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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108752)	8/15/2007 12:49:30 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>He takes the right wing party line on global warning.< Is that any worse than spinning in the other direction, trying to cause panic, etc... when the real intention of many on the left is to expand government and destroy capitalism before we know the truth? ;-)

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108752)	8/15/2007 2:04:35 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

KT, In general, I think it can't be a very good idea to simultaneously be cutting down trees around the globe and dumping large amounts of pollutants into the air and water. However, I don't think anyone knows what's going in terms of the correlations between human activity and the weather. I think you pretty much have to be an idiot to trust a politician like Al Gore (or anyone else) on this issue regardless of which side they are on. In fact, I'm still undecided as to whether Gore is an incredibly arrogant dickhead that actually thinks he knows what's going on or whether he's an intrinsically evil dirtbag that knows he doesn't know but has decided to use the issue to advance his political agenda and career anyway. Unfortunately, I don't trust many scientists on the issue either because too many of them have a vested interest in the expansion of government to further their research etc... and others are bought and paid for by corporations etc... I'm not even totally convinced that all weather changes are a bad thing. When some species die off, others tend to do a lot better or adapt. That's been going on for millions of years. We rarely hear about the ones doing better. We only hear about the plants and animals that are in danger. Humans tend to be afraid of change, but sometimes change is a good thing even if is unsettling for a few decades. If all the socialists in the world became extinct, I wouldn't be unhappy. ;-)

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108752)	8/15/2007 2:51:22 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Respond to of 132070

Amazing Cheney interview from 1994. youtube.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (108752)	8/15/2007 3:22:46 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hi Mike, It's kind of hard to characterize Crichton's stand on global warming exactly. I walk away with the idea that he thinks the science isn't convincing and that it should be monitored for 10-20 years to see if any of the climate models can accurately predict what is going on. His biggest fear is that the developing world is going to pay a lot more dearly than the developed world if we go off and do something radical to try to reverse global warming. Too bad we are wasting $13 billion/month in Iraq when we could have used this money to subsidize alternative sources of energy. And I wonder how many wind turbines those 190,000 AK-47 rifles that we gave away to the insurgency would have bought? <NG> Here's the Charlie Rose interview with Critchon where HE explains where he stands on the issue. charlierose.com Craig