Methane Madness

The American Thinker ^ | March 09, 2010 | Jeffrey Folks

[Scanian]

The environmentalist assault on economic growth resembles the old shell game practiced by con artists for centuries. Just when you're sure the pea will appear at the right, it shows up in the middle. Place your bet on the middle, and the pea appears somewhere else.

For decades now, alarmists have claimed that CO2 emissions are warming the earth past the "tipping point" and that only extreme reductions in the use of fossil fuels can avert catastrophe. Yet the earth today is less warm than it was in the middle ages, a period in which it cannot be claimed that human activity was contributing much, if anything, to global warming. Global temperatures in 2010 are colder than they were in 2000, despite a tripling of CO2 emissions in the last decade largely attributable to the mushrooming economies of developing nations such as China and India. Alarmists have been predicting catastrophe for over thirty years, yet the earth continues in natural cycles of warming and cooling, just as it has for eons.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[jwparkerjr]

Isn’t methane a great fuel? In the movies it certainly provides a great flame when used in certain ways. If there’s all that methane why not find a way to harness it’s energy and use it?

I consider it one of the major failure of 20th century America that we didn’t have the will to rid ourselves of our insane addiction to energy sources that were not totally within our control.

I shudder to think how much of the funding of the terrorists’ war on us has been funded with our own money, trillions of it spent to import oil from countries that can’t be considered our friends.