The Great Global Warming Swindle

I saw what happened, I saw it start from him just jibing you, it was you who escalted it and that made it just get worse

If all you did was just lagh it off or at least put a smily face next to your retort, there would be no arguing going on...poopyhead!

(See? Just say something so absurd in response it has to be a joke, and people will get it...Poopyhead!)

This 'globular warming' (sic) is killing me. Its been sooooooo hot we haven't had the air on in over a week. One night it got soooooo hot, we *almost* had to put the heat on. And, July was the *not soooooo hottest* on record. (that's 'Coldest' for DU lurkers)

2009 is: 'The Year Without A Summer'

Hmmmm?!?. Now where did I put those Mukluks I bought in 1978?

I was amazed at the way the House passed the cap and trade bill, which requires that 75% increase in GDP per ton of CO2, with no statements from Pelosi, Waxman, or Markey about a practical plan for achieving that kind of increase in the ratio of GDP to CO2 output. They appeared to just assume it away. They assumed somehow magically all these “green” power plants will get built in only ten years if they just mandate a big cut in CO2 output. I would estimate that in the best case scenario we might be able to increase alternative energy production as a percentage of total energy production by 15 points, and increase overall energy efficiency by a maximum of 25 percent in ten years. That adds up to a 40% increase in the ratio of GDP to CO2 output in the BEST CASE.

So I agree that the required CO2 reduction in the bill is impossible to achieve without GDP growth dropping way below the 2.5% average assumption that you used. That’s really scary when you consider the consequences of this bill: a forced decline in economic activity and a legislated increase in unemployment and federal deficits. What are Waxman, Markey, and Pelosi smoking these days? All I can say is they must be “jokers, smokers, and midnight tokers” (to quote an old song). I predict that the senate is too smart to pass this kind of radical cap and trade legislation. I’d say this bill is DOA in the senate, although they might pass some kind of CO2-related bill just to prevent the EPA from doing something completely loony.

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