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To: MinnesotaLibertarian
conservatives pretend that global warming doesn't exist.

Actually, most conservatives simply want actual proof that it exists, and that we are, in fact, responsible for it.

Mount Pinatubo and Mount Saint Helens spewed more polution and greehouse gasses into the air than man has since the beginning of the industrial revolution. But global warming is our fault.

Sunspots are a major contributor to atmospheric warming, and we have been through a major sunspot cycle the last decade or so. But global warming is our fault.

Undersea volcanic activity has raised average ocean temperature about one degree, which impacts atmospheric temperatures. But global warming is our fault.

Scientists say we may still be coming out of the last mini ice-age. But global warming is our fault.

Assuming global warming is true, we probably have about as much effect on global warming as you and I would have trying to warm an olympic sized swimming pool by pissing in it.

Other than that I agree with you. What you take as dismissal of global warming by most conservatives, is actually dismissal of the pseudo-science that has been used to promote it.

35 posted on 05/01/2006 1:56:53 PM PDT by PsyOp (The commonwealth is theirs who hold the arms.... - Aristotle.)
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To: PsyOp
Actually, most conservatives simply want actual proof that it exists, and that we are, in fact, responsible for it.

Exactly. Great post.

39 posted on 05/01/2006 2:49:08 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: PsyOp

You rock


40 posted on 05/01/2006 2:50:16 PM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: PsyOp

Excellent post.


42 posted on 05/02/2006 7:32:24 AM PDT by gogeo (The /sarc tag is a form of training wheels for those unable to discern intellectual subtlety.)
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