Bob wrote: I would rather debate this than Global Warming. It's much more interesting and the sides are not divided along party lines. You will probably find a UFO discussion also divided among party line. I found this in an article: "A 2007 Gallup poll found that the average level of worry about the impacts of global warming among Republicans was 34%, compared with 59% among independents and 75% among Democrats. In the following year, Republicans grew less convinced that humans were causing global warming. This political divide lay along a line that more generally separated people according to their feelings about authority, individual responsibility, risk-taking and other personal issues. But it also depended on national political circumstances and history (in the United Kingdom, Conservatives in the tradition of Margaret Thatcher criticized the Labor government for doing too little about global warming). Each side found confident endorsement of its views in its favorite media, where exaggerated pronouncements served to attract and retain an audience by conforming to that audience's prejudices." Perhaps this sums it best: "As the Wall Street Journal reported, "The global-warming debate is shifting from science to economics... The biggest question going forward no longer is whether fossil-fuel emissions should be curbed. It is who will foot the bill for the cleanup." A wise corporation would take the lead in discussing just which business operations should be taxed or regulated. If youre not at the table, the Journal remarked, youre on the menu." Erik