The UN wants to tax us now - sure why the heck not?

The science does point to climate change. However, what it does not point to conclusively is the cause. We have been studying climate for a little over a century. However, we have HAD a climate for roughly 4 billion years. A climate that has undergone very rapid and much more drastic changes then we are witnessing now.

I am all for leaving behind a cleaner earth. I don't think we should put poisons in to our atmosphere or water. But when you base that on bad/incomplete. Inconclusive or biased research, all you do is drive people away from what is a worthy cause. All the core samples demonstrate is a correlation between higher carbon dioxide and temperature changes. It does not show causation and in science, there is a world of difference between correlation and causation. There is still no consensus on whether or not carbon increase has caused temperature change, or if temperature change has caused increased carbon dioxide.....or if the two are even related at all. Carbon dioxide in itself is not a very effective green house gas anyway. If this were the case, Mars should be a lot warmer than it is. People will turn around and point to venus as an example to counter that but the science has also shown that venus's high carbon dioxide (and other gases) atmosphere are not enough to explain the incredibly high temperatures....even given it's close proximity to the sun.

You are right, CO2 cannot be proven beyond any shadow of doubt to be the cause unless you reduce CO2 and see if that solves the problem. In science, when you eliminate all the other possibility's you have to look at what is left, regardless of your ability to prove that is the cause of the problem. What I know to be fact is, we have icebergs the size of countrys that are now melting after being around a few million years longer then man. That is not promising for any of us.

I agree but I really can see Obama throwing us under the UNbus!

So do I...which would actually violate our constitution. No foreign power can tax us.

Constitution? what Constitution? you mean that antiquated piece of literature? bah who needs a stinkin Constitution. Not when you have a celebrity for a President.

I could be on board with that.

Exactly. While everybody likes to place blame on the US for any and all shortcomings, lets look at other countries. Tell them the US is broke and cant tax anymore.

I agree. Do you know the we gave millions to the world food program the UN runs and they spend millions getting some famous painter to come in and paint a picture on the ceiling of their office. How was that helping "feed the world"? It was US tax dollars wasted. Not to mention the other countries who contributed to the fund. I say we save all the money we would have given to the UN and to foreign aid and use it to on our own people. It is our tax dollars...it should be used in THIS country.

exactly.

You can go through program after program, managed by the UN, and find abuse after abuse after abuse. Unless there's a 180-degree turn-around, I'm for dropping the UN and dropping a heck of a lot of foreign aid, since it's rarely appreciated, and sometimes used against us. Just think what we could do for our debt situation, infrastructure, education system, etc. with the dollars we didn't send to foreign nations.