Facts:
In January 2001, there were 111.6 million private-sector payroll jobs in the United States. In January 2009, when Bush left office, there were 110.9 million. The stock market is basically where it was a decade ago. The lost decade ended with the deepest recession since the Great Depression.
This is what the Tea Party is yearning for more of.

Children throw tantrums when they don't get what they want.

I don't what country you're from, but I don't share your dim view of America. The United States has the ingenuity to meet the challenges of climate change without wrecking our economy. Indeed, such efforts will stimulate the economy.

We can outwork and out-think any other country - as long as we don't fall into the mental rut of mindless, juvenile name-calling.

Can you present any evidence that shows public schools are teaching atheism, promoting abortion, promoting illegal immigration, or promoting big government? Or are you just making all that up?

And by the way - I'm not a scientist, but my field is quite technical and requires in-depth understanding of physics, as well as laboratory measurements, blind testing, and experimentation. Most of my work is presented in public forums for review and criticism. I've been doing what I do for 20 years. So I do claim a reasonable understanding of the scientific process.

Where'd you get "Algore"? Not from Rush? Did you make that up and give it to him?

We can easily gauge the amount of carbon that we're putting into the atmosphere. We know how much fossil fuel is being produced. We know how much CO2 is produced when this fuel is burned. Do we know down to the last ton? No, but we can get close.

Spacecraft have landed on Venus and measured the temperature.

To say that I don't know what carbon dioxide is is absurd, because the name alone tells you: a molecule composed of one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms (DI-oxide). It is toxic in large doses, actually, but the real problem with it is the warming that it causes - which, again, has been demonstrated in labs (and on the surface of Venus).

A great source of information on this subject is NASA scientist James Hansen's book, "Storms of my Grandchildren." Note that I said scientist, not "scientist." He's been employed for his entire life as a scientist. He is respected as a scientist by other scientists. Scientists have a pretty good record so far. They've made some mistakes, but unless you're out on a hike right now, practically everything around you is the result of scientific discovery.

So I have that track record, versus some guy posting on a conservative website who implies science is a bunch of B.S. Gee - which one is probably right?

CL, you should do your job as an American citizen and seek out real information rather than that which meets your predetermined beliefs.

The atmospheric warming effects of carbon can easily be demonstrated in a laboratory. Or go to Venus - atmosphere mostly CO2, surface temp 450 C.

We know how much carbon we're putting into the atmosphere (~90 million tons per day).

The end result is obvious to anyone who's intelligent and intellectually honest. But instead, you choose to listen to such learned scientific experts as Rush Limbaugh because they tell you what you want to hear.

Actually, the arson at Sarah Palin's church was covered by the New York Times, CNN, the Boston Herald ... and those are just the MSM outlets that came up in the first page of my search. It was also covered by the Huffington Post.

Oh, well, now conservatives have yet another thing to fear - roving mobs of liberal activists wielding baseball bats. What with the roving mobs of Muslim fundamentalists, the roving mobs of illegal Mexican immigrants, the roving mobs of welfare queens, etc., etc., I can't imagine how y'all sleep at night.

Calm down, everybody. The writer in the HuffPo piece is using a metaphor. He's not literally calling for Obama to hit Republicans with baseball bats. The same metaphor could have been applied to almost anyone who was successful in the arm-twisting approach to government, from Tom DeLay to Lyndon Johnson. They didn't call DeLay "The Hammer" because he was good at carpentry....