Idaho senators remain opposed to stimulus plan | KTVB.COM | Idaho News

BOISE -- Idaho's two U.S. senators are still opposed to the current stimulus plan.

Sen. Jim Risch says at least 90 percent of the calls made to his office encourage him to vote "no" on the bill.

Risch says there's too much pork in the proposal, such as a plan to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to study global warming.

Could fluctuations in the Sun affect temperature on Earth?

Imagine the Earth right next to the Sun. First, you could forget about the snow and ice and global warming would take on a whole new meaning. If the Earth were a golf ball, the Sun would be 15 feet wide.

Global warming theory a hoax

[Royce Walker] The theory that carbon fuel gas emissions (carbon dioxide) are the cause of global warming is a hoax. The theory assumes that the dramatic increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the industrial revolution is causing global warming. For this theory to be true there must be a significant correlation. The current theory predicts temperature increases of tenths of a degree, ocean level rises of inches, and permanent ice decreases of relatively small per portions. The facts are that when the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago the temperature rose several degrees, the ocean rose 300 feet, and the permanent ice sheet that was up to 10,000 feet thick that covered the majority of North America melted. The changes we are seeing today are miniscule compared to the dramatic changes that took place 10,000 years ago. If global warning is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil then there should have been dramatic increases in those levels 10,000 years ago. There is no evidence of such! It is totally unreasonable to assume a significant correlation. Today we are seeing a major increase in carbon dioxide levels and minor global warming. Ten thousand years ago there was no increase in carbon dioxide levels from burning carbon fuels and the global warming was major. It seems to me that it is obvious that there is not a significant correlation.