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Posted on 05/06/2008 8:12:24 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
The state Senate gave final — and unanimous — legislative approval Monday to a tough new bill requiring drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions connected to global warming, and the GOP leader in the Senate said he expects Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell to sign it into law.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
For those who don’t feel like digging through the article, the state seems to be Connecticut.
(It would be great if everyone put the state name in parenthesis on local news items.)
Our place is closing end of June. I will be out of work and the guys I work with are still advocating higher corporate taxes. Idiots!
What does Connecticut connect?
So what are these F*-heads going to do when it turns out the globe is COOLING? (As many indications suggest.)
Pass a law MANDATING increases in carbon emissions? And pass it UNANIMOUSLY?
This country has truly become an insane asylum.
The results will be about the same.
Of course, when their economy crashes, maybe they'll be more worried about the pitchforks and torches than Algore's little scam.
WAY TO GO....SUCKERS
“The new bill would build on goals established four years ago and would require Connecticut to cut emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent below 2001 levels by 2050.”
They’re going to meet global cooling head on by reducing use of fossil fuels. Another “fine” move by the central planners.
They'll be more worried about the carbon footprint of those torches than they will about getting prodded with those pitchforks.
Apparently not the link between moronic, oppressive government and jobs leaving the state...
Maybe if we set them on fire, we can using the resulting carbon remains to offset the impact of their idiocy.
You mean they’re going to drastically reduce WATER VAPOR??
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Here’s a good link on the VERY SMALL affect that we have on the earth’s greenhouse gases.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
Human contribution to the TOTAL effective greenhouse components, including water vapor, is 0.28%.
Water vapor is the most important of the greenhouse gases and we don’t contribute any to that. But of course all we hear about in the press is the CO2, because that is something we can sort of understand (it comes out of our tailpipes and sounds like a pollutant - actually it is now based on last years Supreme Court Ruling!!??). Water vapor doesn’t sound quite so evil.
Anyway, with the .28% thing, I showed my kids 100 copper pennies on the table, with 1/4 of a single penny colored white with wite-out. Then asked them “how much does that white color change the color of the entire bunch of pennies?”. So simple, even a 10 year-old can figure it out.
Back to the CO2, the link shows how man made contribution of the “effective” CO2 amount is 0.117%.
Then it summarizes things with:
“The Kyoto Protocol calls for mandatory carbon dioxide reductions of 30% from developed countries like the U.S. Reducing man-made CO2 emissions this much would have an undetectable effect on climate while having a devastating effect on the U.S. economy. Can you drive your car 30% less, reduce your winter heating 30%? Pay 20-50% more for everything from automobiles to zippers? And that is just a down payment, with more sacrifices to come later.
Such drastic measures, even if imposed equally on all countries around the world, would reduce total human greenhouse contributions from CO2 by about 0.035%.
This is much less than the natural variability of Earth’s climate system!
While the greenhouse reductions would exact a high human price, in terms of sacrifices to our standard of living, they would yield statistically negligible results in terms of measurable impacts to climate change. There is no expectation that any statistically significant global warming reductions would come from the Kyoto Protocol.”
Dr. S. Fred Singer, atmospheric physicist
Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia,
and former director of the US Weather Satellite Service;
in a Sept. 10, 2001 Letter to Editor, Wall Street Journal
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