[Rhodes22-list] The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Slim]

Brad,

I don't see a solution anywhere.  If the climate continues to change and the
waters rise and the population grows, we won't need a solution if you get my
meaning.

Slim

On 3/7/07 5:19 AM, "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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