[FreeTheHostages]

Glad to meet you!! Some times I felt so alone on this topic.

The question of whether human activity is primarily responsible for global warming is a science question, not a political question. The question about what to do about is is a political question. It's the latter that conservatives should get excited about.

I think this report is fine and no big deal. The science is pretty clear now, no sense turning environmental activitists into presicent Galileo-like saints. If the sciene says this, then so be it.

But the Bush administration, while *sagely* in my view not bucking science (sheesh, the only people who don't think CO2 has a big role now are the auto & gas companies), wisely says let's let the free market and not Kyoto help us with the solution. America's the biggest, bestest, baddest at this: our economy will have better cheaper faster solutions long before Kyoto makes a wit of difference in our atmosphere.

The scientific question should not be a conservative touchstone issue like abortion. Because unlike abortion, we could be proven wrong scientifically. We should focus on the policy response and not fight science.

I'm also pragmatic: if this makes it more likely we can take back the Senate, I say go for it.

[Amelia]

The question of whether human activity is primarily responsible for global warming is a science question, not a political question. The question about what to do about is is a political question. It's the latter that conservatives should get excited about.

I agree with you totally!!

I do remember reading this article a few months ago, suggesting that perhaps there wasn't as much evidence for global warming as originally thought......

[Sabertooth]

sheesh, the only people who don't think CO2 has a big role now are the auto & gas companies...

Not really true.

We're only just beginning to understand mesoscale global weather patterns, which fluctuate on a millenial scale. To presume that a limited database of 19th Century meteorolgy is a sufficient baseline to ascertain whether human CO2 emmissions are causing some sort of global warming is not exactly sound science.

And guess what else we don't undestand very well... Mesoscale Solar weather patterns.

Think that fluctations in the Sun's weather might have an effect on Earth's weather?

We don't even know why the last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago, but we know that global warming was involved.

Any evidence of 12,000 year-old smokestacks anywhere?