There has been much talk about what has been coming out of the G8 summit in Japan many of the leaders have been talking about how we need to save energy, food and cut back on just about everything else. Well this is fine we all need to think about our actions, but until everyone thinks about this then is there any point?

Take the G8 leaders themselves, it has been estimated that the carbon footprint for this years G8 summit is around eight thousand tons of Co2, this is over three times what was created in last years G8 summit in Germany!

We were also told to watch the amount of food that we buy and go on to waste, in the UK it has been estimated that the average family throws away around £6 ($12) worth of food every week. Yet, shortly after telling us this, the G8 leaders sat down to an eighteen course meal.

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There is no doubt that an electrically powered car will be good for the planet, Gordon Browns suggestion that he would like to see all cars in the UK should be all electric or hybrid vehicles that produce under 100 grams of Co2 per Km.

But there is a problem with this, government ministers have access to a Toyota Prius, but for most people these cars are just too expensive and if somehow everyone managed to get their hands on a Toyota Prius then the National Grid would not be able to cope with the power requirements.

It’s a good idea, but more thought is needed to make this happen.

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Both these occurrences, global warming and the continuing oil price surge have been economic catastrophes that most people have to deal with. It has been getting harder to live in this world today and apparently each effort seems to be getting futile by the day. With these things in mind, where does the government fit in?

There are two ways to look at it. One is to see how government can benefit from it. Additional taxes and of course connecting them with global warming for a justifiable declaration. No one would bother to check in depth although the economists would do their own pencil pushing.

The other is of course the hands-off policy to which the government will wait for everything to settle and then make its move. Either way, the government will benefit while also taking credit from it once the worst is over for these two dilemmas besetting us today.

Our government is jumping aboard the global warming bandwagon in a big way. Ignoring any facts to the contrary, they continue to fuel a juggernaut that will result in more government, more taxes, more ‘crises’ and more useful idiots. Even Republicans are on board, with John McCain turning green with a twist guaranteed to garner liberal votes. He’s proposed a ‘cap and trade’ system (called redistribution of wealth) to help battle climate change. It used to be only liberals who had the hubris to think man can control climate.

(Source) The National Ledger

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I just read the scariest post evah, lawyer guy Al Nye writes in his blog, that a chief energy advisor mentions that the gas prices we are seeing today of $4- $5 per gallon of gas, are in the near future gonna be known as “the good ole days”.

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$12 to $15 per gallon of gas. Those are insane numbers, and all heck is going to break loose, if gallon prices went up that high. I shudder to think what will happen to the world as we know it. I hate to get all dramatic, but just think about it for a moment. It would cost most Americans like $200 bucks a week to fill up. That is simply not possible for many. I envision mass transit also being affected, as those who cant afford gas, would have to take buses and trains to get to and from work, etc.

Bike sales would go up, which is a positive. (for biker sellers) Hey, entreprenuer types, there is a fledging business idea for you. Start a bike business. Not the electric bike kind, just the regular old-fashioned human powered type bicycles.

Check out the video and read the complete story at CNBC.

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Barack Obama has been headlining the news today and a lot of it is connected with the upcoming elections and of course the celebrated attacks coming from his adversaries such as Hilary Clinton. This early, he is becoming a favorite and it would be good to note that among his concerns include the issue of treating global warming as a real threat rather than a made up fiction for the world to take note.

Indeed, for some people, it would seem that anyone can use global warming as a good platform when campaigning. But Obama stressed that global warming is a dire threat and among the things he aims to answer if and when he gets elected as the next president of the United States.

Global warming: Obama’s America considers global warming a dire threat to our planet. As with Al Gore of the Oscar-winning film “An Inconvenient Truth,” they consider drastic action necessary to avoid catastrophe.

The other America agrees with General Motors’ vice-chairman Bob Lutz, who recently called global warming a “total crock of s—-.” They support an analysis in the documentary “The Great Global Warming Swindle,” which aired in England on the UK’s private channel 4. This America questions the extent to which man-made activity causes increased temperatures. They question whether the Kyoto Protocol — mandating large expenses on industry to control greenhouse gases — actually harms more than helps. Other climatologists/skeptics argue that many factors account for the slight rise in world temperature over the last hundred years, including, but not limited to, solar activity.

(Source) Yahoo News

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Global warming can be considered interest for the past deposits in the form of abuse and disregard that people have given the environment. Global warming can be cured but it will not come from natural means or self-healing prowess. It needs finances but the question is where will be the funds come from?

Apparently this will be the topic for discussion when most of the world powers will be holding a weekend meeting outside Tokyo to discuss the global warming epidemic. While it is more than charity overall, it really caters more towards helping resolve the global warming issue that continues to become a growing pain for all of us.

“We want to see that this is not a matter of charity,” he said, adding that pollution caused by wealthy nations has caused the crisis that poorer nations now have to grapple with.

The conference starting Saturday is part of a dialogue launched at the2005 summit of the Group of Eight industrialized countries in Gleneagles, Scotland. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was scheduled to address the group at the opening session.

The meeting was part of the flurry of dialogues and conferences in recent months centring on efforts to stem the rise in world temperatures before it triggers devastating environmental damage

(Source) TV3

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While most people are guessing (or are they?) who the next president will be, it all boils down to Obama and Clinton. But while these two are the leading candidates for the eventual presidential situation, many are awaiting who among them would be the first to address the entire global warming situation that the United States is facing along with the whole world.

Apparently, most of the world today has global warming issues to cater to. And while most people find it difficult to address, little contributions and bills passed here and there have tried to go in that direction. But as a whole, the US still has to decide which issue they will finally pass to really give a steady path towards fighting off the global warming issue that we are currently being threatened with. Obama or Clinton?

If we ignore global warming much longer, we’ll face a world of perpetual disaster, so there’s no larger question for presidential candidates than who is more likely to tackle it successfully. Although Obama’s and Clinton’s positions are similar, he seems far mor