Good God, John Stossel is a douchebag! I will neither upvote or downvote this. Did I mention John Stossel is a douchebag? It never hurts to mention it more than once. Or a million times.

"Stossel" reminds me of "strudel"

mmmm...pastries.

Stossel is a moron.

I think he's one of the reasons a similar moron, Glenn Beck, ever had a chance to make it to the little screen.

Stossel said "Greenland was called green land for a reason." This is a perfect example of his imbecility.

The real reason was because Eric the Red named it "Greenland" in order to attract settlers.

Stossel, a self-proclaimed consumer activist who defends corporations, is the very essense of corporate coruption influencing the debate, and a living oxymoron. He has no problems telling a lie, because, like most conservatives, he could not win any argument if he didn't.

Why politicos? Why not have scientists debate?.... Oh yeah, I forgot, because there is no debate.

Greenland, while never a tropical paradise, was considerably more temperate when the Vikings settled there. They starved when the little ice age hit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age) and they lacked the skill or willingness to adopt the Inuit's survival skills.
Because the earth has experienced drastic global temperature changes in the past doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about polluting the atmosphere. I don't understand why people get totally bent out of shape about a little water pollution, and don't seem to care when manufacturing plants spew stuff into the air.
While the US is still the overall world leader in CO2 emissions, China is a much worse offender based on national production, and will become the greatest future problem, unless something is done. How you rein them in, I don't know.

i'm on the "Better safe then sorry" side of things, if we're wrong about it we live. if we're right and do nothing, we're dead...

upvote for the members' comments. I don't know if I could otherwise...
Stossel makes me wanna hurl.

Stossel was pretty contained with his douchebaggery. He didn't interrupt nearly as often as I have seen him do. He did break out the nonsequitor and hyperbole:

"Greenland was called greenland for a reason"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland

Y2K lumping with the killer bees and the like is stupid.


It seems the media is picking up on the theme...
http://www.jwharrison.com/blog/2006/06/30/john-stossell-is-a-douchebag/

And we shouldn't forget my greatest sifttalk post of all time-
http://politics.videosift.com/talk/John-Stossel-is-a-Douche-Bag

In the late 90's there was still an inkling of debate over how and why climate change was occurring so rapidly.

debate is over. debate is over. debate is over.

The story is more complicated now, as we have a better understanding of the impact of 'global dimming' which has essentially masked the effects of 'greenhouse gases', which models always predicted should have be more potent. The story now is how do we, on a global scale, maintain this balance while removing ourselves from a dependence on burning sequestered carbon, and how much time do we have?

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