Not likely. Unions have seen Obama's presidency secure BILLIONS for them thus far and I can't see that trend ending soon. It was a lottery win for them.

Better yet understand that the American government's proposed system nails doctors for a 20% reduction in their fees and a huge increase in paper work which is likely to bring in mostly those medical professionals looking for a lower income to go along with an increased workload.

Laud: Definition: High commendation; praise; honor; exaltation; glory. (through which I make the religious ties to The Church of Climatology in what appears to be all too clever tongue and cheek)

Try a reread. Your "consensus" is NOT that CO2 is even "a" (singular: meaning one) driving force in global or local climate. There is however a consensus that humanity can and does affect local climates which in turn can then affect a greater portion of an area but that too has been shown to be other than by your idol CO2. There is currently more work showing CO2 as being a "result of" heating cooling than a "cause of" such. Faith has bugger all to do with anything save for this new CO2 religion.

Point of fact those trying to make points on CO2 are even now shifting to "ocean acidification" specifically because the pews are emptying and the casual members of the congregation are no longer buying into "CO2 is the devil".

Yet acceptance of CO2 as THE driving force in the mechanism of "Global Warming" was to be accepted because in the end it too lauds humanity as having the ability to affect change upon the environment which IS the only point agreed to? Seriously?

Faith is the available option when woefully shy of fact. I myself would call anyone who believes we know the driving mechanisms of our planet as any sort of absolute "a denier". Any scientist unwilling to allow his "findings" to be checked by an unassociated or affiliated agent "a denier". Any person unwilling to read the literature/case against his or her chosen position "a denier". Anyone whose faith in the science as being settled allowing no room for new data or to put it bluntly, those who see science as being both finite and static "a denier".

Every day the "consensus" is being challenged without rebuttal by those who are very much the peers of Jones, Mann and Schmitt. Every day methods are having their flaws exposed. Every day models are proving themselves flawed to the point of ELOC's the data industry would find not only unacceptable but unworthy of "alpha" release. Every day more of those who make up the "consensus" are being outed as not being themselves scientists but "staff members". Every day answers to questions of raw data and scientific method are answered with not fact but verbiage glutted with religious fervor by defenders of "the faith".

Again that's where you are taking the CO2 religion as science fact when the very experts your side of the debate depends on are changing their position while Roger Pielke Sr and a host of others who strongly disagree with not only the conclusion's of Jones, Mann, Schmitt and Briffa but their "scientific method". I'll surprise you with this, there is significant "climate change" being affected directly by humanity and it indeed is serious but its not as you believe it to be. Not even close.

If all you are reading is Real Climate or watching NatGeo, then that's all you'll know. Try both sides as I have with an open mind and discount nothing based upon the media outlets on either side. The glass teat is food for the foolish and never more so than now.

Poor but they seem happy? He seriously did not say such an inane thing.

There's always those billions POTUS has already earmarked for combating that moving target formerly known as global warming.

I'll second that sentiment for Canada also. Duck's Unlimited and the Canadian Wildlife Federation have done more for Canada's wetlands and migration routes than all the protesting enviro-celebrities this country of mine has ever birthed or had emigrate to. Some people talk with religious fervor about the environment and some actually do something about it with both their incomes and bare hands.

Well said! As someone having worked with those in the concrete industry, I can guarantee you there are so many points being missed by those commenting in regard to construction as to render the whole thing a waste of characters. Forget not what happened in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake and why the death toll was last confirmed as 242,419. Its always about the structures around you in an earthquake.