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Yes, let's believe Exxon Mobil's of the world. Take a look at ice cap pictures from the 70s and now. You would see something indisputable, the circles are shrinking.
Rush Limbaugh does not have children and is unmarried so if large portions of the world are inhospitable 50 years from now, he could could not care less.
The people who tell us there is no global warming or there is nothing we can do about it are the people who have vested interests in cranking out stuff in china and pollute the place (big business)
4.5 Billion years the earth has existed and we have 50 years to go- just give them all your money now so they can save you!
For those actually interested in hearing all sides, below is some good stuff.
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/faqs-and-myths#4
"In his recent movie, former Vice President Al Gore, said: âIf you look at the ten hottest years ever measured, they all occurred in the last fourteen years, and the hottest of all was 2005.â
The ten hottest years ever measured happened thousands of years ago and 2005 was not one of them. Gore must be using only temperature readings from the 125 year thermometer set, a very short time to look at when one is trying to understand Global Warming, but this period of time suits the environmentalists because it is a time in which temperatures happened to be wandering up. Alarmists refuse to look at the big picture because it shows what they refuse to believe. For the US, the recently revised NASA GISS Annual Mean temperatures show 6 of the 10 warmest years were from the 1920s to the 1950s and only 4 since 1990."
"Gore lists ways the United States could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases back to the levels of 1970.
Even if the US reduced greenhouse gas emissions to zero it would have no immediate impact on climate. China, India and many other countries are significantly increasing their emission levels, and global concentrations of CO2 may double this century. Even if the Kyoto Protocol could be fully implemented the globe would be spared no more than a few hundredths of a degree of warming. "
"Gore claims that sea level rise could drown the Pacific islands, Florida, major cities the world over, and the 9/11 Memorial in New York City.
Sea level has been rising at a rate of 1.8 mm per year for the past 8,000 years. The IPCC notes that âNo significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.â Unless there is another Little Ice Age, they will continue rising at roughly this rate for centuries to come. As to open water in the Arctic, it happens every year in late summerâfollowing weeks in the 40s and 50s."
