At this point in the Bush years we had two hot wars and a stream of young dead Americans showing up at Dover each day:
Hamstrung by Congress, GOP opposition, Obama heads to Paris to clinch global climate agreement
"President Barack Obama is trying to negotiate a legacy-making climate change pact this coming week in Paris with one hand tied behind his back.
Congress can't even agree whether global warming is real.
Scientists point to the global agreement, years in the making, as the last, best hope for averting the worst effects of global warming. Obama has spent months prodding other countries to make ambitious carbon-cutting pledges to the agreement, which he hopes will become the framework for countries to tackle the climate issue long beyond the end of his presidency in early 2017.
But Republicans have tried to undermine the president by sowing uncertainty about whether the U.S. will make good on its promises. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and other GOP leaders have warned other countries not to trust any deal Obama may strike; other GOP allies are working to nullify Obama's emissions-cutting steps at home."
The problem with "global warming" is that it was thought up by a Bunco artist named Al Gore. Less then 7% of Americans see it as a threat. That is NOT going to harm us a bit.
Bullshit!!!!!!!
"69 percent of Americans believed that global warming is caused mainly by human activities (57%), or caused equally by humans and natural changes (12%), while only 29 percent believed it is caused mostly by natural changes in the environment. - See more at:
American Opinions on Global Warming: A Yale/Gallup/Clearvision Poll
What do you expect them to think when all they hear in the MSM is how global warming is an undisputed fact? Of course they're gonna agree when they're only given one side of the story as if it's settled science (which it ISN'T). Even if 100% of Americans believe it that doesn't make it a fact. You must think polls = fact.
I know one thing....the Republican party doesn't like anything which benefits the common man unless big business comes up with the idea first and through their campaign donations use influence to get it initiated. Perfect Examples of the same thing on the other side is when FD Roosevelt initiated all the alphabet programs to help ordinary people and John Kennedy declared that by the end of the 60's decade we would put a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth. If he had not done that and put the government to work on it and if Lyndon Johnson had not followed through on it we would still be in a cold war with Russia and they would have a colony on the moon.
Right now some countries are powering nearly all their schools with solar power.....we should be at the forefront. Nuclear power is great but look at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the Japanese disaster last year to see why it isn't the most desirable:
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On the way back home today from visiting relatives I was gassing up ($1.70 ObamaGas!) and talking to the young guy gassing up next to me. He was there in this little town visiting his mom, and drove from NC. He said he was a solar installer, and they have so much work they can't keep up. He said they do only business currently, but are looking to go into residential, and that they just finished outfitting Falcons Stadium in Atlanta.
These deniers are the same people who just a few years ago were saying that solar would never be cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels, and that funding Solyndra was a mistake.
The only mistake was Republicans not allowing the government to partner with Solyndra like the Chinese government was doing with their solar companies, undercutting U.S. manufacturers to the point that they went under.
Now China leads the market.
Stupid goddamned Republicans.