It's those damn Americans in their SUVs!!! It's the industrialized nations that must screw up their economies to solve the problem!!!

The anti-capitalist pinkos have found a new home in the environmental movement. There are coal seam fires that have been burning out of control in China for decades that emit more noxious gasses than all of the cars in the US, but you don't hear a peep from the likes of Algore. A single large volcanic eruption puts out more noxious gasses than all of the industrialization in recorded history. The Exxon Valdez was "an environmental catastrophe", yet more oil leaks directly through the earth's crust into the oceans...and has been doing so since before man knew how to make implements from stone.

This human caused global warming crap stems from a belief in humanism. When one realizes how insignificant we beings are in the grand scheme, you realize how powerless you are to solve the problem...and how powerless you were to create the problem in the first place. It's the sun's fault, the earth will respond accordingly as it always has, and life will go on.

Now why in grade school in southern California in 1972 was I being taught in my ecology class that there was an impending ice age and that we'd be out of fossil fuels in 15 years? Do you mean somebody lied to me? :mrgreen:

NY Times: From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype
Other critics have zeroed in on Mr. Gore’s claim that the energy industry ran a “disinformation campaign” that produced false discord on global warming. The truth, he said, was that virtually all unbiased scientists agreed that humans were the main culprits. But Benny J. Peiser, a social anthropologist in Britain who runs the Cambridge-Conference Network, or CCNet, an Internet newsletter on climate change and natural disasters, challenged the claim of scientific consensus with examples of pointed disagreement.

“Hardly a week goes by,” Dr. Peiser said, “without a new research paper that questions part or even some basics of climate change theory,” including some reports that offer alternatives to human activity for global warming.

Geologists have documented age upon age of climate swings, and some charge Mr. Gore with ignoring such rhythms.

“Nowhere does Mr. Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,” Robert M. Carter, a marine geologist at James Cook University in Australia, said in a September blog. “Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.”

In October, Dr. Easterbrook made similar points at the geological society meeting in Philadelphia. He hotly disputed Mr. Gore’s claim that “our civilization has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this” threatened change.

Nonsense, Dr. Easterbrook told the crowded session. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts, he said, were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century.”
Pardon me, Mr. Gore, but true "science" is not based on "consensus".