In Search of an Intelligent Energy Policy

The American Thinker ^ | July 09, 2009 | Andrew Foy and Brenton Stransky

[Scanian]

No responsible energy policy can go forward that is rooted in the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions significantly contribute to global warming or "climate change" as it is now called. This article will address data from the historical temperature record as well as climate models that refute the theory that: CO2 causes or to a large extend amplifies climate change.

Based on the following data it appears that the only thing consistent about the climate is that it is always changing. Unfortunately, the Waxman-Markey bill, recently passed by the House, sets the foundation for an energy policy guided by the premise that man-made CO2 emissions are causing climate change and must be reduced regardless of the economic consequences.

In the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore presented data from the Vostok Ice-Core, which was a collaborative ice-drilling project between Russia, the United States, and France at the Russian Vostok station in East Antarctica. It yielded the deepest ice core ever recovered, reaching a depth of 3,623 meters. By careful analysis of this historic ice core, researchers reconstructed trends of temperature and CO2 concentrations over a period of 420,000 years.

The authors of the Vostok project concluded that during glacial inception (the beginning of a global cooling period) and termination (the start of a global warming period), temperature goes up or down first followed by an increase or decrease in CO2.1 The conclusions from the original Vostok report have been reproduced from other ice-core samples and it is now well accepted that during glacial inception and termination that atmospheric CO2 content lagged behind shifts in air temperature by 800 to 5,000 years!

[BamaAndy]

We are letting the politicians use the phony claim of global warming to wreak havoc with our financial condition.
Individuals and companies will pay more into the government because of the fraudulent hype that was purposefully advertised to generate as much mass hysteria as possible.
The purpose is to fatten the wallets of selected people who have groups qualified to receive government funds.
The purpose is to create a non-productive industry where their family and friends can become rich beyond anything a simple man or woman who works hard to achieve can ever accomplish.
The purpose is to become rich the easy way. Force everyone to pay. It is an Al Capone dream without even the watered down whiskey as a required product.
Open all our eyes we pray, we must. Take control of the government, kick the political bastards out of office and make them work for a living (take away their pensions).
Install honest people who know what government’s role is supposed to be to represent Americans.

[Son House]

This morning in the land of Al Franken, who will fix global warming too

Badger Ridge, Rochester, Minnesota

56.5 °F

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[The Great RJ]

Global warming alarmism is just a convenient way to sell increased taxes and government control.