Shame, Bush, Shame!
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
April 16, 2008
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The president's plan to reduce carbon emissions legitimizes the
environmentalist agenda of destroying the earth in order to save it.
At least one scientist says we need more CO2 emissions, not less.
It must have seemed a good idea at the time, this attempt to blunt the
global warming agenda and head off a regulatory train wreck. But
President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S.
greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro
groups want, legitimizes their argument that global warming is caused by
humans and an imminent threat to mankind.
As Christopher Horner, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to
Global Warming," says: "All this accomplished was to legitimize the
agenda, wrench the political center of the issue far to the left, and
leave some very good men and women out there hanging."
It also comes at a time when an increasing number of scientists are
giving warming theories a cold shoulder.
Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the
Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre of Canada's Carleton University, says
that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate
on long, medium and even short-time scales."
Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are
consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular
fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The
sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."
But it's not nice to blame Mother Nature when you have the Industrial
Revolution and the internal combustion engine as convenient scapegoats.
This comes after a debate driven primarily by ideology and not by sound
science. It's a way of achieving economic, political and social control
that communism, another tyranny sublimating freedom to the greater good,
could only dream of.
The Environmental Protection Agency already is under orders from the
Supreme Court to determine if CO2, the basis for all plant and therefore
animal life on Earth, is endangering the public health and welfare. If
so, the EPA must regulate it and our economy.
Global warm-mongers are using the polar bear, poster pet for climate
change, to force action through the Endangered Species Act. They're also
trying to hijack laws such as the Clean Air Act and the National
Environmental Policy Act. The Bush global warming plan, whatever its
intent, will not slow them down. It merely will provide a sanctioned
tree on which they can hang their ornaments.
"U.S. taxpayers are already spending $40 billion a year to address
climate change," notes Brian Kennedy, spokesman for the Institute for
Energy Research. "And to date we're achieving better results than the
Europeans are under a bureaucratic regulatory framework."
Horner agrees, pointing out that the U.S. "is the world leader in
reducing the rate of growth of CO2 emissions while also growing its
economy - faster on both counts, as with population as well, than its
principal antagonist, Europe. "
Global warming extremists have wreaked more havoc on this planet through
their policies to save it. The rush to biofuels such as ethanol has
raised the price of food around the globe to the point of causing food
riots. Agricultural runoff from increased cultivation is degrading
rivers and coastal areas. Meanwhile, trendy "carbon offsets" turn needed
Third World farmland into tree farms.
Solar scientist David Archibald recently told a Hong Kong conference on
climate change that because of declining solar activity, we should be
thinking of ways to increase CO2 emissions. Seems we might be heading
into global cooling.
By taking owner****p of the issue in this manner, Bush is only setting
himself up as the fall guy for the unintended consequences to follow.
Our advice to him is to cool it.
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"...and I think future generations are not going to blame us for
anything except for being silly, for letting a few tenths of a degree
panic us"
Dr. Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member of the
National Academy of Sciences
"What most commentators-and many scientists-seem to miss is that the
only thing we can say with certainly about climate is that it changes"
Dr. Richard Lindzen
[most of the current alarm over climate change is based on] "inherently
untrustworthy climate models, similar to those that cannot accurately
forecast the weather a week from now." Dr. Richard Lindzen
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