What I found most interesting about the article from the Huffington Post that xingu pasted above was the complacent certainty of the author(s) of the absolute truth of their beliefs and of the supposed benefits of the costs they would presume to impose on the country. That and the equally clear certainty that they alone can speak for the American people on this issue, marks them - and not Mr Rove - as the real fanatics in this story.
So the United States " leads the world in Global Warming pollution and we are doing the least about it. From what source did they get this factoid? What exactly constitutes "doing something about it"? China will soon overtake the US in the production of greenhouse gases - as will India. What, pray tell, are they "doing about it"?? For that matter what have the signatories of the ill-conceived Kyoto treaty "done ab out it"?
Quote:We felt compelled to remind him that the research is done and the results are in ...
Oh really!? What result?? Just what is the scientific concensus view and how well does it correlate with the doomsday forecasts of the GW cultists?
The answer, of course, is far less than the cultists would have us believe. Moreover the real, human costs of the remedies they propose are far greater than they have acknowledged.
It is a curious thing to observe how readily credulous people will emotionally attach themselves to beliefs in matters they do not themselves understand, and will go on to propose and advocate remedies that will impose truly awful costs on others, but which, through their advocacy,will briefly give them the appearance of power and wisdom .