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Give alarmists cold shoulder

Your NOT-SO-INTERESTING RANT about Mr. Commoner in the 1960's has no relevance! Why not share your vision and wisdom to offer real proof that we're all being duped on the climate issue. Because you have no real proof...

Alarmists? Maybe.
And yet, since these people generally say, "If we don't do A, then B will happen," and we usually end up doing "A" (improving our treatment of the planet in one way or another) there's no way to test if the predictions would've come true or not.
Personally, I'd rather breath clean air and drink water that doesn't adversely affect my health. They're worth more to me than a big truck or a McMansion.

So, are you saying that global warming is just a natural condition and that man is in no way responsible? Whew! This is relief.

Devalued dollar
Jobs outsourced
GM plants built in China
Highest national debt ever
Never-ending war
Inflation
More people tomorrow than exist today

Alarmists?

Is what the 'alarmists' are asking you to do really such an imposition, or are you just greedy, or lazy?

You need proof that it is alarmist? Have you not read these boards over the months? The proof cannot be ignored, unless you are an alarmist environmentalist.

Back in the late 1700's there was a philosopher/economist type by the name of Malthuas. He was the first 'modern' prophet of doom. He predicted that man would out-consume resources, starvation ,dieseas, would kick in and remove over 90% of the population by the early 1800's.

Nothing has changed when it comes to the doom and gloom.

Proof:
-Satellite readings show no increase in atmospheric tempretures.
-NASA admits "mistake" with temp readings, and the 1990s were NOT the hottest decade in century, remains the 1930s.
-Ice corp samples show that elevated CO2 takes place on average 800 years AFTER temp increase, CO2 does NOT cause globalwarming.
-more recent, group is checking ground temp stations and finding over 1/3 in violation of standards giving increased temp readings. As example, all are suppose to be in open, not near man made objects that could artificially increase temp readings. One located on black-top asphalt, one near a heating duct, etc. 1/3 fail standards.
-Leipzig letter of 85 leading climatologists condemn hysteria of Globalwarming.

Truth is there!

Walter Williams is a political hack and Rainer Huck just wants to be able to ride his 4 wheeler over every piece of unspoiled land in the state.
But if you are talking about "saddam hussein has WMD's and is harboring terrorists" then I agree, we should ignore alarmists.

Williams' nonsense-filled article fuels another Rainer (Git outa my way, Nature!) Huck nonsense-filled rant.

Talk about preaching to the choir.

I instead of forming your opinions on the subject of global warming from right-wing "alarmists," you instead read what ever major professional scientific organization in the world is saying on the subject?

Global warming is real, it's significant, and it's the result of human activity.

Huck and Williams can stick their heads in the sand all they want, but it won't change the reality of climate change.

Yes alaarmism. And to you chicken littles above the word is climate change, because yes global warming has already been proven undeniably wrong. You are not even good liberals if you don't know that. You show your ignorance by not realizing there is solid scientific proof that voids almost every word that has come out of your false fat Al Gore prophets worthless carbon dioxide predictions.

I love how conservatives refer to global warming as "alarmist", then in the same breath compare diplomacy in our foreign policy as "appeasement". It seems as if alarmism is ok as long as it fits the neocon agenda. Global warming is fake, but everyone we don't like is the same as Hitler.

Rainer forgot to take his meds again.
Has anyone (besides the pres) ever been more wrong than Mr. Huck? The guy misses every point possible.

Those are some pretty inane comments.

Can somebody tell me how to set up a business selling "carbon offsets"? I am in the process of putting in my yard, and since there are people that feel guilt over the pollution, I thought I would offer my services and offset their carbon for a monthly maintenance fee. (The fee would vary if they only want summer months, or if they pay for evergreen year round plants) I think that it would be a great home business.

I always liked BBKing. I echo his words. There is no such thing as "man-made" global-warming. In the 70's the same alarmists were predicting an ice-age. It never happened. If you go to a website called "spaceweather.com," you will see a live image of the actual cause of climate change--the sun. If you'll notice, there are only two, small sunspots--climate change causers.

As for the polar bear, what happened to it when the climate was much warmer than it is right now? Somehow, someway it survived. That's why it is a successful animal, according to evolutionists--it has the ability to adapt to its environment, as do many other animals.

This doesn't mean that we run rough-shod over the environment. It just means that successful animals have been adapting to climate-change for thousands of years.

re: BBKing: And your "truth" can be refuted by countless others.

Why does it seem the anti-global warming acolytes always seem to attack the messengers. They never address the message. What is the message? That our planet is dirty, we are making it dirtier, and there are harmful consequences, so we need to change things.

The problem is, people like this letter writer are lazy. They don't want to change their lifestyle. So what do they do? They write off environmentalism as a left-wing wacko conspiracy, so they don't feel bad when they drive their 2 children a quarter mile to church in their 8-passenger SUVs. That'll show Al Gore who's boss!

Listen people, someone please explain to me: how can cleaning up our planet ever be considered a bad thing? Why would someone not want to improve their quality of life? If the dire consequences of global warming never come, great! We still have a beautiful, clean planet.

I understand there are extremists, but don't let them turn you into cynical, unthinking do-nothings. There is much to be done, and we will ALL benefit from it.

In the meanwhile, try telling your children that the brownish-orange air they are breathing and the putrid-tasting tap water they are drinking are gifts from God and that who wants to live forever anyway?

To "Choirs | 8:02 a.m.", I have read some scientific studies and publications, and it all depends on who you read.

There are studies out there that say that the current global warming is caused by the sun, and others say that we are within the normal variations of temperature.

Also, when reading some of the papers that support manmade global warming, I have found some of the assumptions questionable.

So, what I am trying to say is that yes, read the studies, but what is very important is to THINK about their assumptions and conclusions.

re: YouGoFirst

So, what you are saying is that intelligent people have opinions on both sides of this issue, but that "Choirs" is wrong. So, the intelligent people that are correct believe in the same thing you do? You dismiss the others because you don't agree with them? That makes sense.

The opinion writer asks, "Why do the mainstream media give unbridled publicity to whatever drivel falls from the lips of these fear mongers?"

Answer:
That's the mainstream media's whole shtick... to publicise whatever the latest story is that might alarm their viewers (not just the lates predictions of global destruction, but WHATEVER might get us alarmed). Notice they feature the most alarming story in every tease/advertisement to get you to watch the news tonight.

I don't blame them. Who would make it a point to tune in for a story about "More flowers blooming this year" or "New studies indicate that kittens are cuddly"? It's just their business to alarm us and make us wonder if WE are in danger.

Why don't we get together a global cleaning group and head off to Eastern Europe where the real pollution is. We could pull all the old rust buckets out of the marinas where the old communist and socialist regimes left them to rot. We could clean up some of the smoke stacks which have never been updated to modern pollution standards. Communism and socialism leave countries too poor to do such fancy things as be clean.

Now in Africa and India and China, they are taking advantage of new technology and putting together fully self-reliant housing including WiFi, skipping all that expensive infrastructure we had to pay for. Global warming, rising oceans, what a farce. Worry about something real. The goblins will git ya, if ya don't watch out.