(10-26-2019, 07:23 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(10-26-2019, 06:35 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: We already saw this economic plan with cigarettes. It didnt work there either.

Help me understand what you mean.
The number of people who smoke in this state and in this country is down, is it not?
Sounds like the tax worked.
No one ever said that the tax would eliminate tobacco use.

(10-26-2019, 08:50 PM)copycat Wrote:

(10-25-2019, 09:55 PM)ferocious Wrote: In all seriousness, it doesn't take a nobel laureate to conclude that, directly or indirectly, humans and their endeavors are the main factor responsible for this increase in the earth's surface temperature. I would be remiss if i did not thank you for your contribution to this discussion.

Because the industrial military complex was directly responsible for the melting of the icecaps during the last global thaw?

At what point can this discussion ever become centered?  I grew up on a a farm at one of the highest points in Meigs County Ohio.  There was an exposed boulder that was my sanctuary.  Upon this boulder there are numerous ocean fossils.  No man existed when these were placed upon that rock.  Can any of you climate change extremest explain this to me?  By the same token, we continue to cut down trees, pave roads, put up concrete and buildings.  Can any of you climate change deniers explain to how this does not affect our environment?  My God why do we continue to let the extreme views and opinions define the scope of the discussion?