Bob Samuelson is a Jerk Face

This is a first draft of a letter to teh editor of the Post is responce to this Op-ED today. I haven't decied if I'm going to send it or not.

(In his op-ed of July 5, 2006 (Global Warming’s Real Inconvenient Truth) Robert J. Samuelson brings little to the table other than what he is complaining about. He addresses the fact of Global Warming as un-winnable fight (as one could derive about the War on Terror) and offers no new ideas to the conversation.

Those who recognize the facts about global warming (that it exists and must be dealt with) have already conceded that this is an engineering problem. Curbing our current emissions and energy use is part of a larger solution, something that everyone can do to assist in the pursuit of an answer. Is Mr. Samuelson suggesting that while we search for an engineering answer to global warming (hydrogen based power, more efficient solar power, or some yet to be discovered base) we do nothing? That is not an answer, and is a very pessimistic stance.

The truth is that Mr. Samuelson knows, as all Global Warming naysayer’s do, that the action necessary to counter the fact of Global Warming will require an “Apollo” like project, government funded and requiring more tax dollars, in a word sacrifice. Mr. Samuelson suggests that the American people are not willing to sacrifice. That politician’s will never suggest that they sacrifice. I would be willing to concede the latter, but the former must first be brought to the American people – Mr. Samuelson is no better position to make this judgment than I am, but at least I believe that it should be brought to the people instead of just giving up. If there is one thing that Americans will not accept, it is throwing in the towel. And that is all there is to Mr. Samuelson’s commentary.