Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/12/2009 6:02:08 PM PDT by markomalley
Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) is trying to win Senate support for the ruinously expensive cap-and-tax global-warming bill, claiming it will prevent threats to national security, according to the New York Times. He argues that global warming will destabilize the developing world, creating climate refugees and exacerbating conflict. The American military will need to respond to these problems through either humanitarian-relief missions or armed intervention. This argument is flawed for two reasons. First, there is no reason to believe the bill being debated will stop any of this. Second, there is every possibility that the bill might make things worse.
If global warming is as bad as Senator Kerry fears, this bill will do nothing to avert its effects. Most honest proponents of the bill admit that it will do nothing to reduce global temperatures. At most, according to climatologist Chip Knappenberger, the bill will reduce warming by about nine-hundredths of a degree Fahrenheit by 2050, a difference too small to be measured.
Could anything avert those supposed effects? Yes — much more stringent climate policies, which would have adverse effects of their own. The national-security establishment uses “futurist” scenarios to establish possible national-security risks. In that spirit, it should also look at scenarios in which more stringent policies are implemented. Consider the following such scenario.
Developed countries enact strong restraints on emissions, along with high taxes on gasoline and coal energy. The coal, oil and automobile industries collapse. In America, the Gulf Coast states suffer particularly badly. Old automobiles are crushed. The second-hand car market also collapses. Poor people cannot find affordable vehicles. Poor rural families cannot get to work.
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Jeeze. Has Kerry ever been right about anything? Other than a knack for marrying rich women and haircare, he is an empty suit.
[Aside: that passion for haircare is probably why he chose John Edwards as his running mate.]
Well, he should know. After all, he served in Vietnam.
How do we ensure peace and safety in this world? Easy. Change the weather. We’re living the real-life version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers...
Policy being directed by dummies who think pseudo-science is science.
Kerry ought to stick to what he does best - diddling rich widows.
For the promotion of their political party as the #1 agenda toted by them.
Our government has been totally hijacked by the environuts and the socialists/marxists.
Take a look at the progressive caucus, aka marxists, of the house. They make up almost half of the democratic membership and growing - they are the most vocal and hold the majority of the leadership positions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus
We the people hardly count anymore. No wonder there’s so much anger at the town hall meetings. The only way to get any attention is to get in their faces!!
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