Student "Turned off" on Dr. Paul's stance on Global Warming

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I think it's going to be an uphill battle convincing young people to be 'contrarians'. Global Warming (A new religion) is already being indoctrinated in the education system.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/11/paul_is_not_int.html

Rebecca Romanoski, a UNH student who grew up in Newton, N.H., said she came to see Paul because she heard he was a bit of a "radical". But she was turned off after hearing Paul say he would do very little to address global warming.

In the question and answer period Paul encouraged students to be "contrarians" about global warming and said the federal government really didn't have a role to address the problem anyway.

 

[freelance]

Is it any wonder since they don't teach any real science in school?

 

[honkywill]

As soon as they realize that we can not hope to control China through anything but force or educated consumers thinking about their purchases they will understand Ron Paul is a good choice.

We cannot control and influence the world until we stop depending on the government and learn to control ourselves.

 

[Birdlady]

Global warming is a fraud anyway. Perhaps this woman should do a little research on her own radical views.

I love how getting back to basics and following the Constitution is now radical...

 

[jamesmadison]

Global warming is a fact and only a dimwit would argue that it is not cause by humanity. Go take a course at your local university an get an education - quit with the neocon attacks against universities because they only make you look like horowitz worshiping tart.

An upper level Ecology course might help.

 

[Dustancostine]

I am somewhat agnostic on this subject. I know the earth is warming slightly. But there is nothing to show it is because of hydrocarbons.

 

[margomaps]

I think it's going to be an uphill battle convincing young people to be 'contrarians'. Global Warming (A new religion) is already being indoctrinated in the education system.

Already? You're kidding me, right? This has been going on for at least two decades, probably more. When I was in elementary school 20-some years ago, I remember when my school celebrated "Earth Day" by excusing us from class for an entire day, and making us do all kinds of stupid stuff to promote environmentalism. We had to make artwork showing how people destroy nature, sing stupid songs about polar bears dying or some crap like that, and take pamphlets home to our parents to shame them into recycling and whatnot.

I'm sure it's only gotten worse since. This is why you see college students today convinced that any human progress is evil, and that we should use government force to stop people from using evil fossil fuels, fine people for not recycling, and so on. It's disgusting.

And I personally am very "green". I compost to reduce my trash output (and make really great soil!), turn off lights that I don't use, buy fuel-efficient cars, etc. These things just make sense to me, personally. But I'm just disgusted about the indoctrination going on in the school system.

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

In my opinion, global warming is the new stem cell research. It's a wedge issue that keeps people away from focusing on the real issues, like national defense, fiscal policy, monetary policy, and civil liberties.

Now, I say that as someone who does believe man-made global warming is real and should be addressed. I just don't think it should be more important in a presidential election than those more immediate concerns.

 

[RevolutionSD]

Global warming is a fact and only a moron would argue that it is not cause by humanity. Go take a course at your local university an get an education - quit with the neocon attacks against universities because they only make you look like horowitz worshiping retards.

An upper level Ecology course might help.

Well there's a major flaw in the global warming caused by humans theory.
In Al Gore's movie, he said that increases in temperature have always been followed by increases in CO2. This is NOT true. Every time the temperature has increased, it is FOLLOWED by increases in CO2! Also Mars and Jupiter are warming. Antarctica is cooling in most parts.

Most of global warming is caused by the sun warming, not us driving SUVs.

 

[CoreyBowen999]

Im not suprised so many people are like this. In my public school, they pound the Global Warming into us. They promote so much other stuff to. Globalization, Global Warming, the war, and so much more

 

[LibertyOfOne]

Kill the freemarket will just kill progress. We didn't get anywhere with draconian controls.

 

[lucius]

Pony up for a carbon tax, here is the true 'inconvenient truth', $30M per year home utility bill, flies on private jets, heir to Occidental Petroleum monies...that 'hoax' 'The Report From Iron Mountain' spun tales as wild as these...

 

[jamesmadison]

Well there's a major flaw in the global warming caused by humans theory.
In Al Gore's movie, he said that increases in temperature have always been followed by increases in CO2. This is NOT true. Every time the temperature has increased, it is FOLLOWED by increases in CO2! Also Mars and Jupiter are warming. Antarctica is cooling in most parts.

Most of global warming is caused by the sun warming, not us driving SUVs.

Nothing you have posted is anywhere in the realm of scientific. Scientists have data, they observe, they make hypothesis and they test their hypothesis based on data. 99.9% of scientists agree that global warming is cause by mankind, provide a mechanism for it and have proof it is happening. The only people we can depend on to prove whether global warming is a) fact and b) man-made are scientists because they are the ones conducting experiments on it every day. So, if you want to listen to Hannity spew rhetoric that global warming is not fact, be my guest. It just makes you look like an ass.

 

[jamesmadison]

Kill the freemarket will just kill progress. We didn't get anywhere with draconian controls.

Or, kill humanity?

Christ.

How did people get so brainwashed to believe that environmentalism is something that is bad. We are connected to our ecosystem like a spider web and only slight changes within the ecosystem can have a domino effect on humanity.

 

[Ron Paul Fan]

I agree with that girl! The federal government is so efficient in handling matters like Katrina and Iraq so let's let them handle global warming and health care as well! Carbon taxes and mandatory health care for all!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dspectre]

Global warming is a fact and only a moron would argue that it is not cause by humanity. Go take a course at your local university an get an education - quit with the neocon attacks against universities because they only make you look like horowitz worshiping retards.

An upper level Ecology course might help.

Why don't you back up what you belief with facts instead of resorting to ad hominems?

 

[jamesmadison]

Why don't you back up what you belief with facts instead of resorting to ad hominems?

Why don't you take a course and education yourself?

 

[F3d]

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[margomaps]

Why don't you take a course and education yourself?

That's good advice, although you don't know the educational background of the person you're arguing with.

If I might make a suggestion: you're coming across as very combative and surly. If you want to win people over to your ideas, you might try arguing rationally. Provide facts, and back them up with citations. Just a respectful, friendly tip.

 

[dspectre]

Why don't you take a course and education yourself?

All I stated was that I wanted facts for your position and not name calling. If you gave facts, I might be persuaded to your line of thought.