Comments on: Pelosi Turns Up Heat On Global Warming

Speaker Forcing Legislative Action On Climate Change

[frankly6]

jsglyag123

The science is in and it's overwhelming. Global warming is happening, it's going to be devistating to economies and populations, and it's being caused by human activity. It's not a political football. It's a very dangerous reality that will increasingly effect the survival of all species including our own.

We can either lead the world in developing new technologies that curb or eliminate the causes of global warming or we can follow the world and suffer the consequences. It's just that simple...lead or follow.

[jsglyag123]

What global warming? do you remember in the 70's we were told that we are in an ice age! The earth naturaly heats up and cools down we are now in the heating up stage. More scientist belive this is the cause not because of our cars and factory's. We did not have suv's in the 50's yet the earth has heated up only 1 degree in the last 100 years and that was in the first 50 years.
This is just a group af flaming liberals who want use to belive them and not look for the facts ourselfs.Wake up America if we keep listening to the liberals we will no longer have a free country we will live life their way not what our founding fathers wanted we were founded to have a free country under the rules of the people not the liberal courts who tell us that we can't say the pledge or say in God we trust and that we have to look at other countrys and Obey their laws and have them for US.

[jonw1115]

Is it just me or does CBS always find the most ridiculous picture to post of a politician in related stories? I think the photographers wait until the most awkward moment to snap the photo. I mean it looks like Nancy is taking the Browns to the Super Bowl!

[whoever1234]

"We can either lead the world in developing new technologies that curb or eliminate the causes of global warming or we can follow the world and suffer the consequences. It's just that simple...lead or follow."
Posted by frankly6 at 01:51 PM : Jan 18, 2007

Time to turn off the sun, I guess....

[j-whitman]

What's the problem ??? -- We can now Snowboard & Surf in Malibu - Save on gas, no more trips to Big Bear.

[talkingham]

I have been pro-environment for more than 30 years, made documentaries defending wilderness areas in the US Southeast when the government claimed their weren't any wilderness areas east of the Mississippi- they were wrong and we won in court. However, for me, the politics of global warming are absurd and really hurting the environmental movement. To claim the last 100 years of US industry is responsible for global warming is absurd and damaging to all who fight for the environment. We have been in an intense period of global warming for more than 15,000 years - the ice was 1/2 mile thick at NYC around 20,000 years ago and melted more than 10,000 years ago. I applaud efforts to recognize the issues around global warming but not the politics - if we can't get on the same side we all lose and politics is about dividing and winning, not coming together. I'm far more concerned about the immediate loss of forests and wild habitats around the world, in the US because we have so little left that's not range land. The Gulf coast is a joke compared to what it once was, and hurricanes didn't do it, developers did. More power to the canes and STOP INSURING the tourist monstronsities built on the coasts! Global warming will eventually take care of itself, we may lose Miami in the process, but too bad. We cna hardly predict the weather from day to day much less effect it or global warming or cooling in an meaningful way.

[whoever1234]

If the weathermongers are 99% accurate on each of 100 factors that affect the climate, the likelihood that they are correct on their conclusion is about 36%. Lower their accuracy to 95%, and the likelihood of a correct conclusion is less than 1%. However, the likelihood of death and taxes is 100%.

[rmsdm4]

The only problem I have with man made global warming is that no one takes into account that the sun is going through an enormous amount of activity and has gotten hotter over the last 15ys. If your only hear source gets hotter, would it not be fair to say that you will get hotter.

[kevboom]

"It is the height of arrogance to claim global warming as a truth, when focused on a narrow section of data." Actually, it's the height of arrogance to sit in a country with 5% of the world's population churning out the largest percentage of greenhouse gases, and then to defend that position. Your president would be proud. But his pockets and congress' pockets are lined with the blood money of the auto/oil industry. Why are you defending the polluters? It wouldn't kill America to do its part in cleaning up the mess we're largely responsible for creating. Even if the "scientists" are wrong about ice caps melting, oceans rising, and hurricanes increasing, we'll still have cleaner air. And I'm sorry to hear its been so cold in California. It's been the warmest winter on record in North Carolina. Hmmm... and I guess all those satellite images of ice caps retreating hundreds of miles don't mean anything either. Just a "blip." Let's deny for now, keep reaping stock profits, and keep those taxes low. Maybe nothing will happen.

[lilvinnyb]

So who caused Global warming after the "ice age"?

[shingles1]

RandalDS, I agree - most the time these debates here are nothing more than an excuse for each side to wave their partisan *** in the other side's face...it drives me up the wall sometimes.

Me, I almost don't really CARE what perspective you have (within reason) on some given topic as long as you are honest and consistent and can defend it. But instead you get the "everything bad in the world is Bush's fault" side vs. the "everything bad in the world is the liberal's fault".

It's like these people are children. Of course, since there's no way to know anyone's age - who knows, maybe half of these folks really ARE children.

[vaughnbauer]

Go to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and check out the Surface Temperature Analysis - by Station Data for all around the world, and see for yourself. Are you so convinced that because of the current warming trend this somehow makes global warming a fact? Have we forgotten the 1970's when scientists where convinced that because of the current cooling trend we would be seeing a new ice age? It is the height of arrogance to claim global warming as a truth, when focused on a narrow section of data. Yes the past few decades have been warmer, congratulations, you can read a thermometer and record the numbers. We should know better than make such sure claims on an area of science so complicated as global climate. If the earth has been around for millions of years, then it's laughable to assume a warming trend for 2-3 decades means something significant. Even a 2 hundred year warming trend could mean nothing. We could be in the middle of a ten thousand year cooling period and not even know it! But it's a $2 Billion+/year lobbying topic... So who cares about logic and common sense. I'm an American, I just believe whatever comes across TV and the big screen and accept it as truth... Thank you Mr. Gore.
This is just a classic form of ruling by fear. And as long as people are content with "watching the shadow puppets on the cave wall" then we will see no end to the list of things we should all be afraid of.
Btw it's been the coldest January in over 15 years in Southern California.

[drinuk]

The Europeans have gone silly over global warming but it's all a big tax hike. Think back 60 years, every home with a coal fire, steam trains, foundries, blast furnaces and no clean air acts anywhere. Since that time it has improved dramatically and yet they keep pushing this nonsense. Like always the world will evolve, it's been doing it for millions of years.

I would like Pelosi to help the world RIGHT NOW, she could reign in the Pharaceuticals and put a stop to the genocide they are commiting AND a total ban on Aspartame and NutraSweet. That would a good start in helping the people of this world survive.

[j-whitman]

What's the problem ?? We can now snowboard & surf in Malibu.

[bildooreilly]

Jebediah, Those ice caps are going to melt if they're going to melt no matter what is done, no matter if they raise taxes on energy or not, and myself I think they're going to melt in the next 5-6 years... you and I might not care that much about the cost of a gallon of gas but cost directly effects a lot of poorer people that all of you bleeding hearts on here always seem to claim you love so much. The government already gets more than enough taxes from all of us, why should we give them more of our money to squander?

[skyk-2009]

Fascist want us all to bury our heads in the sand as we slowly see the world around us change and it certainly will NOT be for the better. Scientist continue to tell us over and over again but NOOOOOOOOO these losers just do what thay always do... blame someone else of try to find someone to hate for it. We MUST have this debate and it's about time someone stood up to Big Oil and the Fascist in Government. For the benefit of all of us and ESPECIALLY for our kids.

[jebediah76]

Bildo-

I am less concerned with the cost of a gallon of gas than I am about the possibility that florida will be half under water when the ice caps disappear. I suspect that you and anyone else here that is priveledged enough to own a computer and have this discussion should be able to see that frankly - we have everything we could want right here and now. You have clean water, you can read, work, live your life in peace, feed your family.

Not having a big plasma screen HDTV is no reason to bi tch about the price of gas going up.

Hell - I'd pay twice the price if the money wasn't going to big oil but to programs that help clean up this mess.

[jebediah76]

Look - if something isn't going to pass anyway no one votes for it. It was clear that Kyoto wasn't going to pass with or without Clinton's support. With Big Oil and the Republican party casting doubt on hard science - even to this day - It never had a chance.

And even if it wasn't the right treaty to sign, why were we not leading the charge to find a fair and better solution? We were fighting over whether Clinton got blown instead. Its disgusting - and you want to quibble over Pelosi trying to get some movement on the issue out of the do nothing House? Please - stuff it back in the horse.

[bildooreilly]

It's a tax increase and we'll be the ones footing the bill not "Big oil" and "big energy" who will simply pass the new costs onto the consumer just like they always have.

[bildooreilly]

Randal, real human beings will be freezing to death right here in the USA after they add their "global warming" tax. It's just another tax scam, and it always has been, it's not going to do anything to help global warming which is more of a solar event. People fail to realize that we're coming upon 2012-2013 and some major planetary events are coming up, I think everything is going to completely change over the next 5-6 years myself and people are going to have to adapt to it if possible if not no global warming tax scam is going to save us.