Here's some counter information about those melting glaciers.

http://www.iceagenow.com/Growing_Glaciers.htm

And here's an alternative view to man-made global warming (that wasn't reported either).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/

If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to discredit the science to fit your predetermined agenda.

Yes it could be something else, but there seems to be a high corrolation with the amount of CO2 in the air and there seem to be lots and lots of scientists who think there's a connection. Maybe you should blog thgat although the globe IS warming, it ain't our fault.

Do you really think we need tax increases Rev? Does California need increases? How about responsible spending and spending within our means. Maybe balancing a budget instead of spending like drunk sailors to advance our special interest groups and the power brokers that funded the poilitical campaigns. We waste so much money and we are being robbed of so much money it is pathetic.

Do we need to ween ourselves off of oil dependence. Yes. Here is how. Drill our own and develope energy alternatives that work without breaking the backs of Americans. We do not have energy alternatives that are cost effective. They are still in the developmental stages and we have time. There is a great opportunity here for everyone to make a living developing these technologies, it won't happen the way they are going about it. But our govt would rather create a false emergency as usual and hammer out the details later.

"Those who argue that scientific evidence proves absolutely nothing….should rest easy."
Praise Al Gore and hallelujah. Your savior has saved us.
Religion works doesn't it. Let's see.. Al Gore flyes private jets all over and has people brainwashed into following him. Sounds sort of like many of our current day preachers. Just send us the money and we will save your soul.
Only difference is we have the choice to follow the preachers. Rev Gore is getting Washington to legislate his future riches.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Your comment about the earth being hotter and colder in the past belies your belief that this bit of climate change is man made.

And in fact, when it has been hotter in the near past, and colder in the near past, it was populated by humans.

Thanks for pointing that out. California has been the proving ground for all these liberal ideas over the past couple decades. They have all the resources, area, population, and economy to be a successful country, let alone state.

They're failing. Miserably. As Rev Wright once said, their chickens are coming home to roost.

Now we're supposed to copy some of their policies federally.

Fossil fuels are like a miracle concoction that we've been able to crack open into millions of uses.

And with an increase in efficiency and our huge advances in environmental technologies, half of the "negatives" of fossil fuels (environmental, dependence on other countries) are being negated daily. The other half could be solved by utilizing our own reserves.

Would America be better off if we reduced our dependency on fossil fuel, in particular, oil?

If the answer is yes….then carbon reduction efforts should be understood within that parameter.

If the answer is no….then there's nothing left to talk about.

One other comment to Tory's observations. A carbon tax would have been my preference….but in America today, any new taxes, like Osama Bin Laden, are seen as an enemy of the state. Prime example….California's financial meltdown….self-destruction rather than tax increases. Ignorant political bondage. Ohio's situation is comparable.

The cap and trade concept is a bone to big polluters and big "investor-traders." Now that capitalism in America has gone to seed….the only motivator we accept is greed.

That said, the bill, as I understand it, is fraught with problems, and probably won't get through the senate.

Those who argue that scientific evidence proves absolutely nothing….should rest easy.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200907010013

http://ff.org/centers/csspp/library/co2weekly/2005-04-21/polar.htm

(God help me, but I couldn't read this article with a straight face, simply because of the name of the guy they quote.)

Climatologists have estimated that the Earth's temperatures were generally about 8-15 degrees Celsius higher than they have been in recent times, except when broken up by Ice Ages. http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7x.html

While I believe that all humans should be good stewards of the Earth (I recycle and drive a Prius, for crying out loud), I think that it's pure vanity for humans to believe that we are capable of destroying this planet. We may destroy ourselves, but not the planet.