Time Magazine Online ran a story today about the bipartisan movement in the U.S. Senate on greenhouse emissions and energy conservation.  The driving factor was not global warming on its own but rather the security implications to the U.S. that changed Sen. John Warner's  mind. Sen. Warner, a Republican from Virginia co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Joe Leiberman, Independent from Connecticut.

A number of high-level retired military officers have come on board as well noting that the implications of global warming can have dire geopolitical implications due to the instability that could come from the effects of climate change.  This further validates The New York Times's columnist,  Thomas Friedman, who  calls it the First Law of Petropolitics "... as the price of oil goes up, we're effectively propping up hydrocarbon-fueled autocracies like Iran."

It can now be claimed that it is patriotic to be GREEN. 

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What! Are you out of your mind? Before you freak hear me out. I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I’ve previously expressed my consternation about society’s loss of ability to have honest debate. I am proposing to take debate out of the picture all together.

First we have to separate the irrefutable from the guesswork. Too much guesswork is being stated as absolute. Refusal to accept that absolute does not completely diminish the original premise. Here are a few examples:

• The global warming that has been observed is primarily due to man’s influence.  But there are authorities on this subject that do not agree.
• Al Gore’s dire predictions in “An Inconvenient Truth” are imminent and our fault and if we don’t do something immediately about this life as we know it will end with the climate changes and rising sea levels.Green legislation is contrary to American’s heritage of freedom and will cause economic disaster.
• Government intervention is the only way that we will solve this problem.
• Adopting Green Standards will be an economic disaster.

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