“...We might as well keep doing what we are doing
until all the species die
and their is nothing left for our posterity...”
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If lawmakers seriously thought
they could control the temperature of the earth, and
they could control the atmospheric concentration of CO2...
It seems there would first be a huge debate centered around
what is the “ideal” temperature of the earth... and
what is the “ideal” concentration of atmospheric CO2?
1) A 300+ page "manager's amendment" that was added to the bill at 3:09am the day of the House vote. Not only was this a voluminous add-on, it is a scary document. How will local governments be able to afford the extra staff to enforce the new and very confusing building code laws. The bill also radically modifies international trade rules.
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20090521/hr2454_multi_waxman.pdf
2) A suppressed and censored report from our own EPA exposes many problems with the theories and "consensus" of the populist (and now debunked) theory of global warming, and the true (and minimal) affect of human activity on the climate. The suppressed EPA report is linked here:
http://cei.org/news-release/2009/06/25/cei-releases-global-warming-study-censored-epa
3) A report from the Chicago-based Heartland Institute summarized the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) that attempts to use scientific and rational arguments to identify exactly what is going on in the climate and the true impact of human activity. The recently released NIPCC report is found here:
http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC_final.pdf
4) A deep-in-the-weeds technical website devoted to expose the false data collection and manipulation of research data was used to support al the carbon dioxide and temperature nonsense: