is to move forward without it."

"We want to show that people in the United States really care about the issue even though our government might be a little slow on the uptake," added Lindsey Franklin, 20, from Middlebury College in Vermont.

The march was expected to be the largest of the demonstrations held in 32 countries, including Japan, Germany, France, Bangladesh, Brazil, Australia and South Africa.

In London, protesters passed 10 Downing Street, home of Prime Minister Tony Blair, where they presented a letter demanding that the government reaffirm its commitment to Kyoto.

Events were also held across the U.S., including Washington, Boston, Los Angeles and hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.

Five environmental groups, including Greenpeace and the Climate Crisis Coalition, delivered a petition signed by 600,000 Americans to the U.S. Consulate in Montreal urging the Bush administration and the U.S. Congress to help slow global warming.

"We are here representing the people of the United States who want action to be taken," said Ted Glick of the Climate Crises Coalition.

Glick then rushed off to hospital emergency room to have his fingers treated for frostbite.

A Larouchite? No surprise...

Don't take anything a Larouchite ever says seriously - they're just antisemitic conspiracy nuts.

Today we take action against global warming. Along with actions in Montreal and in more than 60 localities around the world, we are in NYC to introduce the People’s Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty. Together with the Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, Energy Action and other really great, really dedicated groups, we have at least 650,000 signatures on a petition against global warming.

Many of us have been feeling very worried, and sad and angry that the Bush Administration and Congress and our Representatives have been putting our childrens lives and future at risk.

The Bush Administration does not want to stop Global Warming, and in fact, has debilitated the protection of our country's air, water, public lands and wildlife, deceiving us and under the White House's rule, the very government agencies entrusted to protect our children from polluters have destroyed environmental laws. With Bush’s polices, our children’s standards of living have been diminished.

Bush's "Healthy Forests" initiative, promotes destructive logging. It is a lie. His "Clear Skies" program, allows more emissions. It is a lie. The administration lies and tries to twist our understanding of issues with words like streamlining or reforming instead of weakening, and thinning instead of logging.

The Kyoto Treaty is a diplomatic accomplishment. The Bush Administration has rejected this treaty. Their idea of diplomacy rests on plundering for oil, and a fatal addiction to fossil fuels.

In a misguided and tragic war for oil, our American leaders have murdered our children, over 2000 of our heroic soldiers in Iraq. Innocent foreign citizens have been killed, approximately 30,000, and 42,000 wounded. Iraqi children, babies, have been burned to the bone with chemicals that melt their skin. And many Iraqi children who survive are maimed and orphaned and traumatized. Life is such a precious gift and we are being used as kindling for the fire that burns the administrations profits for oil. We have been made into idiots in the eyes of the international community. The Bush Administration has fueled a terrorist movement against us, and finally, propelled us into a future of climate crisis’ that could become catastrophic.

This administration has altered, suppressed and discredited clear scientific facts about Global Warming, launching a $100 million ten-year effort ($100 Million dollars of our tax money) to prove unsuccessfully, that global temperature changes have occurred without human influence.

The Bush administration has dishonestly and corrosively given thousands of environmental-science jobs to compliant industry consultants who change data to support corporate profit.

America has been hijacked and our children’s future has been severely compromised by Bush and his corporate oil buddies. The corruption is staggering and they are propelling us dangerously, and criminally toward a Global Climate Crisis.

Franklin Roosevelt warned, "the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling power."

Well, I don’t want to live in a fascist state. Or as a corporate consumer slave. And I don’t want to see my earth, my environment and it’s people and our children destroyed by greed, selfish profit and stupidity. So, I have joined a coalition. And I have been working on a campaign. Not a campaign for a politician, a campaign for our children’s future. USA Join the World, www.kyotoandbeyond.org with The Climate Crisis Coalition.

The Climate Crisis Coalition is a coalition of individuals, ordinary citizens, moms, dads, students, artists, business owners, laborers, all kinds of different people, organizations and constituencies engaged in the stop global warming movement. We have formed to advance awareness, to forge a common agenda and advance action plans with a united front about the urgent crisis of Global Warming.

We are doing this with urgancy because, the scientific consensus is that Climate Change is accelerating much faster than anticipated. The permafrost in the West Siberian tundra is melting and will release hundreds of millions of tons of methane from thawing peat bogs into the atmosphere. On top of already soaring CO2 levels peat bog methane will push global temperatures much higher than what was previously expected.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is disintegrating, and Greenland glacial ice is melting into the ocean at an unprecedented rate. If a significant amount of either of these ice sheets smashes down into the ocean, sea levels will rise worldwide by 15-20 feet, inundating coastal cities and towns. In this scenario, with the Gulf Stream shutting down, Europe will be covered in ice.

We are experiencing drastic shrinking of ice floes in the Arctic Ocean, which is now expected to be ice-free throughout the summer before the end of this century. Sea levels are rising.

Why is this a crisis? The current repercussions of this climate crisis are endless and all connected with multiple climate change impacts, from land and sea storms increasing in strength, to the disintegration of the Inuit and Nuptial cultures, starving polar bears, threatened caribou herds, increasing severity in insect attacks and infestation, increases in disease, towns sinking on the thawing permafrost, small islands becoming submerged, changing winds in the Northern hemisphere, extinction of aquatic, animal and plant life, and changes in animal reproduction and migration. Without immediate human intervention we will see escalating and more extreme disasters along coastlines, storms and drought, disease pandemics, collapsing agriculture, massive numbers of refugees and, on past that, even greater cataclysmic Earth events.

If we stop industrial carbon dioxide emissions this minute, temperatures will continue to rise and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases will stay in the atmosphere for decades. The ability of our Earth to sustain life is deteriorating. If we do nothing the collapse will accelerate and intensify each season.

As difficult to believe and emotionally debilitating as it is, these events are happening. We don’t have time for neutrality. If we do nothing, the collapse will accelerate and intensify each season. The environmental chain of events will snowball. We will experience misery on massive scales until it becomes clear, too late, that we belligerently, arrogantly and feeble-mindedly failed to redefine civilization.

My experience has been that after a wavering denial period was over and the shocking realization of impending climate catastrophe sank in, it was agonizing to create anything. Art pieces seemed insignificant, useless or just sad. Then a Cassandra syndrome occurred, Cassandra, from the great Greek Drama Trojan Women, Cassandra lost her mind because others didn’t see what she knew was happening. This Cassandra syndrome was followed by denial again, hoping I was only Chicken Little. Then immobility, feeling helpless to change anything, followed by a broken heart. I wasn’t (actually I’m still not) the life of the party. The process of creating something can seem much too slow compared to losing your mind or taking to the streets.

So, what can we do?
We can be pioneers of change. We can influence and mobilize people, government, businesses, our schools and all our institutions to act on all levels to stop Global Warming. It is a very real possibility that we can avert some of these oncoming disasters by converting our energy strategy from fossil fuel addiction to clean energy. With the Earth’s gifts of sun and wind, with serious conservation of resources, and conversion to the use of environmentally benign vehicles, we can create millions of jobs and save many lives.

There is no kind of scientific evidence that will convince the White House to take action on global warming."

We must convince them. We must take them out of office. We don’t have time to waste. And we must make our voices heard and vote into offoce, those who can represent us properly.

Americans are dying and will continue to die for the Bush Administrations mistakes.

We can all participate in the dialogue, and make choices that determine the destiny of our communities, our children and our Earth. It is imperative that we adapt as quickly as we can to save our children and future generations from an impoverished environmental legacy. We must help each other through these challenging times and into a more sustainable way of life.

We have taken to the streets to protest the state of crisis in our environment and in our government and we demand that our leaders honor our rights as American citizens of the Earth to do all we can to protect our children and our planet, our only home, from harm. We the People insist on the Ratification of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.

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Thank you for the opportunity to clarify some misunderstandings for others genuine readers and participants in IMC.

> Oil IS hydrocarbon, Is made from vegetation compressed in earth's geological planes,

Where's the evidence? The only basis for that argument is the presence of naphthalene in mined hydrocarbons, and naphthalene is *similar* to a compound found in *some* living material. Yet naphthalene also occurs in places where there has never been and could never have been life. That is the sum total of the evidence for oil being a result of "vegetation compressed in earth's geological planes". If you have more evidence, please present it. The world's scientific establishment awaits your findings with baited breath.

Yes, oil is hydrocarbon. So what?

> and Is causing global warming

Where's the evidence? Please present it. And be sure to refute the evidence against all the tired old arguments.

The earth's climate changes in cycles, no question. Such cycles are often longer than the human lifespan, so of course you will get weather that you've never seen before - because the last time the earth went through that cycle might have been 200 or 1000 years ago, which was before you were born. The earth is much older than you are and its climate cycles are much longer than the human lifespan.

Prove that any climate change being experienced now is a result of there being more CO2 in the atmosphere, where such CO2 is a result of humans burning hydrocarbons. Again, world's scientific establishment awaits your findings with baited breath.

Today is hotter than yesterday where I am living. Must be because there were more cars on the road today! Oh people, save the earth, don't drive today but walk, please! Leave the car at home today and give the weather a day to rest and cool down.

> If you want to be constructive, talk about alternative to it

Why would it be constructive to talk about alternatives, if there is no global warming? If would be more constructive to inform people of the lie of global warming so that human civilization does not feel constrained to limit its own development, its own living standards and its own future.

> rather than empower Bush's regime by those stupid claims ....

Why are the claims stupid? We are still waiting for your answers to the above questions.

If you want to pass laws which retard the development of human civilization, then the onus is on you to prove your claims. But of course you can't, because your claims are bogus.

> (remember Bush dont want kyoto, because it ruins it's revenues and power ! )

Yes, it retards development, so Kyoto should be trashed. Anything that retards the development of human civilization will impact living standards, income and yes revenues of large companies too. And revenues of people including yourself.

Just because Bush wants to breathe, doesn't mean that I cannot want to breathe too, while at the same time of course one easily disagrees with the fact of Bush's holding the office of President of the USA.

> They want you to consume oil as much as you can and they are deferring all other ways of producing energy.....

Then why are they raising prices to the sky, while the proven reserves of oil are by far the very highest they've ever been in history? While the reserves of massive oil fields in Russia and Alaska are not even included in those highest-in-history statistics of proven reserves. They want to retard the development of human civilization. They want a small, impoverished, slave population. They do not want you to consume as much oil as you can, even though published proven reserves (even excluding the massive unpublished proven reserves of Russia and Alaska) are at their very highest in history.

> dont be stupid please and leave people fight for the best of mother earth future !

Where is the stupidity? Still awaiting your evidence - see above questions.

How is it for the best of mother earth's future? This still requires your proof. But you don't have any.

BTW, it appears that you have not read any of the references posted in the original article. Please read and digest them before replying. No point my repeating here what has already been references in the original IMC article.

Oil IS hydrocarbon, Is made from vegetation compressed in earth's geological planes, and Is causing global warming ....

If you want to be constructive, talk about alternative to it rather than empower Bush's regime by those stupid claims .... (remember Bush dont want kyoto, because it ruins it's revenues and power ! )

They want you to consume oil as much as you can and they are deferring all other ways of producing energy.....

dont be stupid please and leave people fight for the best of mother earth future !

There is no greenhouse effect. It's a fraud. Don't buy it. It's a Synarchist globalist scam. Look up Synarchist in Google. "They" are simply trying to limit your wealth, limit your life and keep you on edge while setting up a global police state with a much-reduced easy-to-control slave population living with primitive technology.

The production of CO2 by the use of hydrocarbon fuels is not causing Global Warming and is not causing any kind of crisis. The Kyoto Protocol is a scam to retard the development of industrial and upcoming-and-coming industrial nations.

http://www.larouchepub.com/lar/1997/global_warm.html

http://www.larouchepub.com/eirtoc/2001/eirtoc_2828.html

In addition, hydrocarbon fuels are not even fossil fuels. There is no evidence that oil or natural gas is produced by broken down biological material. In fact, oil has been found on asteroids.

There is no evidence of a biological origin of petroleum. Oil is produced *by natural processes within the earth*. For a start, see:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/archives/peak_oil/

http://www.infowars.com/articles/economy/peak_oil_index.htm

http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Oct05/041005oil.htm

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Temp/Temp-PeakOilIsAScam-Babe.htm

http://www.vialls.com/wecontrolamerica/peakoil.html

http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/jones_01.htm

http://www.oilempire.us/abiotic.html

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