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I attempted to provide an example of one federally funded high-performance computing facility, the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which is undertaking climate research. Some of it is classified: you need government clearance to work on it. And the facility is under the operational control of Raytheon, a defense contractor. The glaring evidence of the ongoing investment of millions of tax dollars on the science of global warming, a matter of strategic interest to the United States, was passed over without comment. But what do you possibly say if you're a conservative global warming naysayer. Not supporting the Pentagon would be unpatriotic.
The conservatives who don't believe that C02 levels are rising wouldn't be satisfied even if the sun were to engulf the earth, which it will, eventually. It's a waste of increasingly expensive energy to argue with them. Let them argue with the weather.
