The level of consensus in the scientific community concerning climate change is incredibly strong. The National Academy of Sciences, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (w/ 2500 member scientists), The American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), have ALL issued statements concluding that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling.
Of 928 abstracts published in refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 not a single one disagreed with the consensus position (source: Naomi Oreskes “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change”).
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HERETime to put this issue on the front burner, above all others. We do not have the luxury of watching someone like Bush fumble and BS his way through this like everything else, shake our heads at the ideological incompetance and wait for '08.
Bush has expressed his views:
THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate you bringing that up.
Q -- and I suppose I want to know, what is your plan?
THE PRESIDENT: Good. We -- first of all, there is -- the globe is warming. The fundamental debate: Is it manmade or natural.
This was THREE MONTHS AGO. In the same answer he goes on to express how his greatest concern is the economy.
Find out your representatives position on Global Warming. Tell them you understand it is happening and it is caused by greenhouse gases which humans create to excess. Ask them what they plan to do about it and
MAKE SURE THEY KNOW IT IS YOUR #1 ISSUE AND WILL DECIDE HOW YOU VOTE