Yah but, neither does Biden, or Obama see that they have also become jokes.

Obama needs to turn all foreign affairs over to someone else, and take that "Unfit for Command" supposed Naval Officer, John Kerry that allowed all those atrocities to be committed while he watched in Vietnam, out of the State Department. He needs to be retired and go sail his tax free boat.

" If we attack an unproven problem we may create issues that are far more serious."
Yes. That's what I mean about avoiding solutions that take even a fraction of a percent away from growth in production. Compounded over years, that makes a staggering difference. Even if it does not affect growth, a series of costs over many years amortize to a huge future value, depending on the rate you assume.

"There is nothing rational about al gore and his ilk."
I don't follow Gore. I detest the politicization of science. Some areas of science get people fired up: climate change, GMOs, evolution, vacines, nutrition. Not being an expert in any of those, I accept the current scientific understanding, knowing that science by its nature invites change when new evidence appears.

I mostly stay away for politicized areas of science I actually know something about: health risk of wireless signals, stray voltage affecting cows, health risk of 50/60 Hz from the electrical grid.

He matters as long as he still might get there. We've been very lucky with President Obama because he is too incompetent to get most of his agenda enacted or upheld. Gore or many of the other Democrats would do a more successful job. This must never be allowed to happen.

"You see a problem that the government must fix by control."
Are you saying if anthropogenic climate change were a real problem the only approach to it would be gov't control? So if some radical new evidence appeared that contradicted what you know, you might turn to socialism as defined above? Or would you find some alternate solution?

They keep telling us that the cost of Middle East wars ought to be counted in the price of oil. No -- the only reason we ever had to go there for oil is that they, the EPA and its cronies, kept us from drilling our own oil. Similarly, the delay in building Keystone XL and other pipelines is going to result in more oil spills (from railroad tank cars). We need to make sure that all the resulting costs and damage are laid at the Lefties' doorstep.

The EPA is the State Science Institute, right out of the book. With the federal government controlling the lion's share of grants, any scientist who questions the party line gets his career destroyed, or has to settle for private funding which the lefties can then pretend is corrupt.

What happened to free speech?

Me too. I am close enough winds wouldn't help me either. I think I would be small orbital pieces.

Al Gore, Boo! The climate has changed and there's nothing you can do about it. Take it up with Mother Nature. Go back to where you came from, your house is either underwater or under a glacier.

In times like these when their fat little comforts are threatened you can be sure that science is the first thing men abandon...

Science is dead in America.

...and an alleged rapist.

I get a gag reflex when he shows up in the news.

Haha! Knowledge is a wondrous thing. I am not sure if I would have a chance here in NE Nevada. Prevailing westerlys may not mean a thing to a giant Plinean eruption. However, I used to live in Gillette, WY where I would have been encased in a welded ash flow tuff for sure. And then erode out as a fossil a few million years from now.

I have. I used to get some every Thursday Farmers Market. Hot August Nights too.

Oh yes. When Yellowstone goes I might have enough time to say, "oh darn". I have tried to visualize what the Deccan Traps would have looked like. Talk about some climate change.

Oh, and have you tried Icthyosaur Beer at the Great Basin Brewery? Run by geologists, of course.

That would have been absolutely incredible. And then contemplate when Mt Mazama blew its top. And then contemplate what happens if Yellowstone does another super volcano eruption. There might be a little "climate change" with that one.

Gotta love geology. When I look at the topography around here I think of what an amazing site it would have been to see the ice dam break on Lake Missoula. From high atop a mountain of course.

There are some pretty awesome things to be aware of in this world. Like the realization that there is a Lake Bonneville strand line way up the mountain side above Salt Lake City. And I remember when they were sandbagging the city back in 1985 when the lake was so "high".