Quote:I think it's telling that global warming denial is concentrated among small-government conservatives and libertarians.   So why is it that people with a certain political view have taken a stand on a scientific question?    The answer is, because small-government conservatives and libertarians are so afraid of the solutions to global warming that they choose denial.   It's like if you told someone a car is coming and they better get out of the road.   And their answer is, "I don't want you telling me what to do, and I don't want to get out of the road, therefore, there is no car." 

 

My view of global warming is this:   It probably exists.  Scientists are usually right.  But the solutions seem to be so expensive and distasteful, that I'm not sure I want to do anything about it.   Besides, it is impossible to get people to take action on a problem that is decades away.  We will just have to deal with it as it comes.   Build seawalls and put in pumping systems in cities, move to higher ground.  We need to prepare ourselves for the consequences, because we are not going to be able to slow it down or reverse it. 

 

Don't buy waterfront property. 

 

My view is this: It exists in a natural form mostly influenced by the Sun and geological occurrences beyond the control of man . Man has a very limited impact on the change, and as more evidence comes to light (ex, those 1960s era Sat Films that were just recovered that show ice shelf readings that contradict modern GCC Alarmist understanding or predictions) more people will understand that the movement is motivated by profiteers like Al Gore and watermelon socialists who are using the "movement" to achieve their political goals. If it were something to worry about, which it's not, we couldn't slow it down or reverse it anyway, man does not control nature. More concerning is the water table issue that was posted above, we've known for decades that our use of ground water was unsustainable because of growth, not because of GCC, and we've not done much about it. That is kind issue we should be concerned with, one we actually could do something about.

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