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Who says folks don't care about climate change?
The Drudge Report featured as its top news item today this blog's posting yesterday on the "historic vote" on climate change legislation coming up before a U.S. Senate committee.
As a result, tens of thousands of readers swarmed to this site. My e-mail inbox has been inundated with more than 200 comments from Drudge readers, which I am posting as fast as I can. Many of them are from what appear to be politically conservative skeptics of climate change, who ridicule the whole idea of man-made global warming. Some of them portray climate change as a loony, neo-socialist conspiracy of the liberal media and Al Gore (whom they don't seem to like very much).
While all this feedback was coming in from the Right, a task force appointed by Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley today recommended perhaps the most ambitious goal for reducing global warming pollution in the nation -- a 90 percent cut by 2050.
If there is anyone else out there with a different opinion on climate change, please post a comment. Right now, a casual reader might think that most people in America think that climate change is a hoax.


Comments
The so-called skeptics are dominating this board ONLY because Drudge has linked to it. FACT-THE VAST MAJORITY OF SCIENTISTS support the idea that man-made global warming is real. FACT-KEN MEHLMAN, head of 2008s GOP campaign efforts, has stated that denying man-made global warming is a LOSER OF AN ISSUE for the GOP. FACT-GLOBAL WARMING DENYERS and 911 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS are cut from the same paranoid, name calling cloth. FACT-Most Americans, despite the fools here, know that man-made global warming is real.
Posted by: Sean | December 4, 2007 5:10 PM
It's not? (at least in the alarmist, anthropgenic forms of the theory?)
Enjoy your brief moments of Drudge-generated fame.
Next week, this will return to another obscure blog for the "true believers" in the AGW religion.
Posted by: Speedzzter | December 4, 2007 6:00 PM
Enough of them. They are the "lost".
The rest of the world knows whats going on. Watch the podcasts from the Bali conference and open your mind.
http://www.un.org/climatechange/
Posted by: Marta Jorgensen | December 4, 2007 10:41 PM
Global Warming is not the problem, it is only a symptom; therefore, one cannot fix the problem by curing the symptom. If one tries, then one only aggravates the problem. What is the problem – Over Population.
As long as the population continues to grow, more energy is required, more food, more water, and more land and more pollution is created, which in turn increases Global Warming.
For example Georgia’s water shortage is blamed on Global Warming. But if Georgia’s population had not almost doubled in the last 60 years, then drought or no drought, Georgia would not have a water problem today.
The easiest way to reduce global warming pollution by 90 percent is to reduce the global population by 90 percent. However, with the politicians planning to reduce global warming pollution by 90 percent and the world population increasing by 50%, the politicians might as well be using a spoon to scrape the pollution out of the environment.
What is the real solution? If we want to stop global warming, then we have to replace tax credits with taxes more than two children. We have to replace home ownership credits with increase taxes. Families who have more than one bedroom per occupant will have to pay surtax for the extra energy to support the oversized house.
If we want to reduce gasoline with increase taxes lets not saddle only the poor with the burden of transportation taxes. Using current technologies, gasoline taxes can be assigned based upon your income. Just swipe you license and then your credit card at the pump, and gasoline surtaxes will be based upon your income like:
50 cents/gal up to 50,000
1.00/gal up to 100,000
5.00/gal up to 200,000
100.00/gal for millinaires
1000.00/gal for billionaires
and so on....
This way everyone reduces gasoline consumption, not just the poor.
In 1960 our grandfathers warned us about a shortage of water, land, and food at the turn of the century, only they called it overpopulation, not the political correct term of Global warming.
Posted by: Rich | December 5, 2007 3:02 AM
The point seems to be lost that indeed the earth has probably warmed by about 1.5 degrees in the the last century but the real question is do the the offered solutions simply "address" the problem or actually "solve" it. No one claims to solve the issue. Rather, it is a giant money chase. Science was traded for politics on this issue years ago. When governors Schwarzenegger and Schweitzer are "leaders" on the issue what does that tell you?
Posted by: PSC Commissioner Brad Molnar | December 5, 2007 9:59 AM
"They are the 'lost'".
This AGW hysteria really IS a religion.
Posted by: Speedzzter | December 6, 2007 5:26 PM
If you're a drudge fan, you should check out drudgetracker.com
Posted by: JimmyL | March 9, 2008 9:55 PM