Speaking of the weather....

Just because we're setting records with increasing frequency for extreme weather events doesn't mean it has anything to do with supposed global climate change.  Just because scientists have made observations, recorded data and made mathematical calculations based on factual information doesn't mean humans have anything to do with the causes of all these extreme weather events.  Just because hundreds and thousands of millions of people have been burning coal, wood and other fuels for centuries doesn't mean all those smoke particles in the atmosphere are the cause of changing temperatures that might be changing for other, natural reasons.  Just because the science isn't 100% conclusive, and couldn't possibly be - except until after the point at which it is too late to help, doesn't mean we should do anything about some of the possible causes that we do have control over while we can still make a difference...

    .... it doesn't matter to the ostrich what the weather is doing as long as its head is in the sand*.
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Since it's unlikely a Republican is going to weigh-in with a response to this post, I'll go ahead with a wild guess at a conservative opinion on this matter:

'If you're suggesting that government should force business to spend money on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it's obvious you don't know how costly that would be to my corporation's bottom line and how much that might affect the shareholder stock dividends for the third quarter!  The board of directors would never stand for it and besides, they've based my compensation package on short-term profit margins, so less government regulation is what we need - not more!

It's also unlikely an Evangelical would ever post a reply here, so again, I'll just have to offer a guess:
'These events are God's punishment for our wickedness!  We have committed an abomination before the  Lord by allowing homosexuals in our midst!  These are Signs of the End Times and the Almighty's Merciful Hand of JUSTICE shall smite the evildoers and lift up the Righteous to sit at His Banquet Table on the Judgment Day!'

..so there! take that, you so-called scientists and your inconclusive "facts".

Actually, there's no need to speculate about any of this.  Michele Bachmann has actually combined the unassailable logic of both positions and said (the earthquake and) the hurricane are God's message to the politicians in Washington to rein in the spending.  (You Tube videos of her speeches are too good to be true.) It will be so reassuring when she becomes president because we will finally have someone in the office with a direct line to the Creator of the Universe - that's a hell of a ticket!

* (for the record, ostriches do not bury their heads in the sand.  They will lay their heads down and stay motionless making themselves look like a lump if threatened.)