I belive the global warming issue is just a smokescreen for libs to impose new taxes - your thoughts?

Question

They are always dreaming up new taxes - now I see the real reason behind their "global warming" agenda - it is to raise taxes. They are now trying to push a "carbon footprint tax.

A new scientific report says that ALL of the planets in our solar system are heating up - did we cause that too?

Answer 1

You are partially correct. Global Warming is a very serious problem and should be addressed immediately. But yes, many on the left are anxious to find a solution that taxes and fines as many people as possible.
The World needs positive solutions to this problem. People and corporations that find solutions should be rewarded. It makes a lot more sense than the old class warfare blame game.
The governments should encourage people to find good cheap solutions to these technological solutions. And they can charge the governments that are not helping for the inventions that will help everyone.
Private industry has done a lot to resolve water and pollution problems in the U.S. The same people are clever enough to solve the problems of Global Warming. Cooperation and encouragement make more sense than taxation and punishment.

Answer 2

ok look i think you're being silly - I'm about as liberal as Ronald Reagan but I think you are way beyond reason here

it no surprise that our planet goes through hot and cold cycles - this happened long before man was around - and perhaps all planets (probably caused by the sun) go through some periodic heating and cooling - but don't be a moron -

I am a man a science and a serious conservative - and even I know that the planet's heating has been accelerated by the actions of humans - would it have gotten this hot without us - yes surely but it would have taken centuries (or longer) without our input

I think it's time for everyone - liberals and conservatives - to take a moment or two away from their partisan bantering and try to figure out a way to solve this problem -

is a carbon footprint tax the right thing to do - i don't know - but i do know that we have to figure this problem out

the only good thing about global warming - pretty soon I'll have beachfront property

Answer 3

Oh! well it takes all kinds. Do you really believe there has been no change in our weather and there is no global warming. Where do you live that the weather hasn't been different and what is your answer to this new change. Do nothing? what if it is true keep your head in the sand. All not just liberals are saying our weather patterns have change and its call global warming what your answer. No ones raising any ones taxes. If they want to raise taxes there is the war you could always use that mess. how about our poor infrastructure we need more money for that how about just keep begging china. You wont have to worry about global warming we will belong to China as a citizen.

Answer 4

I agree and think you are on the dot.
Yet another reason NOT to have government try to solve problems. When you whine about something or poses a threat, they either pass laws that make life more difficult, or push new taxes. Did you here about the congestion tax talked about in NY? Plain insanity and greed. In short, they make things worse, not better.

It is up to the people to take direct action to solve problems, not the government. For example, I do believe global warming exists and was caused by human activity. So what do I do? Instead of buying a gas guzzling SUV, I bought a small car with good gas mileage. It is not much, however it is me doing a small part to help out.

Answer 5

I don't know the science, but cleaning up the air has benefits in itself even if global warming is not due to pollution to the extent Al Gore says. Clean rain is better than acid rain, clean air is better for all of us, clean energy that we don't need to fight wars over is a good idea too.

I'm not sure we need higher taxes to promote the development of clean energy, however. As new technologies develop, wind farms and electric cars and the like will become less expensive and more profitable than fossil fuels and will replace oil and gas.

Answer 6

You are in disagreement with the entire scientific establishment. The evidence for human impact global warming is irrefutable in peer-reviewed, scientific method studies of the issue.

Of course, there are scientists, a very small percentage indeed of those who study the issue, who disagree. But, most of them are on the payroll of the large carbon polluting industries. You can bet that in a country where corporations yield so much power, influence and wealth, they will be able to obfuscate the issue, and confuse the minds of the American public. But there is no real confusion in the scientific academy. Global warming is caused by carbon emissions in industries that profit substantially from their polluting, status quo systems. To retool would be a great expense, and perhaps they would not be as competitve as newer companies vested in alternative, clean solutions. SO they use their vast wealth to confuse and obfuscate the issue in the media, they buy politicians who will protect these polluters, and they buy scientists.
But once again, their is no real challenge to the case of man-made global warming.......

Answer 7

For starters, global warming is a scientific concept, not a liberal one.

Liberals don't impose taxes just for the hell of it. That's a paranoid conspiracy theory.

Your information about planets warming is incorrect. Parts of Mars are warming (and parts are cooling). This is due to dust storms making the surface darker. Jupiter and Pluto are warming. Neptune might be warming. That's it - about half the planets are warming for various reasons and half aren't. If global warming were due to the sun (which has been disproven), then every planet would be warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0319.html
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v16165n11948081m/fulltext.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm

Answer 8

This is a very naive attitude. Read about global warming in a setting that has nothing to do with politics. Just read the scientific facts. The best scientists could care less about the politics other studies. Don't fall into the Bush rut of bashing Democrats or anyone who does not follow their ideology without question.

Answer 9

Taxes are just a start. They will use the issue to tax gas, to stop all timber, forcing us to buy all from overseas, they will force the Utility companies to switch to "alternative power sources" like wind and solar, which do not work, and so their will be large scale blackout, they will have a verson of a (sin tax) for cars that don't look like a egg that you can actualy sit in. They will punish poeple who have fireplaces, or stove. Once this door is opened they will run wild.

Answer 10

global warming is a real issue, it is the reasons behind it that are in dispute. and yes it would increase taxes exponentially if we try to combat it.

as long as the third world nation's industries are using 19th century technology, humans will continue to contribute toxic chemical to the atmosphere.

according to the theory of GIA, "When human populations stress the biosphere beyond its capacity to repair itself (cutting the forests, polluting the waters and the atmosphere, eliminating species left and right etc) this potential for healing is reduced."

however livestock and fauna are major contributors and not much can be done about that.