The tea party has put ideology in front of the health of the American economy and the American people. They did this by trying to crash the American economy and reliability in order to undermine an existing law. This is a law that was passed by both the house and senate, signed into law by the president, and survived a challenge by the highest court in the land. In fact the president ran on this, his challenger against it. The President won the v**e of the american people.

They were sworn into office to protect the law of the land and the good of America. Because they apparently don't respect or care for either of these, does that make them guilty of treason?

It is real but the political debate is about the cause. Natural or manmade? Most scientist studying this see a direct correlation between the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment and g****l w*****g. They have evidence of the correlation. The debate occurs when the finger is pointed at sources of the carbon dioxide: burning fuel vs. some undiscovered phenomena. The debate is important because if you believe the source is manmade, the only practical solution are laws to reduce burning fuel. The technology to capture carbon dioxide from burning fuel hasn't been invented yet.

The Earth's climate system constantly adjusts in a way that tends toward maintaining a balance between the energy that reaches the Earth from the sun and the energy that goes from Earth back out to space. Scientists refer to this as Earth's "radiation budget." The components of the Earth system that are important to the radiation budget are the planet's surface, atmosphere, and clouds. The energy coming from the sun to the Earth's surface is called solar energy. Most of it is in the form of radiation from the "visible" wavelengths, i.e., those responsible for the light detected by our eyes. Visible radiation and radiation with shorter wavelengths, such as ultraviolet radiation are labeled "shortwave." Both the amount of energy and the wavelengths at which energy is emitted by any system are controlled by the average temperature of the system's radiating surfaces, plus the emission properties. The temperature of the sun's radiating surface, or photosphere, is more than 5500°C (9900°F). However, not all of the sun's energy comes to Earth. The sun's energy is emitted in all directions, with only a small fraction being in the direction of the Earth.
cloud albedo

Energy goes back to space from the Earth system in two ways: reflection and emission. Part of the solar energy that comes to Earth is reflected back out to space in the same, short wavelengths in which it came to Earth. The fraction of solar energy that is reflected back to space is called the albedo. Different parts of the Earth have different albedos. For example, ocean surfaces and rain forests have low albedos, which means that they reflect only a small portion of the sun's energy. Deserts, ice, and clouds, however, have high albedos; they reflect a large portion of the sun's energy. Over the whole surface of the Earth, about 30 percent of incoming solar energy is reflected back to space. Because a cloud usually has a higher albedo than the surface beneath it, the cloud reflects more shortwave radiation back to space than the surface would in the absence of the cloud, thus leaving less solar energy available to heat the surface and atmosphere. Hence, this "cloud albedo forcing," taken by itself, tends to cause a cooling or "negative forcing" of the Earth's climate.

Another part of the energy going to space from the Earth is the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the Earth. The solar radiation absorbed by the Earth causes the planet to heat up until it is emitting as much energy back into space as it absorbs from the sun. Because the Earth is absorbing only a tiny fraction of the sun's energy, it remains cooler than the sun, and therefore emits much less radiation. Most of this emitted radiation is at longer wavelengths than solar radiation. Unlike solar radiation, which is mostly at wavelengths visible to the human eye, the Earth's longwave radiation is mostly at infrared wavelengths, which are invisible to the human eye. When a cloud absorbs longwave radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, the cloud reemits a portion of the energy to outer space and a portion back toward the surface. The intensity of the emission from a cloud varies directly as its temperature and also depends upon several other factors, such as the cloud's thickness and the makeup of the particles that form the cloud. The top of the cloud is usually colder than the Earth's surface. Hence, if a cloud is introduced into a previously clear sky, the cold cloud top will reduce the longwave emission to space, and (disregarding the cloud albedo forcing for the moment) energy will be trapped beneath the cloud top. This trapped energy will increase the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere until the longwave emission to space once again balances the incoming absorbed shortwave radiation. This process is called "cloud greenhouse forcing" and, taken by itself, tends to cause a heating or "positive forcing" of the Earth's climate. Usually, the higher a cloud is in the atmosphere, the colder is its upper surface and the greater is its cloud greenhouse forcing.

Obama and his cronies are on the march again to blame the Republicans for everything from the shutdown to the itch on their backsides. For two days prior to the shutdown the House Republicans were in session trying to figure out a way to stop it, where were the democrats? No where to be seen, they simply did not show up.
The republicans fought to fund the government to avoid a shutdown while the dems preferred to fund Obamacare, but the shut down is republicans fault. You would have to have a very warped sense of reality to see this as the Republicans fault.

Plain and simple though, Obama is the president of the country. The burden of fault ultimately falls on his shoulders. If you are a CEO of a company that fails, your share holders are going to hold you responsible. The same applies with the president. The government essentially failed and Obama is the CEO, we are the share holders. There is only one person to blame here, and that is the leader.