lunatic fringe denies global warming? Even McCain admits that we MUST act now to slow the emissions of greenhouse gases. I think the problem is that the deniers have been denying global warming for so long it has become an issue of pride for them. Admitting they were SO wrong, SO misled, and SO lied to is just too embarrassing for them.
Tony Manero
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You are spot on. They are in such denial. It can get so bad that the former NASA administrator went so far as to rationalize that some people might actually like the effects of global warming! Once the fringe elements leave the White House, like the Bushes, perhaps we can get some reasonable people on the problem
Anonymous
No one denies global warming or global cooling. The cause is the debate. I'm sure you would prefer if no one debated on issues you believe in, but that's the nature of science.
Any time politicians agree on a scientific subject, it is because it is more politics than science. If you haven't figured that out yet then you're in lock-step with them and so brain-washed that you will believe anything they tell you.
If that's the case then there's no hope for you to be open-minded on any political subject.
Miss P
The lunatic fringe? I would like you to name all of the people you know who deny global warming and say why they are lunatics. Please, list them. Then I shall be able to show quite a bit of scientists who are certainly not lunatics and deny AGW. I am also a skeptic, and last time I checked, I'm not in a straitjacket. I'm surprised you said we've been denying global warming for so long- the idea of AGW has only been popular for the last couple of years. I, for one, want only what is scientifically correct to be shoved down our throats- it's no issue of pride, especially since there is evidence to discredit AGW.
Last time I checked, true science allows for debate in order to come up with the most accurate explanations. By labelling skeptics, those who hold alternate viewpoints, as a "lunatic fringe", you not only break that principle, but prove your own opposition to freedom of speech and your own ignorance of the nature of the debate and its supporters.
Mr. R
I refuse to be insulted by some twit behind a keyboard that is emotionally attached to the fact that men are causing global warming. To me you are the lunatic fringe who sees nothing but the inconvenient truth as scientific evidence. You my friend have just been brain washed.
davem
It'll take more than your childish name-calling to rattle us. Something like evidence maybe? Why can't the alarmist eco-terrorists like you come up with some evidence instead of just giving us the opinions of your teachers?
Extremists like we see here supporting g/w are rarely rational. They suffer from fogged thinking and misguided direction by others with foggy minds. And extremists are like sheep...not leaders, but followers. Not thinkers, but doers.
McCain may have done what he did to get votes? I don't know your politics, I don't live in the US. From the little I do know, the Republicans seem much more rational and level headed than the Democrats, but that's must my uninformed opinion. Would you vote for Gore if he was running? The whole world knows that would be a mistake!