Global Warming Debate - Michael Crichton, part 4 of 10

How convenient that the causes of global warming are all things that leftist politicians oppose: industry, enterprise, foreign vacations, middle-class expenditure, and the Western World. I sense... something is afoot.

Well, partlly right. The Leftists are all going on a foreign vacation to Copenhagen in December, paid for by their taxpayers.

ColtBarrettUSA, the causes of global warming are human emissions of various gases (namely CO2) into the atmosphere, which Creationists and resource-gluttons have CHOSEN to politicize. The scientists are just dealing with logical evidence.

Someday you may learn that the world doesn't revolve around your personal self-righteousnesses and avarice. It's not all about YOU.

Mr. Crichton was a doctor by training, not a climatologist. He took a right-wing turn at some point and his mind was sealed.

Ahh, I see. So Michael Crichton, the same man who adamantly supported abortion at a time when it was under serious scrutiny, the same man who supports a tax on carbon emissions, "took a right-wing turn at some point."

It appears to me as though your mind is sealed; anybody who disagrees with your take on global warming is apparently evil and on the opposite end of the political spectrum. I have news for you: everyone is a "resource glutton." If you're not, then prove it. Give up your computer.

@randomconcepts:
Your version of science is seriously flawed.

@ColtBarrettUSA Come on Colt, you'll never get liberal voters to research the evidence themselves if you continue to demonize them. Partisan bickering is altogether counterproductive if one wishes to prevent the cap-and-trade policy from expanding.




This isn't a conservative versus liberal issue, it's an elitist versus the middle class issue.

Mankind produces only a small fraction of the CO2 in the atmosphere, more is created through natural mechanisms such as dying foliage. This is not science, but politics. Global Warming hysteria is a social movement, not a scientific truth. There is serious potential global catastrophes as a result of man's existence, but is global warming really one of them? I mean farting releases methane, a very serious green house gas supposedly, should we ban or tax farting?

Also, C02 takes up less than %5 (MUCH less) of the air in Earth's atmosphere, most of it is Water vapor and Nitrogen

@kristofor12345
Our atmosphere is actually:
78% nitrogen
21% oxygen
almost 1% argon
all other gases are trace.
0.03% CO2

Good point. Global warming has become something that the politicians have seized control of with very limited evidence to support the "end of all civilization." Is the earth warming? Yes, but by how much? Not a whole lot, as it turns out. This idea that the planet is at its optimum temperature now is foolish. Humans have lived in far warmer and FAR colder conditions than they do now.