The main reason my late dad among other two dozen top meteorologists signed that letter to a prior POTUS Bush (Barbara's husband) not to sign Kyoto agreement, as he explained to me, has been that we simply do not know. We would not probably know it for a very long time to come, more likely in our lifetime than not. The atmosphere and the ocean are too complex objects and the data cannot be reliably gathered, as one cannot get vertical data everywhere. And as far as 'global warming' or 'global cooling' crowds are concerned, they are not really taken seriously, as the models they are running and base their conclusions on, are very well known to be inacurate compared to the real thing. The data that needs to be gathered from all over the globe including oceans and atmospheric layers up and down to feed these models is simply not available and would like not be available. So it is a bogus, and "everybody knows the books are cooked".

Indeed I found it silly that this has been modded down.

Please mod the parent up.

I would agree with you that the commerce is not the prime cause. I think the reproduction trends are. In old days when a bride's father being responsible for the choice of the groom, the reproduction process has been selective with the trend to strongest reproduced, as deemed by a grown up.

Nowadays when a young, not yet capable to think rationally female chooses her bride, its often based on things that are of no relavance to reproduction, like the width of the neck, entertainment capabilities, willingness to succumb to her will unconditionally, or at best, earning capabilities, the reproduction is either erratic or selective to produces mindless, self-assured, non-stop-laughing, ass-kissing idiots prevailining in the current society.

In places where this process took longer, like in many places in europe, the amount of idiocy and infantilism is getting higher then here.

So long as it goes on, more americans are doomed to be born assholes. Rich assholes where they prefer salesmen, lawyers, ceos and football players and poor ones where they are not even capable to comprehend that..