November 24, 2008
High-minded Debate: Greenpeace activists scale
Bank of England…..Really High-minded Debate: “Cocaine users are destroying the
rainforest - at 4 square metres a gram”……Viva la green revolution!...Commentary:
Global Warming? Bring it On!.......The litigious lunacy of eco-zealots who sue for “future
generations of humans — if there are any”…….“Don’t Count Those
Skeptics Out”
See it here…
… and at least they mention this:
“Some industry leaders and members of
Congress have suggested that Mr. Obama’s climate proposal would impose too great a cost on an
already-stressed economy — having the same effects as a tax on coal, oil and natural gas
— and should await the end of the current downturn. A bill similar to Mr. Obama’s plan
failed to clear the Senate earlier this year, largely because of concerns about its impact on the
economy.”
… and they’re worth noting:
“Is it really ‘beyond
dispute’ that global warming already has produced drought, famine, and stronger storms?
New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin notes that “the statement about
’storms that are growing stronger with each passing hurricane season’ is hard to square
with the science on hurricanes in a warming world, which has gotten more nuanced of
late.”
“Even if Obama were right about current
conditions, and right that things will only get worse, what evidence is there that his cap-and-trade
plan will ameilorate the trend enough to justify the cost? Assuming we meet his goal of an 80
percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 (a conveniently distant deadline), how much
will it cost, what impact will it have on global warming, and how much damage will thereby be
avoided.”
Oh, those horrible westerners creating a large
carbon footprint. It’s like some of them choose to burn fossil fuels by the mountain. In fact,
that’s exactly one man’s admission today. From OpenMarket:
Despite my inconspicuous
consumption, I have an enormous carbon footprint. Indeed my carbon footprint is so big that it
rivals that of a mega-consumer like Leonardo de Caprio, or even a super-mega consumer like Al
Gore.
How is that possible? My
ex-wife and I buy ten thousand pounds of coal every fall for the Kyrgyz family with whom we lived
while we served in the Peace Corps. Burning a ton of coal emits about 3 tons of carbon into the
atmosphere, so we are responsible for 30 tons of green greenhouse gases! For environmentalists in
rich countries, that’s a cause for alarm. For the Kamchibekova clan in Talas, Kyrgyzstan,
it’s a reason to cheer.
Oh, when will it all end?
