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To: RMF who wrote (789858)	6/14/2014 1:02:05 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575421

Some people ARE pretending that climate is on the verge of man-made disaster.

To: RMF who wrote (789858)	6/14/2014 1:07:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575421

RMF, Why would anybody do that? Are they getting rich from it? WHO has the biggest incentive to discredit global warming? More control over our lives, more taxes, more regulations, more ways to nag us and set up the Nanny State, all because CO2 is supposed to be a "pollutant." Sorry, but I don't accept the notion that CO2 levels represent a "delicate balance" that has to be maintained. First of all, it isn't a pollutant, like I mentioned before, yet it's being treated as such. Second, who's to say what the ideal levels of CO2 need to be in the atmosphere? Is that ideal supposed to be identical to that just before the Industrial Revolution? Third, I see "climate change" zealots blaming every single case of extreme weather on CO2. Cause you know, extreme weather events never happened until we started burning carbon, right? There are many, many other environmental issues that deserve more attention than this CO2 nonsense. Such as the yellow dust storms that plague most of China, Korea, and even Japan. Or water pollution that affects most urban areas these days. But with this "climate change" hype, environmentalism just turns into a religion. Tenchusatsu

To: RMF who wrote (789858)	6/14/2014 1:12:46 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575421

RMF let me give you an example. In the 70's in Alaska a liberal (poetic Bush Rat) Republican governor (Jay Hammond) teamed up with a bunch of young liberal (ad hoc) dems who won the house in the legislature and completely restructured the social system. And they fought the pubs every step of the way who didn't want us to do any of it. Especially the permanent fund.. Here is what we got. A huge government program called the Alaska Permanent fund that that takes 25% of all natural resources on state land and puts it into the fund. The legislature cannot ever touch the principle of the fund, so it grows and grows. As a result we are now the richest state in the union (over 50 billion in the bank), pay no taxes and everyone gets $1,000 to $2,000 per year in a check. Other oil and coal and natural resource states could have done what we did. But only the liberal's seem willing to fight the carbon industries, are OK with big government programs and engage in modern social planning. Our social systems are in tact and unions are thriving. During the pipline the gov passed a law that all workers had to be union or be paid at least union wages. Our public schools are top notch (although the pubs when in power keep cutting their budgets). And we take care of our people, except the pubs over the years keep trying to destroy the social system. The present (tea part) gov will not take ACA medicade. We formed native corporations to give natives power and money. We formed women's commissions. My ex was the first director. We formed one of the best comprehensive emergency medical systems in the world and state of the art alcoholism and drug abuse programs and even legalized pot (in the 70's-lol)!