Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/05/2009 7:42:35 AM PST by careyb
Did it include the refrain “mmm mmm mmm?” :)
“If we had some global warning, it wouldn’t be twenty below.”
did they report about Andrea mitchell telling Axelrod how they still have the NY seat and both then laugh
Does anyone at all think that media matters is a proper reporting site which tells the truth and is not bias?
Nobel Prize-Winner: Cap-and-Trade Could Ruin U.S. Economy
With climate change legislation under consideration by Congress, an environmental expert with a Nobel Prize-winning organization warns that the cap-and-trade bill supported by Democrats could destroy the American economy.
Dr. Steve Running, Director of the University of Montana’s Climate Change Studies program, is on the board of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with global warming crusader Al Gore.
During a Wednesday interview with a radio talk show host in Montana, Dr. Running said efforts to deal with climate change will fail unless they involve all nations.
“If the U.S. passed cap-and-trade and other countries did not, it wouldn’t work,” he declared.
“It would ruin the U.S. economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either. So this is a global issue, the global climate statistics are global in nature, global carbon emissions are global in nature, and we really have to have an international consensus of what to do. That is going to stretch our international diplomacy to its limit, there’s no doubt about that.”
Running called on the U.S. to show leadership on the climate change issue, saying other countries will follow suit.
But China and India, two nations that produce large amounts of greenhouse gases, are not expected to adopt cap-and-trade measures like those being debated in the U.S. Congress.
Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has voiced sentiments similar to Dr. Running’s. He told Newsmax in a recent interview that cap-and-trade won’t work because “it doesn’t matter what we do in America — if we drive our manufacturing base off to places like China, India, and Mexico, places where they don’t have any emissions standards or restrictions, then it’s going to have the effect of increasing and not deceasing CO2.”
He also said cap-and-trade would amount to the “largest tax increase in the history of America.”
LOL!
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