It's adorable that you have so much faith in the government that they wouldn't sell that data outright or you know allow it for some type of kickback.

That doesn't matter to the agenda, it was a Republican idea and we had to do something.

There's a difference there Bush had high profile terror attack to get the people behind him, once that happened he had carte blanche.

With Obama's sidestepping and reinterpretation of laws and the Constitution a very dangerous precedent has been set for us.

Ethics and logic when making a reference to government, I see what you did there!

When we the people demand it.

That's what the government is in business for, "wasting taxpayers money" at one time they were in the business of governing.

Peaceful, just and secure society when referring to the US, now I know you're trolling.

We've seen this happen under the guise of healthcare.

Actually kill off 6 and the remain 1 will probably be pissed and no doubt ill suited to carry on as we normally do.

How low a UID and for how much?

See I think we need to change not due to CO2 but due to reliance on a waning fuel source.

I'm skeptical when the data set is not big enough to show the trend. We would need records for hundreds of thousands of years to make the claim it's either warming or cooling fact is we can't make either claim with any certainty due to incomplete data, we are talking a body that has cooling and warming cycles that last hundreds or even thousands of years.

Do we have enough data on record to account for those long term trends?

Earth was here before us, it'll be here after us. Same as so many other apex species.

The most notable consequence of the last temperature change of this rapidity was a dieoff of what percentage of life forms inhabiting the region now known as North America? I'm not sure. Another comment claimed half the mammal species, though. We might find that inconvenient.

By chance were any of those species that died out capable of farming? Or have access to our level of technology?

It might seem that way if you ignore the fact that small changes in sea level can mean very serious changes for storm surges.

So we move inland and lose Florida and Brussels.

Not in any serious percentage, and we continue to produce CO2-producing power plants as fast as we can, as a species.

The day will come when we run out of fuel. We will be overpopulated well before climate affects us on a large scale.

Not for a psychopath. Our particular political system is apparently designed to put them in office and keep them there.

Bang on!

This I think I'd be more worried if the earth were shown to be cooling.

Either way no matter what we do the earth will correct itself once we run out of fuel.