Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/14/2008 7:49:36 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
In his climate speech on Monday, Mr. McCain exhibited (as the press usually does) a complete lack of consciousness of the fact that evidence of warming is not evidence of what causes warming. Yet policy must be a matter of costs and benefits, adjusted for the uncertainties involved. Which brings us to today's irony: He who finds a six-figure earmark an affront to humanity is prepared to wave through a trillion-dollar climate bill without, as far as anyone can tell, a single systematic thought about costs and benefits.
He who sees "corruption" behind every campaign check goes all compliant when GE, DuPont and Ford chant that climate policy "will create more economic opportunities than risks for the U.S. economy."
Mr. McCain argues that green energy mandates will leave us better off whether or not man-made global warming is real. This is an error that Mr. Romney wouldn't make – and one Al Gore makes all the time. Yes, hole-digging can be profitable if government subsidizes hole-digging. For society, however, there is only cost – measured in the labor and resources diverted to hole-digging from activities that actually fulfill the wants and needs of people.
Let's see: An estimate by the International Energy Agency holds that, to ward off the worst of climate change, the world by 2030 must build 34 hydroelectric dams the size of China's Three Gorges Dam, 510 nuclear plants, 289,000 wind turbines, 6,800 biomass plants and 714 fossil fuel plants equipped with unproven CO2 capture technology.
None of this will happen; if it did, it would merely slow progress toward a more carbon-rich atmosphere; and (of course) any impact on climate would be purely speculative.
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It’s always hottest before an ice age.
McCain=Pathetic Loser
Good post!
So far, JohnnyMac is failing -— zero expectations abound!
Just like they said about NAFTA.
Yep, but I liken him more to Bob Dole with a psychopathology.
Hilarious!
“the climate gods “
Make that, “the climate God.”
OH GOD MAKE HIM GO AWAY IT HURTS!
I’d almost talked myself into believing that McCain was the lesser or two evils. On the bright side I’ll save some gas money on November 4th when I stay at home.
McCain just screwed the pooch. He will never get elected because he no Conservative can vote for someone as stupid as him on the environment and no Lib can believe what he says on the environment.
If Juan mcamnesty wins, it will be without my vote.
Sigh... Ok, It’s official! We’ve got four gay loving, anti military, Oprah loving, God hating years ahead of us. If we survive stepping into the descent to hell certainly we will be able to come up with a solid Repub candidate by then?
Much as I hate to admit it, with Bush’s statement that global warming is real, on top of McCain’s, and this story about what a huge moneymaker global warming tech will be, I’m starting to feel that the anti business types may be right: all politics is driven by private greed. So who can we trust to lead this nation? I don’t have a suggestion, and that breaks my heart.
Colonel, USAFR
Warming to McGore.
I cannot in good conscience vote for Obama or hillary in any circumstances. Nor, I am afraid to say, can I vote for McCain.
Moreover, as yet there are no meaningful alternatives, even for a protest vote. Might as well vote for Ralph Nader as Ron Paul.
Not a good situation. Prayers and a miracle are still needed. I’d say we need to go through another two or four years of darkness before we can get another chance to pull it out—but even there, we are likely to get 3 dismal SCOTUS appointees, who will be a curse on our nation for the next 20 years. And anyone who thinks McCain would fight a Democrat congress for good, solid conservative judicial choices simply hasn’t been watching him for the past 20 years.
“Any warmth you may feel is probably McCain pissing down your leg”.
Thanks, I just spit yogurt on my screen. Hilarious!
LOL!
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