It can be very expensive to start a business in the US. Years ago, I repaired and sold used appliances out of my garage. I bought a trailer to put behind my car to haul the appliances because I could not afford a truck. Zoning did not permit me to do this. If I got a business license, I would have had to provide myself with more off street parking to replace the area in the garage, and I would not be permitted to have customers come to my garage. Major appliances don't sell at swap meets. I flew under the radar for several years. I never could do enough business to save the money and open a shop in a commercial area. I finally gave up. My hat's off to those who do succeed.

At my son's high school, most classes have at least 40 students and some have over 50. That's not teaching, that's just crowd control.

They also want to play God and "limit progress in Africa and other developing areas". Sorry Africa, you can't have refrigerators to preserve food and keep medicines useful. You can't have electricity to run water pumps and bring safe water to your villages. You can't have cars and trucks to improve your lives, including bringing medical help. The environmental gestapo knows what is best for you.

Besides, the Grandfather of all this, Roger Revell came to the conclusion after decades of research (starting in 1955) that man's activities have little if any effect on the climate. You don't hear about this because it would end research grants, and profits from carbon credits. Al Gore stated that he thought Revell had gone senile when Revell made his conclusions. Gore could not prove himself right, so he attacked what went counter to what he wanted.

You have no idea about what you are talking about. They use PPM to have a number that seems larger. 2 PPM is an increase of 0.0002%! And if all of what they say is true, then why is the earth COOLER now than in the middle ages warming period of about 800 AD to 1200AD? The Vikings farmed on land in Greenland in that period that is now PERMAFROST! They look at today's temperatures and temperatures in the mid 1800s when where at the tail end of the little ice age, and assume that temperatures then are "normal". They deny that variations in the sun's output exist, when they have been proven, and they are huge. I have researched the origional sources of the claims, and I am convinced that they have used fraud and flawed assumptions.

Before I went back to college, I thought that man made climate change (then, global warming) was true, and REASONABLE efforts were needed to limit CO2 emissions. I then took earth science courses, and read the origional studies. These were contridictory, full of errors, and sensationalism. I also read articles by former assistants to researchers who claimed how they picked data that only proved their point, or distorted data to get the results they wanted. I have come to the conclusion that man's activies are no more changing the climate than if I were to stand in my livingroom, light a match and proclaim that I am warming the room.

I saw a video display at Birch Aquarium in San Diego where a researcher talked about the problem of "proving" gobal warming. He showed 2 graphs on one chart showing CO2 levels and Temperature, and they did not correlate. He was sure that there was a correlation, so he talked about "treating" the data with an equation that had an exponent in it, and he got what he wanted. Temperature increased after CO2 levels increased. I was astonished at the fraud! This is like saying I could fit my car through my front door, then bashing the car with a sledge hammer until it fit. He was so sure that it was true that he changed the data to make it fit the hypothesis.

Spamming freeloader. If you want to advertise on Townhall, PAY FOR IT.

What falling gas prices? In this city in the state of Confusion (California) the absolute cheapest gas is $4.00 per gallon.

When I started my teaching program, I was 35 but most of the students were about 22 and still very wide-eyed kids. They swallowed all of the BS the professors (geriatriac hippies) spouted. I would challange them on points I did not agree with. They pick up most of the liberalism in college.

...before school when all staff are required to attend. I also spent way too much time trying to convince parents that they need to be involved with their kids' education and discipline. Teachers are not surrigate parents. What do we do? We try to give students the tools they need to be engineers, scientists, auto mechanics, doctors, electricians.... What makes it all worth it? For me, it was when a student would say "I never understood this before, but you have made it easy!"