An inconvenient truth

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I don't know and neither do you. Unfortunately the climate scientists don't either, apparently.

Why talk like George Jr. It is well understood that man has contributed to massive environmental change. Only an ostrich would deny that fact. The serious questions are how fast, and how destructive. Nowhere do those questions even imply what was posted and what George Jr lies to misrepresent. Mankind is without a doubt causing climate change. Furthermore, many solutions exist to advert so much of man's contribution. Somehow extremists spin that into 'we don't know if global warming exists'. That spin is akin to Saddam's WMDs - a lie. We know global warming exists AND we know mankind is contributing to the problem.

Where do we get the most bang for the buck? Many solutions from fifteen pie slices are possibilities we must attempt or study also for so many other reasons - ie thermodynamic efficiencies. But those same technologies that would also make America a future world leader are stifled by political extremists with an MBA attitude towards innovation. For example, use CO2 to backfill oil wells. Reduce the massive and wasteful energy consumption in buildings - because even gasoline at $3 per gallon is so ridiculously cheap as to discourage smarter solutions (and no, I did not even imply raising the price of gas - as an extremist would proclaim I said spin more lies and confusion).

You are screaming that a ship is sinking - therefore we should not do anything. Innovators instead say, "Maybe we should first close the water tight doors between compartments". Many of the solutions are that simple. Then you say, "Why? We are not really sinking?" Which is it?

Those who address global warming will have the new jobs and future wealth for all other nations dependent on those innovations. Global warming is also a new, future, and necessary industry - literally meaning new innovative buildings, machines, and products. Just another point that xoxoxoBruce ignores along with a reasoning that says, "Nobody in the Cellar can tell me exactly what we must do; therefore no solutions will exist." One who was smarter said

I don't deny we are contributing, maybe significantly, but how much and what can we do to make a significant improvement?

If science and logic was being discussed, then we would be quantifying how fast and how destructive. But that means science, innovation, jobs for people who are smart at the expense of dumb extremists. So what did the mental midget president do? Cancels innovation - from quantum physics and the Hubble Space Telescope. Canceled something like nine satellites that would better answer those global warming questions - for George Jr's legacy - a Man on Mars. The legacy of anyone who opposes a reality called global warming is 'ostrich'. Same ostrich now denies the US is attacked every 15 minutes in Iraq is somehow an expert on global warming?

George Jr and others just as anti-American would even stifle research to deny a reality - Global Warming. xoxoxoBruce - you would locate yourself with those fools? Apparently. Half your posts are, "we can't do anything and therefore should not try". Classic logic from an MBA named George.