Posted by
Rich from Paso on Friday, July 11, 2008 8:43:39 PM
Has anyone other than myself noticed that only the liberals in the United States and Europe care about global warming?
Maybe I am.
It is obvious that China and India don't care about global warming or else they wouldn't be uppig their importation of the oil that is making us all sick like what Harry Reid said.
It is obvious that Africa doesn't care about global warming as they use more and more fertilizers to do more and more farming which causes more and more clear cutting of forests and more and more desertification.
It is obvious that South America doesn't care about global warming as countries like Brazil clear cut Amazonian rain forests, vital for carbon sequestering (ala carbon offsets) so they can plant more crops.
It is obvious that Russia doesn't care about global warming as they lay claim to oil in the Arctic Ocean, continue to pump tons of natural gas out of underground wells and let's not forget the ecological wastelands that the former Soviet Union created during their 80 years of existance.
It is obvious that Arab nations and OPEC don't care about global warming or else Saudi Arabia wouldn't have agreed to up oil production by 300,000 barrels of oil a day. Iraq is bragging about increasing monthly oil production to nearly 2.5 million barrels.
If we were really worried about our "addiction to oil" (Bush made a huge mistake with that comment, by the way), then we should really address the "addiction" the same way we are trying to tackle the "war on drugs" by hitting the sources of supply as well as trying to curb demand. All Democrat eco-communists in Congress are doing is attacking the user and not the supplier. Well actually, congressional eco-communists are doing a very good job of attack domestic oil suppliers. Our American oil companies only provide 25% of the oil we use, yet Congress wants to hit them with "windfall profit taxes" on what they are making. This is akin to busting the neighborhood drug peddler and calling it a great victory against drugs while letting tons and tons of drugs to come in to the country unabaited.
There are two reasons why the 3rd world and Arab nations are doing all of this despite the "concensus" opinion of international scientists that global warming is real and man-made: 1) poor nations have people to feed, people to employ and people that enjoy increasing standards of living, and 2) GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX AND THEY KNOW IT!!!
They also know that the U.S. will get the blame for ALL of global warming because they know the eco-communists in America will make sure we get the blame. Truth is that average people are backtracking as fast as they can from global warming hysteria. 60% of Britains don't believe in global warming anymore. 90% of Americans polled feel that high gas prices are hurting them and over 500,000 people signed Newt Gingrich's "Drill here, drill now" petition.
The truth is that 'global warming' is the latest vehicle used by communists in the environmental movement ("eco-communists") to seize power from us, The People, and dictate to us how to live our lives.