Still more than enough trees and vegetation across the globe to more than adequately take care of the CO2 expelled into the atmosphere. ‘Global Warming’ is the single biggest scam ever perpetrated upon the world. People need to wake up and stop drinking the kool-aid.

As we sit here in Massachusetts with the temperature at 57 degrees and with a cold rain falling, we don’t believe much in global warming. We have passed almost the entire spring with no more than 4 or 5 pleasantly warm days, and there are indications that the summer will be almost as nasty. Many of us continue to believe that the global warming theory (which has some valid points) is more likely being used by globalists and elitists to force the acceptance of a global tax. This global tax has already been proposed and willingly accepted at the UN, and really begins to look like another vast manipulation, in order to gain what? Money of course, and compliance, and subservience. Green is the way, without a doubt, and respect for nature is the only logical course to follow, but those who sit at the top fly their private jets and gobble resources continually, meanwhile telling dutiful private citizens to tighten their belts and reduce the quality of their lives. It’s just simple elitism, and when has it ever been any different? The rain forests are being destroyed without mercy and without intelligence, much less by nature than by man, in order to raise cattle—and why? So people can stuff animal flesh in their mouths, three meals a day, much more than any carnivorous animal does. And there is nothing wrong with this procedure?

Nice try. Please take a look at any picture or painting of the United States before 1900 (like Civil Warf photos), and there is something you’ll see very little of - TREES! The U.S. was largely a treeless plain. Look at it now - you can’t find open area in Virginia - we have to thin out trees on our property just to keep from being swallowed up by trees.

Besides, there is another body of evidence pointing to grasslands being far more important in retaining carbon than trees  http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2002/…).

Either way, I’ll be enjoying my grilled, medium rare rib-eye steak this evening (to Jerry).

And to Justin - extinction will happen to every species (yes, even man some day). Get over it.

Does Global Warming happen? Absolutely! There have been Ice Ages (as recently as within the last 800 years!). Where did the ice go? Global Warming.
The absurdity is that we know what’s causing it this time (us, of course) when we don’t know aht caused it the other times.
But, since we killed off God, we must assume responsibility for nature now.
How arrogant of us!
And, since we killed off God, we need another religion, so Global Warming looks like it’s the best candidate. The priests are those who call us the perps (Al Gore, et al), and the penance we must do is spending trillion$ to slow down by a few percentage points the inevitable flooding of our coastlines.
There’s a problem with the religion, though: for the last eight years, Global Warming has stopped. Stalled. Ended. (You have noticed the absolute lack of any reports of increased temps recently, right?) There’s panic in the UN (the HQ of this religion). What will they do?

Just another GoreBot!! Another Chicken Little running around and screaming “The earth is warming, the earth is warming!!” We had snow up here a week and a half ago, it’s been in the 50s for the last few days, give me a break, or send us some of that global warming. \

We need to find a way to make fuel out all these enviromentalists, because it sure seems we have a bounty of them, more then we will ever need. Maybe have them pedal bicycles, which are connected to electrical generators and connected to the power grid, 8 hours a day. If an enviromentalist drives a car, any car, uses electricity, heats their home without using dead wood, is just another phony.

@Jim in Virginia - lowland tropical rainforests are not in the United States — I am not claiming that the US had more trees before WWII, I am saying that 50% of the lowland rainforests have been destroyed.

Im not some activist saying that everyone needs to change their entire lifestyle — that will never happen. However, there are a few small things that everyone can do to make some sort of a difference.

One easy thing is to use less electricity, watch when you do laundry (do it late at night or early in the morning). Buy a fan instead of running the AC all day. If everyone does little things, it can make a big difference.

The earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age, about 11,500 years. Ice used to cover the northern U.S. and all of Canada. It’s been receding ever since. Rising CO2 may play a minor role.

The ocean emits more CO2 in a day than all of man made emissions in a year. It also dwarfs lowland rainforest in terms of shear biomass by several thousand times more. There is no proof of one to one correlations of manmade CO2 and global temperature increase. From 1934 though 1979 temperatures dropped to such an extent that the press were warning of a “new ice age”. You may be too young to remember. Do a little more research and you’ll see that industry in the same time period more than quadrupled. In the last ten years you could correlate an increase in man made CO2 to Cell phone use or low waisted jeans. By your inference, at this rate, jeans will be down to our ankles within ten years. Not a bad thing if the planet gets warmer.

But the green house gas effect has never been proven as unlike a greenhouse which thwarts convection (thereby raising the heat), CO2 does not. Water vapor and clouds being lower and heat trapping, have a far more profound effect on temp than CO2.

The IPCC report that got global warming on the front burner of the media refuses to make its data transparent and accessible, unlike true peer reviewed studies. Hence its conclusions must be dismissed and judged political at best. Since data has been kept, the Earths mean temp has been up and down since the 1890 currently .5 C above the mean. Nothing to be wet your pants about. In the late 70’s it was .5 below the mean. In 1934 it was about .7 above the mean. This information is in the open from peer reviewed data.

A few other tidbits. The antarctic (90% of the Earth’s ice) has been growing in the last ten years and measuring cooler temps since 1966 (when they began regular measurement). It’s ice shelves on average have increased quite a bit. Remember Vanutu Islands. They were going to sue the EPA because they claimed their island was being submerged by global warming. Haven’t heard much about lately have you? Now this would be a billion dollar payday for any law firm. So what happened? The suit was dropped because rise in ocean levels and its cause, global warming, could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

I agree we should go green to keep our air, rivers, land and oceans as clean as can, for health and quality of life. But I also believe, having lived through the “new ice age”, the “McMartin” child molesters and African “killer bees” that a healthy dose of skepticism and homework is requisite to keeping a healthy perspective on our latest fears pushed in the media and putting your efforts towards real causes (ie: Darfur).

I’m not a neo-con, republican or democrat. I don’t work for big industry. I do work in the media. So I know what their standard of truth is. If you say enough, enough times, to enough people, than it becomes the “truth”. Doe eyed Marmesots and polar bears cast adrift (in Gore’s film they were actually in no danger whatsoever, close to shore and doing what polar bears do - lounge on ice, and yes, they’re great swimmers too) appeal to our emotional side. Research, science and studying the numbers, well, it involves work. “Global Warming” is the perfect sell for a generation that doesn’t like doing their homework.

Tim Naylor

what caused the ice age to melt?

Nice try dude! Cry me a river! Al Gore has made millions off of this scam so, please go to the first tree you see and hug it in his name! The government is sucking every nickel it can from us taxpayers and you stand in support of that. Not one method of alternate energy, recycling, or energy saving products has been developed that doesn’t cause as much or more pollutants than we have seen in the past. You are so wrapped up in saving the world from global warming that your brain has frozen (no pun intended). Just follow the money and you’ll find the ONLY problem we face on man made global warming!!! It’s self-centered, brainless liberals and people like you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!