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Matthews to Bachmann: 'Are You Hypnotized?'

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Mad Prophet Ludwig11/03/2010 5:25:13 pm PDT

I have a post up with quotes from Reagan, Bush senior and Thatcher supporting action on AGW. Thatcher’s UN address from 1989 is particularly highlighted.

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Excerpt from Thatcher (read more of her address in my post):

What we are now doing to the world, by degrading the land surfaces, by polluting the waters and by adding greenhouse gases to the air at an unprecedented rate - all this is new in the experience of the earth. It is mankind and his activities that are changing the environment of our planet in damaging and dangerous ways.

The result is that change in future is likely to be more fundamental and more widespread than anything we have known hitherto. Change to the sea around us, change to the atmosphere above, leading in turn to change in the world’s climate, which could alter the way we live in the most fundamental way of all. That prospect is a new factor in human affairs. It is comparable in its implications to the discovery of how to split the atom. Indeed, its results could be even more far-reaching.

The evidence is there. The damage is being done. What do we, the international community, do about it?