You sound like me, a former dem/liberal myself. And like David Horowitz, we are the ones who REALLY get to the liberals, because we know how they think, and we can "talk" like them, we are steeped in their jargon, and know how to use it against them. For example, I argue for the conservative side with secular, humanist principles. I don't invoke God or even Country, and that leaves them with no strawmen to beat up on.
I dont know about global warming. Quite frankly, I am sceptical about the excessive scepticism about it here on FR. However I am sure there is too much hysteria about it in the media and environmentalist circles. I think this guys makes a good point, that even IF it is occuring because of man and CO2, there is little we can effectively do about it, and we are better off spending resources on things that we CAN affect.
I live in Sacramento. The city is on an alluvial plain that did not exist 20,000 years ago. My office is in Folsom where evidence of catastrophic flooding in ages past is everywhere.
This all happened when the glaciers on the Sierra mountains melted at the end of the last ice age. What happened? The world warmed up and has continually warmed since.
The rising sea levels broached the Bosporus about 7,500 years ago, inundating whole cities in what Robert Ballard thinks was the legendary Great Flood of antiquity.
These processes have been demonstrated to be going on over millenia and it is the socialist mind that is using this as a wedge for control over the world.
Global warming and cooling are cyclical and there is nothing we are doing to "cause" it.
Although sacrficing virgins may have an impact.