But this is exactly the modus operandi of the climate-change fanatics: it is THEY who are characterized by a failure to make scientific statements.

As for `the climatologists', you'll find that their actual peer-reviewed statements on climate change are a great deal more… nuanced than the fanatics – chief among them Al Gore – are ready to make.

Oh and as for the right's claims that all democrats want to do is 'tax and spend,” last time I remember, Democrats left this country with a surplus, Bush and his cronies have left us with a record deficit. Give me a balanced budget and higher taxes for the rich any day.
stupid.

When you give half of your salery away then I might use you as an example, until then go away – far, far away.

Remember that pollution (not just greenhouse gases) is BAD for you? Affects your lungs? Gets in your water? Affects the brains of developing embryos?

Don't people realize that our drinking water is inundated with prescription drugs and agricultural chemicals?

The point is that we can't (mathematically impossible) continue living the way we're living indefinitely. We are approaching the right-wall of our ability to expand. We HAVE to change. Only a deluded fool would deny that.

So why the level of animosity towards the people trying to spur us into action, trying to prevent catastrophe? We know we have to change, so why NOT start now? Because we're lazy, entitled, spoiled, and completely sheltered from reality. Not because of any conspiracies either way.

So the next time you think about what a whackjob some environmentalist or another is … take a moment to actually consider what they're asking you to do, and you'll realize that what they're asking you to do may be uncomfortable, but is better for you in the long run WHETHER OR NOT GLOBAL WARMING ITSELF is the danger.

I'm disappointed that the environmentalists have let the entire discussion be reduced to just whether or not human activity will increase the overall temperature of the climate. Temperature isn't the only thing that is killing us. Overpopulation, pollution, and damage to our biological communities will kill us too, and they require the same solutions.

They are also the first group arrogant enough to believe that they can change the planet's climate.

During this period, the Vikings had colonized Greenland and were farming there. I've flown to Europe, I've seen southern Greenland from the air — if they were raising crops there, climate was very, very different than today.

So I know that climate has been changing toward the cooler side of things for a thousand years. I also know that there have been ice ages where much of Europe and North America were encased. If I were to be worried about climate change, it would make sense that I should be more fearful of Natural Global Cooling than Anthropogenic Global Warming.

That Global Warming theorists have been thoroughly infiltrated by Luddites and “environmental” political groups enthralled by a Hobbesian state of nature (“nasty, brutish, and short”) only reinforces the initial perception. People who look to strangle the world's economy, doom billions to economic stagnation, and enforce total elitist control over all activities producing CO2 (including breathing) should be fought at every turn.

What we do know is that the earth is not the fragile, helpless thing it is so often claimed to be (If theres one thing I hate about arguments like these, it's the idea that we need to keep the earth the way it is. Really? When we have already stalled the scheduled ice age that would have people raving about global winter? I am rambling ). The younger dryas (look it up, it will be good for you), the cretaceous, where temperatures were 6 degrees Celsius hotter, the little ice age, whatever- life *adapts* to change, always had, always will. So then the earth does also.