Good to see you here!

You wrote ‘I find the mere notion of government control replusive.’

Well, my state, as I’m sure most, requires seat belt use in a motor vehicle when moving. How about the requirement that you can’t drive a motor vehicle if you have an alcohol level over a certain amount. How about the requirement that you have to teach your kids at least some basic level of knowledge, whether at public schools, private or home schooling. How about polution controls or trash pickup. Are all these things government control.

I find it weird that someone would equate controls on the release of greenhouse gases with the communists of repressive governments. There are many requirements that modern, democratic, constitutionocracy governments control. It’s sad that unrestricted release of greenhouse gases causes problems with the climate for future gernerations. It’s be easier if that wasn’t true. It appears to be true and it’s something that respondsible people and governments should do something about. But to say that at sometime there were repressive governments and then the only solution because there were repressive governments that now we can’t do anything about this problem is nuts.

Personally, I think there is to much government control in many areas which causes us to not be able to solve real world wide problems when they come up such as this. But global warming is real, human machine and land use caused and we should do something about it that requires grown ups to do something about it.

But don’t go to the extreme of

There isn’t, in fact, any such evidence. That is why the scientists of 130 nations signed off on every word of the IPCC summary. If anything, the IPCC summary is a conservative one, as it only represents what everyone agrees on. As Joe has described, it appears that your ideology does not allow you to accept the facts, because the solutions proposed to deal with the problem aren’t to your liking. No matter how you spin it, even the Bush administration has released reports confirming global warming and describing the national security concerns related to global warming. The U.S. supreme court has found that CO2 is a pollutant that the EPA has the authority to regulate under existing law.

We could supply the official statements from the National Academy of Science and others mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, and would do so if we thought you had any interest in what climate scientists and those in closely related disciplines have to say about the subject.

You can read all about it in the articles on this blog if you take the time.

Your argumentation is the equivalent of a childs’.

Smarter trolls, please – ones where the time spend addressing them isn’t wasted.

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Best,

D