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Governments are already using climate change, previously referred to as global warming, as a means to control the general population. A prime example today is England, where the government is already proposing the rationing of fuel through the issuance of allowance cards under government control. With the American Senate already debating a "cap and trade" system, the impetus is already underway to introduce government controls in this country.

My major concern with all of this us twofold. First, America was founded upon individual freedom and capitalism. Programs such as the current Climate Security Act of 2008 (or the cap and trade program) will severely restrict business and individuals in what they can do. The end result will be implementation of the second concern: more taxes, higher fuel costs, and a reduction in economic growth. In effect, we will be creating a government program to reintroduce something akin to Jimmy Carter's misery index which put this country in a major tailspin in the late 1970s.

If all of the scientific information was conclusive maybe I would look at this differently. The data, however, is not clear. After all, we are trying to base decisions on records which have only been kept officially for only about 150 years on a planet which has existed for millions. Furthermore, over 31,000 legitimate scientists have concluded that this program is a hoax and that we don't have nearly enough information to make the conclusion that manmade CO2 is the cause of anything. Of course, the mainstream media tries to hide this fact as they have already bought in to the premise that we are destroying the world. I suspect that changes over time in sunspot activity, coupled with current changes which routinely take place in our oceans, have more to do with climate change than anything else.

For Al Gore and a large portion of the United States Senate to proclaim that the debate is over in not only foolhardy, but contrary to good science. If we based our decision-making on this type of logic, we would probably still believe that the world is flat. Let us all apply a little common sense with good science to determine what is really happening without first causing a potential worldwide economic disaster. Remember, we humans are also part of the world's environment, and we are certainly at least as important as polar bears. While we want to save the polar bears, we also want to save mankind and make this world better through responsible conservation and the perpetuation of freedom and economic growth for the benefit of all of us.

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