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| Barbra Streisand: 'Global warming emergency' |
| 2005-09-26 |
| Now I know it's true... Singer says for U.S. 'not to be part of the Kyoto treaty is unforgivable' This wouldn't be happening under President's Gore or Kerry... Despite statements to the contrary from the director of the National Hurricane Center, Barbra Streisand is declaring a "global warming emergency." "We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," the singer, actress and liberal activist told Diane Sawyer of ABC News. "There could be more droughts, dust bowls. You know, it's amazing to hear these facts, I mean, the Andes have no ice caps on the mountains in winter. The glaciers are melting. I mean, for the United States not to be part of the Kyoto treaty is unforgivable," Streisand, an oceanside resident of Malibu, Calif., added. She obviously knows nothing about the Soviet/Yakusa Woodpecker Grid or Halliburton's Earthquake/Tsunami Division. "Thank goodness the 'experts' are finally weighing in on this issue. I feel much better now," sarcastically writes one Internet messageboard poster in reaction to Streisand's remarks. Wasn't me. Streisand's comments go against the belief of meteorology expert Max Mayfield, head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "The 1940s through the 1960s experienced an above-average number of major hurricanes, while the 1970s into the mid-1990s averaged fewer hurricanes," Mayfield told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Subcommittee on Disaster Prevention and Prediction. "The current period of heightened activity could last another 10 to 20 years or more. This increased activity is due to natural cycles of hurricane activity, driven by the Atlantic Ocean itself along with the atmosphere above it." Hurricane forecaster William Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University, also said the recent onslaught of storms "is very much natural." But what do they know? Have they ever won an Oscar? A Grammy? Graduated from a New York City High School? The theory of global warming has made recent headlines in connection with the recent hurricanes, as some have tried to make the connection between storm intensity and alleged climate change. Earlier this summer, a study by Swiss and German scientists suggested any heat-up on Earth was being caused not by and man-made activity, but by the sun itself. Global Warming caused by the sun? That can't be right. "The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures," said Dr. Sami Solanki, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany. "The sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently, in the last 100 to 150 years." Keep up the good work, Babs. We're counting on you. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #14 she reminds me of Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-09-26 22:22 |
| #13 Years ago, a neighbor boy who was retarded, perhaps six years old but still in diapers, would occasionally hop down the sidewalk, with one thumb in mouth and the other hand down his diapers, clutching himself, while shouting "Emergency! Emergency!" over and over again. Why Barbara Streisand reminds me of him, I have no idea. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-26 20:27 |
| #12 I for one am really tired of having Babs inflicted upon me with her drama queen sense of self-importance. On this issue alone one could, I am quite sure, gently beat her about the skull with the fact that she alone consumes more than enough and is therefore a large part of the problem she bemoans. I would be lost on her I'm sure. All the same, there should be no free ride for celebrity activist ilk in the media. Even if the Q and A gutting was only an exercise the record needs to be made. MSM can't though since she is part of the family so to speak and certain forms of domestic warfare are not publically aired by the MSM. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-09-26 13:34 |
| #11 Good thing Babble - err- Babs is still around, because she's able to make the rest of the general population appear so much smarter. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-09-26 12:46 |
| #10 "We are in a global warming emergency state and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense," the singer, actress and liberal activist told Diane Sawyer of ABC News. What ABC left out: "AWK!!! Babsy wants a cracker! AWK!!" |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-26 12:40 |
| #9 Redneck Jim---That was the key to ending pollution with the Nonbreather Campaign in Pogo comic strip in the sixties, heh. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-09-26 11:51 |
| #8 Since the Kyoto Accord taxes Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and since as you exhale you ARE a "Carbon Dioxide Emitter" impose a tax on Streisand's exhalations. In other words, charge her with violating the Kyoto Accords every time she opens her mouth and exhales. A penny a breath should be fair. (No charge for inhaling, just don't breathe out) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2005-09-26 11:40 |
| #7 Brutal Steve, absolutely brutal. But then the truth hurts. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-09-26 11:21 |
| #6 Nah, Cheddar, just ask her how her last album did. You'll feel the chill clear across the country. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-09-26 10:56 |
| #5 If she wants to contribute to the halting of Global Warming she should quit spewwing hot air. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-09-26 10:52 |
| #4 Does anyone other than the cross dressing community take her seriously? |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-26 10:12 |
| #3 Dr. Solanki better watch his back. There's a good chance some Green nutjob will decide he's too dangerous to live. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-26 10:04 |
| #2 Perhaps she will move the New Zealand, the only nation that takes Kyoto seriously. |
| Posted by: ed 2005-09-26 09:20 |
| #1 Darn, from the headline I thought Babs WAS the global warming emergency! It's hilarious reading the European "progress" on Kyoto. No one is meeting the goals and they're agreed not to try a new plan when Kyoto runs out. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2005-09-26 09:14 |