What excuse(s) will be used by the liberals concerning the Global warming fiasco unfolding across the world. Can we expect to hear, “we have been lied to, we have been had?” You would think that would be the liberal position if they used any common sense. But, then again, the reason their “milk”is warm is liberalism does not equate to, or acknowledge common sense as part of any equation. Of course that is presumptious of me, expecting liberals to use something they dont have.
Who said this? A liberal or a conservative?
“[Global warming] is a real problem. You can say that it isn’t. You can say it over and over again. It is a real problem, and it is a problem that is getting worse because we failed to attend to it. But what bothers me is this idea that somehow America — the most innovative, creative nation the world has ever seen — cannot cope with this problem. This defeatism, this pessimism, this fatalism that I hear from the opponents is fundamentally un-American. We have a problem. We should get about the business of addressing the problem.”
Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Senate floor debate on McCain-Lieberman global warming bill, October 29, 2003
Here is the common sense Conservative position from the outset
Conservatives are not inclined to immediately endorse every “sky is falling” clarion call issued by the environmental left. That does not mean, however, that conservatives are any more likely than other people to want their children to breathe dirty air or drink dirty water.
On the matter of global warming, more precisely, the modern theory that human actions are causing the planet to heat to a soon-to-be-catastrophic degree, conservatives make several observations:
1) Excepting the El Nino year of 1998, since about 1979, the Earth’s temperature apparently has not been increasing. (1)
2) If human-induced global warming were happening, the Kyoto global warming treaty and measures like it would not reverse it.(2)
3) The Kyoto global warming treaty and initiatives like it would, if adopted by the U.S., cause significant job losses and price increases.
4) The U.S. is not ignoring climate issues. Since 1990, the United States has spent $18 billion on climate research, three times as much as any other country.(3) President Bush’s 2004 budget sought a 15 percent increase in funding for climate change-related programs, which would bring total U.S. government spending this year to $4.3 billion, the highest-ever.(4)
In summary: When it comes to global warming, conservatives are not convinced there is a problem, are convinced the left’s expensive solution wouldn’t work, but are willing to consider the matter further.
Conservatism brings to the table a sense of stability and plausibility. Truth and common sense are entertwined.
Never once did a liberal step back from the global warming hysteria and say, “wait, there is something odd about mankind having the ability or wherewithall to destroy the earth singlehandedly.
Worse than that, is the lack of common sense that would make any individual or group arrogant enough to think they can stop the tides from rising and the sun from heating up the planet.
Liberalism will always be a ship without a rudder, holes in the sails, and filling with water. A truck full of common sense will not save this boat from the bottom. Conservatism’s role is to show liberalism the bottom as soon as possible.
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