The only 'restriction' in the Clean Debate Zone is on personal insults and truly vile language. Keep it 'clean' and nobody will fuck with you.
As far as discussing "AGW Deniers" goes, I'm all for it. I think that a good first step would be for Mr. Dubya to define "AGW".....
I may not be alone in having no clue as to who he is accusing of denying what.
AGW = Anthropogenic Global Warming
Anthropogenic = adjective indicating that something is man-caused
TABLE 1. The Important Greenhouse Gases (except water vapor)
U.S. Department of Energy, (October, 2000) [SIZE=-1](1)[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1](all concentrations expressed in parts per billion)[/SIZE] Pre-industrial baseline Natural additions Man-made additions Total (ppb)
Concentration Percent of Total Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 288,000 68,520 11,880
[SIZE=-1](2)[/SIZE] 368,400
99.438% Methane (CH4) 848 577 320 1,745
0.471% Nitrous Oxide (N2O) 285 12 15 312
0.084% Misc. gases ( CFC's, etc.) 25 0 2 27
0.007% Total 289,158 69,109 12,217 370,484 100.00%
TABLE 3. Role of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases
(man-made and natural) as a % of Relative
Contribution to the "Greenhouse Effect" [SIZE=-1]Based on concentrations (ppb) adjusted for heat retention characteristics[/SIZE] Percent of Total Percent of Total --adjusted for
water vapor Water vapor -----
95.000% Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 72.369%
3.618% Methane (CH4) 7.100%
0.360% Nitrous oxide (N2O) 19.000%
0.950% CFC's (and other misc. gases) 1.432%
0.072% Total 100.000%
100.000%
Global Warming: A Closer Look at the Numbers
Dubya, the scientifically-gathered figures tell us clearly that AGW is a minimal factor in nature's schema. Nature is by far the favorite in this horse race.
If we decided to omit our small contribution to this problem, trumped up by scientists who needed funding grants and were hell-bent to get them, we'd have to live in the banana belt and swing from trees for survival.
Really.