03-26-2016, 09:58 AM
(03-26-2016, 08:20 AM)Wonky3 Wrote:Yup. One side doesn't say much as to what they will do if elected. They only talk about how the other side is wrong. It's purposeful in my opinion. Your ideas can't be challenged or debated if you don't have any.(03-17-2016, 01:55 PM)tvguy Wrote:It has been said that "ignorance is bliss". I wonder.(03-17-2016, 04:06 AM)cletus1 Wrote:(03-16-2016, 12:01 PM)tvguy Wrote:(03-15-2016, 07:59 PM)cletus1 Wrote: Good Morning Chuck. Yesterday I had a conversation with a older local man that speaks English well. He told me that in the past few years they have had more than a few days where the temperature reached 42 C. We occasionally have days like that in the Rogue Valley, but they never do here.
There isn't the right/left politics about climate here. People just look at trends and it is getting hotter and everyone acknowledges that fact. It seems only in America are there people that think global warming, is not at least partially man made. Idiots!
Only in America? So you have talked to people in every other country? Wow you really do get around LOL
No, I have talked to everyone in every country. And I did not mean that there are not global warming deniers in other countries either. I have surmised that other countries don't have the right / left politics about the issue that Americans do. Go argue with someone on Facebook traitor.
It's incredible to me that whether or not people believe global warming is happening or if it's human caused is based on whether or not they are a dem or DOP, conservative or liberal.
Or weather or not you want a national monument or not. Or if you have faith in the EPA or not.
OR weather you side with the Bundy's OR weather you think Kate Browns new phase out of coal is good or bad. It goes on and on.
Reasonable people can disagree. It's important that we have a society of reasonable people.
Donald Trump (and to a lesser degree Ted Cruz) are the "Canaries in the coal mine" of our national awarness that our society has far too many people who can't be seen as reasonable.
The science is near complete: The climate is changing and mankind has contributed to the amount of cardbon dioxide that is almost certianly warming the planet.
TVG's comments above that this is above and beyond politcs is true, yet it seems the most unreasonable and uniformed opinons come from one group on our political spectrum.
But talk is cheap. We are nearing that time when we will choose our next national leaders. Let's do all we can to see that who ever it is, it's a reasonalbe person who respects science and will respond to the danges we face and not to the corporate interests who value profit above all else.