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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zoo york who wrote (1313)	7/21/2010 1:07:36 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

I am not ignoring your post but I see you have ripped a poster or two, maybe deservedly...I have not spent that much time on > your post history but enough so that I just don't think I want to be "ripped" by you yet even though I don't think much of your post content...more on this later...maybe... Now Tom Friedman has a column in today's NY Times on the subject...now I know you consider yourself an expert so I would be interested (really) on your view of this column. What 7 Republicans Could Do >>" The hour is late, but there is still a sliver of time to pass a serious energy bill out of this Congress. To do so, though, would require President Obama to rustle up votes with a passion that he has failed to exhibit up to now, and, more importantly, it would require at least seven Republican senators to put the national interest above party and politics. Yes, I know that is all unlikely. You can laugh now. But just remember this: If we don’t get a serious energy bill out of this Congress, and Republicans retake the House and Senate, we may not have another shot until the next presidential term or until we get a “perfect storm” — a climate or energy crisis that is awful enough to finally end our debate on these issues but not so awful as to end the world. But, hey, by 2012, China should pretty much own the clean-tech industry and we’ll at least be able to get some good deals on electric cars. "<< MORE... nytimes.com