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No. Climate change, which is just the latest rebranding of global warming, is a pseudoscience. While air pollution is a legitimate concern, it is not melting the polar ice caps or causing cities to be submerged underwater.

The next president's top priorities should be national defense and reducing the size and scope of government. Abolishing horrifically wasteful government programs like welfare, subsidized housing, school lunch programs and school breakfast programs are just a few of the nanny-state programs that need to end. Taxpayer funds do not need to go into boondoggles like Ethanol, which resulted in higher food prices and starvation.

A recent European study concluded that the statistical models used to create the catastrophic scenarios mentioned in Al Gore's propaganda piece, An Inconvenient Truth, were wildly overstated. To put it more bluntly, they were false. Yet, people are willing to believe this nonsense because it absolves them of some perceived guilt about using 25% of the planet's resources. Of course, the flip side of our usage of these resources is never mentioned. The fact that we produce much of the worlds goods and services is never highlighted because that would legitimize capitalism, which the climate change alarmists cannot stand.

This gets to the heart of the issue, which is that the doomsayers of global warming are trying to replace free market capitalism with a kind of enviromental dictatorship, where businesses have to buy fraudulent 'carbon offsets' and pay increased taxes to the almighty government for the privledge of doing business. Of course, this has and will result in fewer jobs and higher costs for goods and services as businesses shut down and competition decreases. This has already happened in the socialist nations of Western Europe, where unemployment is double what it is in the US.

But what about the 'green jobs' that Obama and Gore say will be created? Won't they offset the ones destroyed by the excessive taxes imposed on carbon-polluting businesses? No, they won't because these so-called green jobs will be nothing more than taxpayer-funded bureaucrat positions. What private firm is going to create green jobs? GE, which is knee-deep in the scam of selling the fictious carbon offsets does stand to gain from a president who buys into the global warming hoax. However, that is not a market based economy but an artificial one based on the whims of a socialist government.

We can prevent this by making our voices heard. We should demand that our next president see global warming or climate change or whatever the name du-jour of this fabricated crisis is for the fraud that it is.

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