I think Al Gore may be the most qualified and potentially effective person who is not running for President. Unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans still think that there is a “debate” about climate change and dismiss Gore’s sincere work on the planet’s behalf as pomp.
Yahoo! Answers has a question from Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I won’t provide the link, because I don’t want anyone to waste their time providing a thoughtful answer. The creationist, science-dismissing nuts are running away with this question, as far as rating all the moronic answers high and the common-sense answers low. I’ll include the Yahoo userids so the the morons can potentially lose employment opportunities when they are googled after using their Yahoo email addresses in resumes. Those with rational opinions who lose potential employment opportunities over your comments, youdon’t want to work for anyone who thinks that the cause of global warming is up for debate.
Some “low”-rated answers (nearly as many thumbs-down as thumbs-up):
nas8caror300 – car manufactures MANDATED to produce cars that get at least 40 mpg within the next 5 years instead of by the year 2020..improve the traffic flow in major cities..or a truck only belt around major cities ..like around Chicago (258 – 255)
Chris S – 1) Increase taxes on companies that use new timber (either from the US or imported) in their products when alternative recycled resources are available…2) Stop urban sprawl….3) Resurrect the legislation that was meant to increase fuel efficiency on cars… (375 – 345)
Some “high”-rated answers (many more thumbs-up):
Noone N – I would like to see congress stop trying to regulate my life. What ever they do it will: 1) Cost me and other taxpayers much more than it should 2) Create more problems than it solves 3) Result in loss of liberty and freedom (738-365)
Slim Whitman – It is not a crisis as “they” (Al Gore and his ilk) want you to believe. The earth is self healing an climate change is cyclical. For crying outloud!! People, quit Drinking the ecomarxist koolaid before you sell our Country out to UN bureaucrats!!! The current ecomarxists, yourself included are attempting to create an environment of fear for one reason, Control. (761 – 541)
Raimon – Sound and objective scientific analysis by environmental engineers and climatologists, not pseudoscience by “experts” such as Al Gore. (513 – 115)
mount_zion_crusader – I would first like to see it established that global warming is a bad thing, that we can even affect it, that it is even happening. (314 – 130)
And some very-low rated answers from people with the gall to suggest such ideas as:
Juleette – [greater effort to recycle] (102-151)
– Given that the US is the biggest contributor to pollution and global warming and that automobiles are a large fraction of that… [might as well stop there you communist America-hater] (79 – 243)
Or maybe all this is meaningless except to point out that Yahoo! Answers is NOT the place to turn if you need a serious answer to a serious question.
I’m finally breaking down and going to our crappy third-party vendor’s support site for some help. And what a crappy website they have, even though they touted its revamping just a few months ago.
Say what you will about Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds abusing their bodies and cheating their way to records and perhaps influencing a few kids here or there to put performance-enhancing crap in their bodies. Or consider how one in a million of violent video game addicts might shoot up his school. Then think about how much of role model someone like Michael Vick is, and how the media and general public care little when someone of his stature participates in high stakes dog-fighting and contributes to the abuse of hundreds of dogs in the name of entertainment. Do some quick Psych 101 reading if you’re not familiar with just how likely it is that kids that either participate in or are amused by the abuse of animals will go on to later abuse and injure human beings without remorse.
I am saddened to hear the news that