%26quot;A 1999 poll by the The Gallup Organization found that 89 percent of the US public believed the landing was genuine, while 6 percent did not...%26quot;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon...
Leave those few remaining paranoid %26quot;it%26#039;s a government conspiracy%26quot; types alone with their crazy superstitions.
The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.
They all say global warming is real, and mostly caused by us.
I think people are accepting the idea without question, because they don%26#039;t realise the costs, and the AGW proponents are so vitriolic about dissenters.
The costs include reducing our ability to produce and manufacture at competitive prices. (like we need more of that) - in our service economy, folks don%26#039;t realise that production of goods requires energy, and putting %26quot;low watt%26quot; light bulbs in (for example) an aluminum plant, will not reduce power consumption much. Worse yet - high cost energy will make it harder to adapt to the end of oil.
I think the key is to get more people interested, by presenting a few facts. Media isn%26#039;t doing this. If people get interested, they can find info on the internet, and have a chance of seeing thru the hype.
- CO2 is 380 parts per million of the air. this works out to 2 feet per mile.
- water vapor content varies- at a median value of 2%, there would be about 100 feet per mile of this very effective greenhouse gas.
- we%26#039;re not questioning that CO2 retains heat- the dubious part is the %26quot;catastrophic, runaway, positive feedback%26quot; concept, requiring drastic, disastrous remedies.
I think our remedies should be limited to things that we should do anyway - reduce our oil usage by: reducing speed limits, and taxing petroleum would reduce CO2 more than a %26quot; cap %26amp; trade %26quot; bureaurocracy and tax system - that%26#039;d be more of a sneaky power grab.
oil is a major part of our trade imbalance- we import a half trillion dollars worth. our profligate consumption keeps the price high. foreigners must resent this, and with justice. liquid fuels are far more practical for mobile uses. We should conserve it, so that future generations will have some for their fire trucks %26amp; ambulances.
The three Al%26#039;s - Al Gore, Al Sharpton, and Al Qada will kill everyone.
Does there have to be an average November temp of 80 degrees in the northern states before people actually acknowledge it?
They thought the same thing of CFC%26#039;s, they were banned and the world lived to fight another day.
