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Posted on 04/11/2007 9:39:42 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In a campaign without peacetime precedent, the media-entertainment-environmental complex is warning about global warming. Never, other than during the two world wars, has there been such a concerted effort by opinion-forming institutions to indoctrinate Americans, 83 percent of whom now call global warming a " serious problem." Indoctrination is supposed to be a predicate for action commensurate with professions of seriousness.
For example, Democrats could demand that the president send the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate so they can embrace it. In 1997, the Senate voted 95 to 0 in opposition to any agreement that would, like the protocol, require significant reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in America and some other developed nations but that would involve no "specific scheduled commitments" for 129 "developing" countries, including the second-, fourth-, 10th-, 11th-, 13th- and 15th-largest economies (China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia). Forty-two of the senators serving in 1997 are gone. Let's find out if the new senators disagree with the 1997 vote.
Do they also disagree with Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist"? He says: Compliance with Kyoto would reduce global warming by an amount too small to measure. But the cost of compliance just to the United States would be higher than the cost of providing the entire world with clean drinking water and sanitation, which would prevent 2 million deaths (from diseases such as infant diarrhea) a year and prevent half a billion people from becoming seriously ill each year.
Nature designed us as carnivores, but what does nature know about nature? Meat has been designated a menace. Among the 51 exhortations in Time magazine's " Global Warming Survival Guide" (April 9), No. 22 says a BMW is less responsible than a Big Mac for "climate change," that conveniently imprecise name for our peril.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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I never understand exactly what George Will is trying to say.
Funny how liberal get it so wrong. They think that global warming is a serious problem, but the threat of terrorist attack is not.
Will we have to wait until a US city is warmed to ten thousand degrees by a nuclear blast before the real threat to our lives is made a tad clearer?
“They think that global warming is a serious problem”
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!
Liberals are not out to help people, Liberals see people as CO2 generators. If people are not part of the solution .....
The acronym is MEE. Somehow that fits really, really well.
BTTT
Love the MEE complex phrase.
...I never understand exactly what George Will is trying to say...
...in places, he tends to use ten words to describe what five would better suffice...
I sympathize with you completely. Sometimes I have a serious problem reading articles, especially on the computer. It is much easier to read a narrow newspaper column. But if I narrow the browser window by half, it really helps. Or I will have ReadPlease read it. But Will does tend to use frillier sentences than necessary.
Go to the second paragraph (headed Reading Comprehension, Readability, and Text On Screen). Check the (very good) footnotes for further information.
Hi there,
I hesitated before making my little comment above, just because I know that he means well, and I’ve heard him on talk shows and he’s had insightful points, (and it’s hard to be insightful when there are many smart guys on the right, and almost everything’s been said...)
But his columns just space me out. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read a column of his, gotten half way through it, and then realized that I didn’t retain (or understand) a thing he’d said. Then gone back, and found myself again half way through before I knew it.
I even have read his column OUT LOUD to myself to stay on track.
I think it’s hopeless. Anyway there are so many great commentators now.
Sarah
Yes. This is a poorly designed and incomplete attitude object survey.
LOL If you are harboring any fear that the problem lies with you then don’t. It’s George Will’s nuancing. It’s an Ivy League thing. John Kerry wouldn’t agree with him but he would understand what he said perfectly.
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