Here is some "conservative logic" for you.

A couple e-mails from a corrupt scientist who likes to manipulate the results and statistics derived from his own experiments totally trumps mountains of scientific data from researchers around the globe.

The reason that conservatives are so opposed to believing that man-made pollution damages the environment and causes global warming is because most conservatives are not willing to change their lifestyles and get rid of their SUVs, power boats, RVs, ATVs, personal watercraft, snowmobiles, 4-wheelers, dirt bikes and other toys. Also, many conservatives enjoy living "the American dream" which means living in a big house in the suburbs, 30 miles from the office.

My point here is that it doesn't matter whether man is contributing to climate change or not. We need to develop alternative energy, conserve more, recycle more and pollute less. The USA cannot continue to use 25 percent of the world's resources with 1/20th of the world's population. It's not sustainable - especially now that the US is a consumer-based economy and doesn't manufacture many goods anymore.

It would be nice if conservative wishes would come true and we could all keep on living the same way that we've been living for the past 50 years - but we're at a tipping point, and we need to start doing things smarter right now or else there won't be a USA in another 20 years.