It's natural that the earth goes from Cold to Hot and perfect balance to advantage in certain places, since we began to notice seasons.. there are also cycles of drought and flood, cooling and heat as a balance of weather and natural occurances anywhere on earth. Certainly there is pollution, but over all, the earth's living will respond to influences from outer space and the Sun more than man's doings on many strange weather patterns. People; we should not trust this new religion of Kooks that really have little or no scienctific facts or values other than the desire to have world control of your life and wealth. Educate yourself
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Annabella, Texas, USA

Re: Kathy from Omaha. I'm not sure if her ignorance is willful or congenital. Perhaps the bubble she's living in is running out of air and she's beginning to hallucinate. If George Bush has not been a disaster, then Hurricane Katrina was just a tropical breeze. If she thinks employment is now at it's highest she must have been in a coma during the 1990's when Clinton was president. Americans have plenty of jobs to choose from with little pay and no benefits. They need two or three jobs just to survive and still home foreclosures are 50% higher this year and expected to worsen. Extremely low inflation, as long as the CPI continues not to calculate food, utilities, gas or other necessities. Any money going to the Treasury is coming from loans by the Chinese. Tax cuts are directed only to the wealthy. Except for the wealthiest 1%, the remaining population has experienced negative income growth during W's reign. And certainly, Kathy cannot distinguish the U.S.Constitution from that unmenti

Rick Foreman, Las Vegas, NV

I find it quite interesting that the top echelon of US politicians seem to think that the electorate love their "hummers" (whatever -- ) more than their children and those children's children.

Unfortunately, it could be a very bad case of 'bad attitude' in action for the rest of us if this continues.

Phil, Sharpthorne, UK

The author should really get out more and perhaps to some fact checking. Bush did not win on a legal technicality. He won based on the electoral vote which is the law of the land. Popular vote has never been the method in the US for electing the President. As far as the votes in Florida, all subsequent recounts have confirmed Bush won.
Also, by my calendar, Jan 21, 2009 when Bush leaves office is more than 140 days away. This "news" article should have been in the opinion pages

Inyego Montoya, Marietta, GA

Better count George's days in office once again, it is much worse than the 140 reported days remaining.

Chris Effken, Friend, Nebraska

Algore is a climate profiteer. It is laughable that the enviro-left is trying to sell man-made global warming as the truth. Author Leake spouts the party line.

The official thermometers at the U.S. National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005.

The stutter in the temperature rise should rein in some of the more apoplectic cries of panic over man-made greenhouse emissions. The strong 28-year upward trend of 1970–1998 has apparently ended.

Bob Carter, a paleoclimatologist from Australia, notes that the earth also had strong global warming between 1918 and 1940. Then there was a long cooling period from 1940 to 1965. He points out that the current warming started 50 years before cars and industries began spewing consequential amounts of CO2. Then the planet cooled for 35 years just after the CO2 levels really began to surge. Carter says there does not seem to be much correlation between temperatures and man-made CO2.

Mark Berlinger, Burbank, CA / USA

No fact checkers at The Times? G W Bush's term will end on January 20, 2009--unfortunately, that's a lot more than 140 days.

Bill, Brooklyn, NY

William G. Kenny, BROOKLYN, NY

George Bush has NOT been a disaster for this country. I don't know under which rock Clay has been living but the rest of the US is enjoying the highest employment in the last 40 years; extremely low inflation; record amount of money pouring into the US Treasury due to tax cuts; and record business growth, including minority-owned businesses. And that's just for starters. 90% of the American public enjoy relative wealth and abundance...more than any other country on the planet. Al Gore is now and has always been a joke. And the "technicality" that the author mentions in his article as the reason President Bush won the 2000 election, is called the US Constitution. As far as the American electorate "rectifying its mistake" by, I presume, electing a democrat socialist, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Kathy, Omaha, NE

The only joke here is Al Gore himself. If he thinks he will earn the gratitude of American voters by criticising his own country, and inviting others to ruin its economy, he'd best think again. There are no American voters to be had from grandstanding EU and third-world leaders, or the latte left media. What passes for 'right-on' and 'avant-garde' at trendy international meetings, and UN committees, looks to scary to the voters of Missouri and Tennessee. The average American citizen knows, better than their supposed intellectual betters will admit, that a lot of 'climate change' hot air is a ruse to force America to become economically uncompetitive. Put forward by its economic and political competitors. Iran wants to politically neutralise America? Simple - get the EU to do it by destroying the American economy with emissions targets. (which no-one else bothers to adhere to)

Ike Eisenhower, Brisbane, Australia

I voted for Al Gore and if Gore had been president, the US would not have been in this present mess!! Republicans know it well but dare not to say it....Bush presidency has been a political and an economic disaster for America (similar to Nixon and a little bit like Carter). Nevertheless, I believe in my (new) country and I am sure America will rectify its mistake and move forward.

Clay , NY , NY