Geof wrote on June 19, 2008 05:50 AM: "an opportunity for America to create a new, booming industry"

Yes, an opportunity for bloated plutocrats to shuffle mo', mo', mo' money back and forth between themselves. Actual working class jobs created; 0. Effect on the environment? Zip.

Using Al "The world is ending" Gore as an example...he's made at least $100 million off of global warming and peddling bogus "carbon offsets". Result? Nada, except the rich (Big Al) got richer. Effect on the environment? Zip...other than Big Al's carbon footprint (roughly the size of a small third world country) swelled even larger.

Big Al, in his quest to save the world, is now using 10% more energy at his estate than before...232X the "average home". That's the amount of energy roughly 1000 "average" Americans use...just at his (primary) home.

Where's the outrage? Al and his ilk are destroying our childrens heritage and the world. It doesn't matter what the rest of us do, our energy use is a drop in the bucket compared to theirs.

But we're the ones who're supposed to tighten our belts and suck it up. Economy crashes? It's for the common good. Lost your job? It's for the common good. Can't afford to drive to work? It's for the common good. Can't afford to feed you family? It's for the common good.

Geof wrote on June 19, 2008 05:31 AM: "Let's roll the dice with the planet my kids will inherit"

An even more brilliant idea is to give the Federal Government and enviromental whackjobs total control over every single action and waking moment of our lives...to include breathing. It's all carbon buddy.

All based on flawed data, willful misrepresentation, and select individuals jumping on the Global Warming gravy train to make the fast buck before it gets derailed.

Estimates, I laugh. Seen the latest on CBS? "Earthquakes causeed by global warming". Please, give me a break. Or at least use reports from scientists with some shred of credibility.

Meanwhile, the temp hasn't risen in almost 10 years, and the mean temp even dropped a degree this year. Gee, just as the solar activity theory predicted. Meanwhile, where's the scientific proof connecting carbon with global warming? There isn't any. None. Just speculation.

And once again, where's the discussion on global warming? It hasn't happened. "Believers" just keep chanting the mantra and refuse to actually discuss the issue where they'd have to produce tangible, scientific data to back their claims in a venue where it could be publically dissected.

Ryan wrote on June 18, 2008 11:48 AM: Brilliant idea. Let's roll the dice with the planet my kids will inherit so we can save a few bucks. Just admit it; this denial has everything to do with unabashed greed or hating Al Gore and nothing to do with logic or the public welfare. Have these homicidal jerks seen the estimates of the enormous damage and cost of doing nothing about climate change? If only they had the intelligence to see this as an opportunity for America to create a new, booming industry.

Jimmie wrote on June 17, 2008 10:24 AM: Live by example!

isn't that what Al Gore, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, just to name a few that are trying to controll our government, should be doing? If I lived in CA, I would, do my utmost best to vote both Barbara and Diane out of office. The same thing applies to Berkley and Reid here in NV. And, I would not vote for any other family members to have a role in politics. One family in office is enough.

As long as the above mentioned can continue to live in their two or three big homes located across the United States,why should they change? They are able to burn unnessary power to keep their homes comfortable. They are allowed to continue to parade around their town/state being driven in their big, black gas- guzzling SUV's. Why should they care about what we drive and how we choose to live? I hate the old adage - don't do as I do, do as I say. That's hogwash! If these politicians and others like them want to be dictators, then I can suggest a few countries where they could go and apply for a new job.

Global warming is nothing more than what the Bible predicted - "the weather will be strange all over." For those of us that are believers, we are at peace. And for the scientists and those that don't believe, they are the ones who are scrambling to change things that cannot be changed. The only accomplishments they have made is to drive the cost of living completely out of sight. And, I hardly call that an accomplishment.

yvonne wrote on June 07, 2008 08:41 PM: Global Warming, isn't even a actual problem, it is the earth just doing it's own thing. Common sense should tell even the most dense person that we small humans could not possibly control the weather! GW is about control, control over our energy, which is control over our economy, which is control over our lives. Every aspect of our lives, from the size of house we can live in, to the car we can drive,and especially control over the size of our families.All one has to do is read, there is a lot of information out there by scientist that do not believe in the enemie and the left and envrionmentalist are pushing.The hype about all the catastrophie events that are to take place, the rising seas, the increase storms, too much rain too little rain, and of course the loss of the ice and the poor polar bears. If our earth is in such peril as Big Al preaches, than his buying "carbon credits" to cover his "global footprints" really is pretty lame, it sounds good but it does absolutely nothing.I did a lot of research because I wanted to find out exactly what GW was, now I am a 68 year old grandmother with a high school diploma, but it is pretty obvious that Big Al's Global Warming in reality, is a money making scheme and needs to be stopped before Congress does something real stupid and pass a cap and trade bill like the failed Kyoto plan in Europe. Wake up people, write your people in congress and tell them to use common sense. When China puts on line every 5 days a new coal plant, but China, India and 140 other countries do not have to curb their CO2. Wake up!

Ronnie Vansickle wrote on June 07, 2008 07:23 AM: What's wrong with people today? We are the goverment! The leaders in Washington think that they are rulers of the of the people. They don't care about us, all they want to do is get more money and power! It's time to clean out the mess in Congress and we can do that by voting all of them out!!! Gore wants us to live in caves whiles he and the other sit in their million dollar homes making more money off out backs. Washington is the reason we are in this mess, no new oil refinerys, no drilling for oil, all the jobs going overseas. Washington has gotten our of control and we let it happen.

Geof wrote on June 06, 2008 05:56 PM: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_bi_ge/japan_iea_climate_change

"$45 trillion needed to combat warming"

Soooooo...we're going to cripple our economy and spend $45 trillion dollars to combat a possibly imaginary issue?

"The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants"

That ought to set the enviro-nuts into a frenzy, LOL.

Meanwhile, our elected leadership sits in D.C. having hearings on "baseball" while the U.S. devolves into a 3rd world country. Our rail and road systems are collapsing. Our communcations grid is second rate. Our education system is amongst the worst of the developed nations. Our energy infrastructure is antique and woefully inadequate. And, oh yeah, our economy is going down the tubes.

Seen an article where the first oil refinery to be built in the U.S. in 32 years just got approved in South Dakota. Will provide thousands of high quality jobs. Opponents promise to fight a scorched earth policy to stop it.

Meanwhile, we send half a trillion dollars overseas a year to people that loath us to pay for their oil. Instead of spending the money here in the U.S. building our own domestic energy sources. Drilling; bad (But China can drill 60 miles off our coast). Biofuels; bad. Wind power; bad (Not In My Backyard; Ted Kennedy). Solar power; bad. Coal; very bad. Nuke; extremely bad. In fact, there's no conceivable source of power that will make the enviro-nuts happy.

And remember to use just ONE square of toilet paper.

Geof wrote on June 06, 2008 04:16 PM: "when in fact human-caused global warming has been confirmed by a huge amount of scientific fact."

Bull. More like scientific fact based on erroneous computer models and wishful thinking. The mantra from the enviro-nuts is that the "discussion is closed", when in fact, no discussion has ever taken place. They just try to jam it down everyones throats as true gospel, with any "deniers" being threatened with the loss of livelihoods, jobs, credibility, and/or a sentence to the "re-education camp" or gulag.

"The cooked-up reports that were payed for by conservative think tanks?"

To funny. The money is on the side of the "global warming". Oh, sorry, "climate change"...since no warming has taken place in 10 years. "Big money" is lining up behind global warming since they can make a killing and pass the costs off to the comsumer/taxpayer. Kinda like Al Bore and the imaginary "Carbon Offsets" he's making millions off. Talk about making money selling nothing for something.

Or gee, Al Bore running around like "Chicken Little"; "The world IS ending" whilst living a rock star lifestyle of conspicuous consumption. His (primary) house alone was using the electricity of 200 average Americans. This doesn't include the "carbon footprint" of his posse, world-wide jet setting on private jets, limos, his private Olympic pool, or other non-electric energy requirements. How about the resources required to keep that McMansion looking pretty. What are we talking, the energy/resource/carbon footprint of several thousand "average" Americans? Yet he and his ilk have the gall to tell the rest of us to "suck it up".

The 10% that control 90% of the wealth are using 90% of the privately available energy resources. They're welcome to their money, but let them pay for their lifestyles. Not us.

Scott wrote on June 06, 2008 02:41 PM: The real question is what are we going to do when the oil runs out and it will run out! There is only so much down there. Granted there is a lot down there but it is a finite resource. So what then? I'm pretty sure this is going to happen in my lifetime as well. Lots of people around the world want to drive and I don't blame them. So what exactly do I put in my car then to get to work and you better believe in this economy I'll still be working. Time to go beyond the combustion engine don't you think? Maybe we could even sell the technology to the rest of the world when they run out of gas and make a buck!

chris carter wrote on June 06, 2008 01:51 PM: "It's the economy, stupid".

Here's another way to look at it...Think that $4 per gallon is bad now? Wait another twenty years for another 700 million drivers to hit the roads in those countries. Not to mention hundreds of millions of lawnmowers, tractors, home heating systems and the like. With a population of 300 million, we will be a drop in the bucket against the 2.5 Billion Indians and Chinese; this ovwerwhelming demand will drive fossil fuel prices through the roof. Heck, they're bad enough. By mandating a paradigm shift, based on carbon restrictions we would begin to create an economy based on renewable resources, lessening our dependence on foreign oil (anyone like Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Didn't think so, but we buy lots of oil from them. Look it up) and creating an economy where energy prices are no longer a matter of national security or personal financial freedom.
I agree that this is an overly utopian view on things, but I would rather be proactive in combatting the elephant in the living room instead of waiting for it to crap on my rug!

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