Global Warming alarmists...Haha!

Since my opponent failed to post a rebuttal, I will simply add on to my argument. Some fun EnviroNazi quotes: -"I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000" - Quoted in 1969 -"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish" - Quoted in 1970 -"Giving society cheap, abundant energy... would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun" - Quoted in 1978 All three quotes were by Paul Ehrlich, environmentalist/current president of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University. Nice that we have such influental people making such outlandish assumptions, isn't it? Sounds almost as outlandish as the massive hysteria due to natural warming with a hint of human contribution, doesn't it? Indeed. "Climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world. No matter if the science is all phony, there are still collateral environmental benefeits" - Christine Stewart, Canada's former environment minister. "Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth, social and environmental" - Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First. (I'm still wondering why alarmists don't volunteer to help with that movement). Kyoto is "the first component of an authentic global governance" - Former French President Jacques Chirac. "If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels" - Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund. "Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned" - George Monbiot, environmental author. (I'll bet this guy has never been on a plane, right?) -"Free enterprise really means the rich get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process... Capitalism is destroying the Earth. -"Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby." - Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists. "The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are." - Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund. Talk about the rich getting richer, eh? That damn capitalism! Let's live high on the hog and kep everyone else down, where they belong!! - That's basically what I derived from those last two quotes combined. *****"To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest" - Stephen Schneider, lead 2007 UN IPCC report author. He also wrote one of the reports that led to the Global Cooling in the 1970s.***** Alarmist opinion towards dissenting views: Heidi Cullen, climatologist at TWC, suggested disagreement should mean a loss of meteorological certification: "If a meteorologist can't speak to the fundamental science of climate change, then maybe the AMS shouldn't give them a Seal of Approval." Ellen Goodman, from The Boston Globe, wrote: "Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future." David Roberts, of climate website 'Grist', wrote: "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards-some sort of climate Nuremberg." The Nazi references are quite popular with that crowd, Glenn Beck was called "CNN's cheif corporate fascism advocate" by RFK Jr. When the Washington Post asked him why he thought Glenn was a Fascist he said that Glenn was "voicing doubts about global warming a few weeks back." How dare he!!! Seriously folks, when it's gotten to the point that a politician from a long line of family politicians calls someone a Fascist for voicing his opinion... hasn't it maybe gone too far? Did you know that if every home in America replaced one standard light bulb with a fluorescent bulb (assuming EVERY home actually did this) the polution saved in one year would be equal to taking 800,000 cars off the road? Sounds staggering, doesn't it? And by all means, that's a noble start, but what they're not telling you is that those 800,000 cars being taken off of the road only equal about .1% of registered vehicles worldwide. Not to mention that transportation contributes only to 1/5th of the manmade pollution. The amount of co2 China's new coal plants (one per week) will send into the atmosphere matches that of 3 billion Ford Expeditions each being driven 15,000 miles/year. Not to mention it would take Ford roughly 15,000 years to sell that many SUVs. So to look at it another way, the co2 contribution of ONE country simply generating electricity in the next 12 years matches that of 3 billion SUVs being driven 15,000 miles a year. brilliant climatologists decided the solution to global cooling (another scam that resulted in nothing) was to put soot on the ice caps to attract more sunlight and heat to help melt them. Good thing the 'skeptics' like me were right again. It's probably good that we didn't do that considering this natural cycle the planet goes through called a 'warming period' is scaring the crap out of you all with threats of floods and such. The solution to the warming trend quoted: "layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet... balloons bearing heavy guns be used to carry sulfates high aloft and fire them into the stratosphere". - Washington Post November 16, 2006 quoting Nobel Prize winning climatologist Paul J. Crutzen. I really hope he was kidding. Didn't we learn from the '70s that these people don't have very good ideas and the planet turned out just fine? Thank God for the skeptcs, eh? We pretty much save the planet. I have this debate all figured out, and I have for quite some time. Policymakers and scientists on both sides should throw out their debate and simply cut spending in some areas (like researching the climate, because it's really just a guessing game with millions of variables to take into consideration) and move that money over to figuring out how to shut up all the hippies that don't want nuclear power. Spend the money on making solar panels cheaper. Spend the money on buying land and reducing costs on creating wind famrs. Spend the money on making hydrogen cheaper. Spend it on making corn or soy into fuel in a more useful way than ethanol. Make more things diesel/biodiesel and make it cheaper than gasoline. It's that simple, cut government spending in some areas and move that money to cleaner fuel innovation without taxing and regulating people to death. 1500 years ago, experts said the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, experts said the Earth was flat. And 9 years ago, Bill Clinton said he didn't have sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. "Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty." - Galileo Galilei http://epw.senate.gov... http://meteo.lcd.lu... http://www.worldclimatereport.com... http://epw.senate.gov... http://ff.org... http://www.junkscience.com... http://www.junkscience.com...