[Rhodes22-list] The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Brad Haslett]

Slim,

I'm not making the point that we should shirk our responsibility for our CO2
footprint, only that we should be sensible about it.  Kyoto didn't do jack
shit and would have crippled our economy.  That's why the Clinton
administration never submitted it to the Senate for a vote.  We should do
what we can but in the long run it will be the third world countries,
especially China and India, that control the outcome.  Make me the President
for one day and I'll solve the problem in the US.  Gasoline will be $4 per
gallon, CAFE standards will be 50 mpg, we'll tax carbon emissions, and put
nuclear power plant permitting on a fast track.  That won't happen because
I'd have to make a campaign speech in Iowa and would tell the Corn Growers
Association that corn based ethanol is the biggest energy loser ever hoisted
on US taxpayers and as soon as I'm elected it will stop.

What's your solution?

Brad

On 3/6/07, Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> To use this point as a way to shirk responsibility for our C02 footprint
> is
> outrageous.   We done dirtied our world and they ain't no sense in denying
> it.
>
> Slim
>
> On 3/6/07 4:24 PM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Slim,
> >
> > The point is correct, "it may also have the unintended consequence of
> > stifling development in the third world, prolonging endemic poverty and
> > disease."  That is very true.  Third world countries want to progress as
> > well, that means giving up horses for "horses".  They will. Here's your
> sign
> > -
> >
> > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/05/MNG18OFHF21.DTL
> >
> > China and India are the front battle lines on Global Warming.
> >
> > Frankly, I believe the whole thing is a crock of shit but support the
> > eco-terrorists on this issue to a degree because the unwittingly are
> > fighting the real terrorists.
> >
> > Science be damned!  As long as the outcome is good it's all good.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On 3/6/07, Slim <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The film argues that the earth's climate is always changing, and that
> >> rapid
> >>> warmings and coolings took place long before the burning of fossil
> >> fuels. It
> >>> argues that the present single-minded focus on reducing carbon
> emissions
> >> not
> >>> only may have little impact on climate change, it may also have the
> >>> unintended consequence of stifling development in the third world,
> >>> prolonging endemic poverty and disease.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Now I've heard everything.
> >>
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