Brainwashing the kids on global warming

Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris:

Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), once a skeptic of global warming, got a hint that the political winds might be shifting when a longtime supporter warned that he might vote against Inglis if he “didn’t clean up his act on the environment.”

The warning came from Inglis’ eldest son, Robert Jr., now 22.

His daughter was no less blunt about the congressman’s refusal to embrace the view that global warming was being caused by human actions and that a serious response is needed. “I have three more kids coming up — and they seem to share the same view,” Inglis said.

Family pressure worked. Inglis traveled to Antarctica and, most recently, to Greenland to witness the effects of rising CO2 levels and temperatures. He now believes the science behind global warming. And he believes the politics are equally conclusive: Republicans will “get hammered” if they do not reckon with the issue soon.

You wouldn’t know it from listening to President Bush or most GOP congressional leaders, but a lot of smart Republican thinkers are coming to the same conclusion as Inglis.

The changing politics of global warming will be a useful gauge to measure change in Washington. Two questions loom.

The first is how Republicans will reposition themselves for a post-Bush era in which it appears that many ascendant issues — the environment and health care especially — are historically favorable terrain for Democrats.

The second is whether even powerful shifts in public opinion, as have clearly taken place on global warming, can force action in a Congress where partisan stalemate has been the operating mode on most difficult issues for over a decade.

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This is bad news for the economy and for the country. Just as more scientific evidence is available showing the skeptics are right, the brainwashing is making it more difficult to resist the bad policies of the globo warmers. However, it si the so called "science" where the glogo warmers are most vulnerable. How did the congressman's trip to Antarctica omit the fact that the ice cap down there is growing faster than the Greenland ice cap is melting. How could these writers omit such facts if they were really honest about the issue.

The fact is that globo warmers want to shut down a real debate on the science on the pretense that we don't have time for it even though all the current ramifications of a warming planet are pretty positive. They have to rely on scare tactics predicting future problems by exaggerating effects.

None of the globo warmers can give a satisfactory answer to how man is causing global warming on other planets.