Stuff like this is the reason I don’t have a “McCain ‘08″ sign in my yard:

The Republican platform may include a first-ever plank on global warming, an examination of a draft document indicated.

“Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the Earth,” The Hill reported the draft document as saying. “While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today.”

Sen. John McCain, poised to become the party’s presidential nominee next week during the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., is a proponent of tackling global warming.

John McCain wants to implement a cap and trade system in American similar to the Kyoto Protocol. This scheme will do nothing to stop the carbon dioxide emissions. The Kyoto Protocol hasn’t resulted in a decrease in emission, but it has shifted a lot of money from rich countries to the United Nations.

Meanwhile:

This year appears set to be the coolest globally this century.

Data from the UK Met Office shows that temperatures in the first half of the year have been more than 0.1 Celsius cooler than any year since 2000.

The principal reason is La Nina, part of the natural cycle that also includes El Nino, which cools the globe.

I know, it’s only eight years into the century, and I know the article also says “2008 is set to be about the 10th warmest year since 1850,” but I also know that “despite the increase in CO2, the temperature of the world has not increased over the last 10 years.”

If we are at critical mass, and the only solution is a socialist wealth redistribution plan, why is the temperature not going up and natural phenomenons like La Nina cause the temperature to drop? Not only that, but now the temperatures are supposed to hold steady for ten years, then it’s gonna get hot again.

But it’s all CO₂.

And Republican party wants me to sign onto this. Sorry. You ask too much.