What do you think on the War on Irac and Global warming?
403828
The Iraq war most be focused to getting the Iraqi people to take over the own defense.  Global warming is a natural process driven by sun cycles.  We will have to learn the impact of the sun cycles on the environment of our world and make needed adjustments.
877399
Yes!  I believe strongly in environmental issues.  I'm not really a tree-hugger, and I don't blow up Humvees on my weekends.  I simply believe that global warming is one of the biggest dangers facing our country.  Far more so than terrorism. \n\nIf I had the ear of US lawmakers, I would encourage them to follow California's rules, forcing carmakers to manufacture vehicles with lower emissions and higher fuel efficiency.  \n\nI would fine companies that pollute commiserate to the amount required to clean up the pollution plus a punative fine that would be calculated upon the amount of money that they saved by causing the pollution to begin with. \n\nIE: Acme dumps acetote into the drains, which go into our rivers because they don't want to pay $1500/mo for proper disposal.  They would be fined the amt of $$ to clean up the mess, plus the $1500/mo for however many months they've been destroying the environment.\n\nIt's just fair.  A person can't get away with this sort of stuff, so why should our corporations?
940204
Go ahead.  Global warming is a MYTH!\n\nWe can treat them like the useless United League of Nations sanctions and ignore them, just like most of the Middle East! Why are you interested in penalizing the countries that have economies that grow instead of trying to become members of the free world economy?
1081754
First of all, I think it is going to take a tad bit longer than a few decades to heat up the planet to the point of being uninhabitable. Go sit in yellow knife naked in the middle of winter and tell me then how long you think it will take to get the planet to the point hot enough to kill you.\n\nSecond, when we do reach that point, I think we will also have devised ways of living in hotter temperatures. I am thinking more of a bio dome type of surrounding. Or somehow force us to live underground. \n\nLastly, with things like the Kyoto accord helping, maybe we can turn things around with global warming, but only if we get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels.\n\nOtherwise, we are hooped.
106656
Yes, I think everybody is concerned about global warming. \n\nAm I worried? No.\n\nAm I prepared to use it as a pretext for taking away the life, property and liberty of other? Definitely not.\n\nThis is the point most peole miss. Being concerned about something is not sufficient grounds for persecuting others. \nHitler was terribly concerned about the problmes created by Jews. That doens't mean that what he did was right.\n\nBeing concerned about global warming doesn't mean that we have the right to take away property or freedom from anyone else.
617090
Global warming is definately a huge issue.  I don't think any countries are enacting on this issue currently
482950
I'm a conservative, and I'm also pro-environment and pro-animal rights.  But I do think that the entire "global warming crisis" has been blown out of proportion by special interests.  The scientists who speak the truth are silenced.
365479
At some point (are we already there?) we will hit what is called peak oil, meaning we will pump more oil that year than was ever pumped or will ever be again.  Then, unfortunately, things will get scary as we are compteting with India and China for oil.  What happens if China makes a move on the oil fields in the middle east?  Are we going to go to war for it?  This doesn't have to come about if our government actually plans for this by funding research into alternative fuel sources.  We can't wait for government, though.  We can change the way we live - enough with the SUVs, turn your heat down, ride (God forbid, if you're an American!) your bike to the store, ect.  Small changes can actually add up if we all do it...or even if 10% of us do.  The key is starting now...not when its already a crisis.
1019295
Global warming is happening, make no mistake about it.  This natural cycle that we're going through seems to be accelerating.  Is it due to humans?  Quite possibly.  Can we do anything about it?  Maybe, but will it have a dramatic effect?  Who knows.\nNobody in their right mind believes we are going to "destroy" the planet.  At worst we'll just make it uninhabitable.
27787
No, it a is fake calamity brought about by liberal Democrat tree-huggers who despise capitalism. \n\nSure the earth may be warming up but man's activity is not causing it. During the middle ages the earth was a lot warmer and that was before cars were even thought of.\n\nDo a couple of things - check out how long volcanoes have been on the planet, how much green houses gases are spewed into the atmosphere during just one eruption, and compare that to the total output of emissions from man's activity since the internal combustion engine was around.\n\nAlso, look at the facts about the correlation between the energy output of the sun and the global temperature and the correlation between global temperatures and greenhouse gas emmissions from man's activity. You'll find the correlation between the sun's temperature is more closely correlated.
632897
Personally, I would like to see our troops BURN IT ALL, so those little countries go back to the dark ages where they obviously belong.\n\nI would rather burn CRAP in my car than to let these countries think we NEED them.
694994
This gobal warming BS is all propaganda, to get us ready to ween ourselves away from oil.  The effect that humans have had on global warming is nominal.  A good volcanic eruption gives off more CO2 and poisonous gas than humans have given since the start of the industrial revolution.  The government now is just using it as another tax grab.  These scientists, who do you think they get funding from.  Bill Gates?  No the government.  At one time they said the world was flat, then they said the sun revolves around the earth, the people that disproved these theories were persecuted by the common thought at the time, just like the scientists that have debunked the global warming debate today.  Like the BS of no more fish in 50 years, what a load of crap.  I've never heard anything so stupid.  But people like to have a doomsday, and like to think we are destroying the world.  Like we are overpopulated and the earth can't sustain this many people,  BS it can sustain double the current population.  Don't get me wrong some places like Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Lima, Bejing etc. need to pass clean air act in order to get localized pollution and smog under control, but that is for the citizen benifit, not the planets.  The planet will compensate for it's self, Ozone depleting emissions are a little more dangerous, but most industrialized nations have now passed strict laws about this, and in fact the holes in the ozone layer are not getting any bigger.  The weather is erratic, always has been always will be.  Just look up any record highs and lows of any date.  To be so arrogant and egotistical to think that we control nature is a stupid thought, nature controls us, and always will.  There is a reason we call her mother.\n\nSome FUN FACTS about CO2\nOf the 186 billion tons of CO2 deposited into the atmosphere yearly from all sources, only 6 billion are from man, 90 billion come from biologic activity in earths oceans, and another 90 billion from volcanos and decaying land plants.\n\ncurrent CO2 levels make up 4/100ths of 1% of gases in the atmosphere, compared to former geologic times earth is actually CO2 impoverished.\n\nCO2 is colourless, odourless, and tasteless, Plants consume CO2 and expel Oxygen, animals consume Oxygen and expel CO2.  Carbon Dioxide is a nutrient not a pollutant, and all life plants and animals alike benifit from it.  All life on earth is carbon based and CO2 is an essential ingredient.\n\nCO2 that goes into the atmosphere does not stay there it is recycled by land plants and the oceans(the retirement home for most terrestrial CO2)\n\nIf we are in a global warming crisis today??  Even the most costly and aggressive proposals for cutting CO2 emissions would have a negligable affect on global climate!!\n\nIn truth CO2 levels have been steadily increasing for the past 18000 years.  The total human contribution to the greenhouse effect has been about 0.28% (CO2 man made = 0.117% / NOX, methane other minor gases man made = 0.163%)\n\n"Scientists who want to attract attention to themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves have to find a way to scare the public...and this you can only acheive by making things bigger and more dangerous than they really are"  Petr Chylek, professor of physic and atmospheric science.\n\n"Even if the Global warming THEORY(key word) is wrong, we will be doing the right thing, in terms of environmental and economic policy"  Tim Worth while US Senator Col.  After a short stint as UN under secretary for global affairs, he now serves as president of the UN Foundation, created by Ted Turner and his 1 Billion dollar "gift"\n\nYou people think everyone lied about Iraq, wake up people, this is the biggest lie yet!!!!!
941990
I believe the one that could have made the car manufacturer's follow emissions guidlines is just as much a terrorist as the people that buy them, of course you and I would have to be put in that category too unless you walk everywhere you go and don't take public transportation because everything that we drive or ride in uses gas even though it might not be specifically from Iran you never can tell can you.  Our government needs to get into gear and look for an alternative to relying on foreign oil because as long as we have to depend of them we will always be funding fundamentalist groups that want to see the American Empire fall.
754626
are you people seriously still gonna hold on to the lie that global warming is a hoax???!!!???   Wake the f*ck up people!!!   As a geologist who loves this earth and digs around in the dirt all a day,  I have seen first hand the effects of humans on this planet.... and it is horrible... you think you will live through the next ice age... well fire up your SUV's people and keep burning that oil, don't bother recycling, and you just might live to see it...   desalinization is a bad thing people, really, really bad....  don't believe keep on, keep on...  you ruining this place for your children and grandchildren...
54059
We are in a global war on Terror. \nWe are taking action.  \n\nUnfortunately our president thought it was best to "Sell" this war piecemeal "war in Iraq, followed by war in Afghanistan" etc.\n\nHad he been more forthcoming, more people would be in support. \n\nThe truth is: we are in a global war on terror that will last decades or until every Islamic country has a stable government that can police their own fringe radicals.\n\nIt needs to be done, and it is being done.\n\nThough I'm not so sure it is being done the right way.  I'm a bit more cynical.  \n\nI say:\n\nInstall friendly dictators in every nation that poses a risk (They know how to deal with these problems) Democracy is beyond the abilities of most of the populations we're talking about.\n\nDevelop an alternative form of Energy and embargo all mid-east oil.\n\nGive Israel free reign to defend themselves as they see fit. \n\nYou'll see a mid-east that begs for our presence, our moderating effect on Israel and our $$ !
1154868
The governments with the money - US, Great Britain, and China - seem not to care that much. The US has been taken over by multinationals whose bottom line is money. Protecting the environment seems not to be profitable. The mulitnationals have bought the government and thus have gutted all the protection earlier governments have put in place. Yes, the planet has significant problems. \n\nGlobal warming is real. Read Kim Stanley Robinson's books _40 Signs of Rain_ and _50 Degrees Below_ (another one should be out to finish the trilogy soon). We have to understand that we must work as a global people. \n\nI hope that we can do that soon.
1141500
What - do you think Yahoo Message board admins would let people post that Bush wouldn't know global warming if it flooded the White House, or that Bush is flip-flopping about withdrawing troops from Iraq ?\nNot a chance.  The boards will stay down until some pro-Bush hack makes a press release that shows their policies in a good light.