$60 Trillion Trouble

[Smalliebigs]

So what about the what about the Antarctic ice having record amounts of ice and growing???? when the AMO(Atlantic Mutidecadal Oscillation) and the PDO(Pacific Mutildecadal Oscillation) become positive or negative, which they do just about every thirty years, they reverse and we they do the Arctic ice will grow again and then we will get some more BS. That article is a fairytale.

Yep it's true climates change....so do continents and land masses.....it will be different in the future

[moguy1973]

When it's 72 in STL on a late July afternoon, there isn't such a thing as global warming...

[Justin Spencer]

Justin in my last sentence you see nothing that can be could might or anything else. That is because i am absolutely convinced we will do it.

I agree with you.

[405z06]

Unless we want the polar caps to melt and kill us all, we better all vote for democrats so they can fix it. Slush funds to unions and higher marginal tax rates on everyone in the US will solve this problem.

[Al Agnew]

I ain't arguing this anymore here. Nobody's mind got changed the last time and it won't this time. I'm also convinced that we're screwed one way or another. It's only a question of which gets us and how much time we have, because there is no way this country or the world will ever work together to solve a major threat until we're all forced to, and then it'll probably be too late. I'd love to just say I'm gonna ignore it all and live the rest of my life as best I can, especially since we don't have kids. But we do have nieces and nephews we love, and I KNOW we are leaving them a world that isn't going to be as good as the one we've had. I just hope they don't care about a lot of the stuff I care about that's going to go away.

[jeb]

I ain't arguing this anymore here. Nobody's mind got changed the last time and it won't this time. I'm also convinced that we're screwed one way or another. It's only a question of which gets us and how much time we have, because there is no way this country or the world will ever work together to solve a major threat until we're all forced to, and then it'll probably be too late. I'd love to just say I'm gonna ignore it all and live the rest of my life as best I can, especially since we don't have kids. But we do have nieces and nephews we love, and I KNOW we are leaving them a world that isn't going to be as good as the one we've had. I just hope they don't care about a lot of the stuff I care about that's going to go away.

It's FAR more likely the unsustainable national debt we're piling up will be far more of a problem for them than the fantasy world Chicken Little scenarios like the one that started this thread. And we can actually do something about the debt.

[Mark]

Hard to believe that some still don't believe the threat is real!!

[Al Agnew]

Like I said, I ain't arguing. But I will note that the Republican budget plan cuts funding for the EPA by a third. Like I said, the stuff I care about is going away.

[jeb]

Hard to believe that some still don't believe the threat is real!!

And I can't believe people think this even approaches settled science.

I do believe the earth is warming. It doesn't take a legion of scientist to realize that it has been warming overall since the last ice age. I just a ) don't agree that man has anything to do with it, b ) that warming is as destructive as the chicken littles want us to believe and c ) that there's anything we could do about it, no matter the cause. Getting our national debt under control will benefit future generations, not running around saying the sky is falling.

[Tim Smith]

It's FAR more likely the unsustainable national debt we're piling up will be far more of a problem for them than the fantasy world Chicken Little scenarios like the one that started this thread. And we can actually do something about the debt.

The point is that GW adds considerably to the national debt...as in the original post. Ignoring it adds to the national debt, and that's the least of the problems associated with that.

We lost over 500 homes in Colorado this year due to drought and fire...so far. We're adding fire protection services at tax payer expense and the insurance companies are that much closer to the line.

The bird in question here is an ostrich, not a chicken.