"I know it was satire. It was lousy satire. My response was likewise satirical."
I don't think it was brilliant but it wasn't lousy.
The data for global warming is suspect and incomplete. The people pushing it also have an agenda.
They always point to America as being evil. That we produce 20-25% of the 'greenhouse gases'. That we make America nasty with pollution?
Have these folks ever been to a major city anywhere else? In Russia the snow is orange and yellow before it hits the ground. The air in mexico city is thick enough to cut with a knife. The water in china is so foul with pollution that you can strip paint of your furniture with it. In India the untreated human waste from millions of people flows directly into their main water source.
And yet the answer is to cripple America's economy? The answer is to tax my lawn mower and the flatulence of the cows in the field?
I'd recommend these 'scientists' cut down on the LSD before they make their next recommendation.
Here's an interesting article that disputes that to some degree: http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/?page=article&Article_ID=14224. At least it shows we are doing better toward conservation than others.
Al Gore and other greens try to convince the public that SUV's have increased the greenhouse gases (specifically CO2).
Countering their argument is childishly simple.
Ask them to lock themselves in a garage in a SUV with the engine running. Tell them that after they are dead, we will have an autopsy done and see if they died of CO2 poisoning.
If they did, then they are right.
Since we all know they would actually die of CO poisoning (carbon monoxide), we then know they are wrong to begin with.
A secondary argument can be put forth from the knowledge that CO2 is not one of the primary greenhouse gases and does not have a major influence on the weather.
Just go to a Satellite weather website and see if they have a Sat. image of CO2. They don't. Because it's not valid in interpreting weather.
The most important greenhouse 'gas' is WATER VAPOR.
Now, the more CO2 put in the atmosphere, the better plants and trees grow. The more they grow, the more Oxygen they put in the atmosphere. Which we breathe.
So, to cutdown on CO2 (which we give off by exhaling) we must kill humans, not SUV's.
The less CO2, the less O2. The less O2, the less breathing life forms, less plant life forms. Eventually, no life.
So, the current attempt to curb CO2 emissions is an attempt to eliminate life on Earth.