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Graphic Queen wrote:
> The Next Added 100 Million
> Americans - Part 7
> A Global Warming
> By Frosty Wooldridge
> 11-9-6
>
>
> We could sit back in the old Lazy Boy lounger; press the remote, drink
> a beer and watch as the next added 100 million Americans pile up on
> our shores by 2040.  We may think that 34 years extends so far into
> the future that it's not important to take action today.  Ah shucks,
> 100 million more Americans won't be any different than the last added
> 106 million added since 1964!  Since we now house 300 million, what's
> the problem with another adding 100 million people?
>
> Short, sobering and gut wrenching answer: plenty!
>
> You may find it interesting to note in 1906, India reached 300 million
> people.  Today, demographic experts say India, at 1.1 billion, will
> out-grow China on India's way to 1.4 to as high as 1.6 billion people
> by mid century.  Both China and India have become SO accustomed to
> degraded living and human misery, they think it's normal.
>
> As the human race speeds toward its mid century destiny of a predicted
> high of 9.8 billion, I invite you to visit www.populationmedia.org to
> see a population ticker showing the number of people added to the
> planet every minute.  If you're drunk, it will sober you up.  If
> you're having coffee, it will sour your cream.  If you added sugar, it
> will taste bitter.  If you're a parent, you'll wonder what awaits your
> children.
>
> But long before we make it to mid century; and long before the United
> States reaches that next 100 million added citizens; and long before
> India and China add another 500 million each-all of us must contend
> with another threat to our existence in the 21st
> century:  global warming.
>
> Yes, you'll hear naysayers and you'll hear excuses, but I spent a
> season "on the ice" in Antarctica.  I saw global warming in action.  I
> watched the best scientists in the world report their findings. Folks,
> we're in a whole lot of trouble of our own making.
>
>
> However, some scientists negate the findings of fellow scientists!
> Professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University William
> M. Gray said, "I have closely followed the carbon dioxide warming
> arguments.  From what I have learned of how the atmosphere ticks over
> 40 years of study, I have been unable to convince myself that a
> doubling of human-induced greenhouse gases can lead to anything but
> quite small and insignificant amounts of global warming."
>
> He could be right, but if he's wrong, why should we error on the side
> of continued population growth?  What's the point?  What positives can
> you think of that the next added 100 million Americans will bring our
> children?
>
> I know one thing from simple common sense, we cannot expect to burn 82
> million barrels of oil every 24 hours; we cannot burn millions of
> metric tons of natural gas daily; we cannot burn millions of board
> feet of wood every day worldwide; we cannot burn billions of tons of
> coal for electricity around the clock-and think it's not affecting the
> planet's delicate ecosystems.  If you do, you're either a fool,
> uneducated or intellectually bankrupt. (This, of course, would make
> you a politician)  At this point, I say our president and this
> Congress are all three!  We're the only country not to sign the Kyoto
> Accord to address global warming.
>
> It matters little whether you like former Vice President Al Gore or
> not, but his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth" awakens even the idiots
> among us.  Those who counter his movie, from my first hand knowledge
> in Antarctica and around the globe, illustrate and promote their own
> form of intellectual absurdity.
>
> Today, we resist the facts; we deny their proven reality; we recoil at
> what faces us.  Most U.S. citizens cower in a corner concerning the
> reality of global warming.  We resist partnering with other nations in
> finding solutions.  We continue accelerating our population which adds
> momentum to our impending Katrina-like global calamity.
>
> In 2004, John Schellnhuber, a distinguished science adviser at Tyndall
> Center for Climate Change Research in Great Britain, identified 12
> global warming tipping points.   If ignored long enough, any of them
> could initiate sudden, catastrophic changes on our planet.
>
> As long as we continue in our bald-faced denial of global warming; as
> long as we maintain no personal responsibility or action; without a
> 13th
> tipping point toward stabilizing global warming-we can't hope to avoid
> global mayhem.
>
> Julia Whitty, research writer, said, "The 18th
> century taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus named us Homo Sapiens, from the
> Latin 'sapiens', meaning "prudent, wise."  History shows we are not
> born with wisdom.  We evolve into it."
>
> We better get our butts in gear to engage our minds!  Once we engage
> our minds, we must activate solutions to haul our species out of this
> maelstrom.
>
> I've also spent time in the Amazon rainforest.  I've seen the
> astonishing, if not sickening, cutting and burning at the astounding
> rate of 1.5 acres every second.  Schellnhubers' climate model shows
> that a warming globe will convert the wet Amazonia forest into a
> savannah within this century, and "the loss of trees will render the
> region a net carbon dioxide producer, further accelerating global
> warming."
>
> What happens next?  The more we destroy the support systems developed
> on this planet over millions of years, the faster we destroy ocean
> currents that regulate climate around the globe.
>
> "As the Atlantic warms, ice caps melt, diluting the ocean and shutting
> down its thermohaline circulation (THC), the oceanic rivers currently
> delivering the thermal equivalent of 500,000 power stations' worth of
> warmth to Europe," Schellnhuber said.
>
> That in turn creates another tipping point on the Greenland Ice Sheet.
> "This ice, if melted, would raise sea levels by 23 feet worldwide-not
> counting ice loss from the Arctic and Antarctic," Schellnhuber said.
>
> He continued, "One tipping point affects the other in a balance as
> delicate as that of an acrobat's spinning dinner plates at the top of
> a stick.  Greenland's increasing freshwater flow into the North
> Atlantic will impact the THC.  Warm water recalculating within the
> central Atlantic may further rearrange airflow over the Amazon,
> accelerating its dry-down and tree loss, and potentially freeing as
> much carbon dioxide from its enormous reservoir as the 20th
> century's total fossil fuel output.  A sudden Amazonian release would
> melt whatever of Greenland hadn't already melted, crashing the THC and
> drastically cooling Europe, in worst-case scenario, freezing it
> solid."
>
> As you can see, we're tinkering with nature's most delicate balancing
> system like no other species on the planet.   It's like we're little
> kids, who sit intrigued at the operating mechanism of our new watches.
> We want to see how they work.  We pry off the backs and pull out the
> working parts. We place them over a candle to see if the plastic will
> melt.  We pour Clorox on them to see if those watches can withstand
> chemicals.  We dump oil into the mechanism to see what happens. When
> we try to put it all back together; we don't have a clue.  Our watches
> are broken with no way to fix any of them.
>
> This 7th
> part of the series requires two sections.  Next week, we'll deal with
> the other tipping points that lead to deleterious global ramifications
> for not only humans, but for all living creatures on this planet.  The
> second part of this report on global warming will be even more serious
> and sobering than the first part.
>
> If you would like to investigate further, look for Julia Whitty's "The
> 13th
> Tipping Point: 12 Global Disasters and 1 Powerful Antidote"
> November/December 2006, page 45-51 at www.motherjones.com
>
> "Pretending or being in denial of global warming is like throwing your
> children into a tank of sharks and hoping the sharks have suddenly
> become enlightened vegetarians."  Frosty Wooldridge
>
> What you can do to change America for the better:
>
> Check out www.populationmedia.org for an exciting method for creating
> overpopulation awareness in Third World countries.  Their prime
> directive works with the media in order to educate and activate
> leaders and women worldwide.
>
> Whether we like it or not, global warming is upon us.  We can take
> action to correct it.  Please join www.stopglobalwarming.org for up to
> the minute information and action items.
>
> Awareness Campaign web site, www.mcs-global.org, which is purely to
> help save and protect human health and environmental health globally.
> Diana Buckland is founder and global coordinator at
> diana@mcs-global.org or dbucklan@bigpond.net.au.  Diana makes impact
> all over the world by alerting everyone about chemical sensitivities
> caused by poisons sprayed, injected and applied to our crops and
> elsewhere.
>
> From Part 5 of this series, "Destroying our oceans", if you would like
> to become involved please refer to www.savetheoceans.org for a first
> rate lesson on how to take action in order to cleanse our oceans,
> restock our fish population, move toward recycling and cleanup of our
> world's most important living resource. Watch shows on PBS that expose
> where we threw two million tires into the waters off the East Coast
> and all the damage those tires are doing to marine life. You'll find
> out what you can do to have them raised from the deep.  Additionally,
> check out www.greenpeace.org for actions at the national and
> international levels.
>
> To reduce illegal aliens in your community, you may follow the course
> of action by Mayor Louis Barletta of Hazelton, PA.  He offers a bomb
> proof ordinance that takes business licenses away from those who hire
> illegals.  He legally halts landlords from renting to illegals.
> Without work and without housing, illegals cannot stay in your
> community. Check out his website for instructions:
> www.SmallTownDefenders.com/public/node/6
>
> Visit D.A. King at the www.thedustininmansociety.org to see how
> Georgia created the best laws to stop illegals at the state level.
>
> Please check out William Gheen at www.alipac.us.  He's a mover and
> shaker. He will direct you to specific actions that make you more
> powerful and effective.
>
> To stop this invasion locally and nationally: join www.numbersusa.com
> for free and you can join www.fairus.org and www.thesocialcontract.com
> Wooldridge presents a 45 minute program to colleges, high schools,
> civic clubs, church groups and political clubs across America titled:
> "COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT".  Go
> to his website for further information on booking the program.
> www.frostywooldridge.com
>
> To make visual impact:  Additionally, we have 300 remaining Paul
> Revere Ride T-shirts left that feature:  "Stop Illegal Immigration" on
> the front and the very cool "21st
> Century Paul Revere Ride" logo on the back with web sites.   You are
> invited to support the PRR.  Send donations to: 21st
> Century Paul Revere Ride at POB 207, Louisville, CO 80027.
>
> www.21stCenturyPaulRevereRide.us ; www.numbersusa.com ;
> www.carryingcapacity.org ;  www.balance.org ;
> www.thesocialcontract.com
> www.alipac.us at 1 866 329 3999; www.theamericanresistance.com ;
> www.ccir.net ; www.theByteShow.com ;  www.projectusa.org ;
> www.borderguardians.org ; www.immigrationwatchcanada.org ;
> www.mothersagainstillegalaliens.org ; www.unitedpatriotsofamerica.com
> ; www.unitedstates.fm ; www.worldfreedomtour.info ; My book:
> "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES" Call: 1 888 280
> 7715. http://www.TiANews.com  ­ www.victimsofillegalaliens.org ;
> www.pacinlaw.org;
> http://USABorderAlert.com/http://SanDiegoBorderAlert.com ;   for
> motorcyclists:
>  www.americanfreedomriders.com and www.immigrationbuzz.com ;
> www.mcs-global.org ; On April 1, 2007, the Paul Revere Riders will
> again ride to stop the illegal invasion and accompany Arizona long
> haul truckers and motorcyclists in a freedom border ride to block
> illegal aliens from crossing our borders.  We invite all veterans,
> truckers and bikers to join us.  Contact Rusty Childress at
> www.immigrationbuzz.com for further information.  Please write with
> your ideas on what to name the ride.
>
> Frosty Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and
> families in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on
> six continents and six times across the United States in the past 30
> years. He presents a program to colleges, conferences, high schools
> and civic clubs around the country: "THE COMING POPULATION CRISIS IN
> AMERICA: WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT".  His published books include:
> "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS" ; "STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE" ;
> "IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES" ; "MOTORCYCLE
> ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND-A TEEN NOVEL" ; "BICYCLING AROUND
> THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION" ; "AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
> ANTARCTICA".  His next book: "TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A
> SWAMP".   He lives in Denver, Colorado.  frostyw@juno.com
> www.frostywooldridge.com

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ted