Questions For McCain

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By George F. Will | NEWSWEEK

May 19, 2008 Issue

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Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 05/13/2008 10:19:43 PM

Comment: I worked on John McCain's 2000 campaign and he inspired me to join the air force and serve my country. McCain has the foreign policy experience to lead this country through the difficult times ahead. Now check out my book at Amazon.com

The Epoch Point by Spencer Zimmerman is a religious historical conspiracy thriller that follows evil throughout the existence of mankind, revealing the constant conflict between God and the devil, good and evil. Robert Davis is a young Airman fresh out of Air Force basic training who, after being held captive in China, suddenly finds himself unraveling the most immense conspiracy in history. On duty during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he soon uncovers hidden facts suggesting Russian and Iraqi involvement. While exploring abandoned military barracks at Kessler AFB in Mississippi, Davis and his friends discover the diary of Lee Harvey Oswald. Suddenly the Airmen find themselves the target of mysterious agents. As the clues surface, an evil emerges powerful enough to rewrite the entire history of humanity, not to mention kill two of his good friends. Before long the conspiracy takes on a supernatural form, marked by lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes, the wrath of God. Davis finds himself torn by the unbelievable realization that God has a message for him. Nothing could prepare him for the final suspenseful twist the story takes, a Da Vinci style revelation that reaffirms his belief in Christ.
Posted By: garysgary @ 05/13/2008 12:05:06 PM

Comment: tHER IS ONLY ONE QUESTION TO ASK SEN. MCCAIN....HOW MUCH DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE TO SACRIFICE TO PROTECT ISRAEL? THIS WAR IS ABOUT PROTECTING ISRAEL! I KNOW IT ...SEN. MCCAIN KNOWS IT...JOE LEIBERMAN KNOWS IT...AND EVERYONE READING THIS KNOWS IT! TWO, TRILLION, THREE TRILLION...FIVE TRILLION? TEN THOUSAND DEAD SOILDERS, TWENTY THOUSAND? HOW MANY WOUNDED? FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND?
HOW MUCH DO WE PAY IN INFLATED OIL PRICES BECAUSE OF THIS WAR? THREE TRILLION MORE?....FIVE TRILLION...WHEN WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAY THEY HAVE HAD ENOUGH? ALL OF THIS TO PROTECT ISRAEL? A NON-CHRISTIAN NATION? WHY? WHERE DOES SEN. MCCAIN STOP AND JOE LEIBERMAN STOP?
BOTH OF THEM PUT ISRAELI INTERESTS BEFORE AMERICA'S INTEREST...THAT USED TO BE TREASON.
Posted By: Igiveup @ 05/13/2008 12:01:13 PM

Comment: GeorgeHow can anyone support John Mexico McCain? He is not a natural born citizen!
Posted By: Chitta Nirmel @ 05/13/2008 11:30:39 AM

Comment: George, maybe you might want to appear to be playing fair and ask Obama these questions:

1. How come he and his campaign often tout his white relatives - his brave white maternal grandfather, his mother, his maternal grandmother (and even his Indonesian half-sister) - but never even one of his black relatives? Did his black paternal grandmother ever get invites by Barack and Michelle to come and stay with them in the U.S. to enjoy this country, play with her grandchildren, meet their friends, etc.? Just what does "family values" mean to the Obamas?

2. How many of Barack Obama's blood relatives experience the pain and humiliation of American recial hate and intolerance? The answer is NONE. So, did Obama sit in Rev. Wright's church and listen to ther Reverend's rants as a way to learn secondhand what millions of blacks in America learned firsthand? Was he preparing himself to better understand how the folks in his community came to feel the way they no doubt did? Just how authentic an "African-American" is he? If we are the sum of both "nature" and "nurture", then isn't Obama more white than black? His genes are exactly 50% white and 50% black, but his nurture was largely in a white household in his formative years. Shouldn't whites understand that heis more like them than like the blacks?

3. From sales of his book "The Audacity of Hope", Obama made millions. That is good. But in it he often has very long verbatim quotations (words placed between quotation marks to acknowledge that the speaker spoke exactly those words) form conversations held years earlier. One quote is 31 lines long! It contains a lot of words. Now, George, can you figure this out with all your experience as a reporter of the world's incompetence: how does one recall so many words years later? did Obama secretly record his conversations? Is he inventing fictional conversations to make his book a good read? Doesn't the Harvard Law School teach its students that the basis of legal cross-examination is the questionability of recalled facts? Was Obama absent from class that day? Come on, George, have your people contact Obama's people to set up an interview - and get me some answers.
Posted By: College Dad @ 05/13/2008 2:00:42 AM

Comment: Regardless of the merit (or lack thereof) of Will's questions, McCain surely won't be able to answer them.
McCain doesn't even know what he himself believes. How can Americans put any trust in anything McCain says. He will probably change his mind soon, just as he has changed his mind on the Iraq War (first he thought it would be a cakewalk, then he said he always knew it would be difficult), tax cuts, immigration, abortion, and yes, fidelity in marriage (first he was for it, then he was against it).

McCain is not fit to be president.

No McCain in '08!
Posted By: Mwalimu @ 05/13/2008 12:45:44 AM

Comment: George F. Will needs to read the recent reports by NASA Climatologist James Hansen on global warming. We cannot afford to delay. We should have begun decarbonizing our economy 20 years ago, but everyone was babbling "It's morning in American." Right now we're facing doomsday in America. Again, read what top scientists are saying - not the hand-picked experts Will quotes.

Second Will does not mention anything about rigged elections. Does McCain plan to have a fair, free election? Then why is caging going on full swings? And aren't photo ID laws really an attempt to suppress voters? Why doesn't Will say anything about the retired nuns in Indiana who were denied to right to vote because they didn't have a drivers license?

McCain also ought to explain Charlie Black who was a lobbyist for Ahmed Chalabi. Will promoted all of Chalabi's lies before the war. It turned out that Chalabi was an agent for Iran. Also Charlie Black is a lobbyist for Blackwater. Why doesn't Will ask questions about that?.

Finally, does any one know what effect bombing Iran will have on global warming? And can Will connect the dots between the wildfires in Florida, and the increasing frequency of tornadoes in the Midwest with global warming. (Insurance companies can. Expect massive rate increases in many states.)

In short Will faild to ask some really important questions.
Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 05/12/2008 11:24:45 PM

Comment:

There is no such thing as global warming and there is also no place like home, there is no place like home, there is no place like home. Click your heels together and repeat three times there is no place like home. Auntie Am, Auntie Am, Oh Toto. LMAO
Posted By: 1Badger1 @ 05/12/2008 11:15:11 PM

Comment: Vote for McCain: He has a plan to stop four and a half billion years of climate change!
Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 05/12/2008 11:06:51 PM

Comment: I worked on John McCain's 2000 campaign and he inspired me to join the air force and serve my country. McCain has the foreign policy experience to lead this country through the difficult times ahead. Now check out my book at Amazon.com

The Epoch Point by Spencer Zimmerman is a religious historical conspiracy thriller that follows evil throughout the existence of mankind, revealing the constant conflict between God and the devil, good and evil. Robert Davis is a young Airman fresh out of Air Force basic training who, after being held captive in China, suddenly finds himself unraveling the most immense conspiracy in history. On duty during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he soon uncovers hidden facts suggesting Russian and Iraqi involvement. While exploring abandoned military barracks at Kessler AFB in Mississippi, Davis and his friends discover the diary of Lee Harvey Oswald. Suddenly the Airmen find themselves the target of mysterious agents. As the clues surface, an evil emerges powerful enough to rewrite the entire history of humanity, not to mention kill two of his good friends. Before long the conspiracy takes on a supernatural form, marked by lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes, the wrath of God. Davis finds himself torn by the unbelievable realization that God has a message for him. Nothing could prepare him for the final suspenseful twist the story takes, a Da Vinci style revelation that reaffirms his belief in Christ.
Posted By: The_epoch_point @ 05/12/2008 11:02:32 PM

Comment: The Epoch Point by Spencer Zimmerman is a religious historical conspiracy thriller that follows evil throughout the existence of mankind, revealing the constant conflict between God and the devil, good and evil. Robert Davis is a young Airman fresh out of Air Force basic training who, after being held captive in China, suddenly finds himself unraveling the most immense conspiracy in history. On duty during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he soon uncovers hidden facts suggesting Russian and Iraqi involvement. While exploring abandoned military barracks at Kessler AFB in Mississippi, Davis and his friends discover the diary of Lee Harvey Oswald. Suddenly the Airmen find themselves the target of mysterious agents. As the clues surface, an evil emerges powerful enough to rewrite the entire history of humanity, not to mention kill two of his good friends. Before long the conspiracy takes on a supernatural form, marked by lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and volcanoes, the wrath of God. Davis finds himself torn by the unbelievable realization that God has a message for him. Nothing could prepare him for the final suspenseful twist the story takes, a Da Vinci style revelation that reaffirms his belief in Christ. Buy it at Amazon.com today
Posted By: Nins @ 05/12/2008 10:55:11 PM

Comment:

Today's headline: "McCain Acknowledges Global Warming and Urges Nuclear Power to Combat it."

I am SO GLAD that John McCain has acknowledged the reality of global warming. However, his supposition that nuclear power is "clean energy" is absurd.

Clean energy doesn't leave behind deadly radioactive rods to be disposed of. Clean energy isn't subject to nuclear fallout, meltdowns and explosions. Clean energy doesn't cause birth defects and cancer. Clean energy can't be subverted into nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

Effective clean energy technologies created to date are solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen fuel cells. Ethanol is not clean energy, as it takes immense amounts of energy to create fuel this way, and the big corporate farmers pollute with excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, it can help us transition our economy away from oil dependency and as such it is an excellent stop gap, especially if we use cellulose ethanol rather than corn based ethanol.

McCain is woefully uninformed about the realities of our energy problems and their potential solutions. McCain is woefully uninformed about the economy, and still hasn't come up with any plans for combatting the recession, paying down the national debt, and restoring lost jobs. McCain is woefully misguided about the war, and wants to pursue a hawkish military policy even though the vast majority of Americans are against this.

I respect McCain and the sacrifices he has made for our country. But right now, we need someone ready to roll up their sleeves and work on our current problems. Someone who can make America stronger before we go down the tubes with our oil dependency, our failure to recognize the shifting global economy, and our blatantly wrong-headed foreign policy. McCain is not that man. I'm a Republican and I'm voting for Obama.
Posted By: tc125231 @ 05/12/2008 10:29:12 PM

Comment: George has questions? Yawn. Tell he really MUST learn to find his behind with both hands in the dark.
Posted By: fsteph @ 05/12/2008 7:33:39 PM

Comment: So, hierbabuena, what is the reality about global warming and its impact on the world? A new study by the National Center for Policy Analysis states, "Climate Science: Climate Change and Its Impacts" (www.ncpa.org/pub/st/st285) looks at a wide variety of climate matters, from global warming and hurricanes to rain and drought, sea levels, arctic temperatures and solar radiation. It concludes that "the science does not support claims of drastic increases in global temperatures over the 21rst century, nor does it support claims of human influence on weather events and other secondary effects of climate change." NOG, U.N. IPCC Third Assessment Report, Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans, USCG, and others have all concluded that global warming is either not a reality or inconsequential. You and Al Gore can keep up the disinformation if you wish.
- Posted By: siegead @ 05/14/2008 15:42:46
  
  Comment: While funding does not determine voice, do you wish to mention the roughly $465,000 that NCPA received from Exxon from 1998 through 2006?
  
  I am sure that that sort of funding had nothing to do with reports that downplay Global Warming as opposed to those incredibly biased groups like the National Academy of Science, which warns against the seriousness of and demands action to deal with Global Warming.
- Posted By: tc125231 @ 05/12/2008 22:44:00
  
  Comment: You know, I feel like I am watching a rerun of the chloro-flourocatbon discussion. Science suggests it is creating ozone holes. Industry purchases scientific dissent. Endless reviews where most scientific opinion agrees, except for industry funded "dissent". Nothing gets done.
  
  Then they find an ozone hole. THEN something gets done.
  
  So what do you think, fsteph? Does London and Manhattan have to be under water before it's possible to act? And if it turns out that you are completely wrong (no worries there) are you volunteering for sterilization so we can get rid of the "stupid" gene before the race entirely dies out?
  - Posted By: siegead @ 05/14/2008 15:40:12
    
    Comment: sdf
Posted By: vclayson@msn.com @ 05/12/2008 4:36:50 PM

Comment: John McCain shouldn't answer these questions until his opponents have said something deeper than that the people want change, neither of the Democrats have offered anything on where they want to take us. Hillary Clinton shouting "Yes, we will"in that fingernails on a blackboard screech isn't substantial, it isn't even a campaign slogan, There is no "we" in anything the Clintons do, it's all about them. It's time for her to butt out. Obama is a great speaker but his style of speaking betters fits a sales office motivational spiel than an appeal to voters for the highest office in the land, if not the world. We need to know more about him than we do now, I don't suspect him of anything corrupt or against our way of life and he should be president sometime in the future, but not yet. I suggest he watch John McCain for a term to learn how to deal with a hostile Congress and a hostile world. Hopefully, McCain will have a bit of Harry Truman in him and a lot of Ronald Reagan, both seemed to believe that Congress was a nuisance to be tolerated. .
Posted By: CarrieAnn @ 05/12/2008 4:18:37 PM

Comment: Well, Mr. Will, with such pointed questions, I'm only sorry that you weren't moderating any of the multitude of presidential debates held in the past year. You would put all the flag pin questioners to shame.
Posted By: hierbabuena @ 05/12/2008 3:25:23 PM

Comment: I usually like to listen to George Will, even though he is a bit conservative for my taste. However, I was surprised to see him imply that there is serious uncertainty about glogal warming.
Posted By: Nins @ 05/12/2008 3:14:04 PM

Comment:

Today's headline: "McCain Acknowledges Global Warming and Urges Nuclear Power to Combat it."

I am SO GLAD that John McCain has acknowledged the reality of global warming. However, his supposition that nuclear power is "clean energy" is absurd.

Clean energy doesn't leave behind deadly radioactive rods to be disposed of. Clean energy isn't subject to nuclear fallout, meltdowns and explosions. Clean energy doesn't cause birth defects and cancer. Clean energy can't be subverted into nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

Effective clean energy technologies created to date are solar, wind, hydroelectric and hydrogen fuel cells. Ethanol is not clean energy, as it takes immense amounts of energy to create fuel this way, and the big corporate farmers pollute with excessive chemical fertilizers and pesticides. However, it can help us transition our economy away from oil dependency and as such it is an excellent stop gap, especially if we use cellulose ethanol rather than corn based ethanol.

McCain is woefully uninformed about the realities of our energy problems and their potential solutions. McCain is woefully uninformed about the economy, and still hasn't come up with any plans for combatting the recession, paying down the national debt, and restoring lost jobs. McCain is woefully misguided about the war, and wants to pursue a hawkish military policy even though the vast majority of Americans are against this.

I respect McCain and the sacrifices he has made for our country. But right now, we need someone ready to roll up their sleeves and work on our current problems. Someone who can make America stronger before we go down the tubes with our oil dependency, our failure to recognize the shifting global economy, and our blatantly wrong-headed foreign policy. McCain is not that man. I'm a Republican and I'm voting for Obama.
Posted By: Harrygton @ 05/12/2008 2:44:15 PM

Comment: Obama 08
Posted By: arbite @ 05/12/2008 2:36:19 PM

Comment: I'd like to thank George Will for actually reporting on what cnadidates' policies and statements are. Perhaps the rest of the media would like to take this election seriously, also?

(mark halperin, are you out there?)
Posted By: Harrygton @ 05/12/2008 2:36:06 PM

Comment: Enter Your Comment

Very important questions! Forget about it... this is the year of the Obamicans(All Americans United for Change)
Posted By: powin @ 05/12/2008 2:07:24 PM

Comment: Jack3213 WROTE: "WHO [EVER] FAVORS INTELLIGENCE, CREDIBILITY, AND EXPERIANCE? --THOSE WHO FAVOR MCCAIN.... FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE THINGS WILL "CHANGE" --DAY ONE-- IF A DEMOCRAT WERE ELECTED SHOULD KNOW THAT WITH A DEMOCRAT DAY ONE MIGHT CHANGE SOMETHING AND THAT SOMETHING IS: HIGHER TAXES, GREATER SECURITY RISK, UNACCEPTABLE HEALTH INSURANCE, AND A WEAKER ECONOMY"

Dear Jack3213,

It's obvious that Change in the economy, health care coverage, homeland security and the tax code will not happen on day one. That's indisputable. What is also indisputable is that Senator McCain is intelligent and experienced; he is, and so are his democratic opponents, Senators Clinton and Obama, alike. The credibility of anyone running for office, however, including John McCain, is speculative, at best. If a democrat is elected (and Senator McCain is not allowed to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor), your drawn conclusion that a weaker economy will follow is rash and reflects your own insecurity. No economist, Milton Friedman, included, can augur or foretell this from an election. That nearly 50 million Americans have no health care coverage is already unacceptable. Voters are not privy to Homeland Security, so your prediction, on that matter is weak and of little or no practical value. Any drawn conclusions, humble or immodest, are burdened by misanthropic musings and made obscured by character assassination
Posted By: Ganpat @ 05/12/2008 1:50:40 PM

Comment: Obama will be handsomely whipped by McCain.

It will be sooooooo delicious in November to sit and watch the notices flashing on the TV: McCain Takes Florida, McCain Takes Ohio, McCain Takes Texas, McCain Takes Pennsylvania, McCain Takes Indiana, McCain Takes West Virginia, McCain Takes Kentucky, etc etc until the sweet final : McCain Takes the White House.

That will be the moment when the delectable tears rush down Michelle Obama's ugly mug, and I will laugh my head off together with the Clintons.

Hee hee hee !

And I have ALWAYS voted Democrat, and ALWAYS will, except in November 2008. ALL My lifelong Democrat friends say the SAME.

Eat your hearts out, Obamites.
Posted By: cinnapatch @ 05/12/2008 1:24:37 PM

Comment: That's WAY too many big words and long sentences for McCain.
Posted By: kgeorge598301 @ 05/12/2008 1:05:10 PM

Comment: Question for George Will: Why weren't you this tenacious in questioning George Bush? We sure would've appreciated it.
Posted By: Shaste @ 05/12/2008 12:32:36 PM

Comment: The WMO website appears to contradict your statement about no global temperature change, Will:

GENEVA, 4 April 2008 (WMO) - The long-term upward trend of global warming, mostly driven by greenhouse gas emissions, is continuing. Global temperatures in 2008 are expected to be above the long-term average. The decade from 1998 to 2007 has been the warmest on record, and the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74C since the beginning of the 20th Century
Posted By: Shaste @ 05/12/2008 12:31:42 PM

Comment: The WMO website seems to directly contradict your comment of no global temperature change, Will:

GENEVA, 4 April 2008 (WMO) - The long-term upward trend of global warming, mostly driven by greenhouse gas emissions, is continuing. Global temperatures in 2008 are expected to be above the long-term average. The decade from 1998 to 2007 has been the warmest on record, and the global average surface temperature has risen by 0.74C since the beginning of the 20th Century
Posted By: Parral57 @ 05/12/2008 12:09:16 PM

Comment: It's sad that McCain, the living oxymoron, continues to spew his diatribe on things he knows nothing about. What a sham our government leaders have become. He has milked his war status for all its worth. My uncle was in the Bataan Death March, but he would never qualify as someone who could lead this country out of the misery we are currently experiencing. The truth about McCain is that he is old, a womanizer, a liar, a tyrant, insensitive, racist s.o.b. who should never be allowed on the White House lawn.
Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 05/12/2008 10:49:51 AM

Comment:

Held to a higher standard?
What?
They don't even meet the mediocrity level of the standards expected of our elected officials!
Posted By: Driver of wagons @ 05/12/2008 10:46:57 AM

Comment:
George Will = Dip Sh!t Republican Operative, Lackie of the Lowest form, Slough bearing Numb Brain.
How much are they paying you to be so uninformed?
How do you even stay employed?
Posted By: PaulKirk @ 05/12/2008 9:44:26 AM

Comment: Nice piece, Will. Republicans are used to being held to a higher standard. Thanks for reminding us that McCain is a fallible human being. YEs, he has made mistakes and isn't right on every issue. But, he stands head and shoulders above the opposition in experience, international affairs and leadership. McCain will continue to struggle with ideologues on both sides of the political spectrum. And, he will be held to the highest scrutiny. Which reminds me, can you imagine the nation-wide conversation we would have had if it was McCain who said, without correcting himself, that HE had campaigned in 57 States?
Posted By: Straight Talk Hawk @ 05/12/2008 8:19:09 AM

Comment: Questions for McAmnesty:

1. Why do you refuse to release your medical and psychiatric records, especially any medications you are taking for cancer, incontinence, and rage? Will you submit to a complete independent medical examination, and if not, why not? We don't want to wait for the 3:00 am call to find out there is a problem.

2. Explain how what is coming out of your tailpipe melted the ice caps on MARS. Will your $1.2 TRILLION eco-tax control the cycles of the sun, and would it be added to our $9+ TRILLION national debt?

3. Why should we believe you won't appoint "maverick" judges, Penumbra Rangers who look not to the language of the Constitution, but to foreign laws and the outer limits of space, governed only by the restriction "what do I feel like doing today?" when the Gang Bangers in the Senate Gang of 14 you created held the Constitutional provision for a majority up or down vote on judicial nominations hostage and required a super majority vote which eliminated many conservative judicial nominations?

4. You have facilitated the invasion of our country by over 25 million illegal aliens and terrorists, more than the population of Mexico City, in violation of Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have been raped, crippled, and murdered (especially police) by the invaders, who have destroyed our border environmentally, have ruined our hospitals, schools, and infrastructure, added billions to the federal and state debts with welfare and other costs, enriched the drug cartels, and made our inner cities into gang warfare zones. What would you do to clean up your problem, and given your record, why should we believe you?

5. Your amnesty bill with Teddy Kennedy, still opposed by over 85% of the American people, contained a fine print approval of the SPP, which even more Americans don't want. Will you oppose the SPP, North American Union, the Amero, and the superhighway to cut the country in half? If not, what is your timetable for these actions?

6. You want Mexican trucks to roam freely throughout our country, taking American jobs, and increasing the risk of terrorist weapons being brought into the country. Imagine that a Mexican truck comes across the border with a nuclear bomb and devastates Phoenix. You are in the Oval Office speaking to the American people. How will you justify the deaths and destruction because of your refusal to secure our border? STRAIGHT TALK!

7. The Democrats will no doubt Swiftboard you in retaliation for the Swiftboating of Kerry. Will you come clean now and reveal the problems you anticipate, and give an explanation, if any?
Posted By: Roameo @ 05/12/2008 8:12:55 AM

Comment: Mr. Will suggests (against the vast majority of scientists) there is no dangerous global warming, and certainly no dangerous global warming worth spending trillions of dollars to combat. In this (italicizing trillions to indicate his Mammon worship), he is wrong and McCain right. Otherwise, Mr.Will raises serious, legitimate questions that reveal McCain is not mentally up to the job and will take US down an even darker, more dangerous and destructive road than the mental and moral midget, Bush. Once McCain gets his mouth revved up, Mr.Will will be able to write a column or two every week challenging McCain's illogical and dangerous ideas, for there will be a flood of them.
Posted By: Floydan @ 05/12/2008 8:10:50 AM

Comment: From the World Meteorological Organization's "Summary for Policymakers":

"Eleven of the last twelve years (1995-2006) rank among the twelve warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature (since 1850)."

So please don't try to fool us into believing that there is no climate change going on.
- Posted By: HealthySkeptic @ 05/12/2008 08:38:40
  
  Comment: The temperature ranks of the last 12 years, submitted by Floydan and others, do not conflict with Will's statement that global temperature has not gone up since 1998. 1998 remains that hottest year on record. This has been well reported, not in the MSM but certainly enough online for those following the latest climate change reports to know about it. It is conclusive that global temperature has risen since we began measuring it. But our role in this change is not clear (if you remove emotion, agenda, and ideology). Questions for alarmists: If for the past 10 years humans have contantly increased CO2 emissions, why hasn't the temperature increased during this period? If your answer involves "other natural factors", then why do you discount such factors as the real force behing the changes in climate that every scientist knows have been happening since the dawn of time?
  - Posted By: RussElba @ 05/12/2008 10:53:23
    
    Comment: HealthySkeptic, Read what the real skeptics think about global warming after initially deriding it. http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v14n01_climate_of_belief.html
    - Posted By: siegead @ 05/14/2008 15:51:36
      
      Comment: Yes, 1998 was a hot year, with an El Nino. Climate is about trends, not single points of data. Try a more honest look of 30 years, 50 years, 150 years and the quite significant upward trend of global temperatures becomes so clearly obvious. Will ... and you ... are playing a disingenuous game that is using a piece of data (a 'true fact'), not to be truthful and enlighten, but to peddle truthiness and deceive. See, for example, http://energysmart.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/new-gw-denialists-deceptive-lie-on-global-temperatures/
    - Posted By: RussElba @ 05/12/2008 10:58:55
      
      Comment: And the other side
      
      http://www.skeptic.com/the_magazine/featured_articles/v14n01_human_induced_climate_change.html
Posted By: walkingwlkr @ 05/11/2008 10:45:48 PM

Comment: According to Mr Will

"the World Meteorological Organization says global temperatures have not risen in a decade"

interesting- here is a press release from that same organization

Bali/Geneva, 13 December 2007 (WMO) ??? The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F.

Bali/Geneva, 13 December 2007 (WMO) ??? The decade of 1998-2007 is the warmest on record, according to data sources obtained by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The global mean surface temperature for 2007 is currently estimated at 0.41°C/0.74°F above the 1961-1990 annual average of 14.00°C/57.20°F.
Posted By: Foo Bar @ 05/11/2008 12:35:04 PM

Comment: My apologies for the comment below- I see that a correction has been issued in the letters section. However, a correction really ought to accompany the column itself. Otherwise, new readers are capable of coming across the column and being misinformed, since they may read it without reading the letters section.
Posted By: Foo Bar @ 05/11/2008 12:24:54 PM

Comment: I see that Mr. Will has failed to issue a correction regarding his description of the income cap on the FICA tax in his previous column, "Questions for Obama". As numerous commenters in the discussion section of that column pointed out, the cap applies to individual income, not the joint income of couples. His hypothetical cop/teacher couple making $147K jointly would almost certainly not be affected by a lifting of the $102K cap. MMr
Mar
Posted By: Beci the Great @ 05/10/2008 11:53:03 PM

Comment: Did you need to be so condesending? Are you incapeable of questioning the canidate without lacing the language with belittlement?
Posted By: Beci the Great @ 05/10/2008 11:51:56 PM

Comment: Did you need to be so condesending? Are you incapeable of forming questions without belittlement?

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