seriously... how much fucking time are people going to waste trying to figure out who/what is most to blame? We know pollution is bad for our health. We know dependence on foreign energy is bad for our national security. How about we spend all the money being wasted on these idiotic studies on... oh I don't know... trying to solve the fucking problems????
Doesn't that make more sense than jumping up and down saying "consensus! Consensus... we have CONSENSUS that MAN is evil and destroying the world!!!!!"
But no, people such as yourself will continue to fight the good fight of finding out whose fault it is..... rather than actually spending the time and energy into finding clean energy sources, finding ways to clean up the air, land, water.... etc....
Good work.
seriously... how much fucking time are people going to waste trying to figure out who/what is most to blame? We know pollution is bad for our health.
The problem with this, is that CO2 isn't considered a pollutant by th bush adminstration, nor by the way current envirnonmental law is written.
CO2 concentrations is the atmoshphere is not toxic, its not carcinogenic, its not even a bronchial or asthmatic nusiance in terms of human physiology.
So, when you say lets not worry who's to blame, but lets regulate it anyway, its essentially the Con way of saying we don't want to admit we were wrong, but lets fix the problem anyway.
You can't regulate something, unless and until it is recognized as a pollutant. There's no legal authority to do so. Traditionally, toxicity, carcinogens, and nucainces are the only criteria to justify regulate chemical discharges. And you can't legally regulate a chemical that occurs naturally, at ambient conditions. So, if the CO2 increase is entirely natural, as cons like to imagine, there's no authority to regulate it. There's in fact, nothing we can do about it.
The only way to manage and regulate it, is to recognize CO2 as a pollutant, and regulate its discharge, is to recognize its its greenhouse chemical qualities, and that human activities are contributing to climate change - via CO2 discharge.
What I'm saying, is that Cons can't get out of admitting they were wrong for 20 years, and still claim we need to regulate or cut back CO2.
