Questions For McCain (By George Will)

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[Ron Jeremy]

• You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will be beneficial because "then all we've done is give our kids a cleaner world." But what of the trillions of dollars those measures will cost in direct expenditures and diminished economic growth—hence diminished medical research, cultural investment, etc.? Given that Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know? ..excerpted...

[Ron Jeremy]

good questions..

[homeguard]

What a colossal IDIOT!!!!! God save the United States of America!

[Fox_Mulder77]

Expecting John McCain to give real answers to real questions is like asking a tree to have a conversation with you. Waste of time that only makes you look stupid for expecting what is clearly impossible.

[RC2]

Of course it will be “beneficial”..........to the government cause they are going to raise all kinds of taxes.

[stravinskyrules]

How did Ron Jeremy become a conservative?

[Sybeck1]

McCain will never sit with a true conservative pundit or columnist. Just RNC cheerleaders like Hannity.

[PA-RIVER]

Good point. McCain has the temperament of a 5 year old spoiled brat. Conversation is impossible.

[skeeter]

Hey America - is solving a problem that may or may not be a problem, is undefined, is being shoved down our throats by opportunistic politicians and business people with identifiable conflicts of interest, and for lack of evidence of its existence provokes extreme controversy within the scientific community, worth a dramatic drop in your standard of living?

'Cause thats where we're headed.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[depressed in 06]

Eight inches, conservatively speaking.

[Grunthor]

McBots,

“Questions For McCain (By George Will)”

I suppose Will is now actively trying to elect Obama?

[WOSG]

You say that even if global warming turns out to be no crisis (the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade), even unnecessary measures taken to combat it will be beneficial because "then all we've done is give our kids a cleaner world."

Anti-AGW measures dont only hurt the economy, they hurt the environment too. An example is the rainforest destruction wrought by biofuels.

[airborne]

What if global warming is man made?

And what if all we've been doing to reverse it is working,and has caused the average global temperature drop that is currently being recorded since 1998?

What if we are headed for a mini Ice Age like the one predicted in the 1970’s?

With the price of oil sky rocketing, a decade long cold snap will devastate the world economy and decimate the global population.

I'm just sayin’ .... 8^)

[Ron Jeremy]

I suppose Will is now actively trying to elect Obama?

Either that, or perhaps as a journalist he doesn't think its his job to shill for one candidate or another, as you would have him do.

[RoadKingSE]

John McLame, in a recent photgraph, in deep thought formulating his Gorebal Warming strategy.

[seekthetruth]

“How did Ron Jeremy become a conservative?”

I don’t know, but I sure wish John McCain would become one! I am ready for an “operation chaos” at the GOP convention to dump McCain for a conservative Republican nominee!

[Badger1]

I’m sure McCain will see the outrage he is generating with this climate change campaign among those on the right as proof that he is doing the “Right Thing.” However, he can not out Democrat the Democrats no matter how hard he tries.

Any idiot can see (except for those idiots running the McCain campaign of course) that he will loose more votes on the right than he will get from the left with this position.

I propose a new campaign slogan for McCain: Vote for John McCain - He can has a plan to stop four and a half billion years of climate change!

[Badger1]

Of course that slogan should read:

Vote for John McCain - He has a plan to stop four and a half billion years of climate change!

[Travis McGee]

Now that CO2 has officially been named a dangerous pollutant, some future regime might say that we have no right to exhale without permission.

[aquila48]

“I am ready for an “operation chaos” at the GOP convention to dump McCain for a conservative Republican nominee!”

Ditto!

[Grunthor]

Actually I wouldn’t have him shill for anyone and I love that someone is asking McBoob the hard questions.

[BlazingArizona]

Remember being young and using astrology as an aid in nailing chicks? If McCain can use this to panic leftists into accepting nuclear power, I’m all for it.

[Marcella]

George Will is an astute man with rational thinking - a fine man.

My husband says if everyone stopped breathing for 20 min. it would lower carbon dioxide levels considerably and solve our environmental problems. However, I think if just Al Gore stopped breathing for 20 min., that would also solve our environmental problems immediately.

[RJL]

the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade

And now even the Gorebots are telling us that global warming will "pause" for at least a decade.

So that's 20 years of no warming, at what point does global warming quit?

[TigersEye]

Now that CO2 has officially been named a dangerous pollutant, some future regime might say that we have no right to exhale without permission.

I think it means that carbon based life forms will be slated for destruction.

[Travis McGee]

Starting with the politically undesirable ones.

[LadyNavyVet]

A very good question: "More than 90 percent of taxpayers refuse to use the $3 checkoff on their tax forms to fund campaigns—even though doing so would not increase their tax bill. Given such annual landslide "votes" against taxpayer funding, why is relying on it more virtuous than Obama's expected reliance on voluntary contributions from dedicated individuals?"

John McCain, Dec. 16, 1999 "I don’t believe in public financing because I don’t think my tax dollars should be used to fund a person’s campaign that I philosophically disagree with."

Who's the flip flopper now?

[Jim Noble]

Given that Earth is always warming or cooling, what is its proper temperature, and how do you know?

This is the only question for warmers that matters.

[LadyNavyVet]

"If McCain can use this to panic leftists into accepting nuclear power, I’m all for it."

If he uses it to panic moderates into accepting cap and trade is that cool with you, too? I bet we get cap and trade with a President McCain a looong time before we ever get nuclear power. His Dem buddies will fight against nuke power, but they'll be all for cap and trade.