Are they (politicians)really that stupid? Maybe it is that they think we are that stupid? Or maybe just maybe we are all that stupid. Congress has passed a bill(Bush plans to veto it) requiring companies to reduce the amount of carbon(a green house gas) it releases by 60 percent by the year 2100. Here is the stupitiy- It's based on current emissions and the precieved damage that it's doing currently . Now take into effect that the number of companies that exsist today and then forcast the number that will be pumping Carbon and it becomes very clear our stupity! If you reduce the emissions by 60% but number of companies increases by 60 % you are now right back here...where we started from. Forget the small detail that at the current rate of emissions and what damage has all ready been done to the Earths cooling system we will be long gone by 2100! Iv'e written before that climatogogists and other scientist universally believe that if Greenhouse gases are not reduced now, RIGHT NOW! That we may see the disappearence of the Polar Ice by 2040. WE HAVE ALL READY LOST OVER 400,000 SQ MILES! Very simple to undestand....NO POLAR ICE NO LIFE ON PLANET! 2100 LOL

The good news is that there has been a formal acceptence of the science surrounding "global climate change" by our government. Specificlly the Minester of the Interior. The bad news is that the sign of acceptence was to place the Polar Bear on the endangered species list do to shrinking sea ice and more importanly the Loss of over 400,000 square miles of the polar ice cap. The polar bear an iconic figure in the animal kingdom has seen it's numbers drasticlly reduced by starvation and drowning, While attempting to hunt seals that once were much closer to mianland, now they are forced to swim long distences(polar bears are excellent swimmers) in search of them. Their future will depend on the actions taken by you and me....I think their is little hope for them. It will be a mirror image of our own fate as the Ice cap dwindles and eventually dissappears. Many scientists now believe we will see it's disappereance by mid century!