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Sinking deeper into national idiocy
by Ginosar 
My wife and I just got the National Democratic Party questioneer about our own top national concerns. Of all the options to choose, there was not even one item related to global warming.
Now, the leaders of the Democratic Party do not see GW as a ke… more »
06/25/10 11:02:46 pm, US need independent Energy & Environment agency-like the Fed
by Ginosar
As Congress attempts to establish viable energy and environmental laws, it is clear that the political fights have diluted the potential final bill to nearly nothing.
The approved House bill and the potential Senate Kerry- Lieberman bills, after consol… more »
Kerry - Lieberman bill is a sham.
by Ginosar
There is renewed interest in the fact that global warming would cause considerable amount of national and international security risks. One of the main reasons is that rising oceans will cause large population displacements. Simple, obscuring and sanitiz… more »
Oil spill, sensationalism distorts reality
by Ginosar
I am not a friend of big oil, and I am environmentalist by profession and heart, but I look for facts before I decide on a situation. Not so the media and Congress. Their livelihood is based on sensationalism. I was watching the CNN review of the Co… more »
Good LA Times editorial on GW
by Ginosar
Straight to the point LA Times editorial. The problems we are facing from massive oil spill and coal mine disasters are negligible compare to global warming. Time to get real and focus our attention were it belong- the time-criticality of Global warming.… more »
If I were the US president I would do now the following
by Ginosar
Dr. John Holdren told us: "...the current state of knowledge of global warming is sufficiently clear to state that failure to act promptly to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases is overwhelmly likely to lead to chang… more »
A friend response to: How to mislead the American people effectively
by Ginosar
From: H
To: 'Dr. Matania Ginosar'
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 1:56 PM
Subject: RE:
Before you link GW with the healthcare bill and before you link Axelrod with a syrupy "cover", have you given thought to the fact that the parliamentary maneuv… more »
How to mislead the American people effectively
by Ginosar
I was watching last night the PBS- Charlie Rose interview of David Axelrod, Senior Adviser to President Obama. It was a very illuminating discussion of the movement of the Health Care bill thru Congress. It was illuminating not because you learned anyt… more »
Some good news about the House.
by Ginosar
A small step was finally taken by Congress to reduce the abuse of some earmarks. Democratic House leaders now realized the public's dislike of unethical financial relationship between donors and private congressional allocations, and took this small step… more »
Congress is frozen by specail interests
by Ginosar
To understand why it is so difficult to pass any meaningful energy and global warming laws in congress please read the article below about Washington's politics. It is so sad for the nation to be frozen in Congressional immaturity. It hurt us all, but be… more »
CALL YOUR 2 SENATORS TODAY
by Ginosar
After his excellent and realistic article in NYT (see my web Sunday) V.P. Al Gore is moving wisely into political activism.
Al Gore organization: Repower America Campaign, is calling for mass phone calls to our senators to approve powerful Se… more »
Rep. Tom Perriello strong words against Senate inaction
by Ginosar
I was just reading a lot of favorable readers' comments on Dr. Joe Romm's Climate Progress website. They were commenting on House member Tom Perriello (D-VA) brave and strong speech about the inaction in the Senate on climate legislation.
Here is pa… more »
Congress inadequacy, to say the least.
by Ginosar
I have written several times about the flimflam of our Congress. For those who are unfamiliar with this term here is it: flimflam - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. That is the way we handl… more »
US Climate partnership may be coming apart- good!
by Ginosar
USCAP, the lobbying alliance of over two dozen environmental and business groups that was highly influential in shaping the climate bills in Congress, is shrinking. Recently, ConocoPhillips (CP) and BP have dropped from the Climate Action Partnership bec… more »
We do not have a second chance to act
by Ginosar
Henry Paulson, the Secretary of the US Treasury during the end of the Bush administration and the person most responsible to stopping the financial collapse in 2008 just appeared on the Charlie Rose PBS program. He said [my own words] that only when a ve… more »
Cap and Trade vs. Carbon tax
by Ginosar
From a political point of view, many say, there is no way to legislate a carbon tax in the USA. Most businesses want cap & trade to allow them to continue to emit greenhouse gases as long as they can at the minimum cost. And Congress obviously is hi… more »
Conversation among friends about public apathy on GW
by Ginosar
Here is an unvarnished email conversation among five friends deeply concerned about GW, three with PhD in science, on the problems of public apathy and Congressional inaction on global warming:
In a message dated 10/28/2009 3:02:45 P.M. Pacific Day… more »
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT IS INEFFECTIVE
by Ginosar
A few days ago the political director of the highly respected environmental organization NRDC made very positive remarks about the "accomplishments" in Copenhagen. The credentials of the man are outstanding, but with all due respect to him and NRDC I bel… more »
FOCUS ON CONGRESS - Pressure them regularly
by Ginosar
The House of Representatives is an institution that does not serve us well. To a large extent it is a failure, especially as far as the fight against global warming is concerned. We have a strong sentimental attachment to our national institutio… more »
OUR EMOTIONAL INABILITY TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING
by Ginosar
How is it possible that Chancellor Angela Markel, of Germany, Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of England, and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France could offer at Copenhagen to reduce their greenhouse gases by 30% by 2020 while President Barak Obama can offer… more »
Part 3 - What can each of us do to reduce GW-
by Ginosar
Create EFFECTIVE political pressure on Congress In the first part I concluded that to reduce the immense amount of GHG emissions in the US we will need enormous efforts, and will require trillions, way above the size of the Second World War. In… more »
A major split between developing countries in Copenhagen
by Ginosar
A major split between developing countries has emerged at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. From: Developing countries split on CO2 by Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Copenhagen Small island states and p… more »
On opposition to the EPA fighting GHG
by Ginosar
The Associated Press wrote today an article showing the opposition of the fossil fuel industry, the power industry, National Association of Manufacturers, the Edison Electric Institutive, and the notorious US Chamber of Commerce to the President's decisi… more »
Part 2- What can each of us do to reduce GW
by Ginosar
In the first part I described some critical issues that have powerful influence of fighting GW, concluding that the effort is of immense magnitude and will require trillions. Both governments and the private sector must work together to achive it. We mus… more »
What can each of us do to reduce global warming - GW
by Ginosar
OVERVIEW: I plan to show here that the most important action we, as individuals, can take fighting GW is to pressure our three representatives in Congress. I will do that in two parts. The first one is an overview of the complexity and magnitud… more »
President Obama is doing little on global warming
by Ginosar
President Obama is doing very little on global warming. Obama has done very little in my opinion to move Congress on GW because his key POLITICAL advisers do not yet grasp the gravity of the situation. He is not willing to risk his popularity o… more »