Little plastic bottles of Florida swamp water going to $2 a piece. Time to boycott "big water". Hey, let's all drink beer instead!

Hey guys, this thread has been fun and all. I love arguing with the greenie weenie true believers. However, I think we've all beaten the topic to a pulp. I am off to see more of the wonderful things that boing boing is a directory of...

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OK 380 ppm. The point was it has been a lot higher in the distant past. CO2 hasn't been credited with past extinctions. In fact, high CO2 levels have been attributed with healthy plant life and the ability to support dinosaur size animals.

Pointing to CO2 and saying it suddenly drives climate change is like saying that if I paint my truck red, it will accelerate faster.

If you want look at greenhouse gasses and climate, look no further that water vapor.

Forgive me. In post #49, I meant meteor or comet. I know that asteroids are generally small. Maybe, to many video games.

CO2 is not the problem. We are currently at about 300 ppm. Dinosaurs lived when it was over 1000 ppm. Did dinosaurs die out due to global warming? No. I believe asteroid strike is the accepted theory.

Asteroids, super novas, gamma ray bursts, super volcanoes (Yellowstone), pandemic diseases... all things that can kill us. CO2. Way, way, way far down on the list.

Earth's four billion year history has shown us that catastrophic extinction is the norm. However, the chances of it happening in the next 1000 years is remote.

If we are living in the end of days, there is very little that "carbon credits" can do for us.

It is not the sun spots themselves, but the intensity of the sun's output that is determined by counting sun spots. But that is not the issue. Don't show me facts and data. Al gore has told us that the science is settled. There is too much discussion of science going on in here.

It is all about taxes and control.

It is very important that anthropogenic global warming be caused by CO2. It is a simple concept. You can sell the idea to non-technical people through media sound bites on CNN, CBS, and MS-NBC. Once the dogma is accepted as "fact" by non-scientist, we can pressure governments to impose caps and fines for CO2 (read taxes). Since we hate the United States, we can use the UN to impose global taxes and control.

We will then tax what for millions of years has been normal weather cycles. History is filled with records of warm and cold periods. Some of them have been pretty severe (little ice ages and warm periods that lasted for decades or even centuries).

If you ask a small child to tell you the cause of a nice summer day, they will draw you a picture with a large yellow sun. You have to indoctrinate children to think that warm weather is caused by evil SUVs. You can't tax and regulate the sun.

When I was a kid they used to joke about taxing the air we breathe. In fact, you are exhaling CO2 right now. It may soon come to pass.

Global Warming is the new home of big government socialists and communists. You can't fix what isn't broken, but you can tax the hell out of people for it.