Obama signs orders on emissions, warming

For the faithful who are trying to hold on to their belief in global warming while we face subzero weather, here is what you can do. Get some wool socks, warm boots, long johns and thick pants, a game warden jacket from L.L. Bean. Take off your hat, go down to the beach, stick your head in the sand, and believe!

Great news Mr. President, now on that same subject, there is this plan here in Massachusetts to build wind mills, it's called CapeWind which will create clean renewable energy, that will also reduce carbon dioxide and other gases that help cause global warming that these same Politicians here in our state have been fighting to not allow the project from ever being built. Can you please remind them that; "We must have the courage and commitment to change,"
For decades, the country has chosen delay over decisive action" and "rigid ideology has overshadowed sound science." Amen! Can't wait to see this happen so we can make a change here in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.

Green house emissions?? Why don't the check the eurpean autos and first look at China and Russia,. If anything should be done about emissions, let the president go there. I guess the president doesn't care about the economy, If he has his way nobaody will be able to drives cars, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO AFFORD IT

Jay

Dr. K, how about you take your head OUT of the sand? No one said "global warming" meant that all of a sudden MA was going to turn into the Bahamas. The issue is "global" (hence the name, see?), meaning the average global temperature continues to slowly creep upwards over time. This doesn't mean that there won't be cold years, cold months, or whatever. It does mean that the temperature continues to rise. Look around you in MA - I can remember how ponds and lakes used to freeze over for the whole winter, whereas now that simply doesn't happen. The pond near my childhood home no longer even freezes over, yet I have so many memories of ice-skating on it a couple decades ago. Yes, we still have sub-zero days in MA, and no one expects that to disappear for many many years. But that doesn't mean that the average annual temperature didn't go up.

Thank you for the being the voice of reason, BobW1955. DoctorK...you are obvously not a doctor of meterological science...not that it takes more than an an elementary education to realize that we are still warming, and the recent period of relative "cold" is close to normal. I'd suggest you be the one who sticks your head in the sand.

Doctor K, you obviously have no concept what gobal warming is. It certainly is not defined GLOBALLY by assuming that if Massachusetts hasn't become the tropics then it isn't so. And you are NO doctor, I can guaranty that.

Thank you for the being the voice of reason, BobW1955. DoctorK...you are obvously not a doctor of meterological science...not that it takes more than an an elementary education to realize that we are still warming, and the recent period of relative "cold" is close to normal. I'd suggest you be the one who sticks your head in the sand.

Another great move by the genius president - different emissions standards for each state! Can you imagine the how expensive and ill-performing the vehicles manufactured in response to this regulatory nightmare will be?

At least this puts him at odds with the UAW, which should be a source of good humor.

If Detroit doesn't want to meet these standards after the billions of dollars given to them, they can back out of those markets and abandon it to someone who does want to give it a try. The jobs can move to the forward thinking companies.

I think the comment blogs on the Globe have one of the highest concentrations of flat-earth type reactionary nutjobs in the US.

While federal guidelines would be better, the auto companies could just decide to retool to these standards ( since they sure aren't going to give up on the huge California market, a market larger than many countries) and sell the cars across the country.

Time to step up to the plate after *years* of obstruction and foot dragging.

Um, global warming alarmists - the sacred 'global mean temperature' has been dropping for the past decade.

The scam is over.

We did this before in 1966, when California regulated carbon monoxide emissions and it worked wonders. It also worked for pesticides, ozone pollution, phthalates, and refrigerator standards.

The naysayers would be well served to look at the history of states' standards. This isn't a new idea, and it didn't result in a regulatory nightmare or increased costs in the past. It resulted in dramatic improvements to our vehicles (and many other technologies).

Doctor K, clearly your doctorate does not come from an accredited institution. If it did, you wouldn't be making such misinformed statements.

Hey "Pro America" genius, states having different standards doesn't mean cars need to be made with all different standards, it just means it would be in the best interest of automakers to manufacture all cars with standards to meet whatever state has the strictest standard. It's not even anything new. California has had tougher standards for a long time, and manufacturers just adapted to CA standards. And if an automaker doesn't want to adapt, they can lose out on the business, and let a different manufacturer build to those standards. It's call the free market system. And if states had been able to do this sooner, American automakers would have had to adapt earlier, instead of letting foreign automakers build these type of cars consumers want anyhow, and American autmoaker might have actually not needed a bailout.

AL5000 you can't spell garuanty so you aren't a doctor either fool

Man-made global warming is the greatest hoax in 100 years. Next they will claim that cow flatulance is to blame. Oops.

Global Warming is nothing more than an excuse for liberal politicians to push their lifestyle agendas on to the rest of us. Socialists don't hate CO2, they hate the companies that produce CO2 and would quickly find another reason to hate them if this issue proves to be false like so many in the past. Most liberals have what Peter Schweizer would call a "Do as I say, not as I do" lifestyle. I just call them hypocrites. Gore travels the globe in private jet, rides around in limos, owns a huge houseboat and an energy guzzling house. Way to convince me Al.