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Article Xxxii
Topic Started: Jun 10 2008, 12:17 PM (779 Views)
JFK	Jun 10 2008, 12:17 PM Post #1
Posts: 4,220 Group: Admins Member #108 Joined: 01/17/08	ARTICLE XXXII MISLEADING CONGRESS AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, SYTEMATICALLY UNDERMINING EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed", has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, ignored the peril to life and property posed by global climate change, manipulated scientific information and mishandled protective policy, constituting nonfeasance and malfeasance in office, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, and deception of Congress and the American people. President Bush knew the expected effects of climate change and the role of human activities in driving climate change. This knowledge preceded his first Presidential term. 1. During his 2000 Presidential campaign, he promised to regulate carbon dioxide emissions. 2. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a global body of hundreds of the world's foremost experts on climate change, concluded that "most of observed warming over last 50 years (is) likely due to increases in greenhouse gas concentrations due to human activities." The Third Assessment Report projected several effects of climate change such as continued "widespread retreat" of glaciers, an "increase threats to human health, particularly in lower income populations, predominantly within tropical/subtropical countries," and "water shortages." 3. The grave danger to national security posed by global climate change was recognized by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Planning Research Projects Agency in October of 2003. An agencycommissioned report "explores how such an abrupt climate change scenario could potentially destabilize the geo-political environment, leading to skirmishes, battles, and even war due to resource constraints such as: 1) Food shortages due to decreases in net global agricultural production 2) Decreased availability and quality of fresh water in key regions due to shifted precipitation patters, causing more frequent floods and droughts 3) Disrupted access to energy supplies due to extensive sea ice and storminess." 4. A December 2004 paper in Science reviewed 928 studies published in peer reviewed journals to determine the number providing evidence against the existence of a link between anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and climate change. "Remarkably, none of the papers disagreed with the consensus position." 5. The November 2007 Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report showed that global anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses have increased 70% between 1970 and 2004, and anthropogenic emissions are very likely the cause of global climate change. The report concluded that global climate change could cause the extinction of 20 to 30 percent of species in unique ecosystems such as the polar areas and biodiversity hotspots, increase extreme weather events especially in the developing world, and have adverse effects on food production and fresh water availability. The President has done little to address this most serious of problems, thus constituting an abuse of power and criminal neglect. He has also actively endeavored to undermine efforts by the federal government, states, and other nations to take action on their own. 1. In March 2001, President Bush announced the U.S. would not be pursuing ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an international effort to reduce greenhouse gasses. The United States is the only industrialized nation that has failed to ratify the accord. 2. In March0f 2008, Representative Henry Waxman wrote to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson: "In August 2003, the Bush Administration denied a petition to regulate CO2 emissions from motor vehicles by deciding that CO2 was not a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In April 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled that determination in Massachusetts v. EPA. The Supreme Court wrote that 'If EPA makes a finding of endangerment, the Clean Air Act requires the agency to regulate emissions of the deleterious pollutant from new motor vehicles.' The EPA then conducted an extensive investigation involving 60-70 staff who concluded that 'CO2 emissions endanger both human health and welfare.' These findings were submitted to the White House, after which work on the findings and the required regulations was halted." 3. A Memo to Members of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 19, 2008 stated "The record before the Committee shows: (1) the career staff at EPA unanimously supported granting California's petition (to be allowed to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks, consistent with California state law); (2) Stephen Johnson, the Administrator of EPA, also supported granting California's petition at least in part; and (3) Administrator Johnson reversed his position after communications with officials in the White House." The President has suppressed the release of scientific information related to global climate change, an action which undermines Congress' ability to legislate and provide oversight, and which has thwarted efforts to prevent global climate change despite the serious threat that it poses. 1. In February, 2001, ExxonMobil wrote a memo to the White House outlining ways to influence the outcome of the Third Assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The memo opposed the reelection of Dr. Robert Watson as the IPCC Chair. The White House then supported an opposition candidate, who was subsequently elected to replace Dr. Watson. 2. The New York Times on January 29, 2006, reported that James Hansen, NASA's senior climate scientist was warned of "dire consequences" if he continued to speak out about global climate change and the need for reducing emissions of associated gasses. The Times also reported that: "At climate laboratories of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for example, many scientists who routinely took calls from reporters five years ago can now do so only if the interview is approved by administration officials in Washington, and then only if a public affairs officer is present or on the phone." 3. In December of 2007, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a report based on 16 months of investigation and 27,000 pages of documentation. According to the summary: "The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policy makers and the public about the dangers of global warming." The report described how the White House appointed former petroleum industry lobbyist Phil Cooney as head of the Council on Environmental Quality. The report states "There was a systematic White House effort to minimize the significance of climate change by editing climate change reports. CEQ Chief of Staff Phil Cooney and other CEQ officials made at least 294 edits to the Administration's Strategic Plan of the Climate Change Science Program to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to de-emphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming." 4. On April 23, 2008, Representative Henry Waxman wrote a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson. In it he reported: "Almost 1,600 EPA scientists completed the Union of Concerned Scientists survey questionnaire. Over 22 percent of these scientists reported that 'selective or incomplete use of data to justify a specific regulatory outcome' occurred 'frequently' or 'occasionally' at EPA. Ninety-four EPA scientists reported being frequently or occasionally directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from an EPA scientific document. Nearly 200 EPA scientists said that they have frequently or occasionally been in situations in which scientists have actively objected to, resigned from or removed themselves from a project because of pressure to change scientific findings." In all of these actions and decisions, President George W. Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office. Go back to the INDEX. Edited by JFK, Jun 10 2008, 03:11 PM.
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Sureshot	Jun 11 2008, 09:49 AM Post #2
Your glorious Loose Change Forum dictator... Posts: 415 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: 12/21/07	This is the one I don't agree with. Just because of my beliefs on global climate change.



JFK	Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM Post #3
Posts: 4,220 Group: Admins Member #108 Joined: 01/17/08	I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. In the '60s I remember snowstorms commonly happening with drifts being 10-12 feet high. Today a 3 foot drift is very uncommon where I live. Summers seem hotter and humider, and they seem to be starting earlier and ending later also.
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tower	Jun 11 2008, 10:33 AM Post #4
Posts: 233 Group: Members Member #121 Joined: 01/18/08	JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. Noone's saying there is none, the point is it's not man made.
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Chris Sarns	Jun 12 2008, 04:58 AM Post #5
Posts: 173 Group: Members Member #116 Joined: 01/17/08	tower Jun 11 2008, 10:33 AM JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. Noone's saying there is none, the point is it's not man made. Who have you been listening to? Bush/Fox? You have just made the case for impeachment. You have been misled about a critically important, life and death issue. Union of Concerned Scientists: February 19, 2004 More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad. According to the report, the Bush administration has misrepresented scientific consensus on global warming, censored at least one report on climate change, manipulated scientific findings on the emissions of mercury from power plants and suppressed information on condom use. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9A00E2DD133DF93AA25751C0A9629C8B63 *************************************** Carbon dioxide is a 'greenhouse gas', that is, it retains the suns heat. We are now experiencing what scientists have been saying for decades. The copious amount of carbon dioxide we are producing is warming up the planet. There are other things that effect global warming but that does not alter the FACT that our contribution to global warming is significant and it is tipping the balance of nature. The polar ice caps, the Greenland ice sheet and glaciers world wide are melting at an increasing rate. Misleading the public and thus delaying the dramatic action necessary to minimize the harm to future generations is a crime against humanity. Only those who profit from oil, and those who believe them, say otherwise.
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Headspin	Jun 12 2008, 05:46 AM Post #6
Posts: 975 Group: Members Member #252 Joined: 01/31/08	Chris Sarns Jun 12 2008, 04:58 AM tower Jun 11 2008, 10:33 AM JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. Noone's saying there is none, the point is it's not man made. Who have you been listening to? Bush/Fox? You have just made the case for impeachment. You have been misled about a critically important, life and death issue. Union of Concerned Scientists: February 19, 2004 More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad. According to the report, the Bush administration has misrepresented scientific consensus on global warming, censored at least one report on climate change, manipulated scientific findings on the emissions of mercury from power plants and suppressed information on condom use. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=9A00E2DD133DF93AA25751C0A9629C8B63 *************************************** Carbon dioxide is a 'greenhouse gas', that is, it retains the suns heat. We are now experiencing what scientists have been saying for decades. The copious amount of carbon dioxide we are producing is warming up the planet. There are other things that effect global warming but that does not alter the FACT that our contribution to global warming is significant and it is tipping the balance of nature. The polar ice caps, the Greenland ice sheet and glaciers world wide are melting at an increasing rate. Misleading the public and thus delaying the dramatic action necessary to minimize the harm to future generations is a crime against humanity. Only those who profit from oil, and those who believe them, say otherwise. 30,000 scientists reject man made global warming hypothesis http://tinyurl.com/4knouf It matters not how many scientists agree or disagree with you, what matters is what you (or a single scientist) can prove, otherwise you are just spouting a political opinion. Quote: the FACT that our contribution to global warming is significant and it is tipping the balance of nature" what made you think it was a FACT? Quote: Only those who profit from oil, and those who believe them, say otherwise. Al Gore owns a big slice of the oil industry and the oil companies and bankers are behind a lot of the global warming hysteria. They are whipping up a frenzy in order to enrich themselves, which means you will be a lot poorer.
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Headspin	Jun 12 2008, 06:10 AM Post #7
Posts: 975 Group: Members Member #252 Joined: 01/31/08	Chris Sarns Jun 12 2008, 04:58 AM We are now experiencing what scientists have been saying for decades. the sun has disappeared just as the myan priests said would happen if we did not pay more taxes to build bigger temples. Quote: You have been misled about a critically important, life and death issue the sun will not come back unless we chop off heads to appease the gods.
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tower	Jun 12 2008, 09:52 AM Post #8
Posts: 233 Group: Members Member #121 Joined: 01/18/08	Quote: Who have you been listening to? Bush/Fox? You have just made the case for impeachment. You have been misled about a critically important, life and death issue. Union of Concerned Scientists: February 19, 2004 More than 60 influential scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, issued a statement yesterday asserting that the Bush administration had systematically distorted scientific fact in the service of policy goals on the environment, health, biomedical research and nuclear weaponry at home and abroad. 31 000 scientists disagree. http://www.oism.org/pproject/ Quote: Carbon dioxide is a 'greenhouse gas', that is, it retains the suns heat. We are now experiencing what scientists have been saying for decades. The copious amount of carbon dioxide we are producing is warming up the planet. You're parroting the same hysteria you're being fed by mainstream media. We're producing the amount of carbon dioxide comparable to a statistical error when compared to the output of the oceans (90 Gigatons per year), vegetation (100 Gigatons per year) and others. Quote: There are other things that effect global warming but that does not alter the FACT that our contribution to global warming is significant and it is tipping the balance of nature. A completely unsubstantiated statement, parroting the latest trend - global ecologic hysteria. Quote: The polar ice caps, the Greenland ice sheet and glaciers world wide are melting at an increasing rate. Not only that, they were melting (and freezing again) hundreds of thousands of years before humans appeared! What's more is that they are constantly either receding or advancing. But knowing that would require you to read something other than overemotional newspaper articles. Quote: Misleading the public and thus delaying the dramatic action necessary to minimize the harm to future generations is a crime against humanity. Surely that's the way you see it, being all emotional and misinformed. I bet someone will try to make every rationally thinking person a nazi, sooner or later, but I am not commiting a crime against humanity, and you have not presented any arguments to support your case except for hysteria and aching to emotions. Quote: Only those who profit from oil, and those who believe them, say otherwise. Again, you have no idea what you're talking about. http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/news_features_20070601_climate.aspx Those who profit from oil are the same people who will profit from hysteria and mindless crowds throwing themselves into their hands practically begging for yet another tax.
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Headspin	Jun 12 2008, 10:02 AM Post #9
Posts: 975 Group: Members Member #252 Joined: 01/31/08	I saw some calculations that show a persons lungs produce more carbon dioxide than the average car engine. maybe if those bankers that are going to take a cut of those hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of carbon trading credits stopped breathing for a few hours, t'would help the planet a little.
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Domenick DiMaggio	Jun 13 2008, 01:09 AM Post #10
Posts: 2,005 Group: Members Member #22 Joined: 01/14/08	JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. In the '60s I remember snowstorms commonly happening with drifts being 10-12 feet high. Today a 3 foot drift is very uncommon where I live. Summers seem hotter and humider, and they seem to be starting earlier and ending later also. i must say in western pa it would start snowing round thanksgiving and not stop til mid to end of march. now we get 3 weeks of ice storms in february.......
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JFK	Jun 14 2008, 11:49 PM Post #11
Posts: 4,220 Group: Admins Member #108 Joined: 01/17/08	Domenick DiMaggio Jun 13 2008, 01:09 AM JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. In the '60s I remember snowstorms commonly happening with drifts being 10-12 feet high. Today a 3 foot drift is very uncommon where I live. Summers seem hotter and humider, and they seem to be starting earlier and ending later also. i must say in western pa it would start snowing round thanksgiving and not stop til mid to end of march. now we get 3 weeks of ice storms in february....... Yeah, I remember looking forward to that snow as deer hunting season usually started Thanksgiving week when I was growing up in the Corning, NY area.
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look-up	Jun 20 2008, 08:45 AM Post #12
Posts: 1,642 Group: Admins Member #63 Joined: 01/15/08	tower Jun 11 2008, 10:33 AM JFK Jun 11 2008, 10:00 AM I am undecided as to the cause, but there is global climate change happening. Noone's saying there is none, the point is it's not man made. I don't know... I haven't seen anything get warmer... we still only have a few 90+ degree days in the summer in MI. we still get tons of rain, and this winter had more snow and it stuck around for much longer than the previous five years... it's June and the temperature is below average. the icecaps at the poles melt and they show you those images. they don't show you what they look like when they freeze again. remember that.
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look-up	Jun 20 2008, 08:48 AM Post #13
Posts: 1,642 Group: Admins Member #63 Joined: 01/15/08	Headspin Jun 12 2008, 10:02 AM I saw some calculations that show a persons lungs produce more carbon dioxide than the average car engine. maybe if those bankers that are going to take a cut of those hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of carbon trading credits stopped breathing for a few hours, t'would help the planet a little. well that's why they focus on things like that... to make humanity the enemy so we can be controlled. humanity is not destroying Earth. not by a long shot. I would be much more worried about nukes than man-bear-pig, I mean global warming.
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datman	Jun 20 2008, 10:20 PM Post #14
Posts: 112 Group: Members Member #137 Joined: 01/19/08	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsIFspVzfI&feature=related I'm not sure how I believe but this guy make since, to me
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