Latest Answers http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/%2A/%2A/MO a view of answers sorted by date en One of the things that’s been interesting being a member of the Select Committee on Energy, Environment and Global Warming has been the conversation has really changed a lot. You don’t hear much talk of global warming per se. So many of the scientists are talking in terms of climate change. And there are more scientists who are moving to say, well it probably was cyclical, and when you go back and look at El Nino, it was something that we are beginning to move to a cooling era. When I was in high school, they thought there would be a coming Ice Age, and then they relized that this was cyclical and we started to warm up. When my children, who are now in their last 20’s and 30’s were in elementary school, all the talk was about l warming. This year in Tennessee we’ve had the coldest, wettest winter in, I think it was 113 years. So what we’re begging to see and hear more of from scientists is that it is cyclical. Now one of the things that was very interesting to me was how some of the scientists built their models. Instead of building them on generations, they were building them on decades. And if you take a snapshot in looking at it in decades, you would come to one decision. But if you look at the total picture and look at it in terms of a century, you get another picture. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/one-things-%E2%80%99s-been-interesting-being-member-select-committee-energy%2C-environment-and-global- Thu, 22 May 2008 07:34:54 -0500 Todd Zwillich 1333 at http://askyourlawmaker.org The first and foremost role of the federal government is to provide for the national defense. And that’s what we’re doing in Iraq. I think the caller was absolutely right saying we need the troops to come home as soon as possible, but we need to do it in a responsible way. The December 08 change in mission is right in line of what the Iraq study group recommended from more of a combat to a support role. If we immediately withdraw, there would be total chaos, the Middle East would be a fireball, it’s not a problem you can run away from. http://askyourlawmaker.org/answers/first-and-foremost-role-federal-government-provide-national-defense.-and-%E2%80%99s-what-we%E2%80%99re-doing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:00:23 -0600 1099 at http://askyourlawmaker.org