But I am not convinced GW is for real or, if real, man-made...look at this statement alone, from the article:
...Scambos said this ice shelf has been in place for at least a few hundred years...
In the expanse of history, a few hundred years is a friggin' blip. So a few hundred years ago, it DIDN'T exist, eh? Ice breaking off of Antarctica is nothing new, I'll wager. Except this piece is bigger than one we've seen recently, so it is automatically due to GW?
Nice weed they've got. How much does it go for on the street.
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. As I think I implied in what I wrote, I am not a card-carrying member of the cult. For me it is more like Constantine. Maybe the same for many politicians. You see a sign. There is a battle to be fought. You claim that if you win, you will convert knowing that if you lose it is irrelevant . You win the battle. You join the cult, but adapt it to your own ideology. Center of the cult moves to Rome and it helps perpetuate power. Maybe even becomes a good thing.
Sorry for mixing these things up, but for me the analogy works.
If the cult helps the US to achieve energy independence and maintain a technology lead while concurrently restraining Chinese growth maybe it isn't so bad even if it is wrong.
If it leads to a massive, socialist wealth-redistribution weakening the West and Western values that is bad.
So I say if the cult is going to win, at least make sure it's future doctrine is shaped from the right('s) perspective.
The US won by the current rules of the game. All it needs to do is make up new rules that favor its strengths which are innovation and creativity - not wasteful use of energy. To me, at this point, it is a no brainer.
When Freepers claim the US can't do it, they are being unpatriotic. When they worry about not helping all those poor Asians and Africans by constraining the carbon usage they are either being bleeding hearts or disingenuous.