What a line! I wish I had written that myself.

http://watching-history.blogspot.com/2009/10/copenhagen.html

But, sadly, you are correct in the central thrust of your argument, Pat: China and India, regardless of any rhetoric they might spout, shall take no substantive measures to reduce their “carbon footprint,” a term which I utterly detest. There is no point whatsoever in the U.S. damaging its already-battered economy in pursuit of an unattainable pot of gold, at the end of a rainbow that doesn’t exist.

Earth will get hotter. Hundreds of millions will die. But, of course, those unfortunates will overwhelmingly be the poor of the world. Wealthy people shall survive quite nicely, thank you very much.

Consider it a cull of which Darwin would heartily approve. Dating myself, I personally anticipate it to be an ecological Gramm-Rudman. Not to worry, though: You and I will be long dead before the direst consequences accrue.

On the other hand, an overheated planet might still be substantially cooler than the location where we spend eternity.

In 1998 the New York Yankees won 114 games and lost 48. Since then they’ve averaged about 100 wins a year, but they still have, by a wide margin, the best record in baseball over that time. Same thing: random year-to-year fluctuations mean far, far less than a powerful trend.

Oh, and every secondary indicator of warming — from the rapid collapse of the ice sheets to alarming methane trends in the tundra — shows that the global warming models had erred mainly by being too optimistic: we’re seeing a steady lineup of worst case scenarios coming true.

What’s is your definition of work?+

I blame George Bush…the patriot act war hawk for putting this leftwing fascist/communist Obama in office to supposedly undo Bush2.

I hated Bush2 and I hate Obama. This nation wants a Gerry Ford or an Eisenhower or a Truman. They dont want the left or the right. They just want jobs and the government to work. Thats it! They dont want the US as world government and world policeman, they dont want socialism and communism, not even in public schools, they just want to get on with their lives. Oh for a german/scandinavian government that doesnt do anything big…but just works.

Most people thing big changes to domestic policy, left or right, are just code for we are to incompetent to fix it and run it so we are going to change it so that it has a new baseline and you cant blame us.

Most people think foreign policy just means to incompetent for domestic policy.

We will have only 500 years to bring football coaches from Texas, to modify our methods of fall training at high schools and middle schools, or face dehydration and mass casualties among our football playing children.

Under such catastrophic conditions, the number of jobs that “americans just won’t do” will have risen by 10%, and this is why our caring liberal brothers have provided for pathway to citizenship of all South America.

Was it Rahm Emanuel, or Heidi Fleiss, that said “in the US, people will swallow almost anything”? So Acorn will begin setting up desert watering stations as far north as Montana, at a nominal cost of $30 billion.

So many jobs will have been created or saved by then, that we will be importing Airport Laborers from Guantanimo, and health care Administrators from Cuba.

So much money will be available to Government, by then, that the need for politicians will have reduced the population of our nations prisons to zero.

President Obama pledged that he was ready to fight against anyone standing in the way of his priorities saying, “I want everyone to know who’s standing in the way of progress, I’m not tired. I’m just getting started. You can throw whatever you want at me. Keep it coming. We’re going to get this done.”

In 500 years, think of how much of America will be done by then.