Global warming is one of the greatest money making scams in history. The greatest business model you can make is to convince the masses that your product is not only essential for life, but actually the world is going to end without it. Get so celebrity endorsement and have the mentally challenged lefties jump on board and you are going to be rich, very rich...

Here's the truth, global warming is based upon bad science and no where close to being able to be considered a credible theory (as only half of the scientific world buys into man made global warming). Here's some key facts:

1.) The world's carbon use has followed an exponential pattern since the industrial revolution

2.) Water vapor, not carbon, is the greatest "green house" gas

3.) the ice caps on mars are melting

4.) The sun goes through cycles and has various "hot spots" which emit greater radiation/ heat, traceable with a sinusoidal function, which, almost perfectly correlates with the same sinusoidal pattern of temperatures recorded on our planet.

5.) These historic temperature patterns have NO SIGNIFICANT CORRELATION with man made carbon output.

6.) The majority of carbon output is naturally occurring (volcanic activity, forest fires, etc...), NOT MAN MADE!

Anyway, back to my point... The science is bad, yet people are generally uniformed, gullible, and easily manipulated by celebrities and dooms day presentations by Al Gore. Large corporations, however, are smart and always looking for a way to make more money from the masses. Add into the equation an inexperienced politician as our president and an overwhelming liberal majority, and its easy to see why corporations such as GE are now so politically involved and in support of "Going Green". The only difference is going green to them is all about the real green, $$$$. Take some time and look into GE's plan to "go green", the political backing they have, and how the gov't plans on forking out billions to GE and similar companies for the transition, and the ENORMOUS profit potential in going green.

Now, I think we all can agree pollution is bad, but please, don't claim a dooms day to push your agenda, because it's not true. EVERYONE, STOPPED BEING BRAINWASHED!!!! PLEASE!!! You can fool some people most of the time, most people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time... so stop being fooled and taken advantage of.

has anyone checked the CO2 emissions on Michelle Obama's manure-laden vegetable garden on the White House lawn?

'Anyone remember back in the 1970s" - copyleft.

Yes. I do. And chicken littles like you were screaming about the coming Ice Age.

I'm not sure what a "capitolist" is, but I can only assume it's someone who thinks that everything should be mandated and controlled from Washington.

Most "capitalists", on the other hand, don't think that at all.

My family and I just got back from Washington D.C. where we spent spring break with our kids. While there we took time to go through the Museum of Natural History. My son and I went into the exhibit of petrified trees and plants.
I saw a display that really caught my eye, it was a map of the United States and it illustrated what it would have looked like X million of years ago. On the map you could see that North/ South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas where completely under water. While the majority of Oklahoma and Texas was under water.
It stated that these areas where, at one time, “Tropical Climates”, this was concluded due to the types of petrified and fossilized plants that where found there. It also stated that the reason these plants are no longer there was due to “CLIMATE CHANGE” or a “COLD” climate to where these plants could not survive, thus, they are no longer found there.
Now, according to science these areas where under water and that they where tropical climates and due to a change in the climate (TURNING COLDER) they are no longer that way. So, does this count as “GLOBAL COOLING” for this time period? That the earth is supposed to be “Tropical” and maybe the earth is returning to its natural state?
I think that those of us with some “COMMON SENSE” can come to this conclusion; the earth, the universe for that matter, is going to do what it wants to, man can not and will not change its course. The only thing that man contributes to the environment is pollution.
Those who feel that man is causing climate change (GLOBAL WARMING) may want to get with these scientist who say that the earth was Warm X millions of years ago so they can come up with a new game plan.

Lets see, global warming brought to you by the same folks that predicted global cooling, the next ice age, that the hole in the ozone was getting bigger and that by the late 1980s or early 1990s life in the sea would be doomed.

Yep, got a track record going there! Not to mention that the guy that started Green Peace quit because the whackos had taken over.

Just a couple of questions:
1) FACT-over history the earth has warmed and cooled, ice has come and gone, could this be say, a self fulfilling prophecy?

2) Just like times passed, flaw data, flawed charts and flawed models, do we not learn from history?

3) With most of the so called leaders of the movement leaving bigger foot prints then a movie monster, we believe you WHY?

Just a couple of thoughts.

Obama's initiatives not only create an artificial market for "carbon credits", they become a new way for government to institute a value added tax. For instance, a farmer harvest corn using his farm equipment. This equipment uses fossil fuels; therefore, there is the corn is taxed at the farmer. When the corn is transported to market, it will be taxed again since most train, trucks and ships use fossil fuels. The factory that changes the corn into corn oil is taxed for the electricity it uses, and then the final transport to a distributor is taxed. The taxation continues all the way to the consumer. Every time the good is processed, it will be taxed. Every time the good is moved, it will be taxed. This is nothing but a VAT tax. Is China going to tax it's carbon use? What about India. They aren't looking to regulate carbon, this is just another move to regulate and tax the individual.

...is shown so well by the Clean Air and Water act. Many major polluters decided that it was cheaper to pay fines to pollute greviously than to change their recovery systems. Until a few billion dollars went to settlements that is.

Bottom Line is that I'm a capitolist too and believe in making money for work done. But I'm not delusional enough to believe that any purely money making industry gives a rats patootey about destruction of air, water, land or any future environment when they can get dollars now and pay for the little island they'll live on. NIMBY rules there.

Whether or not climate change is man-made, man enhanced or simply slightly sped up due to our actions isn't the issue really. It is the continuing issue of not having to clean up their messes or potential messes, but make money while creating messes.

The EPA does serve a vital purpose, though it does rankle and have issues like any government agency.

And as for all those who just don't care because they'll be dead...try saying that to your kids' faces. Try walking up to one of the Love Canal kids (now middle aged) still fighting cancer and say you don't care about what you put into their environment.

Good grief.

The bottom line is that there are indicators of change (though some places get cooler, others hotter and so on) and it isn't that it is happeneing, but that it is happening faster than it should that causes problems, IF it is true. By the time there is enough proof to satisfy everyone, it would be too late.

So, we need to prevent Global Warming. In order to do this we need to financially punish certain entities that engage in activities that are deemed to contribute to Global Warming.

On the face of it, this practice makes sense. However, what happens when it is determined that we have entered a period of Global Cooling? Back in the 1970's we were warned of the coming Ice Age.

Recently, news has surfaced that the planet's temperature has actually been in decline over the past few years. Would that mean we should subsidize activities that contribute to Global Warming to fend off the pending ecological disaster of Global Cooling? I doubt it.

If this debate were over science, then each point of view would be predicated on knowledge. Then, and only then, could we seek remedies to any source of ecological damaging activities. Contrast this with what is currently happening and you will determine that the science is inconclusive, yet the remedies have already been determined. This Global Warming crusade is not about science it is clearly about societal control.

The Climate Change "Scientists" have lost credibility by embracing one catastrophe after another. Global Ice Age, Global Warming, Overpopulation, Food Shortages, and Catastrophic Natural Disasters...What's next? I know, how about the world's climate is supposed to be fluctuating, but mankind is inhibiting the natural course of events preventing the normal and essential Warming and Cooling. Sounds like a way to for the government to control behavior.

Let's say this Global Warming is man made and actually happening(for the sake of argument). WHY do we continue to verbally bash and punish the U.S.? We have been cleaning up since the mid 70s. We go through tremendous hoops trying to stay clean and "green". How about all you "Green Weenies" out there go have a "sit-in" protest over in China? The Eastern Europeans and Soviets? How about all the other industrialized nations that are polluting their a$$es off without a care in the world? Go protest them!! ( we know why,... they'd get their a$$es shot off) So much for the "Greenie Weenies" true commitment to the cause. At least we are conscious of pollution and attempting to make a difference.

Hurry up, fellow nutjobs! Scientists are seeing signs of global cooling. Time to screw capitalists before they prove the Earth isn't flat!

"Global Warming may be true, but I'll be dead by the time it has an effect on me anyway, so who cares?"
People who don't think it's happening at all, okay, I'm with you there. There are plenty of reasons to think that a bunch of sensors which have been running for three years combined with a bunch of old data from sensors we don't use anymore since they seem to be wildly inaccurate, produce a result which could also be wildly inaccurate. Fine.

And people who think it's happening, but point out that the Earth goes through various cycles, and we have much more evidence about the long-term cycles than we do about the short-term transitions within them, alright, it may have nothing to do with man's doing things, overall. That's fine too.

But here are people saying "Okay, you could both be right, but it's not /my/ problem, I'll be dead by then!".. wtf is wrong with you? Either accept that you have an impact and do something about it, or don't accept that you have an impact and continue to do nothing by virtue of not being able to. "I could change things, but I don't care what happens if I'm not personally experiencing it" is just.. stupid.

Listen up greenies. You need to get a grip. You need to return global warming to the status of a SCIENTIFIC question, instead of treating it as a political crusade, or a religious one. The truth about warming is getting out. There is very much a debate about how much human activity has to do with the slight warming that was seen between the 1970's and 1998, WHEN THE EARTH STOPPED WARMING. Seriously, the "warmers" sound about as smart and logical as the fictional B-movie south sea islanders who think they can plug their local volcano with a couple of virgins. Follow me here. This will lead to pretty much the entire environment movement being discredited, and the next time the greenies actually come up with a good idea (e.g. "Hey, what if we don't actually wipe out ALL the whales?") they will be dismissed as the same nutcases who tried to take over the world to prevent a fictional disaster.

Well,if anAL GOREtentive and the knuckleheads at EPA are serious about this,then they should all do the honorable thing...sell their cars and kill themselves

Sorry, Tim. You lose. It doesn't work that way. You don't get to imagine what you think global warming means, and then toss it out because your imagined effects have not already come to pass.

If you really want to die, there are ways to do it. Wishing it would happen to everyone because you don't want to deal with it is truly one of the wackiest ideas ever to be presented at this site.

There is no aspect of your life, from the moment you are conceived until long after you’re dead and buried that does not involve converting matter into CO2. Once government bureaucracies gets the power to regulate the emission of CO2, there will be absolutely no activity that you partake in life that will not be subject to regulation by people you’ve never seen, heard of, or voted for. Sure, today they talk about regulating politically-incorrect activities such as running coal-fired power plants, owning SUVs and jetting off to the Bahamas. But once those carbon-spewing evils are vanquished, what will be next? Carbon taxes will be used to extract wealth from those who were told they wouldn’t be paying more taxes. Next will be burgers at McDonalds, and then centralized control of your home thermostat. Sooner or later, they will work their way down to either some activity that you enjoy in your life, or worse, some activity that represents your livelihood. Nothing you do in your live will be safe from government control.

...we would have worse pollution in our lakes, rivers, and ocean shores. That much has been demonstrated through the history of this nation. We also have businesses that would lie about it, so it isn't just a matter of letting market forces decide if pollution is good or bad. The only way we can accomplish these things w/o regulation is if everyone decides to honest and spend the time to understand the science. If you aren't willing to do both, then you lose the chance to handle it yourself.