You know, the climate debate drives me batty at this point. I'm really starting to question our ability at inductive reasoning, or to, you know, see the forest for the trees. Let's say for a second that global warming isn't primarily caused by man made factors, can't we at least acknowledge that the world is, indeed, warming? Shouldn't we... try to do somethiing about that?

It would be like if a massive comet were coming towards earth, and the Democrats and Republicans were horn-locked in a massive debate over whether it was coming from deep space 9 or deep space 10. Shouldn't we try to nuke the comet out of the sky first, and have a pissing contest later? My only conclusion is that the higher ups know we're drastically screwed, or that nothing can be done, so aren't really focusing on it.

I did like this from today:

Outgoing Republican Rep. Bob Inglis (S.C.) broke with his party today and publicly vented his frustration about the apparent turn toward climate skepticism in the next Congress, when Republicans will take control of the House.

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Inglis, ranking member of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee, also took aim at "people who make a lot of money on talk radio and talk TV saying a lot of things. They slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and they're experts on climate change. They substitute their judgment for people who have Ph.D.s and work tirelessly" on climate change.

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/17/17climatewire-outgoing-rep-inglis-blasts-gop-skepticism-on-51296.html

Also, some report today says that 50% of Republicans don't believe in climate change. One more thing that John Stuart Mill was correct about. Other nations don't have that problem -- as Inglis mentions, the Chinese are going to "eat our lunch" on green technology in the coming decades.