Meet the Bloggers with Simran Sethi

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This week on Meet the Bloggers, journalist and author Simran Sethi is our guest to discuss the environment, sustainability, and Big Oil. Joining Sethi is bloggers Kevin Grandia (DeSmogBlog.com), Brad Johnson (ThinkProgress.org) and Kate Sheppard (Grist.org) who discuss where the Presidential candidates' stand on the environment.

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[2becontinued]

Your wrong. Climate change is a scientific fact, it's accelerating, it's already doing significant harm, and human activities are mostly responsible for it. Climate change has been vetted and documented in excruciating detail by the largest, longest, costliest, most international, most interdisciplinary, and most thorough formal review of a scientific topic ever conducted. Read the IPCC, or thousands of scientific studies.

[LimeInTheCoconut21]

Haha, blow baby blow!

[kazooga1234]

they only recommend eachother caz they want to destroy the world ron paul wants to get rid of the fda and the epa and bob barr and him both want to get rid of birth control and make it illigal wtf is wrong with people like u

[kazooga1234]

no the oil companies want to pretend its not real so they can keep making more money i mean even if we keep up with the drilling the oil gose to exxon and that gose out of the country and to many different countries so it dosent even matter and the gas prices wont go down that way only get higher

[AcePilot101]

Climate change is "real" but we used to call it weather - and people have nothing to do with it. Global warming hysteria is a political campaign to squeeze more tax dollars from the oil companies.

[OneliaG]

There is freedom to vote like you want in this country and Bob Barr is a constitutional man just like Ron Paul who recommends him.And why should you vote for someone you do not want to vote for... Stupid

[ayebretwalda]

Waste and emissions are not the same. As I said before - Nuclear power is the only source with ZERO emissions. It is the safest source for energy even factoring its extremely rare occurences of mishap. Would you rather keep leveling mountains or store material deep under the earth? Either way - wind and solar is not your salvation. Wherever these sources are found there is redundant conventional power sources...running all day every day - it is entirely unavoidable.

[Umberto2]

"Nuclear power is the only source with zero emissions. It is the safest source ever."

Just checking, but that's a joke, right? Well, if not, it's still hilarious. Nuclear fission creates waste that will never go away and we still have no safe place to store it. Plus, there is always the possibility of a meltdown. In my view, if we can go to the moon or make the A-bomb, we can figure out a safe, sustainable, and reliable source of energy with the right leadership. What about nuclear fusion

[ayebretwalda]

Oh, I've read the IPCC. The Mann Study that is foundational to the IPCC has been categorically, under peer review, been proven as a fraud. Many of the signers have now gone on to sue the IPCC. 30K scientists in fields related to climatology (including 10K PHD's) have signed the petition started by the former pres of the NAS to expose this hoax. 30K! Now the IPCC builds its false case around consensus (which is not science) - and 30K professionals says bullshit.

[ayebretwalda]

Sustainable energy (wind/solar) doesn't work forever. It works when conditions are right. Because of that, sustainable energy devices need conventional electricity supply stations in operation ALL THE TIME in 'spinning standby'. That is redundant, wasted, conventionally created energy. They're a net negative impact on the environment any way you slice it. Nuclear power is the only source with zero emissions. It is the safest source ever.