[Right Wing Professor]

Change isn't anything new. Climate is forever changing. Warbler ranges in the US were moving northward long before any possible 'global warming' - they were probably still recovering from the little ice age. Species adapt quite handily; it really isn't hard for even a land animal to move north at a rate of a few miles a year, and for a bird it's trivial.

How odd that the left' is wedded to the idea of an unchanging earth, while we conservatives don't have a problem with the idea that climate and ecosystems are constantly in flux.

[eagleye]

Not sure that I have a handle on the science of the subject, but it seems to me that whether global warming is for real or not, we ought to be doing what we can to explore alternative energy sources and get ourselves weaned from dependency on fossil fuels, much of which are under the control of unstable and unfriendly governments. Also, some conservation would go a long way- there is no excuse for the excessive consumption patterns in this country. That is hardly "conservative" behavior.....