“I mean this befits a nation that no longer believes in science, that doesn’t believe global warming has been proven. Let’s stop all progress RIGHT NOW to benefit a handful.”

Well, I have no idea what all that means. Just senseless rambling. The earth is warming and that is virtually impossible to deny. However, man’s role is less certain and what to do about it is even less certain.

Could it be that reasonable people think that a modest warming of the earth is no big deal and that science has told us that drastic emmission cuts would do very little to help temperatures while doing a lot to hurt the economy ?

Perhaps you disagree but that doesn’t mean that we are a “nation that no longer believes in science”. Perhaps Bob just has his own view of science and jumps to conclusions and refuses to consider that there are some very smart people with very different opinions than his.
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nice pile of rhetorical bs designed to confuse. ‘reasonable people
can disagree’ because it’s in my best interest that they keep arguing and
wait another 5 years so I can continue to make money off of oil.

A nation that no longer believes is science means: one where the
insane religious beliefs of some cause them such psychological
discomfort that they band together to lobby for the scientific facts
of evolution and the extremely-well studied and refined theory
explaining how it works) to be ‘taught’ as ‘controversial.

A modest warming of the earth will … let’s see … melt the glaciers,
raising the level of the oceans.
Own any waterfront property?

Any idea what % of the world’s population lives within say 30 ft
of sea level?

Hurt the economy? Puh-lease
What the hell do you think people innovating and creating cleaner
technologies and sources of energy would do?
Hmmn, maybe create jobs – IN THE USA for a change.

In case you hadn’t noticed, our entire standard of living is based
upon prior innovation – consumer products in the 50s, computers,
the internet, pharm, etc.

Do you think that insurance industries, money traders and lawyers actually produce anything?
The fundamental building block of economics is human work -
producing something, not leeching off of others’ production.

Wall street just moves around the wealth that is created by people’s
work.

-JOS

“I mean this befits a nation that no longer believes in science, that doesn’t believe global warming has been proven. Let’s stop all progress RIGHT NOW to benefit a handful.”

Well, I have no idea what all that means. Just senseless rambling. The earth is warming and that is virtually impossible to deny. However, man’s role is less certain and what to do about it is even less certain.

Could it be that reasonable people think that a modest warming of the earth is no big deal and that science has told us that drastic emmission cuts would do very little to help temperatures while doing a lot to hurt the economy ?

Perhaps you disagree but that doesn’t mean that we are a “nation that no longer believes in science”. Perhaps Bob just has his own view of science and jumps to conclusions and refuses to consider that there are some very smart people with very different opinions than his.

So Carry On Preaching, Bob. And thanks. Same goes for everyone else who carries the message.

Next contestant, You. Special subject? ‘Spreading the word effectively.’

Cheers!

To paraphrase Basil Fawlty: “”You should go on Mastermind. Next contestant, Bob Lefsetz. Special subject: ‘The bleeding obvious’.”