1. No offense, but you certainly come across like a socialist. Wanting to take my stuff and give it to my less well off neighbor, is generally construed as socialism.

2. I agree with you on this.

3. I would have, had it happened recently.

4. You are flat out wrong here, it may be difficult now... but pre crash it was insanely easy.It was even easier if you were in one of the Fed-targetted groups/demographics for housing assistance. The guy in the office above me a few years ago ran the local office of one of those "mortgage companies". We used to trade favors, and whatnot.. I would fix his PC an cook up spreadsheets for him.. he would help me out with random shit. I got a pretty good inside scoop on how that shit worked, fuck, I saw the paperwork. You could literally walk in off the street and make random shit up, put it on your loan app and nab a house. No, I am not exaggerating.

5. I am anti death penalty, our govt screws it up way too much. Lots of people are put down that did not deserve it. If guilt is certain, then fine - no problem. Its also typically more expensive to execute than just let em rot in prison.

6. I think most GOPers believe in evolution TBH. Anyhow, 20 years ago the general consensus was we were headed into a new Ice Age. Climate science is much too young to take with anything but a grain of salt, and scientists in general are pretty good at missing the forest due to the trees. Large scale chaotic patterns are not something we have nailed yet... if the current consensus is still in place in another 20 years, then it will be worth heeding.

In any case, it doesnt matter. If humans are causing a long term warming trend, we are fucked regardless of what BS regulations we put in place. The rapidly industrializing 5 or so billion people in the world absolutely guarantee that. Unless we are willing to go to war to prevent carbon use by others, we are powerless to effect any meaningful change. Thats some math you can take to the bank.

If that turns out to be the case, then the only hopes we have are simple - new tech to adapt to a warmer planet, or advances in "green" energy that make it more cost effective than carbon based energy. Either we will have it or we wont. Its really that simple. Unless we want to start fighting wars over carbon.

Human global warming is a valid theory, but there are prominent dissenters ( outside of the crackpots the left likes to cite ), and the science is still extremely young as far as analysis of this magnitude go. Pay attention and continue to study? Absolutely. Go off in an alarmist panic? Not advisable.

Besides, cleaner tech should be commercially viable by the time global warming started to make any significant impact.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)