[TeenagedConservative]

The principle is good in theory, but there's just one flaw: The American public's memory and/or curiosity are far too weak for this to do any good.

[FairOpinion]

SOME conservatives don't seem to grasp the IRREPARABLE damage the Democrats can do.

Carter, in his one term in office helped give rise to radical Islam by refusing to help our best friend in the Middle East, the Shah of Iran and allowed the Ayatollah to take over and turn Iran into what it is today, a terrorist Islamic country about to acquire nukes.

Then Clinton turned tail and ran out of Somalia, which encouraged Bin Laden to plan 9-11.

[flowerplough]

Agree completely re: the American public's memory and/or curiosity, TC. No real future for the land of Oprah, IMHO. Pretty sure it was Thurber who, in a fable about wolves and (digested) rabbits, moralized that any who could should run, not walk, to the nearest deserted island.

[mrmargaritaville]

And the lame stream media in the country would never hold a Dimocrat resposibel for anything that happened on their watch.
No lame stream media outrage or anal proble of Carter and his terrible handling of the hostage situation.
No lame steam media outrage or anal probe of Clinton bungling of Cole situation.
No lame stream media outrage or anal probe of Clinton bungling of embassy bombings.
No lame stream media outrage or anal probe of Clinton albright's disasterours forgein policy.
The theory would work if the media held Dims accountable, unfortunately the don't and never will.

[SuzyQue]

Image:Phanerozoic Carbon Dioxide.png

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Description

This figure shows estimates of the changes in carbon dioxide concentrations during the Phanerozoic. Three estimates are based on geochemical modeling: GEOCARB III (Berner and Kothavala 2001), COPSE (Bergmann et al. 2004) and Rothman (2001). These are compared to the carbon dioxide measurement database of Royer et al. (2004) and a 30 Myr filtered average of those data. Error envelopes are shown when they were available. The right hand scale shows the ratio of these measurements to the estimated average for the last several million years (the Quaternary). Customary labels for the periods of geologic time appear at the bottom.

Direct determination of past carbon dioxide levels relies primarily on the interpretation of carbon isotopic ratios in fossilized soils (paleosols) or the shells of phytoplankton and through interpretation of stomatal density in fossil plants. Each of these is subject to substantial systematic uncertainty.

Estimates of carbon dioxide changes through geochemical modeling instead rely on quantifying the geological sources and sinks for carbon dioxide over long time scales particularly: volcanic inputs, erosion and carbonate deposition. As such, these models are largely independent of direct measurements of carbon dioxide.

Both measurements and models show considerable uncertainty and variation; however, all point to carbon dioxide levels in the past that have been signifcantly higher than they are at present. (emphasis mine)

Then if you, for instance go to http://www.clearlight.com/~mhieb/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html  and place the chart of Atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the Temperature chart, you will notice that, while there appears to be a correlation between the two, the CO2 spikes lag behind the temperature - it does not appear that CO2 is driving temperature.

Finally, is global warming a bad thing?  It could be, may not be.  However that question is not even being asked.