Can you name the truck with four wheel drive,
smells like a steak and seats thirty-five..
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Well, it goes real slow with the hammer down,
It's the country-fried truck endorsed by a clown!
Canyonero! (Yah!) Canyonero!
12 yards long, 2 lanes wide,
65 tons of American Pride!
Canyonero! Canyonero!
Top of the line in utility sports,
Unexplained fires are a matter for the courts!
Canyonero! Canyonero! (Yah!)
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
I'm quite familiar with Anthony Watts' site. In addition to Watts Up With That, I recommend Climate Audit, Lucia's Blackboard, Climate Etc., The Air Vent, and Bishop Hill. Lucia and Judith Curry are (or were) considered to be "lukewarmers" (meaning they believe mankind has an effect but that the CAGWers have overstated their case).
Heh, I love when the argument becomes that "denyers" are "flat-earthers" while simultaneously declaring that "the science is settled." Well, back a few hundred years ago, the science was settled that the earth was flat, and look how that's changed!
I'm in the camp that, yeah, the climate probably is changing. Whether hotter or cooler, I don't know. I believe humans probably do have some impact on it. BUT, I think that our impact is vastly exaggerated, and even if it IS changing, the earth will adapt and survive. Don't they believe in evolution and survival of the fittest?
I think humans should be responsible and try to be cleaner (e.g. I don't like to see trucks billowing out black clouds, but that's much more rare these days than it used to be), but not at the expense of driving the economy into the ground. If the yellow-ticked-blue-billed-marmot-ant is so sensitive that a pipeline a mile away is going to drive it to extinction, then perhaps it is fate and we should just let it die out.
http://disciplejourney.com
“Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.” – Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) US Abolitionist Preacher
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I for one, would like to see the return of the wooly mammoth! But I am not sure I am zoned for the wooly mammoth...