The Arctic Ocean may lose all of its ice cover by 2040 according to The Guardian. The cause? Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of course, topped off with images of dieing polar bears and predictions of doom and gloom. And if that is what you want to hear it is a good place to stop reading. To continue is to find shifting wind patterns pushing ice flows out into warmer waters, melting and exposing more open water in the Arctic to the warming effects of the sun.
I guess the debate is over. So much so that the real reasons for warming can be stated outright as long as we first acknowledge man-made CO2.
Sounds like how Congress operates. See what happens when you mix politics with science?
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Of course all our representatives need an understanding of the discipline of science. To understand the truth behind the facts and theories and to discern sound scientific practice from unfounded hype.
The same goes with religion. All our representatives need a religious discipline in order to discern right from wrong and to make responsible decisions. To check ones faith at the door, bowing to some PC concoction, would be a betrayal just as ignoring sound scientific practice would be.
The same manipulation of science in the global warming debate is exactly what the founding father's wanted to avoid happening with religion. Not to stop people or our representatives from openly practicing their faith in every part of their lives including public service but to keep it from becoming a political tool to put one above another either by exaltation or vilification.
I don't like to spell things out. I like to leave room for people to interpret my views from their own perspective and experience, but in case I was a little to vague I thought I would add a clarification.
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