Has he gone crazy? Everyone knows global warming is a liberal secular conspiracy from evolution-teaching, science-reading wierdos:
…The science shows that human-made pollution has added more than 50 per cent to the natural level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. In California, we are already seeing potentially severe impacts: shrinking of our snow pack in the Sierra Nevada mountains, which reduces our annual water supplies; erosion of our coastline; flooding of farmlands in the Central Valley; and a wide variety of health impacts related to changes in seasonal temperatures.
That’s why I say the debate is over. We know the science and we see the threat. Most of all, I say that the time for action is now. Global warming, and the pollution and burning of fossil fuels that cause it, threatens every person in the world…
But government programmes cannot accomplish anything without the full participation of the people. Each of us must take personal actions to lower our contributions of greenhouse gases. Everyone can reduce car trips and conserve energy in their homes and businesses – two things that will reduce greenhouse gases immediately…
Everyone can also join me in calling on the US federal government to double vehicle fuel economy. And everyone can call on their electricity provider to generate clean, renewable energy, and demand that coal power come only from the cleanest new technologies.
Our experience in California and my conversations with people around the world convince me that there is unity around the urgent need for action on global warming. Or, as President John F. Kennedy said: “In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures.”
Let us unite around those simple, incontrovertible values and take action now.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Excerpts from his article in the 21 January 2006 New Scientist
Not sure how many Americans will see what he wrote in a British magazine but still, a clear statement from someone with a powerful voice is refreshing.
So Arnold, uh, does that mean you’re going to donate your Hummers to the Search And Rescue, and buy yourself a nice fuel-efficient Ford Escape? Just asking – heh – Mr. Governor, really, I was just kidding!
“Hasta La Vista…”
Noooo! ( -BANG!- ) ( -THUD- )
I sense Maria’s influence here. Thank goodness Ahhh-nold married “up”.
I just can’t get too excited about global warming. About thirty years ago the same bunny hugging organzations were screaming about global cooling and bringing out all kinds of statistics to prove it.
Besides, if the Gulf of Mexico rises just 10 feet I will have ocean front property and all those flooded villages and houses will make damn good fish habitat..
This is exactly why they say ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’. There is a certain class of ‘activists’ whose grasp of scientific issues affords them no license to speak – but that doesn’t stop them. They have their counterparts in both the right (where creationism lives) and left (idealistic hippies) but it’s the same dim wit. Then when the mass of evidence comes in, no one will believe anything – they once heard a lot of noise someone else made running off in the wrong direction.
I’m not saying one has to be a scientist to address scientific issues, but you should be able to tell science from bunkum. This is what Carl Sagan called his ‘baloney detector’ and some people have never taken the effort to build one of their own.
Hippies aside, the evidence really is in on global warming – our world is warming up. And, there is growing evidence that human activity is largely responsible. But it’s hard to think globally, or to imagine how complex and interconnected the Earth’s climate and ecology really are. We don’t get a lot of help in this effort from politicians who have a vested interest in telling us ‘everything is OK’.
And if it rises 11 feet you lose your house. Long before then, it’s a global economic catastophe. Hungry people displaced from their homes don’t reason well, and you just know this will be America’s fault (never mind China’s carbon emissions). This is a bigger threat – to everyone – than Al Queda could ever dream of being and we need to lead the way out of it. That’s why I’m so glad the Governator is speaking up on it.
By the way, there’s money to be made in any new technology, and clean energy will be no exception.
Science my aching ass, a couple millions years of history that we know nothing about and some dingbat with a degree decides man is responsable for everything after studing the last 30 years. Global warming, global cooling, who the hell really knows. What can we do to influence the earths natural cycles, not a damn thing. We can’t even stop a rain shower, how the hell do we influence the world wide weather. More mumbo jumbo half ass science brought to you by what ever cult you prefer to follow.