Will Steger shared helpful information last night in his presentation at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter. As the global change denyers have said, the earth has gone through periods of warming and cooling over the millions of years of its history. This is mostly caused by the elyptical route the earth takes traveling around the sun which results in long periods of time when when earth is closer to the sun followed by long periods of time when the earth is further from the sun.
What makes this present warming unique is that this warming trend is peaking considerably higher than previous warming periods. During this warming period half of the Arctic sea ice has disappeared. Animals who live in the Arctic area are in danger of extinction, and waters around the world are warming. Note that the Atlantic off New Jersey this fall was five degrees warmer than normal this month.
At the same time we know that global CO2 emissions are increasing incrementally. going up 3 percent in 2011 alone. We are putting more and more carbon into the atmosphere, and temperatures are going up and weather is becoming more and more unpredictable. Fresh Energy is helping Minnesotans take many steps to reduce our carbon footprint. Using wind, solar and other sources is helping us reduce our need for fossil fuels and at least slowing the problem. Better conservation of energy is making a huge difference too.
I’m proud to live in a state where we’re taking steps to do the right thing by our planet.
Beth Passi
Vice President
Brainerd Lakes
League of Women Voters
Comments (34)
Add commentGood News Is this was a topic at Pres. news conference today !
Ignoring the problem is NOT a solution.
This is part of the national conversation irregardless of what the vulture capitalist thought.
Live & learn Mittster !
Uhhhhh, captron,
Mittster is gone, remember? Talk to your messiah. He's the one devastating our forests printing greenbacks 24/7 that are worthless and should be signed by President Hu Tintao.
you libs are dilusional.
sore winners
I didn't think some posters would be such "sore winners".
I think I handled the Obama re-elect better than some
Democrats. I wonder if it's because now they know
that Pres. Obama really is the President for the next 4 years and has to lead. He inherited an Obama mess.
Other than the fact that taxes are going up, unemployment probably going up, fiscal cliff, Syria,Egypt, Iran, Israel, and then there is that Benghazi problem. Oh yes, the General and the women problems . Right now, the Gaza problem is bad. Ignoring these problems is not a solution.
I'd say this would be fun to watch, but it isn't. I care more about this country than winning or losing elections.
Unbalanced One & Sad Lady , Your the delusional ones ,Im Afraid
Your hollow conservative speak and knowingly false accusatory statements you make are beyond ridiculous .
Maybe you both will emerge from your bubble eventually ,however I doubt it.
However before that could ever happen you would have to pull your head out , open your eyes and be reeducated regarding fact vs fiction.
Im sorry if your creationism cult following does not believe in climate change and mans contribution to the very real problem.
But that does NOT do anything to make a difference.
Stay part of your ignorant and illiterate minority that seems determined to turn the clock back to the 1960s.
There is really no going back to the fantasy world you both imagine.
To bad Global warming stopped 16 years ago
I guess a lot of it is just who you want to believe and what there true motives are. Isn't that the way it is with so many things now days.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-st...
The President looked like a leader today.
And I saw Representative-elect Nolan in the news and am hoping he reaches across the aisle, so to speak, to get the congress moving in the right direction together.
Even the conservative blogs I read seemed more realistic and called for some compromising.
Record polar ice thaw.
Try explaining the melting ice cap this year.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044477280457762147012784464...
Record polar ice cap
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2012/09/19/antarctic-sea-ice-set...
The true story, LLR, appears in the comment section.
"It appears that the author, James Taylor, missed several important sessions in his Journalism 101 class. I noticed he didn’t mention a single, much less multiple or detailed sources for his story. Journalism 101 demands even freshman reporters answer the all-too simple question, “Says who?”
Well, if you take the trouble to squirrel after either of his only two web links, you find that he’s supposedly gathering all this data from “Real Science,” a right wing “ignore-the-real-scientists” web site. These folks are disputing and twisting the data from The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). You can visit both to decide which you’d rather believe.
The Real Science page web banner shows a picture of Toto and Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz . . . how appropriate. Apparently neither the dog, the girl, or Forbes in this case, is in Kansas anymore. Also appropriately, is a quote at the top of their page that reads: “Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts” – Richard Feynman
Now I’m wondering if the National Enquirer should be worried about being under-classed with its reporting authority."
You can do better Forbes. "
Nice try, though.
And another comment.
"Mr. Taylor, I hate to have to inform you that your article is useless. You do nothing to explore the climate change narrative or the vast amount of data sets that exist. Good work at being a poor journalist. The Antarctic Sea Ice issue isn’t an issue at all. Sea Ice isn’t even a concern. Sea Ice sits atop water and doesn’t add to rising sea levels or large climate effects. Arctic Sea Ice (as you ignore) overwhelmingly has been decreasing far faster than your Antarctic Sea Ice graph shows an increase. I pray you don’t consider yourself a journalist and thanks for yet another article that needlessly adds confusion to crystal clear data."
The best one:
"I came here hoping to read about science, and instead got a biased political spin story about biased political spin in the media. Nothing to see here, a waste of time."
Have you no google, LLR?
http://deepclimate.org/2012/06/21/heartlands-james-taylor-hits-new-low-w...
Here is a great article ripping into your author, James Taylor.
I'm sticking to my "sore
I'm sticking to my "sore loser" comment.
Seriously, the President being a leader, Southie, that is your opinion
and you are sticking with it and I accept that.
However, avoiding problems and blaming Senators
for asking questions about Benghazi is not
being a leader. Of course, that is my opinion.
I thought you would be offended when he defended
" the U.N. Amb." ..
OUCH
That is what I think when I hear the President say "I got".
and all the ahhhhh's and uhhhhh's, but he is the best
speaker and a leader so they say.
I noticed the "irregardless" also, but usually don't comment
as I also make grammer and spelling errors. But, Purposed,
good you pointed that out to Mr. Know it all.
red pencil
Southie, captron, let's get our red pencils out and start nit-picking the spelling and grammar mistakes. Petty is as petty does.
(Ok Purposed, let me have it again!)
Don't waste your time
FNB & SML & Others, don't waste your time on anything involving Captron. Everything he puts on this site is lame-brain. I'll bet he doesn't even have a GED.
But Charlie
He carries a gun on an airline!! So he say's. Now don't that make ya feel safe??
I know
I know Purposed, lol. Reminds me of the English teacher that I had in P.L. in the 70's,(aging myself too) she would be turning over in her grave.
She had no tolerance for the word "ain't." I can still hear her screeching at a kid.
During a spelling bee, she asked a boy "how do you spell relief?" That kid had the nerve to say "R O L A I D S." He was kicked out of her class for the rest of the semester. NO one laughed, too darned scared to. My how times have changed. (sigh)
Southie,
you got to start taking a chill pill, I wasn't disputing your information at all. I was merely posting another article on the same subject and if you would have bothered to "Google" anything you would have found a similar article in Nat. Geo.
Geez you people are thinned skinned!
Why would you print such fallacious and unscientific
material? I am just curious if you have a serious interest in the subject or not?
Perhaps you could spell out your purpose in the future and let us know it is supposed to be a meaningless unfounded article and we won't bother to read it.
She's getting
shrill again. Quit exciting her LLR.
Com'On south
Did you see todays paper? Lack of sea ice. It is pretty obvious as to why the ice is melting. The walrus are to fat!! They crawl up on the ice & sink it into the water & it melts. All we have to do to fix it is have michelle o put them on her school lunch program(diet) & poof problem solved.
BTW
Did any of you watch last season's Deadliest catch?? They said it was the most ice in the Bering sea in more than 40 yrs. Now that is the Capt's I will believe. NOT the one on here.
Hey OFB
The planet has got a little sag in it over in the NE Brainerd area also. Maybe that's why it's such a hot topic around this area.
FNB
You don't think she's getting tightie whiteys do ya. Maybe her spandex is cutting off her circulation. Instead of looking at little boys underwear, she should work on her own. Ya Know, loosen up a little bit.
Here's Southie's problem
You can only have a serious discussion if you agree only with her/his side of the story and you only accept her/his information as factual. The liberals are more than happy to have you in the fold as long as you don't try to interject anything that doesn't follow their gospel. Damn what a miserable life to lead!
Who's
Who's tighty whities or speedo's are in a bunch now?
Some people are just miserable enough to talk about someone like they aren't there or not reading.
Sometimes it's just easier to say someone is wrong and give them a thumb down. I don't agree with F&B and OFB all the time, but I don't call them righties, or say they lead miserable lives, because I don't know and I don't have the right to say they do.
Like I said " Sore
Like I said " Sore winners".
Nan -- I like the story about your English teacher.
One of my pet peeves is hearing people in stores say, "these ones" or "those ones".
Look at "those ones".
I'm a gentleman Nan,
so I didn't tell stories from the past in the Nisswa/Pequot area!
Thank you
Thank you F&B. I'm not nervous, I didn't do anything wrong in the Pequot/Nisswa areas :) Did you?lol
No
just teasing you!
LOL