From Federalist #10 by James Madison

My point was that people who are choosing between wood and charcoal to cook food aren't going to think about climate change at all if it means they get electricity in their home. This is why coal power is growing in places like China and India, and will likely continue to grow around the world. What 1st world countries do to stave off climate change will be dwarfed by the 3rd world catching up to our standard of living.

Except most of our oil comes from domestic and friendly sources. The largest imported oil source is Canada.

1) A democracy is where 51% of the people decide the needs and force it on the other 49%
2) Most libertarians support the idea of a police force and law enforcement.

I think you are confusing libertarians with anarchists. Libertarians believe "The government that governs least governs best." The government and laws exist in a libertarian utopia, but their task is to make people adhere to fair play.

So libertarian strawmen are insightful now. Metamoderators, please act accordingly.

I give this post a hearty libertarian "HARUMPH!"

Not only will I take lower taxes, but the GP somehow made the leap that even if the government brings in less revenue, that's a bad thing and a corporate giveaway. I agree Rand is in the GOP and not a libertarian, but let's be honest and say if the government brought in less tax revenue and spent less (hopefully by even more than the decrease in income to bring us to parity) we'd probably all be better off.

That's all fine and dandy in the 1st world. But when your choice is between wood and charcoal to cook your food over an open fire in your makeshift home, the climate change debate is pretty political. People with no electricity don't decide between CFLs and LEDs.

Except in this case, we don't have an experiment where we can reproduce the earth and any falsifications or confirmations will happen when we are all dead... Hence the need for debate.

Yes, but people use these undisputed facts to shut down any dissent to the projection that the human caused warming will be catastrophic. If there isn't a catastrophe looming, no one can use climate change to push their political agenda...

Except the JJ Abrams Treks which all suck.

Heavy metals also tend to be dense and not very soluble. If dumped into the ocean near a subduction zone, they would get recycled into the mantle at some point. I'm not so concerned with shit being buried in molten rock.

What if the aliens aren't being altruistic and helping us clean the oceans? What if instead they are stealing the plastic from our planet for their own use? Poor aliens wasted all their plastic and now have to take ours!

pfft, test it on any Ace Ventura movie where Jim Carrey does his own reverse taking sequence!