Weather Attacks

IBD Editorials ^ | 11 April 2007 | Staff

[Kitten Festival]

Climate Change: Some in Congress think global warming is so important it should be an issue of national defense, not science. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous idea, one that shows how crazy the debate has become.

Unfortunately, the proposal to make global warming a matter of national security is bipartisan, with Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, joining Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, as co-sponsors. If nothing else, this proves neither party has a monopoly on wisdom.

According to the Boston Globe, their plan calls for the U.S. intelligence chief to produce a "national intelligence estimate" on global warming. That includes determining which countries and regions might suffer the most from warming, and which would be at greatest risk for wars due to shrinking resources.

It also would require the Pentagon to conduct "war games" to see how warming and "extreme weather events" would affect our own national security.

Gee, and here we thought that terrorism — which only recently claimed more than 3,000 American lives in the worst-ever attack on U.S. soil, and which continues to kill tens of thousands each year overseas — was our civilization's great security challenge.

[TN4Liberty]

The fact that the climate is changing is settled. The open issue is whether people are causing it or not.

I understand where you are coming from, but I don't accept that statement.

For the sake of argument, I'll accept the fact that the earth has warmed. What I will not accept is the hypothesis that it will continue to do so. An analysis of the strategic effects of future weather would have to take into account that it might be getting warmer over the next 50 years, but also that it might be getting colder, or that it might not change at all.

Trends, whatever their cause, usually end. Past weather trends were up and down, and all but the current one has ended. Guessing when a trend will or will not end is risky business, and we have no scientific basis to conclude how long the current trend will last.

[Ole Okie]

We’re having the coldest April since records started being kept 134 years ago.

I see why the eco-nuts changed “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. Right now, I’d guess that over the next hundred years, it would be about even money that we’re heading for a new ice age rather than a hockey stick steam bath.

[SteamShovel]

the proposal to make global warming a matter of national security is bipartisan, with Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican, joining Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, as co-sponsors.

This is the effect of the political climate that uses propaganda movies to push agendas. Real, hard hitting "documentaries" like Fahrenheit-911 (that PROVES there is no terror in the world but that which WE create) and "An Inconvenient Truth" (that PROVES we are the cause of all weather problems too.)

I think I'm going to be sick.

[Ole Okie]

If someone needs to apply the term “RINO” to a politician, Hagel wins without opposition.

[GRRRRR]

Can't we just blame it all on ....

ENTROPY??

Sooner or later, we're all gonna be at the same temperature.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

An analysis of the strategic effects of future weather would have to take into account that it might be getting warmer over the next 50 years, but also that it might be getting colder, or that it might not change at all.

I will agree to that.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

We don't

Just by posting 3 times dosen't make "you", "we". Schizophrenia anyone? Maybe you should get a few additioal screen names to go with whatever meglomaniacal pathology you have.