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[abbe7]

"How about Nixon, who signed the Endangered Species Act?"
Among a few other things ...
I didn't know that plumbers were an endangered species ...

There are better reasons to cut pollution and oil waste than the questionable (yes) human impact on global warming.

[montraville]

Socialist....see what I mean? Climate change deniers are trying to paint environmentalists as communists. It's a total sham. Environmentalism means good citizenship, not political affiliation. Was Teddy Roosevelt a socialist? How about Nixon, who signed the Endangered Species Act?

[hawksprings]

I know this one article won't change the mind of Global Warming Sheep, but I found it interesting since the scientist is a socialist from France and he has changed his mind about the Global Warming hysteria.

Read and Enjoy:

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2f4cc62e-5b0d-4b59-8705-fc28f14da388

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[montraville]

I think Republicans are upset because they're caught off balance by the pace of events. They can't provide some needless, overblown, militarized and hyper-technical solution to global warming yet. They'll get on board once they find a way to exploit it for their own gain.

Cutting emissions of course is too easy, to cheap, and too reliable a solution. Once they've developed some ridiculous plan to partially block out the sun with a giant reflector or to build nuclear plants to power co2 scrubbers, they'll be all over this issue!

[k_s_ng]

I think that US should be responsible for the reduction in the greenhouse gases emissions as other nations do. However, US withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol only because of the economic concerns and it seems that US does not regard the environment at all.

[abbe7]

This is also likely to hit us before GW ...
(global warming, not Bush).

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

[abbe7]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_492572.html

[erasmus6]

HawkSprings

The whole point here is you really don't know one way or the other what Al Gore is doing. You are obsessing about something you don't even know for sure. He could be doing everything he should be doing and what he is doing is here nor there. jimfinster is right, the fact is that there IS global warming and we should be greatful that Al Gore has brought it to everyones attention. I mean come on, do you really think that the guy is going to put himself in that position? Do you think he isn't going to be doing what he needs to be doing when he knows the spotlight is shining on him? Let's face it you won't be happy until he is living in a hut on the beach. I will say it AGAIN, you need to worry about yourself and do what you can do, even if it is just changing your light bulbs or buying recycled toilet paper etc.
I suggest you move on and quit wasting your energy on something you can't do anything about. Even if Al Gore wasn't doing anything, what are you going to do about it? What you can do is the things that I just suggested, at least you will know that you did something. We can't control what other people are doing, only ourselves.

[erasmus6]

HawkSprings

The whole point here is you really don't know one way or the other what Al Gore is doing. You are obsessing about something you don't even know for sure. He could be doing everything he should be doing and what he is doing is here nor there. jimfinster is right, the fact is that there IS global warming and we should be greatful that Al Gore has brought it to everyones attention. I mean come on, do you really think that the guy is going to put himself in that position? Do you think he isn't going to be doing what he needs to be doing when he knows the spotlight is shining on him? Let's face it you won't be happy until he is living in a hut on the beach. I will say it AGAIN, you need to worry about yourself and do what you can do, even if it is just changing your light bulbs or buying recycled toilet paper etc.
I suggest you move on and quit wasting your energy on something you can't do anything about. Even if Al Gore wasn't doing anything, what are you going to do about it? What you can do is the things that I just suggested, at least you will know that you did something. We can't control what other people are doing, only ourselves.

[jimfinster]

hawksprings:

Also, you REALLY should give up on the Gore angle. Even if he does have a hidden agenda (which I doubt), it has nothing to do with the factual basis of global warming.