A general response to a couple other posts but first a question: why are you afraid to acknowledge who you are? From what or whom are you hiding?

Back to the video -- The young lady sited a number of facts and then presented her thoughts and yes, those are her opinions, but the facts that she stated are still the facts. I played golf earlier today with a proud-to-be liberal who is a strong supporter of Obama as well as Hillary.

Following his statement that the economy was strong, with his evidence being a near 5% unemployment rate, and I pointed out (along with a couple other facts, one of which was that 5% is an outright lie) that the worker participation rate is at 63%, which is as lowest it has been since around 1977 his response was akin to “you are talking about some things that I know very little about”. His response to Benghazi was “that’s 3 years old now”. His response to the hundreds of emails found to be top secret and higher, was “they weren’t top secret when they were sent” ignoring the fact that all who received or sent those emails should have known that based on the content that they would be classified as such.

So once again, facts are facts, but they are seen through different filters.

A brief aside: evolution is not a fact and global warming is not a fact. “Darwin’s Theory of Evolution” is a theory. If you want to change “global warming” to “climate change” I will agree because climate has been changing over the last 4.9 billion years and it will continue to change long after mankind has exited the earth. How much influence man has on the current change is up for debate regardless of what some current pundits have to say. If I am remembering correctly, carbon dioxide was substantially higher 50,000 years ago than it is today. While I’m trusting memory to that statement I have added a quote from an introduction to “Carbon Dioxide through Geologic Time”.

Since of the Earth's atmosphere is out-of-balance with the conditions expected from simple chemical equilibrium, it is very hard to say what precisely sets the level of the carbon dioxide content in the air throughout geologic time. While scientists are fairly certain that a 100 million years ago carbon dioxide values were many times higher than now, the exact value is in doubt. In very general terms, long-term reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 levels going back in time show that 500 million years ago atmospheric CO2 was some 20 times higher than present values. It dropped, then rose again some 200 million years ago to 4-5 times present levels--a period that saw the rise of giant fern forests--and then continued a slow decline until recent pre-industrial time. (This was before mankind).

The above suggests to me that scientists still do not know for sure what affects the levels of CO2. I find it interesting that in the 70s it was global cooling, then it became global warming and then approximately 20 years ago (when it began to cool again) it was changed to “climate change”. In all three cases the solution has been the same, more government control.

That’s all for now.

tq