Originally Posted by mulp

Face it, conservatives are too interested in taking government money to line their pockets, like Bush and Delay and numerous other Republicans have done, so they take all the money they get for doing scientific research and pocket it instead of proving Al Gore wrong.

Of course, to prove Al Gore wrong, it would be necessary to actually do research, which doesn't make you rich. While Al Gore is rich, he isn't a scientist, and all the scientists he cites aren't rich. Clearly Republicans just won't do scientific research because it is hard and you don't get rich.

But the real kicker is that no Republican can convince anyone like Al Gore, one of the more inarticular speakers. One can find many scientists, and science and technology writers, who are much better versed in the facts than Al Gore. It is the work of these people that Al Gore drew on and then, to be honest, turned into something of a hash of a presentation. Yet even with Al Gore screwing it up, Al Gore is just so much more convincing any any Republican or conservative. In fact, Al Gore is so much more skilled in his arguments that he baffled McCain and lots of conservatives, and forced them to promote government programs to fight global warming.

Of course, conservatives really screw up when they say that the air and water today are cleaner than ever, so there is no reason for government action on climate change. And then in the next breath, they condemn the EPA and all the environmental regulations that were passed back in the 60s and 70s.

Get a clue. You must either claim that there is no such thing as the EPA and the EPA has not been a burden on industry for the past three to four decades. Or you need to claim that the air and water are much dirtier and people are dying all the time because of the EPA mandating that industry pollute the air, so we need to go back the natural way of things, when rivers naturally caught on fire several times a year.

On this issue more than any other, conservatives and Republicans have demonstrated that they are completely incompetitent in first making up facts to suit their ideology, and then totally unable to communicate their version of the facts convincingly.

Of course, you could blame all those common people who just don't understand what the conservative and Republican elites can only comprehend.