On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:41:11 GMT, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:30:07 -0600, thunder
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:10:51 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


I don't think anyone is against protecting the environment. What many
are against is reactionary, knee-jerk over-responses to "problems"
that doesn't exist in the qualified opinion of many experts.

Putting aside "climate change", there are quite a few who are against
protecting the environment if it costs them a dime. There was a recent
executive order allowing mine tailings to pollute streams. There is no
disputing the pollution is real, and damaging, yet ...

I totally agree with you on this, but let's not confuse pollution with
global warming.

Would you trust people who are willing to allow mining pollution when
they tell you global warming is a crock?

Most moderates agree that something is happening with global weather
patterns and there's evidence of a shift, and man *may* have a hand in
it.

If it's a natural occurrence and our habits have potential to be the
tipping point, don't you think we should do what we can to help?

Understood that we don't know what the tipping point is but it seems
like folly to sit on our hands, insisting it has nothing to do with
us.