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Posted on 08/20/2009 12:02:27 PM PDT by george76
congressional leaders from carbon-intensive states such as Wyoming remain adamantly opposed to the Waxman-Markey bill, insisting the real costs of curbing greenhouse gas emissions would further bankrupt the nation.
“There’s nothing good about it,” said U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. “I’m going to do everything to make sure it doesn’t pass.”
U.S. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., said the bill is “the biggest hidden tax in America.”
“It’s a Ponzi scheme because we’re just going to print certificates for CO2 and not take care of any CO2,” Enzi said. “It’s just another way to make money.”
The U.S. House in June passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. Since, the Senate has stalled on the measure ...
China is the world’s top emitter of greenhouse gases...
(Excerpt) Read more at trib.com ...
Ping.
They should slam it for the mere reason that Waxman’s name is on it.......
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Thank you Senators Barrasso and Enzi. Thank you so much. Cap and Trade will take us down for certain. Although, on the bright side, we wouldn’t have to fight among ourselves over health care. Broke is broke. (Sigh) There are trade offs everywhere in life. It sucks, but I’d rather fight over health care and stay afloat.
It's just another way for the GOVERNMENT to make money off the taxpayers.
The argument is not whether the planet is getting warmer or colder, what matters is whether or not we can do anything thing about. That is the real argument, and an argument the AGW proponents refuse to participate in.
Since they won’t debate the carbon “crisis”, the justification for taxing and controlling industries around the world, lets just use the facts that are readily accessible, and their own claims concerning man’s activities, to determine the legitimacy of their case for regulating Carbon.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control (IPCC) tells us that humans contribute 5% of atmospheric carbon concentrations, and Carbon Dioxide from man’s activities needs to be reduced to save the planet. For the sake of argument lets accept their number of 5%. Since we also know that the carbon dioxide currently makes-up thirty-eight one-hundredths of one percent (.0038) of our atmosphere, it is easy to do the math to determine the outcome should we do what they tell us needs to be done to save the planet. In fact, lets go farther by pretending that every man, woman, child and SUV has died and use the full 5% instead of the far smaller reduction they now expect to achieve with us all stubbornly staying alive.
By multiplying 38/100 of one percent by 5% (.0038 x .05) you get the number of .00019, or 19/1000 of 1%. Now think about that. If every person disappeared off the face of the Earth we would achieve a reduction of a colorless, odorless, harmless inert gas called Carbon Dioxide by .00019 the total of all atmospheric gases. Again, please think about it.
Think about what they are asking us to do to change the atmosphere by far less than the number we just calculated. Think about how many jobs they are asking us to give-up for that number. Think about the freedom they are asking you to sacrifice to accomplish so little. Think about the absolute poverty they are asking the third-world to endure to achieve this insignificant statistic.
It is not only absurd, it shows you just how craven and dishonest the global left has become in their quest to lord over the rest of us rubes and peasants.
Simple math demonstrates what an outrage this fraudulent Anthropogenic Global Warming campaign is. Think about it.
Charles McFarling
Indianapolis, IN
I have yet to understand how this reduces overall carbon emissions. Wouldn't this result in a zero net emission gain or loss?
Am I missing something?
No. You got it correct.
Apparently, even a dirty carbon emitter could continue, once they paid their carbon taxes.
Al or 0 would be happy with the new cash as they do not really care about the pc stuff.
Note Al’s dirty large house boat, mansions, and jetting around.
0 took 400 plus family, friends, security, staff, and union thugs to Montana recently for an airport hanger campaign rally.
Imagine their carbon foot prints and the tax payer money wasted.
CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. It is a building block of all life.
It’s just like the health care bill. Almost none of the currently uninsured will become insured under any of the bills under consideration. The main selling points of both issues is a scam.
the best description of CO2 I have heard is “plant food”
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