Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/21/2008 7:10:32 AM PST by reaganaut1
In a taped speech shown to attendees at a climate change conference in California this week, Barack Obama continued trying to distract Americans from the enormous cost of making substantial reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by promising "five million new green jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced." Not only is this number pulled out of thin air; it's nothing to be happy about. As I've noted, the manpower required to transform the economy so that greenhouse gas emission targets can be reached is a measure of the cost involved. Obama makes it seem as if we should try to maximize this cost, promising that green jobs will "steer our country out of this economic crisis."
That is pretty much the opposite of the truth. As the [NYT] notes, "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." Obama's response is to portray the economic burden as a boon.
In the speech, he does implicitly make the case that the cost he refuses to acknowledge will be justified in the long run.
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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?
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Let me get this straight. He is going to create 5 million new jobs depressing our economy? Isn’t that a prescription for stagflation, a la Jimmy Carter?
Vegetables need CO2.
Starve a vegan, cut CO2.
Without CO2, plants will suffocate.
Shrill idiocy.
FYI - according to this the obamination is going to continue the idiocy.
Then I will raise a cheer as he rides toward his Waterloo...
Shrill idiocy yep sounds like obama and the msm what a team.
We NEED more warming to free the whales (trapped in sea ice!).
http://news.smh.com.au/world/over-200-whales-trapped-in-canadian-ice-20081122-6eas.html
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