Why aren't we drilling in Alaska and what does that have to do with Real Estate?

Brandon I agree with you andyet I think to say that man has absolutely nothing to do with climate change would be the same as saying that the billions of other animals that inhabit the earth have nothing to do with it as well.  We're an ecosystem but to suggest that we can do anything to stop climate change from happening, well - you'd have to be as thick as the walls of the Grand Canyon to think that, and the argument to say that we can slow it down is almost just as ridiculous. Our planet has been evolving for 100's of billions of years and if you were to take the life span of the planet in terms of one calendar year then mankind doesn't show up on the scene until December 31st at around a quarter to midnight and that's a conservative figure.  People that believe man is responsible for "global warming" are as strange to me as people who believe the planet is only 2000 years old - there's a screw loose in both of them.  Look, I'm all for protecting our planet and making a reasonable effort to do so, but don't tell me I have to buy a $30.00 light bulb or change the temperature in my home to something that is less comfortable to me and my family.  For those who want to do so?  More power to ya. I have 100 million year old Ordivician Rock in my backyard, (limestone with trilobites and shell fish encrusted in it) and I live in Ohio.  What does that tell ya?  I have rock that was created from shallow ocean basin which I now use as decorative walking stones, they remind me of how small I am in the scheme of things, whereas the egocentric and fearful people glaze over such opportunities to right size themselves and instead live with blinders on and fearful thinking they have to be able to change everything in Gods worlds in order to survive.  Sad.