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Global Warming Right/Left Divide

I found this blog writeup at Main St. USA which demonstrates the clear right/left divide over global warming. Both sides of the issue cannot even talk to each other anymore. If you are on the left, global warming has reach such a status it is like an article of faith that must be sworn to. On the right, global warming is automatically dismissed as a conspiracy to transfer money from rich nations to poor. When I announced in a conservative email discussion group that I was interested in taking a fresh look at global warming and carbon neutrality on my new blog, I was completely panned.

Since Main St. USA appears to be one of those shrill voices on the left who links to the even more shrill voices at Think Progress., I have a question for Main St. USA:

Are there any scientist being funded by government money that offered a grant proposal to study natural global warming and the cyclical warming and cooling phases of the earth? Would such a study even be funded? If not, why not? I am not saying that global warming is a product of natural processes. The ice core data on the subject is intriguing and needs more study. Since the scientific community's inertia is totally on human-caused global warming, I doubt much research is being funded in this area.

As to the coal industry funding research. Why the hell not? They are free to use their money just like the leftist organizations like George Soros and the Ford Foundation are free to use their money to push their leftwing agenda. That is what America is about: the use of money in the debates of our time.

posted by Jim VAT @ 7:48 AM