Global Warming: The last remnants of skepticism

Wish you could go back to 1978 when global warming hysteria in the political spectrum along side the ticking population bomb theory of the 50’s was a poster child issue conceived by the ‘radical’ Left?

Remember FDR’s New Deal? A series of programs whose goals of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression was the ultimately architectural design of big government and not the last for that matter, then came the Marshall Plan, etc.

Today’s conservatives are at it again, concluding that global warming is just the latest temptation of aspiring bigger government. However, the same market forces that conservatives deeply believe in are handing the Right a big defeat on global warming, because the scientific findings have become so compelling that even big players like Exxon Mobil and General Motors have stopped questioning the theory.

Needless to say, the scientific evidence is really strong. Climatologists say that according to weather patterns, there is over a 90% likelihood that the increase in temperatures is traceable to human activity. A panel of over 2,000 world scientists concluded the same in March this year. This is no small ice-age, or a cyclical warming of the earth, like conservatives guiltlessly emphasize. This means change, and the only meaningful and effective rollback that can make global warming slow down is big government in the form of policies that directly address it.

Although our understanding of what climate change means for the future is largely theoretical, conservatives cannot keep lucratively resisting calls for regulating greenhouses emissions. Having allied themselves for years with groups proposing “intelligence design” and other crackpot theories, the Right has lost much of their intellectual rigor. President Bush’s White House has been in a constant warfare with scientists and this has damaged their reputation considerably.

If what the Right fears in the global warming action list is a ‘consequential economic meltdown’, then they must accept that this criticism is no longer reputable, given the fact that corporate entities and market forces are joining to bring about economic incentives in developing and distributing sustainable and renewable products and services.

But if their resistance to global warming consensus is a fervor-driven crackpot theory born out of the very same natural fiber of intelligence design, then consider the last skeptics on the endangered list and let’s not allow the oversold imagery of global warming taint our efforts to slow it down.

President Bush's legacy

It's scandal after scandal which aggravates the Bush Administration's last golden hours and miniscules their grandiose attempt at leaving behind a legacy of conservative imprint in all branches of government. If we go back almost six years ago we have a list for your consideration: the Terri Schiavo case, the US Supreme Court nominee fiasco, the Iraq invasion, the mismanagement of the war on terror, the poor accountability of funds in the first year of the war, the suspicious contracting to big corporations, Hurricane Katrina, the 'remake' of his staff, the ousting of a CIA covert agent, the firing of US prosecutors, and the list goes on. But historians will ultimately judge Bush's presidency based on his leadership through two tragedies — the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, plus a conflict of his own design: The war in Iraq.

Unfortunately, Americans have a very poor memory, and when the time comes, Bush junior will be remembered with a condenscending grim and we will all struggle to remember the shame and incompetence which brought this country to the back of the line. Just like Bush seems to have lost the capacity of connecting with an anxious public (his ratings have been in the 30's% for many years now), so will we have lost the capacity of connecting his failures with his blundering presidency.