and I misquoted, it's 45 Trillion... think people would sell their souls for that much infrastructure money, including the loans for poor countries to build it.... yeah, they sell them for a lot less than that every day... here, read up on the subject of Global Warming: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/06/study-45-trillion-investm_n_105600.html I'm an engineer, when a guy like Gore puts up a graph and says the two lines are correlated so one causes the other, but the one that is supposedly the cause is lagging the one supposed to be the effect I know he's an idiot and a spokeshole for somebody...
Idiots like these use perfect grammar, and straight A's in high-school to explain away "CARBON-TAXES" They feel perfectly comformtable ignoring the fact that all life is carbon-based Good Save Us From Tyrannical Leftists! If not god, I have guns ... My nominee for smartest-sounding-idiot on this board goes to ....
You can't be implying that because life is carbon based we should fill the air with it and breath it.
NYT distinguishes facts from opinion and doesn't pretend to be something it's not. I imagine this notion is quite foreign to you, and therefore somewhat threatening.
I'd been on the fence but the NEWEST science tips me back to the no global warming side. You guys probably don't follow this stuff as much as I do-no surprise given that my home in SoFla is a half block off the ocean and my condo in Chicago is literally on the lake without even a beach separating us from the water. There's been a couple of studies released in the past month, one by Tom Knutson and the other a series of comments by hurricane guru William Gray. Knutson who had been in the global warming camp says Hurricanes aren't linked to warming waters and Gray says global warming is severely exagerated. Empirically I've been skeptical of warming for a few reasons. 1. Chicago is having it's least warm decade in history. Secondly if polar ice caps ect were truly melting one would certainly expect shoreline erosion. I own two properties within yards of two major American shorelines and I see zilch in terms of erosion. Quite different from the 70's when Chicago was routinely flooded by high tides and homes in Michigan were tumbling into the encroaching lake.