Posted by CatsPajamas (anonymous) on September 24, 2009 at 6:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)

I am very interested in the comments the Andalusia Star readers would leave on this poll. I encourage everyone to take the time to write one.

Posted by details (anonymous) on September 24, 2009 at 8:14 a.m. (Suggest removal)

In one way i feel we have all played a part in maybe speeding up the process. Then on the other hand i think when this planet is ready to get rid of us ,it will regardless of what we do.

Posted by Patrick (anonymous) on September 24, 2009 at 10:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The number of No votes is disappointing. It shows me the large number of locals that haven't traveled to see the changes taking place in our own country because of the warmer average temperatures.

Just this year I witnessed the exponential increase each year in the melting of the Columbia Glacier Alberta, the northern progression of the bud worms in British Columbia and the northern progression of the pine beetles in Montana.

Locally: There were no love bugs in northern Covington County 30 years ago. Now they extend to Greenville. My mother-in-law has a Grape Fruit tree that yields each year. We couldn't raise Grape Fruit in Covington County 30 years ago.

Scientist predicted extremes in weather because of the warmer planet. Extreme droughts, extreme rain fall and flooding, extreme heat waves, extreme cold waves, and stronger ocean storms will occur. All these events seem to be happening.

Listening to the media commentators or advertisements by those with vested interest claiming we should stick or head in the sand is an easy approach but will result in disaster. I am encouraged that when this question was asked nation wide nearly 75% of the responders recognized the problem of planet warming.

Posted by covingtonconservative (anonymous) on September 24, 2009 at 1:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The climate has chaneged since the begining of time if im not misstaken there was an ice age and yet there was not even one car nor any type of factory releasing polutions into the air and yet the earth warmed up. Im not saying that we shouldn't try to cut down on the polutions that we release into the air, water and so on but I think people in the world and the U.S Government has gone to far with it. Everything has a cycle my opinion is when the earth gets to a point we will see a cooling cycle now that may be within our lifetime then again it may not.

Posted by WAtidefan (anonymous) on September 24, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

The history of the earth's climate didn't start 10 years ago or even a 1000 years ago. What is happening now is not new or different from that which has happened in the past. If we humans are the major cause of temperature change, what ended the last ice age?
This global warming scare is driven by politics not science. Using computer models to project the future (speculation) while ignoring history (facts) is folly. Many of the loudest voices of doom are the very wealthy who do not change their life style one bit. They are absolute hypocrites. Which nation is expected to change to "save the earth"? Why, American, of course. Do you think that China, North Korea, Russia, etc care one whit about the condition of the earth? Of course not.
If you think that humans can stop the climate of the earth from changing, you are in naive indeed.