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The right wingers and their inability to accept that man may be responsible for his own demise will tell you that "Gee golly, that there ice shelf is just part of one of them there warming cycles! We aint got nothin' to do with that!"

I'll have to check out the Last Legion. I haven't even heard of it. Collin played "Darcy" by the way, not Darby. LOL :)

"Denying 2 whole states worth of voters their franchise was NOT the smartest move you could make."

Agreed, but it was their own dang fault.

Re; early primaries.
Yes, the state parties knew that the national party had decreed that they could not hold a legal primary that early. And yes, the state parties went ahead and did it anyway.
Now tell me where that gives the national party the right to disenfranchise every democrat in those states. Shouldn't they have just dumped the state party leaders, and then decreed that the primary be held on the proper date? Where the heck were they? At some fund-raiser in the Bahamas, while this mini-rebellion was going on? If they cannot control their own hacks, how are they gonna control their candidates? Obviously, they're not. What's happened to the party of Boss Tweed and Mayor Daley? Lost their cojones?

A) China v. Tibet: I wish Tibet all the best but China is too big.

B) Hill and BO have divided their followers - they have dug their graves so to speak. They agreed to respect the DNC decision on the primaries - then when it looks like it might benefit one of them to take it back all hell breaks loose.

C) Right wing / Left wing doesn't matter - what matters is "do you understand science?". Those that do (the founder of the weather channel, numerous others) see through the lies that we can do ANYTHING to reverse nature.

Mini-science lesson: The earth moves in cycles. San Angelo was once an ocean. When the ice melted in the norway area they found villages from a time much warmer than now! The bubonic plague ravaged Europe in a much warmer cycle. Blue eyed people originated in the black sea area - and spread after the end of the last ice age.

Read a book besides one inspired by the Goreacle.

Cow toots have more impact on the environment than we do. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/03/biogas-californ
ia-cow-manure.php

Do you realize that we are coming off the coldest winter in years? I remember in 6th grade we were on our way to another ice age! The sky is falling the sky is falling!

I don't believe that we are to blame but we certainly can't reverse the earth's climate cycles by requiring toxic lightbulbs, ethanol (to blame for high groceries), or limiting reproduction as I have heard it suggested. All we are doing is assuring our demise when no one can afford to eat.
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=sp
ecialsections&sc=biofuels&id=18173&a=

Also, they have proved that solar flares are more to blame for our climate than ANYTHING we do. It all depends on what studies you read.
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2003/split/642-2.html

Did anyone see where many of the thermometers they use are mounted next to AC units and/or exhaust fans? So skewed!

For being so smart some of these scientist types lack common sense.

Yep, but the fear mongers don't like facts getting in the way of their Chicken Little interpretations.

LOL That was lame but funny, Texan. :)

I've always wanted to be invited to a good Sedar. I need to get more Jewish friends.

To Texaninfidel:

By "history" I refer to geological history, which, if you know your stratigraphy, is fairly well documented clear back to Pre-Cambrian times some 4 billion years ago. The history of our climate is within these strata, first and foremost as fossil remains, from foraminifera to Gastornis and Eohippus to our own progenitors.

And I say again, NEVER in our world's history has there been any species with the ability to so negatively impact the biosphere. And NEVER has there been so much evidence that today there IS such a species. As Pogo said, "We have met the enemy, and he is US!".

Nor do I live in such fear. I too have an SUV and I too still use incandescent bulbs.

Yet all of the above you mention notwithstanding, I maintain that 6 1/4 billion human beings is asking too much of this planet, especially now that more and more of them are becoming enamoured of the American way of life and more and more of them are becoming capable of obtaining it.

As for cowfarts, well, if we didn't want so much beef and dairy there wouldn't be more than 20 billion of the beasts roaming the world's pastures and chewing their cuds and loosing thousands of tonnes of methane daily.

I do not deny that weather is cyclical. I merely state that OUR contribution to the cycle may be too negative and portend damage, perhaps on a massive scale in the near future.

Did you know that the Incas of the high Andes, a people genetically adapted to high altitudes and low air pressure are moving DOWN their mountainsides. NOT to go to the cities. To get down to air they can actually breathe. That means there is less oxygen overall. And THAT is very worrying. Imagine the pincer movement of rising sea levels and lowering oxygen pressure. And I don't have kids and grandkids' futures to worry about. Lucky me.