Global warming is the real deal, not 'Hollywood' myth, sez McCain

NY Daily News ^ | Tuesday, April 24th 2007 | Richard Sisk

[Eagle of Liberty]

OOOOOOH!! Make me one! I will send you money.

[longtermmemmory]

Do they even read chicken little to children these days?

The sky is warming!
The sky is warming!
The sky is warming!
The sky is warming!

Warming? as in not freezing our posteriors? as in pleasant day?

This is bad?

[rogue yam]

McCain is an idiot and everyone knows it except for him.

[longtermmemmory]

no it is politics.

Since they can raise taxes, the politicians are really trading POLITICAL CAPTIAL CREDITS.

This is a secondary currency for political favors.

Will I be able to make campaign contributions with carbon credits?

(think saddam giving oil vouchers as bribes to english and french and german politicians)

[theBuckwheat]

Global *climate change* is real, because the climate has *always* been changing. We only have to recall the quaint cliff dwellings that the Anasazi peoples abandoned in the American southwest because the climate grew too cold to support a culture based on farming. We can look up why Greenland has that name, were Erik the Red settled that island almost 1000 years ago, when the climate was warm enough to allow ranching and growing crops. We can then look up 1816, known in Europe as the Year Without a Summer [1] to know that climate changes, sometimes for warmer and sometimes for much colder.

The present passing fashion commonly called Global Warming is obvious far more about ideology, increasing the power of government, and decreasing personal liberty than it is about climate change. One of the signals is that the greatest polluters and emitters of CO2, China and India have been given a pass, and the US in particular is the target of all the scolding and fretting. Hello, what is wrong with this picture?

[1]see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

[subterfuge]

Sadly, this sh!t plays in Peoria.

McPain believes this will help him get elected POTUS. It’s as simple as that.

[TBP]

Weather Vane McCain is shifting for votes yet again.

[L98Fiero]

“Isn’t John MeCain’s campaign broke by now?”

Seriously! Who backs this idiot?

[SuziQ]

Nah, I’d prefer “Reverend Al”.

[LexBaird]

He knows global warming exists because it melted his stawberry ice cream.

[#1CTYankee]

"McCain, you just crapped on your chances to win the conservative vote."

Again.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Being President of the USA is so tough that only a masochistic idiot would want the job. Keep this in mind as you nervously ponder the field of candidates and wonder to yourself, “ this is the best we’ve got?”

[kabar]

Some of the man-made global warming crowd have a different agenda, and I include McCain among them. They are using it as a pretext to change our energy policy and wean us away from oil. They are trying to be too clever by half if that is the case. They undermine their real objective by supporting this phony science.

[Reagan is King]

I feel the same way. I deleted my Drudge link and a few other news source links that usually regularly hit the refresh button on every day. I’ll have stress related high blood pressure soon if I keep reading all that garbage. I gotta have my FR though!

[BuffaloJack]

When I was a mush head in school, they terrified all of us by tales that said we were entering another ice age. Now it’s 40 years later and the same idiots are ranting that we’re all gonna die as the Earth becomes a vast hot desert with a shrinking land mass caused by the melting of the polar ice caps. Liberals and alarmists never change.

[presidio9]

This is idiotic. The US gets 11.6% of its oil from Saudi Arabia, 3% of its oil from Iraq, and 1.6% of its oil from Kuwait. That is the extent of its dependance on Mid East oil. If we developed ANWAR (something McCain voted against), we could eliminate Mid East oil from our diet entirely.

[Politicalmom]

My husband told me that FReeping has become my full time job. I told him to get used to it until Fred announces. :)

[cogitator]

One of these days this interglacial will end and the next Ice Age will begin.

About 50,000 years from now, according to the best scientific analysis to date.

[cogitator]

Ironically, global climate change has been occurring twice a year -- heat up, then cooling down -- since Mother Nature started the planet spinning.

You do realize, of course, that the entire "globe" does not heat up and cool down seasonally, right?

[cogitator]

And if one takes time to actually look at the data themselves, such as the Vostok ice cores and the repeating cycles they show, instead of taking the lazy route and listening to the propaganda being spewed by the Profit Owl Gore, it might not be all that long before we enter another ice age.

See post 78.