The Department of Defense says Global Warming is a great threat to humans. Are they a bunch of liberals? Pinkos? Enviromental terrorists?
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Well Global warming is a great threat, it is damaging planet earth. I was reading in this physics book about the effects of global warming and it stated that the rising levels of harmful chemical gases in the earth's atmosphere could damage the earth forever. It says the with the build up of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen, methane, ammonia and carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, a giant chemical ring will form around the earth's atmosphere blocking sunlight coming into earth, so therefore the earth turns into "lo" one of jupiter's many moons. I'm not saying that this is true, but that's what i read in my book.
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Global warming is the biggest crock of paranoid BS I've ever seen.
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Is global warming to our benefit?  \n\nI say this because global levels of environmental Carbon(13), an isotope of Carbon(12), is used by us geologists as a way of identifying paleo-glacial maximums.  A high Carbon(13) level coincides with periods of high glaciation (i.e. ice-age).  \n\nRight now the levels of environmental Carbon(13) are at a level that should indicate the beginnings of an Ice age.  Clearly things are getting warmer, not cooler.  So the question is: is human Carbon Dioxide/Carbon Monoxide input actually holding back the impending Ice age?\n\nAlso, why do so many people think that the atmosphere should be static.  The global temperature is always increasing or decreasing.  It's never static.
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Not the Republicans, they don't believe in Global Warming and pollution. They have actually allowed the emissions to double in the last 6 years because the deregulated the pollution control guidelines. Bush hates America.
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I guess I am not allowed to answer since I am concerned about global warming.  I am also concerned about the massive population explosion of dim wits.  Both are great causes of concern.  But since you did not ask for solutions I will not give you what you did not ask for.  You seek to get blabble babble static and drivle...
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Wow, interesting article.  Possibly one of the best-written and moth truthful ones I have seen.  It's amazing how well people have hushed up the most recent climatological results which indicate a plateau in global temperatures.\n\nAs they noted at the end of the article, I think it's time we gave up on this misguided effort to "reduce man-made CO2", and start worrying about real issues like shortages of drinking water and environmental pollution.\n\nClimate fluctuations are part of the earth cycle- and we honestly don't understand enough about they systems and their interactions to have any idea how we could possibly effect it.  But the science is in:  this happens ALL the time in earth history, and it's pretty arrogant of us to think that this time it's our fault!
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They have no logic or rational thought on this subject.\n\nNot one reasonable response with actual hard evidence.  Why? Because there is none.  \n\nJust too stubborn to admit they're wrong.  Just like fearless leader I guess...\n\nBTW scorbore's links above are all bogus (except one) he posts them to every global warming question.  Here's the definitive link;\n\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686\n\nEDIT; Hey Scorbore dates don't mean anything.  Do you even know the scientific standard of publication by peer review?  Only one of your links was a peer reviewed publication.  All 928 of mine were.  So, which do you believe your 1 or my 928 :)
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IT IS NOT GOVERNMENT! IT IS THE PEOPLE IN OFFICE, BUSH AND HIS BAND OF IDIOTS!!!  We have a President that does not care to much for the enviorment and his record proves that!          Instead of fighting pollution, the Bush Administration has undermined critical environmental protections by:\n\n    * Weakening clean air and clean water standards;\n    * Slowing the clean up of toxic waste dumps;\n    * Ignoring global warming;\n    * Breaking its promise to repair and maintain our national parks; and\n    * Undermining protection for public lands. The only people who will benefit from the war on Iraq are the elite wealthy oil men who finance Bush's election campaigns, and people like Bush who have huge personal investments in the oil industry. Oil company profits have already increased by fifty percent this year because of the war, and the invasion hasn't even started yet!   His family made there wealth with oil and continues to stay in bed with them!
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Well thats Bush's view.  Enviromentalists aren't allowed to relase any information that could suggest a bad future.  The government goes over most policies and takes out any threatening information.  \n\nI support Gore and his decision to make it publicly known.
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The world is not heating up. All this talk about the major hurricanes and global warming is incorrect, what is happening now also happned a hundred years before any pollution. Also the ozone layer is actually getting better. Al Gore just wants you to think republicans are bad. \n\nIf Canada did heat up, so would the rest of the world and there would be major global disasters. (No, Canada would not melt)
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Start with Al Gore's Inconvieniant Truth to get the big picture. Then if you can consider other people elsewhere besides where you live you would know they are being effected right now. The world is warming up and ice is melting everywhere. We should all be very concerned......
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I would say it is the opposite if you categorize it by political party but it actually most likely crosses party lines.  In terms of Environmental extremists who think we are destroying the planet just really don't know the facts at all.  People who supposedly "don't care about the environment" just have a better understanding and know that we are not destroying the earth and don't see a need for a call to global saving action.  The have basic concerns like local pollution, littering, clean water things like that, everyone cares about things like that.  But the notion that we control the environment and global climate change etc...is ridiculous.  I would advise more people educating themselves on the facts and be rational not relational.  A great book to read is Trashing The Planet by Dixie Lee Ray as a starter and she lists several good resources that area also good things to read.  I gained a lot of knowledge after studying environmental effects for over 2 years and writing a report on my findings.  As far as Al Gore and George Bush, Bush far better understands the truth behind the environment and knows a lot of what Al Gore says is not true or accurate.  So why would he waste his time dealing with things that are not as dire as they are believed to be.  \n\nA few missed facts:\nThere are more trees in the U.S. now than there were 100 years ago.  \nThe Earth is a remarkable machine that has a self-cleansing process to digest much of the pollution produced.\n"A 1995 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\n(IPCC)... wrote that some 90 billion tons of carbon as carbon dioxide\nannually circulate between the earth's ocean and the atmosphere, and\nanother 60 billion tons exchange between the vegetation and the\natmosphere. Compared to man-made sources' emission of about 5 to 6\nbillion tons per year, the natural sources would then account for more\nthan 95 percent of all atmospheric carbon dioxide."\nRain Forests while nice to have are not the only source for oxygen production on Earth. in fact the comprise a small amount of area globally to influence much.  50% of oxygen production is done in the oceans.  I am not saying I don't care about rain forests but that they are dynamically changing naturally and if they were gone our climate would not be as effected as some would have you believe.\n\nThese are just a few points.\n\nI really have to agree with retrotrancer.  I too remember the pending ice age scare.  One of the large contributors to this movement was Paul Ehrlich who was also the dooms-dayer about a population boom.  He has been proven so many times, and yet honored by the Sierra club, world wildlife fund, and numerous other organizations.  He then in the 80's was talking about global warming not cooling.  They have no clue.  Read the book Eco-scam from by Ronald Bailey.  This is the thing with libs, it doesn't mater if you are right or wrong just if you feel and are caring.\n\nEnvironmental extremist just don't know the facts.  They are so far off on so many points it is unbelievable.  I have to believe the only people who still believe in this stuff just have not taken the time to really look into it but just listen to the info given to them from the Media or liberal agendas.
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I am disappointed that well-educated scientists are completely dismissed by the cooky media for warning us about Global Warming....\n\nPeople like their Hummers and Happy Meals and they don't care about the truth anymore.
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The fact that the globe has been slowly warming up ever since the last ice age should be reason enough to suspect that global warming isn't at all a catastrophe.  We people on Earth really need to start looking to other problems like natural resources.
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the yes or no ones and the easy ones...\nglobal warming is causing glaciers to melt which sucks..
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Perhaps you are too young to remember this, but 20 years ago (when I was in elementary school) the environmentalists were worried about global cooling.  A couple years later when I got to Junior high all of a sudden it was global warming that the environmentalists were all worried about.  \n\nThe truth is that the most liberal (generous) readings were that the Earth's average surface temperature had risen by 1 degree farenheit.  Those readings were taken from airport thermometers.  Temperatures taken in trees showed no significant changes.  \n\nAddressing the airport readings...In the early 20th century airports were out in the country far from urban areas and runways were generally made of dirt as were the roads, but by the end of the 20th century they were a part of the urban sprawl.  Cement sidewalks and paved roads and runways cause the temperature to rise and could explain the 1 degree increase in temperature all by themselves.
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Its all about the wording.  This administration has been very good at one thing - Words.  They decide to give big business freedom to pollute and call it, "Clear Skies".  They help the logging industry destroy millions of acres by starting the, "Healthy Forests Plan".  This war had nothing to do with 9/11 or WMD.  This administration had plans to invade Iraq long before it ever came to office.  15 of the 19 terrorist were from Saudi Arabi and the terrorist camps were in Afganistan.