The amazing thing is that 12 years ago the republicans were all for climate change and their idea of carbon credits then the Koch brothers gave them a bunch of money, their opinion changed.
Johnp33: If your point is that some Republicans, left-leaning, big government, progressives are just as wrong as left-leaning, big government, progressive Democrats, then I agree!! Right on, Brother!!
I was in my dentist's office a while back and picked up a National Geographic Magazine. It contained an article about rainfall changes that caught my eye.
(Article)It started out giving multiple examples of ancient civilizations across the world and across many millennia that were completely wiped out by drought. Then came this paragraph,
"The rainfall changes that devastated these early civilizations long predate industrialization; they were triggered by
naturally occurring climate shifts whose causes remain uncertain. By contrast, climate change brought about by increasing greenhouse gas concentrations
is our own doing. It, too, will influence precipitation patterns, in ways that, though not always easy to predict, could prove equally damaging."
Huh? You just gave me examples showing that natural climate shifts have caused extreme weather over long periods in Earth's past. Why, all of a sudden, must the latest changes be man-caused?
It also troubles me that AGW solutions so neatly fit the left's wealth redistribution agenda. Why is it that fixing too much CO2 in the air means taxing hard-working Americans and giving billions to (mostly) leftist third world countries?
Finally, I think it is interesting that although fully half of the people in the country apparently support Obama's leftist agenda, none of them are selling off their cars or TRACTORS or turning off their heat or voluntarily paying higher taxes. Thomas Jefferson said, "half a loaf is better than no bread". Heck, if the lefties started to walk the talk and things started to improve they might win some converts.
Of course, we'll never see that because AGW isn't about healing the planet, it is about the left gaining more power/control and ultimately destroying the American economy and global political stability along with it. They create or invent a crisis, and then trick the gullible into believing that they are the only solution. They start programs that never succeed yet never go away.
Read some of their books! Their agenda is laid out in black and white for all to see and has been around for decades yet there are so many, otherwise intelligent, people that go along with it. If big government is so good at saving us from ourselves then where are the results? Why is it that after decades of the so called "war on poverty" and other such programs, poverty and other afflictions are still as bad as ever?
Regardless if one believes that GW is man-caused or not, I don't see how any reasonable person can deny that it is being used by the left to further reduce the current fragile stability in the world and that is a bad thing.
