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  This makes a ton of sense. If there was a little help from the government on this I would be hiring a lot of people to save energy, reduce our carbon footprint, save homeowner, towns cities and states money. Lets make it so.On Merkley wants Senate jobs bill to help finance building efficiency retrofits posted 5 days, 3 hours ago 5 Responses

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  Clearly the people who want to think global warming is a hoax will. This latest e-mail gate is proof of that. Changing public opinion in this country is like hearding cats. It is a dangerous situation we are in and not to be treated lightly, but I don't see anyway we are going to get consensus. Science has spoken, the photographs of glaciers, mountain top snows, and ice sheets are out there for all to see, many other countries around the world don't seem to doubt the validity of this. The people who live close to artic experience it first hand. Maybe people think that a personal sacrifice is too much to make for something that far off. Ever since Carter told us to turn down our thermostats the idea of telling Americans to change their behavior has been a dead end. I hope someone can prove me wrong.On Skeptics claim global warming is fake after top scientists' emails hacked at CRU posted 5 days, 3 hours ago 43 Responses

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  Where are the smart democractic politicians who understand who can and can't get a bill throught the senate? Did someone set Boxer up to fail? Or did the "leadership" just drop the ball? I don't think a third party president could have messed this up any more than it is right now. I am ready to send that message next time I get a chance to vote.On What does recent Senate drama on the climate bill mean? Peak Boxer posted 3 weeks ago 7 Responses

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  David, Good analysis, I was starting to think... hope, that corruption and stupidity was limited to a powerful minority, but what about Mr. Gliks point?On The real reason the climate bill is going to suck posted 3 weeks ago 29 Responses

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  Is it denial or just choice, is it reason or just rational that makes us do what we go, that is the question. I am not against vaccines, people have a right to choose to take it or not. H1N1 has killed 19 people in the US last month and 140 something total. This, relative to other flus, is not that deadly. It spreads quickly and effects a lot of young people, but the chances of death are extremely slim. Would there was the same panic and fear of death over global warming, which has a much greater probability of killing many more people and thus more reason to act. This weird revulsion towards technology/science certainly exists, other times it is a healthy skepticism about the way it is applied to our lives. I am against GMO for many reason, number one is who gives Monsanto or anyone else the right to mess with my food on that level. Don't tell me it is the only way to feed the planet, the facts will tell you that it is much more destabalizing to worldwide agriculture than anything else. Agro-business is flooding the market with cheap food based on heavy use of fossil fuel and making a killing doing it. GMO's are part of this system and it ends up destroying local more traditional food production world wide. I am very skeptical of evidence that science/technology presents when it is overshadowed by so much profit incentive. How do you know GMO's are safe for you and the environment? Not from reading all those publicly funded independant research papers. We are talking about genetics, it could take generations to detect any adverse effects. The clock on this grand experiement, in which the planet becomes an involuntary guinea pig, only started ticking in the last 5 years when GMO's became widespread. There is also no reason to fight for GMO's, they already exist, and those big companies don't need your help to stay in business, they have congress for that. So why bother coming to their defense, unless you need to console yourself or rationalize it by saying that because we are not dead it is O.K. to buy cheap supper market food. Besides, what is the alternative, a lot of hard work and change.On Michael Specter's new book 'Denialism' misses its targets posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago 49 Responses