Socialized Health Care in the USA

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It is late and I am tired. This thread's title looked interesting to me. Because of the lateness of the hour I skipped from the 1st page to the last without reading the intervening pages and I find that it is now about global warming instead of Socialized Health Care in the USA. Fascinating. I'll have to read the whole thing to see how it went off track once I get the sleep off of my brain.

Haha, same here. But because I like disccusinbg global warming I will just react on that.


Kandrathe; your remark about scientists that have to prove things before taking drastic measures....CO2 has been the main contributor to global warming....it was like that when the dinosaurs walked the earth and it is like that now. (well that or maybe in the carboniferous the sun was just very hot :huh:)
During the carboniferous period it was very warm and there was a lot of CO2 in the air, which lead to much plantgrowth, which then lead to the burial of huge quantities of biomass that became our oil. Because of this oxygen concentrations got really high towards the end of this period, and temperatures dropped (CO2 gets removed form natural cycle by burial under ground).
At the moment we are doing the opposite, in a relatively short period we are shifting the CO2 balance because of removal of oil and coal from underground to above the ground.

The fact that global warming can happen because of other factors than human activity does not mean that what we see now is not because of human activity.

And about your number tricks with amounts of scientists: global warming has been researched more intensively than most other disciplines in science if you don't doubt evolution, genetics, catalysis, and particle physics I wouldn't doubt global warming.:D