Bush administration pressured scientists to lie about global warming.

[uberreiniger]

http://www.alaskareport.com/reu77640.htm

Man, I almost wish mr_dark were still here. I would be most entertained by a ten page essay beginning with "First of all..." and then followed by forty-five pieces of evidence revealing this news article to be completely untrue... nearly all of them coming from Rush Limbaugh or the like.

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The point is being made for me by your statements. If the earth hasn't seen CO2 levels like this for the last 400,000 years (a theory that is difficult to prove since no one was recording history during that time...IF the earth was even here at that time), then what made it so high back then? By contrast, what made it "abruptly reverse" around 1850?

While correlation does not automatically equal causation, it's also worth remembering that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. The industrial revolution resulted in large-scale manmade chemical emissions into the atmosphere for the first time and for the first time since humans have been a viable force on the planet, the CO2 levels went up again. That's some hard-to-ignore quacking right there. Whatever was happening 400,000 years prior is very unlikely to be relevant to the evidence for causation in this instance.

Our basic, core belief is that freedom comes from God,

And freedom which is not used responsibly is often taken away... by God. One person's "freedom" to drive a big SUV that gets 6 mpg creates a higher demand for gasoline which infringes on my freedom to enjoy it at a reasonable price. That's just one example. The activities linked to global warming tend to be self-centered and infringe on the freedoms of others in very visible ways. Living with the notion that you are responsible for your actions and that your actions affect other people is most definately NOT socialism. Massa-government does not need to "create" victims. There are enough real ones out there already.