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Maybe it would help if the President hadn't mocked the EPA report one day and then sent out Ari Fleischer the next day to tell the press that he beleived that human acitivity contributed to global warming. And to have Fleischer insist to the press that Bush has thought that way since June of 2001. Is it any wonder that people are confused by his wanting it both ways?
--Raoul

I'm not really up on the WAIS, or its potential significance to oceanic or global health, but I have noticed this: the "fight global warming" crowd will seize on any potential change to the ecosphere and trumpet it as the coming of Doom, if it will help them promote their agenda.

Extinctions used to be the environmentalists' big gun. Hey, remember the extinction plague? Millions of species vanishing in the course of our lifetimes, with incalculable global devastation to follow? Of course, the tendency is to associate each vanished "species" with something you could visit at a zoo. The real story is different. Yes, species do vanish from the Earth at a rather rapid rate, but:

there's no evidence that that's happened any faster since the Industrial Revolution;
there's no evidence that species extinction has outpaced species creation;
the overwhelming majority of those extinguished species are in the taxonomic band just above protozoa: "plants" and "animals" that consist of a few hundred cells. They have no ecological impact, coming or going.

But it's a change to the ecosphere! And because it's a change, we should oppose it. Or so the eco-logic goes.

Hm. Hysterical opposition to change, without regard for its impact on human liberty or anything else. Just who are the "conservatives" here?

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There really is global warming. Forty years ago I could work in the hay fields (with an occasional dip in the creek to cool off) all day and feel good. Now with the "global warming" it takes two beers (to cool off) when I use my riding lawnmower to cut the grass.

That's as much proof as the algore crowd has. What can I say?

Based on a 420,000-year temperature record derived from the Vostok ice core, we know, first of all, that the mean temperature of all four of the prior interglacials was at least 2°C greater than the mean temperature of the current interglacial;

Wait. I thought man (and his indusrial activity) was responsible for all global warming. Now they tell us that the world was 2deg C WARMER before the industrial revolution!

. That's it. Someone out there is slacking. Fire up the boilers men we have work to do! We've fallen 2 Deg C behind and we must catch up! Crank up production!

Watermelons (environazis) are truly idiots. If it wasn't for the fact that the sheeple are fat, dumb, and asleep, no watermelon policy would ever pass congress without a congress critter getting tarred and feathered.

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