Posted on 04/20/2007 12:06:52 PM PDT by CedarDave
One third of Americans say global warming ranks as the world's single largest environmental problem according to a new survey conducted by the Washington Post, ABC News and Stanford University. That's double the number who considered it of most import last year.
Seven out of 10 of those surveyed want the federal government to do more to combat climate change and "by a 40-point margin, the public trusts congressional Democrats more than it trusts President Bush to handle global warming," writes the WPost.
Climate change might yet become a key election issue then. Al Gore, are you listening?
(Excerpt) Read more at time-blog.com ...
Most plants grow best in an atmosphere with more than twice as much CO2 as wee see currently. One might almost say they were adapted to a more carbon rich atmosphere. Gee, I wonder how that could have happened, when CO2 levels are higher now than they used to be? /sarc
Global Warming on FreeRepublic
Lates from Global Warming News Site
Latest from Junk Science (scroll down)
Canada ready for stiff measures to cut CO2 emissions: environmentalist
EU must have open dialogue with Asia on climate change
Greenpeace crushes bulbs to highlight global warming (that musta been fun to clean up!)
Stupid, annoying, and costly is best case. Downright harmful, especially to the economy, is very likely.
So the survey says people trust the Dims to handle something that can't be won but when it comes to something that can be won (WOT), I'm sure the results are still reversed. So this isn't all bad, it just seems that way.
Once the laws are put in place to cripple the economy and these dolts are huddled under blankets with no jobs, no gas in the car, no food, light, or heat in the house, I doubt that it will occur to them even then as they starve and freeze, that someone just might have been lying to them.
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Worth repeating.
Thanks Dave. Your three additional links were very interesting.
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