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In a recent article written in the LA Times  entitled, “Global warming e-mails prompt Republican letter to EPA”, a letter was written to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  It appears that lawmakers are requesting that “a pending move to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act be halted, along with plans to limit emissions from vehicles, power plants and other sources, until the agency can demonstrate the science underlying these regulatory decisions has not been compromised.”

WHAT??!?

Ok, here’s the scoop, over 1,000 e-mail messages were hacked and congressional Republicans are claiming that these e-mails suggest that scientists may have manipulated evidence to claim that global warming is man made, when indeed it’s just a natural occurrence, meanwhile the scientists are claiming that their words have been taken out of context.

Here’s my question…So what? 

One thing that has been agreed upon is that the earth is warming, whether it’s caused by human stupidity or by natural occurrences is irrelevant; the earth is warming.  Why stop the Clean Air Act…have these people not driven through or even been to large cities?  Can you not see what we are pumping into the air?  What we are forcing ourselves to breath on a daily basis?  Have we become such a ridiculous nation of idiots that we need “scientific proof” because we can’t trust our own eyes? 

We, as a nation, are in an economic crisis.  Hundreds of businesses are being started in an effort to reduce emissions and jobs are being created.  Isn’t that what we need to jumpstart the economy?  So, are the congressional Republicans really claiming that we should stop these new businesses and fire more Americans because someone read somewhere in an e-mail that global warming “may not” be manmade.

The level of stupidity that I see in my own species is extremely frustrating. It’s evident to me that the amount of garbage that we pump into our atmosphere is harmful to US as a species, (not to mention the other species that we share this planet with) but since someone claims that we might have ‘jumbled scientific proof’ it must not be true, therefore we should stop all efforts to reverse the effects, fire everyone, stop creating businesses and, in effect kill ourselves!  Really?

Keeping it real ~

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