Take the global warming test!

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

sounds like a good idea. science should not be used to justify social engineering.

No, religion has been most commonly used for that.

BTW, the GOP "Crashing the party train into oblivion 2009" national tour continues:

www.dailybeast.com

" Note to Republicans: Racist “humor,” the Internet, and political ambitions don’t mix. Audra Shay, vice chairman of the Young Republicans and the leading candidate to be elected its chairman on Saturday, is now the latest in a growing list of GOP officials learning this lesson the hard way, based on pictures of a now-deleted Facebook page obtained by The Daily Beast."

Sigh ... I may have to take back all the promising things I've said about the future of the GOP lately.

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Global warming alarmism is the official state sanctioned religion of the U.S.A.. I have the constitutional right to believe or not. The Govt. doesn't have the right to jam it down Americans throats. Maybe its getting warmer, maybe mankind is to blame. Maybe not. Geological time isn't measured in months, but centuries and eons. When the price of energy goes up the price of everything goes up. Does anybody remember last summer? The economy started tanking after the price of oil (and gas) skyrocketed. The left always wanted high gas prices to slow consumption. They just wanted it to be from taxes. Our tax dollars and time might be better used to adapt than to try to stop something that may be an unstoppable, natural, and cyclical phenomenon.

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Originally Posted by SOREHOOF

Global warming alarmism is the official state sanctioned religion of the U.S.A.. I have the constitutional right to believe or not. The Govt. doesn't have the right to jam it down Americans throats. Maybe its getting warmer, maybe mankind is to blame. Maybe not. Geological time isn't measured in months, but centuries and eons. When the price of energy goes up the price of everything goes up. Does anybody remember last summer? The economy started tanking after the price of oil (and gas) skyrocketed. The left always wanted high gas prices to slow consumption. They just wanted it to be from taxes. Our tax dollars and time might be better used to adapt than to try to stop something that may be an unstoppable, natural, and cyclical phenomenon.

There is a complete, complex, and rather large discussion and examination of global warming that takes place completely outside of "the government".
Kind of hard to ignore that.

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If the "discussion" is being financed by the Govt., and large sums of grant money are involved, the outcome will surely please whomever it has to to keep the dollars rolling in.

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The Govt. is setting policy by looking at one side of the "discussion". Don't sweat the conflicting data. "It's been hot or cold lately where I live" doesn't prove anything about climate change. Thousands of years of data may not be enough to prove or disprove anything. Mans involvement is harder to prove. I just think it's another attempt by the Govt. to not let a crisis go to waste, whether the crisis is real or perceived.

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So, what do you think about all the climate change information being generated, examined, and discussed having nothing at all to do with our government (especially financing) or any other?

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Conflicting mostly. Not in urgent need of massive tax hikes that rely on still developing technologies that may do more to increase global warming, but will almost definitely hurt our economy and cause a further loss in manufacturing jobs.