Notes for techies that actually want the truth:
1. CO2 is not a precursor for global warming (as theorized but not measured), but a post-cursor (as measured). That is, it appears AFTER a warming period (exactly why isn't clear yet, perhaps increased life as a result of more amiable temps). This simple fact will prove to be Gore's undoing.
2. YOU might not think of how to make money from global alarmists and regulation, but AlGore has indeed done so. He owns a large position in a British Carbon Offset "Investment" service/fund/scam. All of his unterlingen and usual leftist minions will find nice cushy jobs deciding who gets to use how much fuel in their cars/houses/cities/industries/countries/etc. Just another exercise in central planning by the nomenclatura, but the US will get screwed. Unlike the UN, we will have no veto vote on approving the permits.
3. Perhaps you have read about the re-granting of funds to various GloWarm supporters rather than so-called deniers? How would you like being screwed for both telling the truth and for nothing. These rich new grantees are not going to abandon their new fund-scaring schemes without some serious prompting.
4. There is indeed a great DEAL of harm and mischief in "being careful" for no defensible earthly reason, IMHFO. This process will, if unchecked, reduce the US to a 3rd world power consumer per capita... for no discernable reason except the ravings of a seriously self-mislead raving lunatic and a group of self-congratulatory science-denyers that couldn't reason their way out of a paper bag. These same contra-logical fruitcakes never seem to understand something as simple as reducing the tax rate invariably increases the amount of total taxes collected (no one knows where the lower limit exists on tax rates, but evidence shows it is perhaps less than 10% in a modern economy and perhaps in ALL economies). If they cannot figure that out from the considerable evidence now available around both the US and the world, how the bj's are they going to understand how to comprehend any causes of GloWarm that MIGHT exist in pockets about the earth?
But, perhaps you do wear both a belt and suspenders. Would you follow a Pied Piper that said the internal combusion engine will be eliminated by 2017?* Well, perhaps in ten years he will be correct; but that doesn't bode well for our precious Cobras, does it?
5. Sorry. The famous expression about "I'm just here to help you..." was/is regularly joked-about/spoken-by various governmental and liberalist alternative-government quango entities operating above the law, NOT corporations and particularly not
oil corps.
Oil men do not think it their task to "help" anybody any more than anyone else. But, they are very generous in their gifting to universities, churches and local charities.
6. If, rather than rant against capitalism,
oil companies, science and global history, you might really want to understand both the science and the politics of this fabulously idiotic scheme of dividing and conquering the voting politic to democrat power-craving, i could be persuaded to post a few references herein.
7. Ps: i am a physicist by both long previous trade and on-going avocation and in comprehending this subject a science background with a dash of common sense will matter (quite unlike the choice of SB vs BB). GloWarm is not a matter of popular vote. It is a matter of science. Measurement, theory, proofs, probabilities and postulates are not voting matters. This is as big or bigger scam as the tulip mania in Holland in the 17th century or worse. It will make Nigerian bank fraud, Enron and Worldcom look like pure amatures.
8. Not that i am against having faith against all odds. From time to time i buy my wifey a few tickets to the lottery here in FL. She thinks it is thoughtful of me. Should i teach her otherwise or zip it? If you understand the answer to that question, you understand the second reason why scams work for most people, even "experts".
9. Being careful, in excess, does not lead us to the stars.
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...990847,00.html