The Global Warming Scam

Nij is right about the definition of conservative. It is the disruption of his status quo that has Lewis so upset.For the foreseeable future global warming advocates will be no more effective than dogs barking at cars. We've always assumed that technology will solve all problems, and so far this has been the case, sort of. I say 'sort of,' because oftentimes yesterday's technological solutions cause tomorrow's crises. A good example is the widespread use of fertilizers and pesticides that has made food plentiful in much of the world, but at the expense of polluting the environment.We'd better hope that technology can solve global warming, because the world will never agree to curtail growth and reduce living standards to a degree that could have an impact. Of course, it'll happen anyway if technology can't bail us out.We can argue about things like how long it would take us to use up all the fossil fuels or how long it would take us to cause global climate change, but I hope there's no disagreement that it is certainly within our power to eventually do these things.--Percy