Rational Argument:  Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of the US in August 2005, there have been many predictions that more hurricanes just like it were on the way in future years and that they will be caused by global warming.  It was also claimed often that Katrina was the result of global warming.

Liberal Argument circa 2008:  No one ever said Hurricane Katrina was caused by global warming.

Yes they did and here's one article that shows it. 

In a video interview with the Wall Street Journal in an article published January 2, 2008, Shirley MacLaine explains that "aliens" do not like to be called "aliens".  They prefer to be called "star beings" because as she explains they are our cosmic brothers and sisters!  It's interesting isn't it that space aliens (oops!  sorry - star beings) have the same politically-correct sensibilities as liberals? We always knew their heads were in the clouds! 

A Russian scientist is concurring with an American scientist who said recently that global warming has peaked (the American said it peaked in 2000) and we are now entering a cooling period which the Russian says will begin in earnest in 2012. He says chillin' global temperatures will bottom out around the middle of the century, but take the the entire last half of the century to warm back up. He bases his predictions on solar activity.

Also, British scientists say that 2007 was the coldest year since 2000 because of a drop in sea surface temperatures off the western coast of South America due to La Niña. Although it still ranks in the top 10 warmest years.  But it does point to a cooling trend that is thought to have begun around the year 2000. 

In a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire on January 5, 2008, Mike Huckabee said that he supported President Bush's troop surge in Iraq when it was announced in January of 2007.  However, here's what Mike Huckabee actually said in January 2007 about the troop surge:

"Well, I'm not sure that I support the troop surge, if that surge has to come from our Guard and Reserve troops, which have already been overly stretched."  This was said on MSNBC on January 24, 2007.

Global Warming:

The Argument:  Humans are grossly negligent to the environment with all the CO2 emissions we pump into the atmosphere which everyone knows is making the climate alarmingly warm. 

The Rational Response:  It’s getting cooler not hotter!  In a 12/19/2007 editorial in the Washington Post, David Deming, a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis, at the University of Oklahoma wrote that not only is the climate cooling down, that cooling is deadly. 

Just the facts from his editorial:

• ...Record low temperatures are being set all over the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards.

• Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by 0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well within the range of natural variation. Carbon dioxide continues to build in the atmosphere, but the mean planetary temperature hasn't increased significantly for nearly nine years.

The Rational Response:  The main problem with Al Gore's global warming agenda is that he calls for us to make extreme sacrifices.  He calls for a 90% REDUCTION in carbon emissions within the next 10-15 years!  That's crazy.  That would only mean death for millions as we'd have to simply quit using a huge amount of energy as technology and conservation will not be enough to come even close to helping us make a 90% reduction.  

Their Argument:  He's not calling for anyting that extreme.

The Facts:   Yes, he is.  And here's the proof.  An editorial written by Al Gore himself and published in the New York Times July 1, 2007.  Here's the full text of the editorial.  

I was just having a conversation with a Democrat who swore up and down that Republicans are racist.  Conveniently, the Wall Street Journal published this editorial the same day.  Racist statements made by prominent Democrats.  Their list goes back to the 1800s, but I'll include here what I think is the more recent and relevant part.