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	<title>Comments on: 74% of GOP Senators Doubt Human Causes of Global Warming</title>
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	<description>The Politics of Energy and the Environment</description>
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		<title>By: 68% of Republicans Not At All Concerned About Climate Change &#124; ecopolitology</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-2606</link>
		<dc:creator>68% of Republicans Not At All Concerned About Climate Change &#124; ecopolitology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] for Republicans are also in line with figures about Republican leadership; nearly three-quarters of U.S. Senate Republicans doubt the human causes of global [...]</description>
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		<title>By: How Much Does Your Senator Really Care About Climate Change? : Red, Green, and Blue</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-87</link>
		<dc:creator>How Much Does Your Senator Really Care About Climate Change? : Red, Green, and Blue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] with the knowledge we gleaned last year—that roughly three-quarters of Republican Senators doubted the human causes of global warming—it was less shocking to learn today that the websites of GOP Senators were, by and large, not so [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] with the knowledge we gleaned last year—that roughly three-quarters of Republican Senators doubted the human causes of global warming—it was less shocking to learn today that the websites of GOP Senators were, by and large, not so [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-86</link>
		<dc:creator>Aaron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Teresa:

&quot;Go to school and get educated?&quot;  Amazing, considering the only place I&#039;ve ever learned these arguments is from the media frenzy.  I love the graph that people tote around, you know the one.  It shows CO2 over the last couple hundred years.  It&#039;s flat for most of it, then shoots up to like 10 times the concentration in the last one-hundred years.  Problem is, that it&#039;s simply deceptive scaling.  The scale conveniently runs from &quot;280 ppm&quot; to &quot;340 ppm.&quot;  That isn&#039;t a very large increase at all.  In fact, it means that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rises by .00006%.  Astronomical value.

There are so many variables to consider that it&#039;s ridiculous to correlate CO2 concentration directly to temperature change.  The sun, the Earth&#039;s changing orbit, etc.

The most important argument, though, is that global warming doesn&#039;t really matter in the long run.  We&#039;re running a completely unsustainable operation here on Earth.  If you really want to fight global warming, don&#039;t procreate.  Not having children is the best thing you can do for the environment.  But if it makes you feel good to buy special light bulbs, go ahead, just don&#039;t go patronizing people for using plastic bags when you&#039;ve spawned four kids.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Teresa:</p>
<p>&#8220;Go to school and get educated?&#8221;  Amazing, considering the only place I&#8217;ve ever learned these arguments is from the media frenzy.  I love the graph that people tote around, you know the one.  It shows CO2 over the last couple hundred years.  It&#8217;s flat for most of it, then shoots up to like 10 times the concentration in the last one-hundred years.  Problem is, that it&#8217;s simply deceptive scaling.  The scale conveniently runs from &#8220;280 ppm&#8221; to &#8220;340 ppm.&#8221;  That isn&#8217;t a very large increase at all.  In fact, it means that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rises by .00006%.  Astronomical value.</p>
<p>There are so many variables to consider that it&#8217;s ridiculous to correlate CO2 concentration directly to temperature change.  The sun, the Earth&#8217;s changing orbit, etc.</p>
<p>The most important argument, though, is that global warming doesn&#8217;t really matter in the long run.  We&#8217;re running a completely unsustainable operation here on Earth.  If you really want to fight global warming, don&#8217;t procreate.  Not having children is the best thing you can do for the environment.  But if it makes you feel good to buy special light bulbs, go ahead, just don&#8217;t go patronizing people for using plastic bags when you&#8217;ve spawned four kids.</p>
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		<title>By: Ecopolitology&#8217;s 10 Most Popular Posts of 2008 &#124; ecopolitology</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-85</link>
		<dc:creator>Ecopolitology&#8217;s 10 Most Popular Posts of 2008 &#124; ecopolitology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 74 Percent of Republican Senators Doubt Human Causes of Global Warming:The good news? The number of Senate skeptics is down from 77% in [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Republicans Work to Reconcile McCain&#8217;s Climate Change Position with their (Oil) Platform : Red, Green, and Blue</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-84</link>
		<dc:creator>Republicans Work to Reconcile McCain&#8217;s Climate Change Position with their (Oil) Platform : Red, Green, and Blue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] McCain&#8217;s position on climate change viz. the Republican Party&#8217;s traditional position (McCain is in the minority amongst his peers in terms of even believing in anthropogenic causes of climate [...]</description>
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		<title>By: teresa</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-83</link>
		<dc:creator>teresa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See the movie &quot;Dimming the sun&quot; which shows how over the past 100 yrs or so, since the industrial revolution, our man-made pollution is actually blanketing the earth, which is blocking some of the suns rays.  Less sun is hitting the earth&#039;s surface now than when our grandparents were born.

Our earth is heating up like a greenhouse.  there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there has EVER been, as far as our scientists can tell.  CO2 + heat from sun + greenhouse gases= hot earth due to greenhouse effect.

we have yet to know the full extent of the damages we have done due to pollution.

please go to school and get educated about environmental science.  It&#039;s the best way to decifer what &#039;green&#039; news matters most.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See the movie &#8220;Dimming the sun&#8221; which shows how over the past 100 yrs or so, since the industrial revolution, our man-made pollution is actually blanketing the earth, which is blocking some of the suns rays.  Less sun is hitting the earth&#8217;s surface now than when our grandparents were born.</p>
<p>Our earth is heating up like a greenhouse.  there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there has EVER been, as far as our scientists can tell.  CO2 + heat from sun + greenhouse gases= hot earth due to greenhouse effect.</p>
<p>we have yet to know the full extent of the damages we have done due to pollution.</p>
<p>please go to school and get educated about environmental science.  It&#8217;s the best way to decifer what &#8216;green&#8217; news matters most.</p>
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		<title>By: Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Sixty Nine. &#124; The Good Human</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-82</link>
		<dc:creator>Quick Green Reads For The Weekend Volume Sixty Nine. &#124; The Good Human</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Do you want to know why Republican Senators voted last week to filibuster the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? Put plainly - they just don’t buy it. Or, in the words of one Republic Senator: “This global-warming debate is a farce.” [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Do you want to know why Republican Senators voted last week to filibuster the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? Put plainly &#8211; they just don’t buy it. Or, in the words of one Republic Senator: “This global-warming debate is a farce.” [...]</p>
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		<title>By: PTC Dies in Senate - How Did YOUR Senator Vote? &#124; ecopolitology</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-81</link>
		<dc:creator>PTC Dies in Senate - How Did YOUR Senator Vote? &#124; ecopolitology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] &#8220;74 Percent of Republican Senators Doubt Human Causes of Global Warming&#8220; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: pudds</title>
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		<dc:creator>pudds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good to see not everyone&#039;s listening to the raving climate-change lunatics.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good to see not everyone&#8217;s listening to the raving climate-change lunatics.</p>
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		<title>By: GM</title>
		<link>http://ecopolitology.org/2008/06/09/74-of-gop-senators-doubt-human-causes-of-global-warming/comment-page-1/#comment-79</link>
		<dc:creator>GM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yay, to like the only good thing that Republican&#039;s are contributing right now.  Stopping pathetic moronic people from just shouting random BS that they don&#039;t know anything about--ie our carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
Maybe, you know, if people would actually research on their own sometimes, instead of just following what the current trend is like sheep.

Human carbon dioxide emissions are what?  00.05% of the air?  Just about.  What is the biggest greenhouse gas in the air?  Oxygen.  What does that make up?  Appox: 95%.  Does anybody even stop to compare those, what do we omit in relation to the oxygen?  0.0005% using the above figures.
Oh boy, we&#039;re really doing something there.  How about some logic.  What cooks up Earth every day?  Well duh, our bloody sun.  Do you expect it to stay the same, emit the same amount of rays every day?  Of course not!  It&#039;s a chaotic mass of gas constantly blowing up, raging around and what not (imagery there, people).  And you know what?  The sun&#039;s having a little fit right now--little flared up right now, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what your fear really comes from.  You can&#039;t change that big huge sun--and it&#039;s the one giving a little more heat out lately.

I bet most of you only know as much about global warming as An Inconvenient Truth as told you.  That and a fear mongering media.  Both are only interested in money.  That&#039;s right, An Inconvenient Truth is only made for selfish and political reasons.  Favorite part of Inconvenient Truth?  The graphs showing proof.  Hah, if people actually took the time to analyze them correctly, they show opposite correlation.  Carbon dioxide FOLLOWS global warming, it isn&#039;t the cause!  It&#039;s the reaction!

But that&#039;s okay.  You know what?  Perhaps we could be a little more Earth friendly.  Whatever, pay the costs for your mixed up views.  BUT LEAVE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OUT OF IT.  You, each one of you fighting for this, are murdering people.  Your denying developing countries the only ways to develop.  And don&#039;t spew BS that they can use alternatives.  Alternatives, if you didn&#039;t know, aren&#039;t working right now.  They aren&#039;t efficient.  And quite frankly, they are far too expensive for developing countries.  Again, screw yourselves over by forcing developed countries to be more Earth friendly, but leave the poor alone!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay, to like the only good thing that Republican&#8217;s are contributing right now.  Stopping pathetic moronic people from just shouting random BS that they don&#8217;t know anything about&#8211;ie our carbon dioxide is causing global warming.<br />
Maybe, you know, if people would actually research on their own sometimes, instead of just following what the current trend is like sheep.</p>
<p>Human carbon dioxide emissions are what?  00.05% of the air?  Just about.  What is the biggest greenhouse gas in the air?  Oxygen.  What does that make up?  Appox: 95%.  Does anybody even stop to compare those, what do we omit in relation to the oxygen?  0.0005% using the above figures.<br />
Oh boy, we&#8217;re really doing something there.  How about some logic.  What cooks up Earth every day?  Well duh, our bloody sun.  Do you expect it to stay the same, emit the same amount of rays every day?  Of course not!  It&#8217;s a chaotic mass of gas constantly blowing up, raging around and what not (imagery there, people).  And you know what?  The sun&#8217;s having a little fit right now&#8211;little flared up right now, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what your fear really comes from.  You can&#8217;t change that big huge sun&#8211;and it&#8217;s the one giving a little more heat out lately.</p>
<p>I bet most of you only know as much about global warming as An Inconvenient Truth as told you.  That and a fear mongering media.  Both are only interested in money.  That&#8217;s right, An Inconvenient Truth is only made for selfish and political reasons.  Favorite part of Inconvenient Truth?  The graphs showing proof.  Hah, if people actually took the time to analyze them correctly, they show opposite correlation.  Carbon dioxide FOLLOWS global warming, it isn&#8217;t the cause!  It&#8217;s the reaction!</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s okay.  You know what?  Perhaps we could be a little more Earth friendly.  Whatever, pay the costs for your mixed up views.  BUT LEAVE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OUT OF IT.  You, each one of you fighting for this, are murdering people.  Your denying developing countries the only ways to develop.  And don&#8217;t spew BS that they can use alternatives.  Alternatives, if you didn&#8217;t know, aren&#8217;t working right now.  They aren&#8217;t efficient.  And quite frankly, they are far too expensive for developing countries.  Again, screw yourselves over by forcing developed countries to be more Earth friendly, but leave the poor alone!</p>
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