aluckyguess wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Frank wrote:
On 1/21/2010 11:04 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
aluckyguess wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TOFe85cmAE

I am not a voter for your congress but I would hope that my elected
representatives were more perceptive and informed than the speaker
in this clip. Being unable to distinguish between climate and
weather does not fill me with confidence that the speaker
understands anything about climate change.

David

That's the knee jerk argument.

I don 't understand that comment. What is knee-jerk about saying a
person who doesn't understand the difference between weather and
climate is ignorant? What is knee-jerk about wanting my
representatives to be perceptive and informed?

My skepticism comes in as to how much
weather change is man made vs just what mother nature does.

Weather does change all the time. We need to consider if the earth's
climate is changing and if so why. These are two different issues.

We hear
other planets in our solar system are also warming and I don't think
anybody there are driving SUV's.

Where did you hear that? Assuming for moment that the climate was
changing on other planets from natural causes why would that show
that climate is not changing on earth from human causes?

We know that the earth's climate has changed in the past naturally
and it may well do so again. That by itself says nothing about
whether it *is* doing so naturally this time. This question has
been much studied and there is considerable evidence available that
points to the cause this time being human activity.

It does not, there is nowhere that proves it has anything to do with
human activity.
It actually proves otherwise.

OK show me such proof.

We may have polluted the planet with
things that can cause us harm, but as far us having anything to do
with
climate or weather change there is not one bit of factual evidence.

What is weather change?

The Earth has been warming since the ice age, and it's the least of
our problems.

Show me the evidence.

Mr. Gore should focus more on herbicides and other
chemicals that pollute the planet.

David