for all the doubters out there, you\’ll see that more scientists agree that we are experiencing global warming, most believe that man\’s contibution can\’t be discounted, and many beleive that man is to blame. Whether or not man is to blame, man can certainly help.
IPCC Report Confirms Widespread Impact of Global Warming
April 6, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its \”Fourth Assessment of Working Group II,\” which updates past studies and sets forth the \”current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability,\” the IPCC said in a summary of its findings. \”It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the Third Assessment.\”
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That report is ancient history. It was issued in 2001, when there were still many in the scientific community who still questioned the existence of a global warming trend and the seriousness of the impacts it might have. Six years later that\’s no longer the case. No serious scientist today disputes the existence of global warming, even though its potential impact remains the subject of continued analysis.
The IPCC was unequivocal. It stated: \”Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.\” The report cites the following examples — all of which are well documented with scientific studies:
— Changes in snow, ice and frozen ground (including permafrost);
— increased run-off and earlier spring peak discharge in many glacier- and snow-fed rivers;
— warming of lakes and rivers in many regions, with effects on thermal structure and water quality;
— earlier timing of spring events, such as leaf-unfolding, bird migration and egg-laying;
— poleward and upward shifts in ranges in plant and animal species;
— shifts in ranges and changes in algal, plankton and fish abundance in high-latitude oceans;
— increases in algal and zooplankton abundance in high-latitude and high-altitude lakes;
— range changes and earlier migrations of fish in rivers.
Under the category of \”Other effects of regional climate changes on natural and human environments,\” which are harder to gauge, a partial list of the IPCC\’s report includes an analysis of the following:
— Effects on agricultural and forestry management at Northern Hemisphere higher latitudes, such as earlier spring planting of crops, and alterations in disturbance regimes of forests due to fires and pests;
— some aspects of human health, such as heat-related mortality in Europe, infectious disease vectors in some areas, and allergenic pollen in Northern Hemisphere high and mid-latitudes;
— some human activities in the Arctic (e.g., hunting and travel over snow and ice) and in lower elevation alpine areas (such as mountain sports);
— settlements in mountain regions are at enhanced risk to glacier lake outburst floods caused by melting glaciers. Governmental institutions in some places have begun to respond by building dams and drainage works;
— in the Sahelian region of Africa, warmer and drier conditions have led to a reduced length of growing season with detrimental effects on crops. In southern Africa, longer dry seasons and more uncertain rainfall are prompting adaptation measures;
— sea-level rise and human development are together contributing to losses of coastal wetlands and mangroves and increasing damage from coastal flooding in many areas.
The last observation should be of particular concern to the insurance industry, as it is in the front line as far as underwriting the ever increasing risks inherent in rising seal levels and coastal development. For a thoroug analysis of the impact climate change potentially has on the industry consult Lloyds \’\’360 Report,\” which is detailed in the following article.
The IPCC also warns of the impact of a flood/drought scenario. \”By mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10 to 40 percent at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas.\” But they are also expected to \”decrease by 10 to 30 percent over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently \’water stressed\’ areas.\” In sum: \”Drought-affected areas will likely increase in extent. Heavy precipitation events, which are very likely to increase in frequency, will augment flood risk.\”
The IPCC also documents the deleterious effects of carbon dioxide emissions. It warns that \”over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before mid-century and then weaken or even reverse, thus amplifying climate change.\” As a result \”approximately 20 to30 percent of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5°-2.5°C [2.7° to 4.5°F]. The changes will effect \”ecosystem structure and function, species\’ ecological interactions, and species\’ geographic ranges, with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity, and ecosystem goods and services e.g., water and food supply.\”
The list goes on, and it\’s not good news. For instance the IPCC predicts a growth in cases of malaria, the second biggest killer of young children after malnutrition/starvation, as the mosquitoes that carry the disease extend their range.
Africa is in fact the area in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Not only will the effects be more pronounced on the Continent, but it is also the least economically developed and consequently in the worst position to take remunerative measures.
In its analysis of the potential impact on North America the IPPC notes: \”Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rainfed agriculture by 5 to 20 percent, but with important variability among regions.
\”Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources. Warming in western mountains is projected to cause decreased snow pack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for over-allocated water resources.
\”Disturbances from pests, diseases, and fire are projected to have increasing impacts on forests, with an extended period of high fire risk and large increases in area burned.
\”Cities that currently experience heat waves are expected to be further challenged by an increased number, intensity and duration of heat waves during the course of the century, with potential for adverse health impacts. The growing number of the elderly population is most at risk.
\”Coastal communities and habitats will be increasingly stressed by climate change impacts interacting with development and pollution. Population growth and the rising value of infrastructure in coastal areas increase vulnerability to climate variability and future climate change, with losses projected to increase if the intensity of tropical storms increases. Current adaptation is uneven and readiness for increased exposure is low.\”
Although there will be some benefits accruing from the rise in global temperature — Europe had its mildest winter in recent memory — the overall effect of climate change is exactly what it says — Change is coming for all of us. If you want to understand it a bit more log on to the IPCC web site at: http://www.ipcc.ch. If you want to access the summary of the report go to: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf.
OK, let\’s be clear here…Gore is not claiming humans cause global warming, nor is he claiming that humans can prevent global warming. Chilly, Mike and others should really read up on what is he is saying.
Now if we want to debate Dr. Gray\’s accusations, we can and I will. But first we have to start with a logical basis and we seem to be missing each other.
You confused my email with another one preceding mine; I, too, support Dr. Gray\’s position. (Re-read Joe\’s original email.) No one knows what causes climate and weather patterns to change long term; well, except for Al Gore.
Joe # 2: You\’ve missed the point; the human contribtution (even by the U.N.\’s report) is too small to tip the scale. While developing alternative sources of energy is a good idea, right now, very few in the upper middle class could handle the cost of conversation, let alone the middle and below classes. Such developments will occur more quickly in a market environment, than by goverment decree.
This actually is how it happened with other environmental issues that many people wrongly attribute to governmental action. In fact, just last week, a book was published on capitalism and environmental issues. But, hey, you don\’t need to read a book; look at what governmental solutions have brought to the former USSR and China and other authoritarian and totalitarian countries: they have the worst environmental records; it\’d be no different with the US if the government becomes involved with handling this matter.
Yes I did and not one piece of information stating causes a/o solutions. The only thing the article states is that something needs to be done and by gosh were going to do it. Well I need a better answer than \”because I said so\”. (ahem) Now I have asked two simple questions and not even one attempt at an answer.
You are to afraid to place your name? You are a wimp with big glasses, small mouth and full of hot air! You would never know if the world\’s climate is changing because you are probably that fat guy that sits on his couch quarterbacking! Aren\’t you! CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSED BY IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU. You guys call yourself \”Conservative\” Ha! That word means that you can not think out of your little tiny box in live in and you are probably the type that would abandon woman and children to save your big \”A!\” Shame, you don\’t see anything beyond your beer, porn and hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!
John,
My real name is John, also. I am a card carrying Liberal Democrat also. Vote Democratic and vote often I say. As you can see we are a lot alike. However I poke fun at our own while you and Libs like you spew out of control meaness and hate toward others.
The following is something you hateful NeoLibbies need to see. Your hateful spewings are why we have already lost the momentum of the last mid term election. If fellow Dems & Libs keep on spewing we will loose in 2008 to the more balanced sounding right. Please understand that making fun of our own party will make us better. Al Gore lost. Get over it! We lost again in 2004 because we were not over it. Your comments will help lose 2008. Here is a good example of unleashed Liberals barking up the wrong tree. Try actually reading this. You obviously missed it the first time.
April 09, 2007, 6:00 a.m.
National Review Online
Where\’s the Tolerance?
Hateful reactions from the Left.
By Deroy Murdock
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) recently generated headlines when it announced that former Vice President Al Gore\’s Nashville estate \”devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours\” of electricity in 2006, \”more than 20 times the national average.\” This free-market think tank\’s phones lit up when it analyzed Nashville Electric Service\’s public records and identified an inconvenient gap between Gore\’s conservationism and his energy consumption. TCPR\’s one-page press release was greeted with enough megawatts of hatred to power the South.
\”I was accused several times of being a \’stupid, redneck *****,\’\” recalls TCPR\’s vice president Nicole Williams, who fielded numerous calls. \”I repeatedly was called a \’*****\’ and asked \’Whose ***** are you?\’ for three days straight, almost as if those were talking points… I was shocked by these sexist insults — basically attacking my gender.\”
The calls continued beyond Williams\’s Nashville office.
\”I had to change my home number and get an unlisted number,\” Williams tells me. \”I got about 10 death threats by phone that made an impression on me. I got the \’I\’m gonna get you\’-type threats more than 100 times…I was worried that I would get shot walking to my car.\” Williams discovered her obsolete address posted online. \”If they could find my old home address, it would not be so hard to find a current one.\”
Gore\’s defenders also spewed venomous e-mails. They sent TCPR nearly 3,000 Gore-related messages that exhibited the very bigotry the Left routinely denounces. Warning: These offensive, often-vulgar, and occasionally unschooled comments reveal the vitriol behind much of today\’s \”progressive\” rhetoric.
Many e-mails displayed Dixiephobia — an intense disdain for the south and southerners.
After TCPR President Drew Johnson discussed his story on cable news, Kevin Lafferty objected: \”Johnson said Gore\’s home has gas lamps lining his driveway, a heated pool and an electric gate — all of which would be easy to do without. Well sure, that\’s easy enough for you to say when you live in a frickin mobile home in Tennessee, eh Johnson?\”
\”F**k you, and for that matter, f**k Tennessee,\” wrote Thomas Brown. \”I\’ll never go there again.\”
\”Why don\’t you all go back to shooting one another across the hollows instead of trying to make people think anyone in Tennessee has an ounce of intelligence?\” Roger Miller insisted. \”Or better yet, get your snaggle tooth grins capped and learn to read and write…Someone who\’s traveled the world here, and never ever wants to even fly across your state again.\”
\”W.T.F. difference would it make if he was [sic] using 1000 times more energy than the average household if it came from clean energy?\” Thomas Grinnell wondered. \”Don\’t think about that too much. It will give your southern mullet a headache.\”
\”You really should concentrate on what Southerners do best,\” D. Hunter advised. \”Sodomizing and impregnating little children!\”
\”You are the most despicable and pathetic types of people of all time,\” Christopher LaBarge declared. \”I hope you all die slowly and have your hearts and brains trampled to pieces you small-minded, ignorant, backwoods ideologues.\”
\”Well it\’s like I\’ve always said, \’we should have flattened the South when we had the chance!\” wrote Mount Laurel, New Jersey\’s Robert Dodelin. \”If ever you confederates [sic] want to leave the Union please do. We Nothen [sic] states would love to stop having to subsidize you with our tax dollars.\”
This anti-southernism mystifies TCPR\’s Johnson.
\”Some people must believe the Mason-Dixon Line runs between our office and Gore\’s mansion,\” Johnson says. \”No one would call Gore a redneck, but when we uncovered his hypocritical energy use, it somehow made me a sister-dating hillbilly. That\’s quite amusing, since Gore and I live in Nashville, less than five miles apart.\”
Some e-mails, like Benjamin Greuel\’s, reflected anti-religious bias: \”Go f**k yourselves you neo con, non-secular, bible thumpin, anti-science dumb f**k pricks.\” Similarly, Anthony Black wrote:
You bunch of stupid hick red-necks. I am sure you are quite religious, yet you have no problem destroying His creation with pollution; and, rather than addressing that, you cast dispersions [sic] on Al Gore\’s home energy use. Absurd.
Seriously, find one of those nice Tennessee hardwoods, get a nice stick from it, and stick it up your white-bread ignorant a**.
Have a nice day, you ignorant red-neck.
\”How about you have a do [sic] humanity a favor and have a stroke,\” Russ Smith recommended. \”You silly metrosexual twit, need some more hi-lites in your hair?\”
Another gay-hater wrote: \”You guys are the faggiest fags I\’ve ever come across. How do you get any work done, what with all the c**k sucking and such?\”
\”Keep licking Bush and Cheney\’s privates,\” Burton Ogle suggested. \”Your time is up and we\’re moving you\’re a**es out.\”
Two e-mails feature chillingly violent imagery.
\”You people are such slime,\” T. J. Williams noted. \”You are a total waste of skin and air. Help the environment and jump off a cliff.\”
Bob Beaver urged: \”Find a hole and stick a knife in it.\”
Such anti-intellectual intimidation reflects the high-octane hate that fuels so much Leftist discourse. Rather than simply argue that Johnson, Williams, and their colleagues are misguided or misinformed about global warming, these bullies call them barefoot, same-sex-loving, Winchester-wielding whores, and evangel-yokels. Remember this whenever liberals crow about diversity, tolerance, and open-mindedness.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution.
Ok, we see that John is big and brave by putting his first name. I bet Johnnie (as in the toilet) usually hangs out on the Huffington blog. Go back over there Johnnie.
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for all the doubters out there, you\’ll see that more scientists agree that we are experiencing global warming, most believe that man\’s contibution can\’t be discounted, and many beleive that man is to blame. Whether or not man is to blame, man can certainly help.
IPCC Report Confirms Widespread Impact of Global Warming
April 6, 2007
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its \”Fourth Assessment of Working Group II,\” which updates past studies and sets forth the \”current scientific understanding of impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability,\” the IPCC said in a summary of its findings. \”It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the Third Assessment.\”
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That report is ancient history. It was issued in 2001, when there were still many in the scientific community who still questioned the existence of a global warming trend and the seriousness of the impacts it might have. Six years later that\’s no longer the case. No serious scientist today disputes the existence of global warming, even though its potential impact remains the subject of continued analysis.
The IPCC was unequivocal. It stated: \”Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.\” The report cites the following examples — all of which are well documented with scientific studies:
— Changes in snow, ice and frozen ground (including permafrost);
— increased run-off and earlier spring peak discharge in many glacier- and snow-fed rivers;
— warming of lakes and rivers in many regions, with effects on thermal structure and water quality;
— earlier timing of spring events, such as leaf-unfolding, bird migration and egg-laying;
— poleward and upward shifts in ranges in plant and animal species;
— shifts in ranges and changes in algal, plankton and fish abundance in high-latitude oceans;
— increases in algal and zooplankton abundance in high-latitude and high-altitude lakes;
— range changes and earlier migrations of fish in rivers.
Under the category of \”Other effects of regional climate changes on natural and human environments,\” which are harder to gauge, a partial list of the IPCC\’s report includes an analysis of the following:
— Effects on agricultural and forestry management at Northern Hemisphere higher latitudes, such as earlier spring planting of crops, and alterations in disturbance regimes of forests due to fires and pests;
— some aspects of human health, such as heat-related mortality in Europe, infectious disease vectors in some areas, and allergenic pollen in Northern Hemisphere high and mid-latitudes;
— some human activities in the Arctic (e.g., hunting and travel over snow and ice) and in lower elevation alpine areas (such as mountain sports);
— settlements in mountain regions are at enhanced risk to glacier lake outburst floods caused by melting glaciers. Governmental institutions in some places have begun to respond by building dams and drainage works;
— in the Sahelian region of Africa, warmer and drier conditions have led to a reduced length of growing season with detrimental effects on crops. In southern Africa, longer dry seasons and more uncertain rainfall are prompting adaptation measures;
— sea-level rise and human development are together contributing to losses of coastal wetlands and mangroves and increasing damage from coastal flooding in many areas.
The last observation should be of particular concern to the insurance industry, as it is in the front line as far as underwriting the ever increasing risks inherent in rising seal levels and coastal development. For a thoroug analysis of the impact climate change potentially has on the industry consult Lloyds \’\’360 Report,\” which is detailed in the following article.
The IPCC also warns of the impact of a flood/drought scenario. \”By mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10 to 40 percent at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas.\” But they are also expected to \”decrease by 10 to 30 percent over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently \’water stressed\’ areas.\” In sum: \”Drought-affected areas will likely increase in extent. Heavy precipitation events, which are very likely to increase in frequency, will augment flood risk.\”
The IPCC also documents the deleterious effects of carbon dioxide emissions. It warns that \”over the course of this century net carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems is likely to peak before mid-century and then weaken or even reverse, thus amplifying climate change.\” As a result \”approximately 20 to30 percent of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5°-2.5°C [2.7° to 4.5°F]. The changes will effect \”ecosystem structure and function, species\’ ecological interactions, and species\’ geographic ranges, with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity, and ecosystem goods and services e.g., water and food supply.\”
The list goes on, and it\’s not good news. For instance the IPCC predicts a growth in cases of malaria, the second biggest killer of young children after malnutrition/starvation, as the mosquitoes that carry the disease extend their range.
Africa is in fact the area in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Not only will the effects be more pronounced on the Continent, but it is also the least economically developed and consequently in the worst position to take remunerative measures.
In its analysis of the potential impact on North America the IPPC notes: \”Moderate climate change in the early decades of the century is projected to increase aggregate yields of rainfed agriculture by 5 to 20 percent, but with important variability among regions.
\”Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources. Warming in western mountains is projected to cause decreased snow pack, more winter flooding, and reduced summer flows, exacerbating competition for over-allocated water resources.
\”Disturbances from pests, diseases, and fire are projected to have increasing impacts on forests, with an extended period of high fire risk and large increases in area burned.
\”Cities that currently experience heat waves are expected to be further challenged by an increased number, intensity and duration of heat waves during the course of the century, with potential for adverse health impacts. The growing number of the elderly population is most at risk.
\”Coastal communities and habitats will be increasingly stressed by climate change impacts interacting with development and pollution. Population growth and the rising value of infrastructure in coastal areas increase vulnerability to climate variability and future climate change, with losses projected to increase if the intensity of tropical storms increases. Current adaptation is uneven and readiness for increased exposure is low.\”
Although there will be some benefits accruing from the rise in global temperature — Europe had its mildest winter in recent memory — the overall effect of climate change is exactly what it says — Change is coming for all of us. If you want to understand it a bit more log on to the IPCC web site at: http://www.ipcc.ch. If you want to access the summary of the report go to: http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf.
OH MY GOD, I\’M GONNA DIE!!!!
OK, let\’s be clear here…Gore is not claiming humans cause global warming, nor is he claiming that humans can prevent global warming. Chilly, Mike and others should really read up on what is he is saying.
Now if we want to debate Dr. Gray\’s accusations, we can and I will. But first we have to start with a logical basis and we seem to be missing each other.
You confused my email with another one preceding mine; I, too, support Dr. Gray\’s position. (Re-read Joe\’s original email.) No one knows what causes climate and weather patterns to change long term; well, except for Al Gore.
Joe # 2: You\’ve missed the point; the human contribtution (even by the U.N.\’s report) is too small to tip the scale. While developing alternative sources of energy is a good idea, right now, very few in the upper middle class could handle the cost of conversation, let alone the middle and below classes. Such developments will occur more quickly in a market environment, than by goverment decree.
This actually is how it happened with other environmental issues that many people wrongly attribute to governmental action. In fact, just last week, a book was published on capitalism and environmental issues. But, hey, you don\’t need to read a book; look at what governmental solutions have brought to the former USSR and China and other authoritarian and totalitarian countries: they have the worst environmental records; it\’d be no different with the US if the government becomes involved with handling this matter.
Please send me a question you would like me to answer. I am totally confused on what you are claiming about Dr Gray
Yes I did and not one piece of information stating causes a/o solutions. The only thing the article states is that something needs to be done and by gosh were going to do it. Well I need a better answer than \”because I said so\”. (ahem) Now I have asked two simple questions and not even one attempt at an answer.
You are to afraid to place your name? You are a wimp with big glasses, small mouth and full of hot air! You would never know if the world\’s climate is changing because you are probably that fat guy that sits on his couch quarterbacking! Aren\’t you! CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSED BY IGNORANT PEOPLE LIKE YOU. You guys call yourself \”Conservative\” Ha! That word means that you can not think out of your little tiny box in live in and you are probably the type that would abandon woman and children to save your big \”A!\” Shame, you don\’t see anything beyond your beer, porn and hypocrisy!!!!!!!!!
John,
My real name is John, also. I am a card carrying Liberal Democrat also. Vote Democratic and vote often I say. As you can see we are a lot alike. However I poke fun at our own while you and Libs like you spew out of control meaness and hate toward others.
The following is something you hateful NeoLibbies need to see. Your hateful spewings are why we have already lost the momentum of the last mid term election. If fellow Dems & Libs keep on spewing we will loose in 2008 to the more balanced sounding right. Please understand that making fun of our own party will make us better. Al Gore lost. Get over it! We lost again in 2004 because we were not over it. Your comments will help lose 2008. Here is a good example of unleashed Liberals barking up the wrong tree. Try actually reading this. You obviously missed it the first time.
April 09, 2007, 6:00 a.m.
National Review Online
Where\’s the Tolerance?
Hateful reactions from the Left.
By Deroy Murdock
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) recently generated headlines when it announced that former Vice President Al Gore\’s Nashville estate \”devoured nearly 221,000 kilowatt-hours\” of electricity in 2006, \”more than 20 times the national average.\” This free-market think tank\’s phones lit up when it analyzed Nashville Electric Service\’s public records and identified an inconvenient gap between Gore\’s conservationism and his energy consumption. TCPR\’s one-page press release was greeted with enough megawatts of hatred to power the South.
\”I was accused several times of being a \’stupid, redneck *****,\’\” recalls TCPR\’s vice president Nicole Williams, who fielded numerous calls. \”I repeatedly was called a \’*****\’ and asked \’Whose ***** are you?\’ for three days straight, almost as if those were talking points… I was shocked by these sexist insults — basically attacking my gender.\”
The calls continued beyond Williams\’s Nashville office.
\”I had to change my home number and get an unlisted number,\” Williams tells me. \”I got about 10 death threats by phone that made an impression on me. I got the \’I\’m gonna get you\’-type threats more than 100 times…I was worried that I would get shot walking to my car.\” Williams discovered her obsolete address posted online. \”If they could find my old home address, it would not be so hard to find a current one.\”
Gore\’s defenders also spewed venomous e-mails. They sent TCPR nearly 3,000 Gore-related messages that exhibited the very bigotry the Left routinely denounces. Warning: These offensive, often-vulgar, and occasionally unschooled comments reveal the vitriol behind much of today\’s \”progressive\” rhetoric.
Many e-mails displayed Dixiephobia — an intense disdain for the south and southerners.
After TCPR President Drew Johnson discussed his story on cable news, Kevin Lafferty objected: \”Johnson said Gore\’s home has gas lamps lining his driveway, a heated pool and an electric gate — all of which would be easy to do without. Well sure, that\’s easy enough for you to say when you live in a frickin mobile home in Tennessee, eh Johnson?\”
\”F**k you, and for that matter, f**k Tennessee,\” wrote Thomas Brown. \”I\’ll never go there again.\”
\”Why don\’t you all go back to shooting one another across the hollows instead of trying to make people think anyone in Tennessee has an ounce of intelligence?\” Roger Miller insisted. \”Or better yet, get your snaggle tooth grins capped and learn to read and write…Someone who\’s traveled the world here, and never ever wants to even fly across your state again.\”
\”W.T.F. difference would it make if he was [sic] using 1000 times more energy than the average household if it came from clean energy?\” Thomas Grinnell wondered. \”Don\’t think about that too much. It will give your southern mullet a headache.\”
\”You really should concentrate on what Southerners do best,\” D. Hunter advised. \”Sodomizing and impregnating little children!\”
\”You are the most despicable and pathetic types of people of all time,\” Christopher LaBarge declared. \”I hope you all die slowly and have your hearts and brains trampled to pieces you small-minded, ignorant, backwoods ideologues.\”
\”GO-F—K-YOURSELVES! GO-F—K-YOURSELVES! GO-F**K-YOURSELVES! GO-F**K-YOURSELVES!\”
\”Well it\’s like I\’ve always said, \’we should have flattened the South when we had the chance!\” wrote Mount Laurel, New Jersey\’s Robert Dodelin. \”If ever you confederates [sic] want to leave the Union please do. We Nothen [sic] states would love to stop having to subsidize you with our tax dollars.\”
This anti-southernism mystifies TCPR\’s Johnson.
\”Some people must believe the Mason-Dixon Line runs between our office and Gore\’s mansion,\” Johnson says. \”No one would call Gore a redneck, but when we uncovered his hypocritical energy use, it somehow made me a sister-dating hillbilly. That\’s quite amusing, since Gore and I live in Nashville, less than five miles apart.\”
Some e-mails, like Benjamin Greuel\’s, reflected anti-religious bias: \”Go f**k yourselves you neo con, non-secular, bible thumpin, anti-science dumb f**k pricks.\” Similarly, Anthony Black wrote:
You bunch of stupid hick red-necks. I am sure you are quite religious, yet you have no problem destroying His creation with pollution; and, rather than addressing that, you cast dispersions [sic] on Al Gore\’s home energy use. Absurd.
Seriously, find one of those nice Tennessee hardwoods, get a nice stick from it, and stick it up your white-bread ignorant a**.
Have a nice day, you ignorant red-neck.
\”How about you have a do [sic] humanity a favor and have a stroke,\” Russ Smith recommended. \”You silly metrosexual twit, need some more hi-lites in your hair?\”
Another gay-hater wrote: \”You guys are the faggiest fags I\’ve ever come across. How do you get any work done, what with all the c**k sucking and such?\”
\”Keep licking Bush and Cheney\’s privates,\” Burton Ogle suggested. \”Your time is up and we\’re moving you\’re a**es out.\”
Two e-mails feature chillingly violent imagery.
\”You people are such slime,\” T. J. Williams noted. \”You are a total waste of skin and air. Help the environment and jump off a cliff.\”
Bob Beaver urged: \”Find a hole and stick a knife in it.\”
Such anti-intellectual intimidation reflects the high-octane hate that fuels so much Leftist discourse. Rather than simply argue that Johnson, Williams, and their colleagues are misguided or misinformed about global warming, these bullies call them barefoot, same-sex-loving, Winchester-wielding whores, and evangel-yokels. Remember this whenever liberals crow about diversity, tolerance, and open-mindedness.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution.
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National Review Online – http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDY3N2IwMDBjZDM4Nzc3NzdhMjg1YWRhOTVjYzQxZjc=
Ok, we see that John is big and brave by putting his first name. I bet Johnnie (as in the toilet) usually hangs out on the Huffington blog. Go back over there Johnnie.