Are you people really buying the propaganda of Big Oil? They've been caught red-handed paying off scientists to dismiss global warming.
Exxon made $39 billion last year. Follow the money. There's much more profit to be made by dismissing global warming than by promoting it.
And from what I've seen, those counter-arguments, like the sun's output changing and warming Mars, are already taken into account in the climate models. Solar output can account for some of the effect we're seeing, but not all of it.
It's simple physics: CO2 traps heat. We know that, and we know that the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased 40% or so due to industrial output. The only uncertainty is the effects of all the feedback loops in the biosphere. It's an amazingly complicated system. But if you look at the history of the planet, there are periods where it gets a lot hotter and drier, and relatively lifeless. And the planet can flip to a new phase a lot more quickly than we used to think. We really, really don't want that to happen.
So why am I supporting Ron Paul? Because despite his skepticism, PAUL IS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD FIX IT!
First he told Bill Maher that if global warming is for real, the best thing we could do is what he wants to do anyway: stop subsidizing Big Oil, stop protecting our oil supplies with military force, stop keeping the price of oil artificially low so that alternative fuels can compete.
Then I saw the Money As Debt documentary (40 minute video, google it, comes right to the top), which explains how our monetary system actually works. It'll be old hat to a lot of Paul supporters, for me it was a real eye-opener. Our money is backed by debt, and the only way to pay the interest on that debt is to keep expanding the money supply and the economy, exponentially. If you keep growing exponentially on a finite planet, it's pretty obvious to anybody aside from an economist that you're going to run into trouble.
Paul's idea to allow competing currencies fixes that problem. (The documentary had some arguments against the gold standard, which I thought were pretty weak...but of course Paul's plan is to allow any new form of currency that people are interested in using.)
Then I saw this article on lewrockwell:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/masterjohn3.html
....which said that the only currently-practical way to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere, in the short term, is to restore topsoil, and there are people (linked in the article) who know how to do it. Their two big problems are: 1) government subsidies to conventional agriculture, which makes it hard for them to compete, and 2) forthcoming government mandates to chip all animals in a pasture, but not all the animals in a factory farm, which makes it even harder for them to compete.
And guess who wants to fix both those problems?
Meanwhile, what do the candidates who talk about fixing global warming want to do? Regulate? Join Kyoto? A report came out recently saying the countries who signed up for Kyoto aren't coming anywhere near meeting their targets. Regulation is not going to fix this problem. The only way to fix it is to change the system, and only Paul has plans for doing that.
Something like 70% of Americans are convinced now that global warming is a big problem. This does not have to be a problem for us. Paul is absolutely the best candidate for anyone who's worried about this issue, and he'll fix it without applying oppressive regulations. If we promote this fact, we can make environmentalists our allies instead of our enemies. And we need all the allies we can get.
