Sorry, David, but you couldn't be more wrong.

Romney challenging the liberal AGW orthodoxy would be healthy, not only for our economy, but for our democracy.  

I dislike it when pundits try to frame a complicated question by simply ignoring significant differences. Here, Gergen is effectively saying that Romney is against environmental regulation. If Romney wins, the Republicans should immediately be labeled the "anti-environment" party. That's simplistic, and crap.

It's obvious that since the Democrats are struggling with race and gender issues (where either/both could be disastrous for them), the media is trying to drum up similar controversies on the Republican side. I guess that's Gergen's idea of "fair and balanced." When the Democrats shoot themselves in the foot, the media shoots at the Republicans just to make it even.

"But with Gergen (who also worked for Bill Clinton) making liberal points, too, there’s no conservative to offer an alternative opinion."

Absolutely true and that is just the way CNN set it up and that's just the way they like it.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

Four thousand years ago, men such as Gergen would have been priests who sacrified virgins to the gods when as a pallative for a drought or warm snap.  Today there are no virgins left, so the Gergens of the world want to sacrifice a coal fired power plant instead. 

This "global warming" canard is an excuse for government to further regulate markets.  When markets are managed by government shortages can result.  In California plans are under way for the government to control home thermostatns

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1952334/posts

I am really concerned with the constant assertion of the AGW crowd that the ' worst that can happen' is blah blah blah if we give in the to this fictional theory.

Here's is the one 'worst thing can happen' scenario that noone talks about. A cap and trade system is in place for american manufacturing and engergy production. New Coal fired power plants are banned. Carbon taxes are demanded by Connie Mac for every home owner in the county, Gas Oil prices are taxed through the roof and then this happens.

http://windfarms.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/space-and-science-research-center.pdf

It will be too expensive to heat our homes. produce food and persue just about any other economic activity.

Joe Kennedy will be on the televion blaming the evil Republican party for freezin old people to death because of their failed global warming policies. (with 'citgo' Chavez by his side)

McCain obviously flunked out of his science classes. Oh wait he barely graduated - (Graduated 894th out of 899 in his class)

John McCain - McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation (The National Center for Public Policy Research)
John McCain - Senators McCain and Lieberman Propose Energy Tax (The National Center for Public Policy Research)
Global Warming Bill Could Cost Every U.S. Man, Woman and Child Up to $494 Annually (Business & Media Institute)

I am so sick of people talking about "cleaner" and "greener". These morons obviously do not comprehend that the planet would not be green without carbon dioxide! Pollution has nothing to do with Global Warming! Because CO2 is not a pollutant!

"CO2 for different people has different attractions. After all, what is it? - it’s not a pollutant, it’s a product of every living creature’s breathing, it’s the product of all plant respiration, it is essential for plant life and photosynthesis, it’s a product of all industrial burning, it’s a product of driving – I mean, if you ever wanted a leverage point to control everything from exhalation to driving, this would be a dream. So it has a kind of fundamental attractiveness to bureaucratic mentality" - Richard S. Lindzen Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology MIT

The Kyoto Protocol is a treaty to regulate 'Greenhouse Gases' only:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Methane (CH4)
- Nitrous oxide (N2O) (Laughing Gas, Nitrous, NOS)
- Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
- Perfluorocarbons (PFCs)
- Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)

Car Exhaust consists of:
Harmless:
- Carbon dioxide (CO2)
- Nitrogen (N2)
- Water vapor (H2O)
Some Pollutants:
- Carbon monoxide (CO) *
- Hydrocarbons or Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) *
- Nitric oxide (NO) *
- Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) *
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *

* Your car's catalytic converter removes about 95% of these pollutants.

Smog consists of:
- Ozone (O3) * (formed from the photochemical reaction of Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) + Hydrocarbons)
- Particulate matter (PM-10) *
- Sulfur dioxide (SO2) *

* Air Pollution is already regulated in the: 1970 Clean Air Act (Amended: 1977, 1990)
- Water Pollution is already regulated in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (Amended: Clean Water Act of 1977, Water Quality Act of 1987)

137 'Developing Countries' are Exempt from Kyoto, including:
- Brazil
- China
- India

The Anti "Man-Made" Global Warming Resource

I heard this pathetic excuse for a man last night, as usual he really ticked me off...he isn't worth the salt in a pickle jar.

Gergen: "If Romney wins, and that becomes the message of the Republican Party,
we are going to have two huge clashes in this country between needs on
the economy vs. needs to deal with climate change. And it's a very
dangerous place for the Republican Party to go."

That's
exactly what we need, and what Gore is trying to avoid.
With AGW as a major Presidential issue, the pros and cons of the
theory get to be aired in candidate debates, and the public will get
the side of the story they've been denied all these years.

Everytime
the Dem comes up with some bogus half-truth, the Rep candidate can bash
it down. A guy like Gore would look like political pinata; the
preceived credibility of Hillary and Obama would be destroyed.
Remember, she never even read the excutive summary of the pre-OIF
National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before she voted; she's not
likely to get beyond the bumper sticker slogans on AGW.