Comments on: The Candidates On Climate Change

Katie Couric Asks The Candidates In "Primary Questions:" Is The Global Warming Threat Overblown?

[ubrew12]

pepperwood2 said: "Australian Expert Suggests $5,000 Tax on Babies...Don''t blame me I''m just the messenger. "
I, in fact, blame you the messenger. Your implication in these posts is that we shouldn''t believe that Global Warming is real because it might lead us to believe in population control and abortion. Global Warming is a scientific question (mostly answered), not a popularity contest. Your decision to post these messages indicates that you don''t understand the conflict as an objective one. You paint it with your subjective ''End-times'' world-view, and encourage the rest of us to do the same. That''s bizarre, and you should get help for that.

[pepperwood2]

Posted by ubrew12 at 10:35 PM

Its not typical of those concerned about Global Warming. Maybe it''''s just typical of your psyche. Got an Oedipal complex? Dreams of omniscience? Cuz that''''s got to be one of the most bizarre arguments against those concerned about Global Warming that I''''ve ever read.

Mr.Ubrew12 - If you will, here''s another of those bizarre arguments concerning to what extent this Global Warming Facade is going in Austrialia. A Queer Solution to me, but then I''m not you!

Don''t blame me I''m just the messenger. You seem intelligent enough to be able to separate the truth from fiction.

Australian Expert Suggests $5,000 Tax on Babies

An Australian obstetrician wants families to pay a $5,000 levy on the birth of a baby and up to $800 annually to offset the child%u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.

Associate Professor Barry Walters wrote in the Medical Journal of Australia that every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over a child%u2019s lifetime. He said that use of contraceptives and sterilization procedures could help earn %u201Ccarbon credits%u201D to offset the baby taxes.

[ubrew12]

pepperwood2 said: "Vernelli, 35, hopes her actions would ensure her carbon footprint would be kept to a minimum, the Mail reported. The environmental advocate also sees having children as an egotistical act... This is tipical of the ''Inconvenient Truth Doctrine'' "

Its not typical of those concerned about Global Warming. Maybe it''s just typical of your psyche. Got an Oedipal complex? Dreams of omniscience? Cuz that''s got to be one of the most bizarre arguments against those concerned about Global Warming that I''ve ever read.

[lonewackodot]

Dear Katie: Your perkiness always brightens my day. However, can I suggest turning your coverage inside out? Instead of simply asking the candidates basic questions, ask them the follow-up questions that are so rare nowadays. Then, use this page to link to their basic positions. So, you can contact think tanks (and even bloggers!) and ask them for the toughies that they''d ask the candidates, not just the basic, Soviet-style questions that ask them to replay their stump speeches. Then, ask those follow-ups.

[realpatriot1]

DesertCapt,

Did you listen to the CBS Nightly News tonight? They interviewed all the candidates in both parties on this subject. Interestingly, all the Republicans except Thompson acknowledged a human role to global warming and a ned to respond aggressively to it. They need to get the word out to their followers on this board.

The only one talking about further study and inaction. There''s a bed at the retirement home with his name on it.

Huckabee was the only one to acknowledge the succes of a cap and trade system and its success with acid rain. Obama intimated the same, but only Huckabee spoke directly to what is the most important action that can be taken in bali this week; to establish an international carbon market.

[jaliberty]

I''m disappointed you did not interview Rep. Ron Paul. Let the public hear the opinions of All the candidates and then the voters can make well informed choices.

[jaliberty]

I''m disappointed you did not interview Rep. Ron Paul. Let the public hear the opinions of All the candidates and then the voters can make well informed choices.

[pepperwood2]

Woman Aborts Child To Help ''Save'' the Planet

A British woman who had an abortion 10 years ago and was later sterilized did so because she believes pregnancy is bad for the environment, the London Daily Mail reported Sunday.

Toni Vernelli, 35, hopes her actions would ensure her carbon footprint would be kept to a minimum, the Mail reported. The environmental advocate also sees having children as an egotistical act.

"Having children is selfish. It''s all about maintaining your genetic line at the expense of the planet," Vernelli told the Mail, adding she believes bringing new life into the world only adds to the problem.

This is tipical of the "Inconvenient Truth Doctrine" that the Liberals & Mainsstream Media here in this country have become mesmorized about.

Rove vs Wade 1973 - Like it or not the truth is that close to 50,000,000 million of our little people have been aborted since 1973 in Our Country alone.

The INCONVENIENT TRUTH is that with all these human sacrifices made to the Global Warming God hasn''t made any change to this Natural Occurring Phenomena.

We here in the real world have to struggle to pay for the rising costs of fuel, heating oil, & other day to day necessities.

The liberal news media constantly bombards the average American with this type of Journalism to exist.

Just when and where are We The People going get to hear the rest of the story. We deserve better than this.

CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE go CBS, Hilliary & Al!

[desertcapt]

It is comforting to know that candidate Huckabee is going to keep this nation safe from carbonated beverages. His concern over CO2 inspires the same confidence as George W. Hopefully Huckabee is praying for a brain.

[zuggerjack1]

Am glad Katie Couric asked the leading candidates the global warming question. It''s an issue that can''t be ducked, and their answers revealed more about themselves than meets the eye. It is reassuring that most candidates have renewable energy programs lined up, such as the type of space solar power that David Kagan wrote about in his book Sunstroke.

[mattcbsmatt]

HYDROGEN H2 fuel cells ROCK
They don%u2019t stink and they don%u2019t pollute, caustic *** : ) and I guess will end the global warming stuff.

There is something stinky about US Politicians
Usual political bull
US Politicians are too wimpy and afraid to support HYDROGEN H2 fuel cells stuff
USA U Suck *** big oils *** : (
USA wins brown nose award for sucking big oils oily but.
Too bad and it is saddening that US Politicians are too wimpy and afraid to support HYDROGEN H2 fuel cells stuff:(
What could be done to stop these Politicians sucking big oils oily but.
Excuse me while I throw up : )
They are not fooling me

[denn034]

The fact that the hole in the atmosphere is shrinking argues for a decline in global warming so, I don''t feel particularly concerned about it now.

[hueristic9]

CBS try Haveing an Editor read your text before posting them. The typo''s are unprofesional!

[cswhitney-2009]

I am very disappointed CBS news chose not to interview Dr. Ron Paul. Dr. Paul has wide spread support and provides a refreshing and alternative point of view from the conventional approach most candidates seem to take. When CBS does this segment with the candidates I believe they are obligated to interview all of them, otherwise they are susceptible to claims of favoritism and/or censorship.

[outragednow]

Once again a very important candidate is being omitted from the mass media. Here on CBS and all other mass media Dr. Ron Paul is not able to take part in a supposed unbiased candidate interview. He is a candidate yet you don''t include him. IS it because he doesn''t have a large enough campaign? Or is it because the mass media doesn''t like his insight on the REAL issues at hand? I personally feel that it is a blatent exclusion of the ONE REAL candidate that can turn this country around. Less government, more rights. RON PAUL. If CBS won''t put him on the tube, I will put him on the web at CBS.

[trinitron01]

Hunchabee is not good for this country. He didn''t have any idea what do say to that question! He doesn''t have a clue of what it takes to be a real leader for our country , and he is primarly focused on his favorite heavy-handed religious themes that he thinks everyone should see and have his beliefs. We don''t need a preacher as a president for sure!

[trinitron01]

What a joke! CBS didn''t even have the most qualified caniadate for president interviewed~ That being DR RON PAUL. He knows more than all the rest of them combined. Shame on CBS, and any other the others that want to keep him down. The people are for him - look at the stats after a debate- he wins just about everytime. He is a president for the people, not big business, or special interest. YOU WILL WIN RON PAUL.
Vist RonPaul2008.com for more info on the true leader. Thank you!

[jimfinster]

Hey Hawksprings:

Try to find some "articles" supporting your position in reputable scientific journals. Hint: blogs don''t count.

[prairiefox1]

A politician will jump on a popular cause if it will win more votes! Where it might lead or cost does not concern him! I have seen some very convincing material supplied by "hawksprings"! Let us look at the ones pushing the GW issue and you will see they would be nobodies otherwise including Gore!
They have all jumped on the bandwagon to get notoriety and a joke of a nobel peace prize! ( boy how far that has fallen)!

[co2max]

Among the democrats, at least, this comes down to contest of who can be the biggest conformist. No one wants to take a chance of being on the perceived wrong side of public sentiment. Trouble is, it''s hard to tell for sure what the overall public sentiment is these day. The loud, hyperventillators are having their say about the belief in human-caused global warming, but the majority of the population, the educated ones who know better, are firmly in the camp of being aware that climate change (currently a general warming) is real, but that it is nature''s way of swinging the climate pendulum on a thousands-of-years-long swing.