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To: Alighieri who wrote (752305)	11/11/2013 10:39:14 PM
From: Bilow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Jorj X Mckie Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576167

Hi Alighieri; The morons are the guys who go around counting papers (or looking at scientific opinions on climate) for political reasons. What they do is that if a paper even mentions "global warming" they count it as a positive. And if a scientist agrees that the earth is warmer now than it was 50 years ago they count him as voting for their side. But that's not the policy question nor is it the political debate. The question that is under political debate is "should we have laws with the object of reducing carbon emissions in the United States". That question is never asked of scientists. Nor are scientists asked "do humans cause most of global warming", or "is global warming a threat to our nations security". They're not asked questions like "could solar cycles have contributed to some of the warming of the last 50 years" . Instead they're asked the easy question "have temperatures increased". Of course they have, I agree with that. And they're asked "has human behavior contributed to the increase" and I agree that it has. But I don't agree that the increase (a) is mainly caused by human behavior, (b) is dangerous or even undesirable, (c) can be decreased by reasonable political actions. The political fact is that the world does not have the ability to enforce CO2 reduction and when one country reduces its CO2 production slightly it has almost no effect on the global amount of the stuff. The Chinese will keep on building a coal plant per day until their economy is proportional to their population. There is nothing we in the US can do to stop the amazing amount of CO2 those plants are going to produce. Trying to reduce our CO2 production by some fraction of a percent is silly. The fact that temperatures quit rising is just the icing on the cake. Global warming, as a political policy, was dead 20 years ago already. Now the science is dead. So what, the zombie was already dead. Kyoto failed long before the pause was admitted. -- Carl