@hightor,
Quote:I believe he is bound to explain the reversal of any of his long-held positions — not in accordance with my wishes — he owes it to the people who voted for him.
So now you're worried about his supporters? How nice of you.
Quote:If he begins to accept the prevalent understanding of CC then he will need to explain it to his followers because he had previously rejected the science. Otherwise he will appear to have been sucked into the dismal swamp of DC politics.
Agreed. He has plenty of time though. We not all going to die for at least another 50 years.
Quote:Well, we're not on the verge of extinction.
OK, that clarifies for me where you stand on this, but there are plenty of CC alarmists who disagree with you.
If China and India are making progress in reducing emissions that's great, but the goals that were set by them and applauded by CC true believers are not sufficient without much greater reductions by the US. Is this not the case?
You seem to be ignoring the point that george has made more than once that US emissions are being reduced as well and without fiats by the government. I'm not overly concerned about the US shouldering a disproportionate share of the load. It's something we have been doing for some time now as respects all sorts of global concerns, but when the people whose load we are carrying get all outraged and snotty about us not thinking it's particularly fair, my first reaction is eff 'em, and if shouldering the load means tens of thousands of Americans being forced out of jobs, I have a hard time rationalizing why it is so important to save Indian and Chinese jobs.
Call me selfish or a chauvinist...it's been done before.
