re: #1000 Steffan

My take on this is that Al Gore and the other AGW pushers are just as much con men as the Bakkers and other televangelists. They use their faithful audiences’ credulity to milk the marks of all they can get.

Remember the gold-plated bathroom fixtures that Jim and Tammy-Faye had? Al Gore’s energy-hog mansion would appear to be exactly the same, though Gore hasn’t built an AGW theme park. Yet.

I agree. That’s part of what makes this whole AGW mess so difficult to sort out — there’s a lot of flak in the air.

But there’s more than one group on the anti-AGW side that’s dominated by spin-meisters and dishonest hucksters too. James Inhofe’s site is a prime example. Inhofe is a Christian Reconstructionist whose views are exactly like the ones that started this thread, and his anti-AGW website is packed full of distortions and dishonesty.

Al Gore is the public face of the AGW side, but he is not a scientist, and AGW is NOT “Al Gore’s theory.” There’s a lot of real scientific evidence that climate change is being caused by human beings; I know it’s not popular on the right to say that, but the more I learn about the issue the more I’m leaning toward the idea that there really is a problem.

That doesn’t mean I agree with the left’s proposed SOLUTIONS to that problem, but I do think the right needs to stop being in simple denial mode, and start examining the data dispassionately and coming up with viable solutions that make sense from a conservative viewpoint.