Posted on 06/06/2008 7:28:08 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
Environmentalists are stunned that their global warming agenda is in collapse. Senator Harry Reid has all but conceded he lacks the vote for passage in the Senate and that it's time to move on. Backers of the Warner-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill always knew they would face a veto from President Bush, but they wanted to flex their political muscle and build momentum for 2009. That strategy backfired. The green groups now look as politically intimidating as the skinny kid on the beach who gets sand kicked in his face.
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Jobs were on the mind yesterday of Senator Arlen Specter, who has endorsed a tamer version of cap-and-trade. "Workers in Pennsylvania worry that this will send jobs to China," he tells me….
Senators also criticized Warner-Lieberman's failure to clearly specify what would happen with the vast revenues the climate bill would generate—some $1 trillion over the first decade, which environmental groups wanted as a slush fund to finance "green technologies." Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire insisted the proceeds be used for other tax cuts, like the elimination of the corporate income tax….
Republicans in the Senate this week did such a masterful job of picking the cap-and-trade bill apart with objections, yesterday Barbara Boxer of California was "pulling her hair out with frustration, " as one Republican leadership staffer put it.
ha-ha!
Now to stall this madness long enough that they cant ignore the cooling trend that is happening.
Morons, their own worst enemy, thank God.
That’s climate change pal. /sarc off
Then they’ll want greenhouse gas generators to warm things up.
Democrats to America: Burn food, not oil!
Heck! Out here in Yakima, WA we are at least 10 degrees below normal. Would like some warming. It is going to be 40 degrees tonight.
Don’t kid yourself about the failure of this measure to pass. They’ll be back again and, if they take the WH, they’ll pass legislation that’ll make Kyoto standards look like they were concocted by illegal toxic waste polluters. Besides, fewer Republicans than ever are willing to stand fast against the tide of idiocy - many of whom are actually parroting this dung.
gas is .10 a gallon in Iran and Iraq
Exactly. And it doesn’t matter who gets elected, we’ll have this cap&trade tax shoved down our throats no matter what.
Get ready to bend over...
Or they will just point to Europe and thank them for their efforts to control climate change, because, despite the evil BushCo administrations efforts to destroy the planet, it’s starting to work.
Changes in the Sun’s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change
Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun’s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.
“We today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the sun’s surface. This will have only one outcome - a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles’ behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.”
Wait untill next year.
These “environmentalists” are fanatics. They won’t stop their campaign untill the economy totally collapses.
I don’t understand why they can’t be satisfied with a happy medium that pushes whatever they can all agree on—like “conserve what you can, don’t litter, recycle when it makes sense to do so, don’t waste money and resources, etc. Why do they have to make some kind of new religion out of it and cram it down people’s throats? When I was growing up there were pushes to recycle paper, glass, plastic, and if you are interested in saving money you will also figure out ways to save gas, electricity, and water. But they have just run it into the ground and used very questionable science to back up their agenda.
Yeah, except that European emissions have increased more than the U.S.'s.
That silly little fact doesn't mean a thing, after all the libs judge intentions not results.
Imagine how much we could reduce our “carbon footprint” if we sent those 30 million illegal aliens back to their home countries.
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