What I'm saying is the result is misleading.
There is also a chart which shows interestingly enough the correlation between sun activity and the rise in temperature. There's this article which comes from space.com which can be pro-"humans are causing global warming" that even admits that there is an increase in sun activity and the correlation of temperature rise.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html
I'll even pull some interesting lines from the article...
In what could be the simplest explanation for one component of global warming, a new study shows the Sun's radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s.
And this one makes me want to laugh...
The average surface temperature around the globe has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1880.
1 Degree!!??? We're stressing out over a temperature increase of 1 DEGREE in the last 100 plus years???!!! HAHAHAHAHA!! Oh no, in two hundred years it'll be 2 degrees warmer---OH NO!!!
And then there's this....
Confounding efforts to determine the Sun's role is the fact that its energy output waxes and wanes every 11 years.
Just enough time to get people worked up into a lather over nothing.
http://www.aip.org/pnu/2003/split/642-2.html
by the way, here's the chart...see how the activity of the sun is rising throughout the period where temps are supposedly rising....
Interesting, eh?
And one more thing...
Global Warming on Mars
OH MY GOD!! OUR SUV FUMES MUST BE REACHING ALL THE WAY TO MARS!!! Or it's those damn Martian cattle flatulating...
And Skye_Solo... our government DOES care. We care more than anybody. We put money into cleaning things up more than any other frickin' country. WE are the ones who create the technology which cleans the environment. Did Exxon just leave all that oil to go when the Valdez was leaking? No, they came up with technology that aided in the clean up. Did they just let the animals die when covered with oil? No, they paid a lot of money to aid in the clean up, and employees even gave up their time to go out and assist. But, ultimately, you know what happened? Nature did most of the work. America came up with the technology which other countries use today. It is absolutely short-sighted and disingenuous to claim America is "doing nothing" about pollution or the effects thereof. And who comes up with the fuel effecient cars? Mostly American. Car companies are a business, they want to cover their bets. If they know that fuel will eventually run out one day, would it not be in their best interest to create a car that does?
America does more than her fair share. And again about the "Kyoto Protocols"----why is America raked over the coals about this when your two BIGGEST polluters, China and India, exempted from the list. ALSO, might I add, that the Kyoto Protocol names SEVERAL different theories as to why it's supposedly warming up, and guess which one was at the bottom of the list....man made. Guess which was considered the bigger factor... the sun. Guess which was focused on more than any other? That says to me SCAM! Blame America, punish her, take away all that she has and give it to everybody else. That's called stealing.
Conservatives are athiests, ricarleite? I suppose you're making reference to if we don't support abortion, then we must be hypocritical to support the death penalty or even war, am I right? Thought so. Like Ferris209 said, there are basises for permitting death penalty, and war-time killing. Yeah, we have the "turn the other cheek" motto, but there is also a level of being responsible for your fellow man, and if that means removing a subject from society that will be nothing but a continual threat, then that is the responsible thing to do.