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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
Good post, Lanny.
Here's what I don't get. Gas prices are at 26 year highs in the U.S. It literally costs thousands of dollars a year to drive an SUV in the city. Heating oil costs are through the roof, natural gas prices are no picnic either, and electricity is far less cheap than it was even seven years ago.
Shouldn't people love the idea of alternative energy sources? Right now the fossil fuel economy is giving it to consumers hard, and the economic impact of that (usually a lagging indicator, as I understand it) will only be felt in months to come. To those that claim that reducing carbon emissions is bound to result in a global economic catastrophe--are you so sure that the same catastrophe won't result from staying the course? I'm no economist, but current conditions sure don't seem sustainable to my untrained eye.
We've had this discussion numerous times on this board--and it does somewhat boggle my mind that there are still people who think that global warming skepticism is as legitimate scientifically as the thousands of scientists who are producing sound research that illustrates our impact on global warming very clearly.
This is one of those areas where people feel entitled to appoint themselves armchair scientists for some reason--personally, I'm going to trust the reputable scientists over a few think-tank bozos and one or two washed up, aging, tenure-system parasites at third rate schools. Maybe that's just me.
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sound science - think of everything that was believed only 50 years ago...no such thing..science is evolutionary.
trusting science is a dangerous thing...i mean isnt this why we are in this whole mess to begin with?
i am not anti-global warming, nor do i chose to ignore what one side are saying, unlike others.
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