Is it interesting that the same conservatives who claimed there were WMD's in Iraq are convinced that?

Question

global warming doesn't exist? Global warming might become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

Answer 1

I find it interesting that you have wasted 5 points asking a nonsensical question involving two completely different and unrelated topics.

Answer 2

I agree that its stupid to deny the existence of global warming. It's very much happening, all over the world - there were droughts all over Europe this summer, it STILL hasn't snowed in many areas of New York State (where I attend school), and last Christmas it was 55 degrees Fahrenheit in Buffalo, NY, where it just had five feet of snow dumped on it in OCTOBER (which is a little early, even for Buffalo). I don't think its fair to assume that ALL conservatives ignore global warming, but I do think that we as a country, and in a global perspective, as well, need to pass and STICK to legislation regarding global warming, and stop putting it on the back burner year after year, until it is too late.
And for those who say that Earth is just going through some sort of "natural course," they're clearly uneducated. Any US college or university will teach of the pressures, consequences, and changes global warming has thus far caused. In the past 100 years, since the Second Industrial Revolution started and has continued to the current day, we keep inventing new technology that causes irreversible harm to the environment, like the steam engine and steam boat, coal burning, oil reserves (and their subsequent spills into rivers and oceans), nuclear energy, CARS, and the list goes on and on. I lived in the USSR and Eastern Europe for 8 years, I've see the destruction that pollution and greenhouses gases cause, as a result of consumerism and waste. You are absolutely kidding yourselves if you believe that this waste and extra strain on the environment is not going to accelerate an ecological disaster.

Answer 3

Read from the world famous meteorologist, William Gray...the one who accurately predicts the number of hurricanes we have each year.

Man cannot produce enough CO2, pollutants, and other gases to change the temperature of the ocean by even 1 degree.....Don't give yourself so much credit.

If we are in "global warming", then why is the ice at the South Pole growing? Isn't this where the "ozone hole" is "warming the world"? When it does start to melt, guess what? Do you think 1 billion Chevorlets had anything to do with it? Not even 1/10 of one degree.

It is nature doing what nature does....it cools, it warms....and nothing man does, short of 10,000 or 15,000 nuclear bombs is going to do anything like what a meteor in the Yucatan peninsula did some 65 million years ago (give or take a few million years).

Nature has us beat by a long shot. The Earth will warm, and the Earth will cool. And doesn't care if a Human or a cockroach lives on it.

Don't give yourselves that much credit.....you aren't that important of a species to the life on this planet, that will live long after all humans are dead.

P.S. A weapon of mass destruction can be just about anything, including a 747 flown into a building. Just because we didn't find a scud missle with a nuclear warhead, doesn't mean they didn't have them....just like we didn't see the Serbs kill and bury thousands of Bosnian Muslims, but we found their mass graves many years later. The last mass grave with partial bodies of over 600 Muslims was just closed last week, and most of this happened in Bosnia/Croatia as early as 1992-1993, much of it even earlier, after Tito died?

Exactly how many people do you want killed by a WMD before you say, "oops, maybe they did have them, huh? Sorry to doubt you...sorry your family members died because I disagree with the news?".

Answer 4

I don't know if cross-talk is allowed here but I wish to respond to Kermit's answer.

Now Kermit, you of all people (frogs, whatever), know that it's not easy being green. :)
I can't speak with any authority on global warming since I only know what I read, and arguments on both sides seem plausible. As a Christian, however, I must beg to differ with your statement that "we" don't care about the environment. God gave mankind the responsibility to care for the earth and I do my part - as do most of the Christians I know. And unlike Al Gore, I have never driven around in a gas-guzzling limo or SUV, let alone traveled via private jet. All the products I use in my home are environmentally friendly, I recycle, plant trees, have energy star appliances, etc. I'm Katydid and I'm an environmentalist. ;0)

Answer 5

This controversy about global warming, keeps returning like a bad penny. Even the most highly educated and most respected scientist's in the world cannot agree n this issue. We, and they all agree and realize that the earth is getting warmer, but that's where the agreement ends, as the earth has been getting warmer ever since the last ice age, and there was no industry or burning of fossil fuels at that time to cause this warming.
Most seem to agree that this trend is natural, and not caused by man. The way we are polluting the atmosphere is Not doing any good for sure, but in reality, is it the sole cause of this warming trend.?

Answer 6

Yep. It is those very same religious conservatives. What makes it so funny is that they should apply the same rationales they use to debunk global warming to debunk Iraq's WMD's and role in 9/11.

And here's the realy kicker where these folks are concerned. They don't give a rip about Global Warming because this world is transitory and just a step to the next eternal world. Given this thinking...why worry about terrorism any more than Global Warming??

But imagine if the Christian conservatives in this country would suddenly embrace environmentalism?? Imagine the changes that could take place if they would exert their considerable power and influence to effect positive, environmental change.

Instead, they choose to spend their energy clamoring for war.

Answer 7

every time we have a drought or don't get snow, someone yells global warming. do you not understand the term. "GLOBAL" ? I'm so tired of this lame argument from the ridiculous idiots like Al Gore, get a clue people, it aint happening!

Answer 8

I noticed that to but thought it was coincidence. And, they also seem to be that "religious right" types, thinking that god will solve the war and global warming ( so they don't have to take an active role ).

Answer 9

AND . . . Iran is going to BOMB THE ENTIRE WORLD AT ANY MOMENT.

Iran is also responsible for every single bullet fired, RPG launced, and IED detonated in Iraq.

Iran is our new "Emmanuel Goldstein". Let the "Two-Minute Hate" begin.

Answer 10

I just hope that I don't have to live in a boat one day and recycle my own urine to drink it and mutate into someone with webbed feet.