Texas is to Blame!

Way to tell them, Barbara.

Thanks William!

good article and wasnt aware of this

Thank you vickey.

Barbara: "I question how meteorologists can predict the weather 100 years from now, when they can't even correctly predict the weather ten days from now!"

You don't know the difference between climate and weather? This may help:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html

You may not be aware that TCU recently decided to scrap plans for 8 new coal power plants - due to outcry from the citizens of Texas!!! You may also be aware that Texas leads the nation in wind energy. It is true that Texas produces twice the carbon emissions as California, but instead of get defensive about it, why not try to do something about it?

Steve, why do you think I don't? And, again, how can anyone, regardless of their title, predict what will be 100 years from now? I think they must be very arrogant to do that. And, TXU is the energy company, TCU is Texas Christian University. Thought you might want to know.

Barbara: "...why do you think I don't?"

You haven't said you do, and you get defensive about the very unfortunate fact that Texas does emit a significant percent of the nation's CO2. You justify that instead of write about what you do yourself to reverse that. So if you do something to reduce Texas' CO2 emissions, write about it - that would be interesting reading.

You're right, of course, about TXU (not TCU). But you still don't know the difference between climate and weather, and apparently are not interested in the difference from your response. That may be why I think you may not be aware of these other facts. Again, why be defensive?

Barbara. I guess you're referring to this article

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4856720.html

If so, you seem to have left out this part in your justifications for TX being cited as the nation's largest CO2 polluter:

"Texas, the leader in emitting this greenhouse gas, cranks out more than the next two biggest producers combined, California and Pennsylvania, which together have twice Texas' population."

"'There's no question that some states have made choices to be greener than others,' said former top Energy Department official Joseph Romm, author of the new book 'Hell and High Water' and executive director of a nonprofit energy conservation group."

Steve, yes we do crank out more emissions than California, but we have to supply more power to more states than California. If you do a check of where Californians get their power from you'd probably find they get it out of their own state. So, for different reasons, some states will have higher emissions than others. I'm not defensive on this issue. I don't know why you think I am. I conserve energy where possible and I don't think I would have to defend my position in doing so. I would imagine that my thermostat is set higher than most people's in the summer and cooler in the winter, and we have a heat pump that heats and cools our home, also. What I disliked about the article was the headline which is inflamatory to the fact that the President is a resident of this state. The photo of Speaker Pelosi standing in front of the melting glacier is yet another liberal ploy to cast aspersions on the President in my opinion.

The article I am referring to is followed with this lihttp://apnews.excite.com/article/20070602/D8PGPTPO0.htmlnk.

Your link no longer works. Many outlets often carry the same story.

Barbara: "I'm not defensive on this issue."

Certainly, you are! Your article is a defense.

Barbara: "I conserve energy where possible and I don't think I would have to defend my position in doing so. I would imagine that my thermostat is set higher than most people's in the summer and cooler in the winter, and we have a heat pump that heats and cools our home, also."

If you're going to attack others (e.g., Gore), then it's legitimate to ask what you do personally to address your own use of energy. And what you "imagine" is irrelevant. Either you are raising your thermostat in summer and lowering it in winter, or you're not. I don't know about heat pumps, so I have no way to know if that is a conservation device or not.

Barbara: "What I disliked about the article was the headline which is inflamatory to the fact that the President is a resident of this state."

And why do you take offense at that? Surely, you're not enthused to have argueably the worst president in U.S. history come from your state. Or maybe you're one of the 28% or so, who still support him. But as this article is about Texas being the largest CO2 polluter in the nation, it would be more productive to deal with the facts. There are alternatives in Texas. As I have mentioned, Texas also leads the nation in production of wind energy. Rather than whine about an article, I wish you would look for ways to improve Texas' situation. I also gave you a link to the EPA green energy locator, so you could personally try to improve your state's record.

Barbara: "The photo of Speaker Pelosi standing in front of the melting glacier is yet another liberal ploy to cast aspersions on the President in my opinion."

Wow - you are a 28%-er! Oh well.... There's no need for a "liberal ploy to cast aspersions on the (p)resident." If you've followed the Republican debates, the candidates are doing plenty of that! BTW, the glaciers are melting, and Pelosi did visit Greenland. Did w.?

Steve, I don't want to argue with you about this. I simply posted an article and expressed my views. If you disagree, then so be it. I will not get into it further with you. And, by the way, there is a glacier that is growing in size, not shrinking. Check it out in the news, you know how.

Barbara: "I don't want to argue with you about this."

Argue? I'm just presenting facts that challenge your very right-wing proclamations. I can see you don't like being challenged, and you have no answers for the challenges.

Re: the growing glacier, I just referenced your own article!!! Even it counters the point you're trying to make about climate change.

So don't "argue", but also, don't think that you can make your proclamations without being challenged.