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From Denise Ross over at the Hog House Blog:
I'm not sure if I could put a better caption on that photo, taken as Democratic Senator Tom Katus was noticeable as the only legislator who dared to show up at the environmental activist event this weeken in Rapid City.
I'm not sure if I could put a better caption on that photo, taken as Democratic Senator Tom Katus was noticeable as the only legislator who dared to show up at the environmental activist event this weeken in Rapid City.
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Who else would you call for a view point from an elected democrat in Rapid City?
But I understand, most legislators love having high electricity bills and would never use a product that would save them money. Appears to be their philosophy at the state level, as well.
I'm all for buying twisty lightbulbs, but I couldn't care less about being at a flippin' event that celebrates them. I'm glad to know who was there, however. In driving to and from the event in his gas guzzler, Tom Katus (and all the other environmental whackos) spent more in petroleum than they could ever hope to save by burning the $4 light bulbs. Events such as these are all for show. "Look at me. I care."
People are waking up to their global warming/chicken little hyperbole. They know it's a bunch of socialist wackos intent on weakening the American economy and undermining your quality of life combined with an academic elite addicted to government research grants so they find plenty of reasons to need more government grants to do more studies and write more papers about the need to do more studies, nothing more.
Now that they have thin majorities in congress, they want to destroy as much as possible and they have the help of our princes stephony.
I read that the rally in Reno, Nev. (10 or 15 were present)was canceled because of cold and snow. Hahahaha...Just like the conference on Global Warming set for Minneapolis a few weeks back. Canceled because of severe cold and blizzard conditions.
Global warming? I guess not!!!
In other words, denying that global warming is occuring is about as intelligent as believing the Earth is 6000 years old.
There may be some debate about what's causing it: human beings, natural cycles, or some combination of the two.
But to say it's not happening at all is just plain dumb.
And it's especially dumb to say, because it was cold yesterday, global warming must not be occuring. That's like saying because it rained one day, there's no drought.
Yeah, there are few crackpot scientists out there who deny it. Just like there were crackpot scientists who denied that cigarettes cause cancer.
But really, the silliest thing of all is saying that since it was cold somewhere in April, it MUST not be happening. As if that's conclusive proof of anything. Ridiculous.
It's pretty difficult to reach hard facts in the scientific world. Even what we think of as the most elementary principles are but theories. I'm not sure if we'll ever be able to be certain about the existence of global warming to the point of scientific fact.
But based on facts (i.e., observations of the natural world, and analysis of historical and geological climate data) the scientific community as a whole essentially agrees that the Earth is warming up.
Again, I'm not talking about what's causing global warming. I'm just talking about its existence.
"Are we now going to start drawing concrete solutions based on scientific consensus?"
When did this little debate switch to a discussion of solutions? All I'm talking about is whether or not global warming exists. This in response to some poster who said that it was cold yesterday, so it must not exist.
If it does exist, then we can talk about what's causing it.
If we conclude that human beings are causing it, THEN we can start talking about "concrete solutions."
Hold your horses. Try to stick to the first question: is global warming occuring?
Ladies and gentlemen, rest easy. The sky is not falling, the sun is not burning out, and we will have enough energy to sustain ourselves. Also, don't forget: if some politicians weren't so preoccupied with trying to facilitate a crisis, there would be numerous more power plants on line. That wouldn't make for a good story, though. Where's the fun in that?