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"?