Letters to the Editor
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I dare you to read up on climate change (with an open mind).
You seem to be making the argument that the lack of scientific debate on global warming indicates that the scientific community is wrong. Certainly, healthy debate is an important part of science. However, the eventual goal of that debate is to reach consensus based on facts (data) and theory. For example, no one currently debates the existence of "aether" today as they did in Einstein's time. That doesn't mean that the physics community is suffering from mass hysteria. In the case of global warming, the debate has been settled. It exists and its caused by human activities. Maybe its doesn't fit into your freshman geology view of the world, but that doesn't mean its not true.
The computer models you dismiss weren't created to decide whether or not global warming exists, but what impacts it will have on the Earth's ecosystems. Such predictions are rather difficult and the models are not perfect. However, that doesn't mean they can be dismissed or that they are a waste of time.
Again, I direct you to the website of the IPCC: http://www.ipcc.ch/
I dare you to read up on climate change (with an open mind).
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@robotempire
Since apparently the Grammar Police have been summoned to the scene, your grammatical correction of a previous post was completely incorrect.
No, he meant "smarter than me and you."
"smarter than" in this particular instance requires an object. Between "me" and "I", "me" is the object.
Apparently he is smarter than you. =(
Wrong. Grammatically the phrase would be completed "smarter than you (are) and I (am)." Within the phrase serving as an object, subject-verb agreement still applies, even if the verbs are "understood" and elided.
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Holocene Geology
Not that Wikipedia is infallible, but apparently there isn't consensus about the Holocene. From Wik...
However, the current global warming may result in the Earth becoming warmer than the Eemian Interglacial, which peaked at roughly 125,000 years ago and was warmer than the Holocene.
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The Left is Not the Enemy.
The enemy is the ignorance of that incompetent clown in the White House who can't speak his way out of a paper bag and the sick sonofabitch who picked himself as puppet master.
You people just don't get it: Bush is one of the biggest disasters in history.
That's what you get when the elites throw up and install some sick dope to be the face of the country and a people they don't even pretend to give a shit about anymore. That's right, folks; George W. Bush and his masters don't give a rat's ass about you or doing anything that is actually good for this country.
And we're supposed to be quaking-in-front-of-our-television afraid of "Al Qaeda." Right.
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A DiFi fan
Finally, Paglia shows her real stripes as a fan of the most useless Bush Dem of them all, Diane Feinstein. Very instructive.
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uh.oh
That's what you get when the elites throw up and install some sick dope to be the face of the country and a people they don't even pretend to give a shit about anymore. That's right, folks; George W. Bush and his masters don't give a rat's ass about you or doing anything that is actually good for this country.
The sheep are finally rousting each other from their slumber.
SIX years too late.
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Withdrawal and genocide?
The person that Paglia was responding to does actually ask a legitimate question. What if withdrawal were to lead to genocide? What if one group were now able to organize unfettered militias and wreak havoc on the others? It's not a sure thing that this will happen, but we can't be sure it won't.
It is certainly true that we created the environment for possible genocide which is why we need to deal with it if it materializes.
This is why I've never been in the total withdrawal camp. I am in favor of withdrawing most of our toops from the country with those remaining behind in bases far outside the populated areas. They would intervene only if things were to get completely out of hand.
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Obama would offer a "clean, invigorating break"?
Hardly.
Obama is yet another media-created politician whose main talent is raising gobs of cash from burned-out voters starving for any semblance of freshness and hope.
His main rationale for running was...well, that it was the best time. That's it. On every policy issue, it feels like he and his staff frantically cobbled positions together the night before.
Clinton is proving to be a master sail-trimmer, tacking both left and right depending on the issue, even as she plays the media like a fiddle. Obama is actually slower and more turgid on the uptake, regardless of how his image precedes him.
I read somewhere that he's the most popular Democrat among professors and college students. If so, he reminds me of another Democrat, one who inspired passion in a limited audience; who was actually more conservative than his admirers realized; and whose hype was finally worse than his bite: Adlai Stevenson.
Or, if you need a more up-to-date metaphor, Obama is like another young Democratic Senator spouting on about fluffy "new politics of change": Gary Hart.
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Global warming and the Elected Class
Water vapor is the principal greenhouse gas and each molecule absorbs four times as much heat energy from sunlight as by every CO2 molecule. There are 200 times as many water vapor molecules as CO2 in the air for a next effect 800 times that of CO2. In percentage, water vapor is responsible for 99.875% of all atmospheric heating, but it is ignored by climate modelers.
When meteorology wanted to become a science it took the tables of physics which had all been compiled with dry air to avoid the misting and corrosion caused by precipitating water. But, this made all the climate models nonsense, a fact they have only recently recognized, but are loath to admit. Nonetheless, they know they cannot control or tax water vapor, but they can control and tax carbon much to the glee of the elected class.
There is much more to this story, if you are interested and it includes a real conspiracy conducted by James Hansen, Director of the Goddard Institute of NASA on the campus of Columbia U.
We have invented and have Patents Pending on system that will create a carbon economy in the event this nonsense passes as we feel it is a scheme to bring America down, but our work will expand the economy considerably.
Adrian Vance