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I'm in. I hope we get a good turn-out.

Harvey

Sounds super especially the poem reading!

Please everyone make all signs only out of 100% recycled paper and paint! Then don't forget recycling them again after the rally! The rain forests will thank us!!!

I just hope nobody ***drives*** to any of these rallies - that would send totally wrong messages especially to kids! :(

Now that Democrats control Senate, why don't we have signs demanding they pass a Kyoto Treaty? I read it lost last time by a only 99-0 against it - should be approved easy with good side in charge!

In my heart I almost feel the warming slowing down already ---- hooray for us!!! :-)

Amber,

Good that I don't know any Democrats who drive those glacier melting and gas-guzzling SUVs...

Walk, bus or bike to the rally - but get there!

Am I the only one feeling guiltly because I am enjoying our warm winter?

Awareness? Waste of time. Work on realistic solutions.

Leave global warming be - I am cold enough as it is....

why not have a retro Ice Age rally right after?

for real, this is beyond us...tackle an issue like poverty or taxes.

I am an 11 year old girl who cares about the earth and want to see penguins and polar bears in 80 years. And this earth is way to HOT! It is 70 degrees at the beginning of january flowers are blooming that tells me it is global warming. Please go to the march and make a difference.
Our ice rink in our back yard has been a reflecting pool for 2 years!!

LETS STOP CLIMATE CHANGE!!:-}

it isn't beyond us but I agree that putting on a march isn't going to do anything. How about instead of taking two hours or protesting and marching you take the time change your life to live more environmentally friendly = less wastefully.

Bring that recycle in so it's convenient and easy. read through the brochure so you recycle everything that you can. Buy recyclable things and materials - paper instead of Styrofoam or canvas bag your groceries instead of a million plastic bags each week.

Walk to the grocery store once and a while instead of driving.

Bring that Bike out from the basement and ride to work a couple times a week.

Buy some compact florescent bulbs or other energy star appliances next time you need one.

BUY LOCAL!!! The amount of energy and fuel wasted in transporting Big Macs and supplies from around the country or world is enormous. Locally produced foods are fresher and healthier for you and better for the environment and local economy. It really worth that extra 10 or 40 cents think so.

It only takes small steps by a lot of people to make a huge difference. It is not something out of our control we are creating (or accelerating) this process, we need to take personal responsibility for stopping (or slowing) it.

How much gasoline will be burned as people drive to these rallies?

No one has to drive to the rallies. You can walk right outside your doorstep, job or school that day and hold a sign with a few folks that reads "Cut Carbon 80% by 2050". If everybody does this on the 14th, then maybe we can get lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of California. They cannot do it alone.
We hope that we are wrong about climate change (although it does not look like it) but why wait around to find out. Let's take precautionary measures now and hope that we can save some glaciers in Greenland, ice caps in Europe and stop the demise of the coral reefs. Change in the Earth's temp. will not only affect it's landscape but also our demographics, disease control, water control, animal populations , natural disasters and much more resulting in a completely different planet that we inherited. And one that we might not like so much! There may be more immediate problems (taxes, poverty.......these issues we can try to solve down the road but we will never get a second chance with the earth!) in your day to day life but your life as you know it will be drastically changed for you and your children if we do not begin carbon regulation in this country. It is going to take much more that just recycing and changing lightbulbs to address this problem. We owe it to our Earth! See you on the 14th

there still is no proof that human error is causing any of this...NONE

8 of the last 10 years were the warmest in history. Do you think that is a coincidence? It is something way too risky to just guess and hope. Please read any articles written by James Hansen of NASA, the planet's top climatologist ("The Threat to the Planet", The New York Times Review, July 13, 2006 especially) or Bill McKibben's article ("How Close to Catastrophe?", The NY Times Review, November 16, 2006). They are both very enlightening!

You need AWARENESS to get change. We are hoping to make Congress AWARE that we are concerned as a nation and are demanding change. That is the mission for all of us on April 14th. See you there and the earth thanks you!!!!!.

LETS STOP GLOBAL WARMING APRIL 14TH GO TO THE MARCH !EVEN IF YOU CAN'T GO TO THE EXACT SPOT, PUT A SIGN OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW SAYING GO TO THE MARCH! OR CUT CARBON NOT THAT HARD TO DO. GO TO TTHE MARCH UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR KIDS KIDS ASKING YOU "GRAMMY WHAT IS A POLAR BEAR? SOME ONE TOLD ME THERE USED TO BE SNOW ALONG TIME AGO. I MISS ICE LAND. YOU DO NOT WANT THAT BELIVE ME GO TO THE MARCH !!!!!! LETS STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

someone concerned: 8 of the last 10 years were the warmest in history

Gross overstatement.
You mean to say in recorded history, which makes a tremendous difference.

Humans have been measuring global temperatures only since about 1860, or about 147 years.

The Earth is estimated to be roughly 4.5 billon years old.

147 divided by 4,500,000,000 equals 0.0000000327, or 0.00000327 percent.

For the other 99.99999673 percent of the Earth's existence we don't have any measured record of what global temperature was.

For the previous thousand years, scientists can make some decent educated guesses - but even that leaves over 99.9999 percent of the Earth's history as unknown.

From geological analysis we can conclude there have been multiple Ice Ages (no way to know how many over 4 billion years), and since we're not surrounded by ice now that means these were obviously undone by periods of greatly increased warming both after and long before humans existed.

It's pretty hard to blame human activity for those warming periods.

Math Major,

Don't you know the polar ice caps are melting........ON MARS. We are sooo bad that now we're exporting our global warming to other planets. We should be ashamed.

David: Good that I don't know any Democrats who drive those glacier melting and gas-guzzling SUVs...

Ha - good point! Or in very rare cases they do drive one, at least they'll often put a pro-environment bumper sticker on it, which of course makes everything fine.

I wonder how many SUVs will be parked near the big rally? That would be something interesting for a local TV station to check for.

Also would be interesting to know the BRO leadership's position on SUVs now that global warming is a big issue for them. Hmmmm.

Speaking of BRO will the cheerleading stop for big local projects that would consume a lot of energy for construction and tons of building materials? For example, the 40 story tower downtown - seems like even with the best possible approaches, the creation of that thing will have quite a carbon footprint! Will BRO bring any signs to the rally opposing that project?

o.k. , you are right...... warmest in (recorded) history but why are we splitting hairs when we are ALL in this together. The earth is not going to take sides and spare one group (or one country) over another. This is a time when everyone needs to listen and try to come up with possible solutions to alternative energy. For those who believe this is speculation and climate change is blown out of proportion, I hope that you are right but what if you are wrong? As for the SUVS showing up, at least they are making attempts at heading in the right direction and maybe they are on a waitlist for a 2007 hybrid like myself (mother of 4 children)!

someone concerned,

I think you miss the point. The posts about the temperature being the warmest in recorded history are making the point that climate temperature is out of our control. I would go further to speculate that they believe that using resources to fight global warming would be a waste when they could be used on more important things since we most likely have no control over how hot, or cold, the planet is.

"History" (4 billion year age of Earth) vs. "known recorded history" (less than 200 years, a very tiny fraction of a percent) is not splitting hairs - it's a momunetal difference.

People should of course feel free to make changes in their own lives if they believe humans are causing climate change.

But what bugs me and perhaps others is when everyone else is condecendingly lectured to with slanted twisted biased "truths" that include a lot of guesswork and speculation seldom acknowledged as such.

Even more ridiculous is when people doing this lecturing and saying how urgent and paramount the issue is and telling others that they are harming the children's future, all that, do not themselves first take actions in their own personal lives before trying to force others to change.

ms. lets stop global warming,

Iceland is not made of ice. The major geological stuff is volcanic and lots of geothermal stuff going on, too...

Global warming is bad for alot of other cities and countries around the world but its pretty good for Buffalo....dont we have bigger things for our attention...like our kids and our economy and our families and our communities

Yup, a global catastrophe would be terrific for Buffalo.

And yes, the fact that people might drive to such a rally means that everyone there is hypocrite and the event is a waste of time.

And yes, the fact that the earth has warmed and cooled in the past conclusively proves that current warming trends have nothing to do with the effects of unprecedented human industrial and technological growth.

Yup.

I urge everyone to show up with a sign protesting political fear-mongering. 30 years ago we were all threatened with an impending ice age, the social control freaks failed to gain enough support to advance their causes and are now resorting to the conveniently devoid of facts global warming hypothesis.

Global warming is good for Buffalo? Get a grip!

Try these prospects on for size: as temperatures warm, plant species that require a cold freeze will not germinate. Pests and fungi that have previously been suppressed by cold temperatures will migrate north and attack vulnerable species. Crop losses could be severe.

SInce the human diet depends on plants (either we eat them directly or we eat fish & animals that depend on them), this is no idle concern. We have little else with which to feed ourselves. Fungi farms, anyone? Global warming has the potential to destroy agriculture and cause mass starvation.

I can't count the number of times I've been told the earth is doomed (The Population Bomb, global cooling, nuclear winter, bird flu, ddt, dioxin, ozone hole). Somehow the earth keeps turning, somehow we all live longer and somehow we all get fatter.

I commute to work on my bike, not because I think I'm saving the earth, but because my car broke and pasta is cheaper than gas.

This event has its flaws, as will every pro-earth event until all of humanity is living sustainably. Environmentalists must stop making enemies. Take this issue as a personal lifestyle change and hopefully we can begin attracting more people by setting an example.

If every new environmentalist has to deal with self-hatred every day because they have to drive a car or get a plastic bag at the coop the movement will never grow. Environmentalism is a personal lifestyle and as the problems hit people in thier own back yard more and more they will begin to make environmentally freindly choices.

Please give humans the time and space to grow out of their archaic, destructive, short sighted behaviors, and don't make them the enemy. Environmentalism is about love and compassion for all living things so educate don't protest. Use the energy one gets from living sustainably to stay strong and continue to grow as a human amongst billions of others.

Math Major,

Um, read the science. Scientist know a great deal about the climate going back about 700,000-1,000,000 years, and can make some rather educated guesses much farther back than that. That is because of several sources of data. They can look at ice core samples which can give good indicators of global climate fluctuations back hundreds of thousands of years. Bubbles in the ice can even give a good indication of the composition of the atmosphere at the date of the specific ice layer. The same thing can also be done in both living and fossilized coral reefs, some of which are millions of years old.
Check out this site to see how they do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core

So no, scientists are not guessing when they say the past few years have been when warmest in history. There is ample evidence that warming and cooling periods happen cyclically , and that warming is directly related to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Since we are releasing tremendous amounts of co2, co, and other types into the atmosphere from industry, and transportation, it is pretty easy to say that there is a relationship between human activity and warming, which runs counter to natural cycles.

There are scientists that argue that the relationship is overstated, but you have to take the skeptics of global warming with a grain of salt.. Most of them get almost all of their funding from Exxon mobile, which should sound familiar. The exact same tactic was used by big tobacco when they were fighting public backlash to the health effects of smoking.

http://www.exxonsecrets.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_global_warming_consensus

You can count on me biking to that rally!!!

Scientists know a great deal about the climate going back about 700,000-1,000,000 years, and can make some rather educated guesses much farther back than that

Carl, first, thanks for acknowledging there's guesswork involved.

But I do have some questions about what you wrote that seem to me to not match the references you cited.

Nowhere in your Wikipedia references do I see any discussion of global temperature conclusions over a period anywhere near as long as the one million year period you claimed. They discuss various aspects of the topic, lots of interesting stuff for sure, but nothing to imply they've been able to infer the temperature over the time frames you mention. I'm not insisting you're wrong about the million year number but I really don't see where it says that about global temperature. Please cite the specific wording in those or other links.

In fact the Wikipedia entry on global warming refers only as far back as about 2000 years, and even that in the manner of a vague educated guess - here's the wikipedia wording:
Over the one or two thousand years before 1850, world temperature is believed to have been relatively stable, with possibly regional fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

And keep in mind that even a million years is still a very small part of the age of the Earth:
1,000,000 divided by 4,500,000,000 = 0.00022, or less than three twentieths of one percent.

But if you can really cite any reference that says we're at the warmest in a million years I'll sure admit a million is a lot more than 160 years of recorded temperature. I really don't think you'll find anything like that scientifically claimed for a million years (after all, that would likely have been stated on wikipedia's main page about global warming), but let's see what you can cite for that.

My point is clear, that there have been countless periods of global warming and cooling long before human activity started, so there must be ways for this to happen naturally (various factors of the earth, atmosphere, sun, etc.). So when people insist that this particular period of warming that we're experiencing absolutely *must* without a doubt be caused primarily by human activity... well the onus is on them to explain how the warmings occurred over the billions of years previously when humans had not yet evolved and also, why it is that the previous natural factors are impossible now.

Finally, I honestly think you're really off base here:

So no, scientists are not guessing when they say the past few years have been when warmest in history.

There you go again.
First of all, you acknowledged yourself earlier that they are guessing!!!
Secondly, I've never read any statement anywhere near as broad as that "in history" wording - certainly the links you provided don't seem to say that. Citation please of any scientific publication ever saying that the past few years are the warmest "in history"? If you do really find that, then "someone concerned" will be owed an apology!

Math Major,
For whatever it is worth, look at CNN.com's January10 2007 story about weather records. You may find it helpful and interesting.