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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Now that I've read all your funny comments about the worlds scientists not agreeing with your sheeple views, it is time to dispel all your unfounded myths.
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Watch it, and Read it, and weep at your failings to think for yourself. 
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Easy there fella :p
I appreciate the ire of your rhetoric, but the presentation needs some work - I almost didn't bother to watch your link because of it
I'm on the fence regarding 'global warming' and its alleged causes. Pollution is a bad thing. But there's so little scientific consensus regarding the observed phenomena of increasing co2 and temperature increases, I find much of either argument to be lacking the fullest knowledge such a subject requires.
More cynically and to the point, I resent the barefaced money spinning by various politicians who attempt to present reasons for tax increases as 'green issues'. The direct result of which means it costs me more to live now that the political bandwagon has leapt aboard this great justification for increased taxation.
A clear example of this is our own dearly regarded gordon brown and his car tax hikes.
In the UK Vehicle Excise Duty (car tax) is raised by the DVLA (driver vehicle and licensing agency) as a means of paying for the upkeep of the road networks, law enforcement regarding road use and various vehicle licensing standards. It is not a 'carbon offset tax' or any other kind of 'green' tax based solely on the levels of pollution produced by certain vehicles. Unfortunately this is exactly what gordon seems determined to turn it into and to that end he has backdated punitive measures, increasing the VED on certain models of vehicle, all the way back to vehicles produced in 2001.
I believe efforts to employ this kind of monetary penalty are justifiably circumspect on all new vehicles produced today, to an extent. After all, pollution is not a good thing, but it's not quite the nemesis some agendas present it as either.
There are plenty of government info-mercials, loaded with flashy sound-bites repeated argumentum ad nauseam in public by our leaders, that I'm not likely to forget the irritation their sophistry causes.