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Originally posted by Sparhawk
Ustwo, please stop relying on Rush Limbaugh as your greenhouse gas scientist of choice:
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Again, I'm really not in the mood for about the 5th or 6th time in my life to go into debating global warming on some message board in depth, but please, try not to make ignorant statements about me by somehow assuming Limbaugh is the source of my science knowledge. It always ends with the other guy either saying crap like 'Well since we are not SURE we should still reduce emissions just in case!' forgetting the cost of doing so, or I get the equivalent of 'lalalalalala I can't hear you'. I get that on every OTHER thread here, but at least those aren’t rehashes to me. Maybe if you keep making ignorant statements you can goad me into it.
Rush isn't a scientist, and as such makes an excellent straw man for the global alarmist crowd.
A few years ago I did listen to Limbaugh on global warming and I really wanted to call in since he had the right conclusion but was missing the real evidence. I've been looking into this long before any of you heard about it in the early 80's late 70's as a kid (though the alarmists then were worried about possible global cooling and how we would all be starving in the 90's). Then it was a true theory, totally non-political, and never mentioned by activists. At that point the big environmental story was acid rain, and my first science project was on the effect of acid rain on Annelids. I kept up with the tree hugging degrees in college and post grad. The bad science and political motivations of the global warming crowd was a real turn off.
Basically the center of the global warming crowd is, anti-human expansion, anti-progress, and suffers from elitism and a nice touch of hubris. For many global warming is a means to an end, and many are more then willing to believe them since they have similar feelings.
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MAY well be a global warming trend. It has not been proven, and there is contradictory evidence, but I can not discount the possibility. What I find suspect is the human effect on this warming. Nothing I've seen so far proves it to a point where I'm willing to trash the US economy over.