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The theory of anthropogenic global warming: Carbon dioxide has increased by about 30% in the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution. This figure is not in doubt. A simple model of the Earth's atmosphere indicates this much more C02 should cause a degree of warming. Climatologists are now using some of the most powerful supercomputers available, to build and run much more sophisticated models of the climate.

The official line (by the scientists directly involved in the research) is that global warming is real and it may be in part caused by humans. I think the jury is still out on global warming, but I think it's a bit blithe to assume this is just junk science. It won't be like that movie, but you'd hate for the drought out west to be permanent. (That's the kind of thing that climate change could cause.) This is why I'm a big fan of nuclear power.

The Electoral College has three practical effects.

Easy for you to say, but in 300,000 years some mentally defective person might dig up the waste and eat it. Are you prepared to run that risk?

The official line (by the scientists directly involved in the research) is that global warming is real and it may be in part caused by humans.

To even think that humans can have any lasting impact on the earth is the height of vanity. The earth was here before us, and the earth will be here after us. Humans are only a blip on the screen. Human capability for abstract thought does not change the fact that humans are weak, soft, temporary skin bags of protoplasm that will die and decay.