Todd Akin doesn't believe in global warming.
Todd Akin I keep trying to come up with a clever Flat Earth joke, but can't get past the insanity of Akin's statement.
Instead, I'll just link to this article from Jim DePeso of NewMajority.com, a Republican concerned that the GOP "runs a real risk of landing...on the wrong side of history" when it comes to climate change legislation.
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While you're at it, head on down to India and ask them what their plans are for emissions. You'll find they consider energy more important than global warming, and agree to never exceed western nations in per capita emissions. You could cut emissions in half, creating 25% unemployment and a permanent depression, and India would still have the right to increase their emissions.
The IPCC is a fraud - it's designed to make money, not actually fix anything. But you go ahead and believe that only rich Republican bankers are greedy.
btw - chances are the power you use to comment online comes from coal burning electricity. Its the same power generation that's needed when wind gusts fall below 10 mph.
While you're at it, check out global temperatures in the last 200 years. You'll find a warming trend that has nothing to do with carbon emissions, and you'll also find that temperature data at the weather stations is horrid.
Since I can't see your graph
I'll just point out that the last decade is the warmest on record. 1998 is the hottest year on record, so it doesn't impress me much if the we've dropped slightly since then. The trendline is up.
The Earth has been warming more dramatically since we started using fossil fuels like coal and oil on a large scale. Look at the trendline since the late 1800's - it rises sharply. We're losing sea ice and glaciers are melting. Look at the alpine regions of Europe, how villages are spreading blankets on the snow to keep some year-round snow from melting away.
I still don't understand why you deny that carbon dioxide is linked to warming. CO2 absorbs infrared radiation. If you add more to the atmosphere, the atmosphere as a whole retains more heat from the sun. Do you dispute this?
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The latest Rasmussen poll shows only 34% of American Likely Voters think Global Warming is man-made. Less than half think Obama believes global warming is man-made. Note these are likely voters, not the general population. ABC lists 61% of the public believing global warming, but the sample is skewed by the large numbers of those 18-29 who believe it's man-made. As people get older, and start looking into the facts themselves, that number drops.
I remember back in 6th grade my teachers warning me about the end of the world, and having us write essays to our parents about how we were all going to burn. Then I grew up, learned to do my own research, and recognized that the link between carbon dioxide and global warming is missing, but the link between state control of industry and government control of research grants is quite strong. I started looking at weather stations and realized how temperature readings have been changed significantly by urban sprawl. And I watched how Al Gore and the head of IPCC stand to benefit enormously.
I see Arctic ice at its highest extent in 5 years, East Antarctica adding four times the ice lost in West Antarctica, and then I remembered, FiredUp isn't a real political blog, but a bludgeon for the Carnahan family to attack Missouri conservatives behind a press exemption.
I was going to write a serious response
But then I remembered that 24th State is a wingnut Galtist.
Seriously though, I'm not afraid of popping off at the Democratic Party or at Fired Up if I disagree with them, but you make some strange claims. Do you seriously deny that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and that we're adding lots of it to the atmosphere? Do you deny that global sea ice has shrunk more than a million square kilometers in area over the last 30 years?