Emulate The East

This time I mean it. I sincerely hope that our U.S. Senate emulates Europe and Asia when they vote on Obama's climate bill/cap and trade scheme.

At issue this week on Capitol Hill is the senate deliberations on climate change (global warming for the old-school crowd). After Speaker Pelosi and her cohorts in Congress whipped their membership into submission and an ultimate "aye" vote on punishing the American people through punitive legislation on energy, the Senate now is slated to consider the vote. The arrival of Al Franken - the newest senator on the Hill - gives the Democrats a super-majority, a filibuster-proof 60%.

That's relevant, however, only if virtually every member votes along party lines, something that seems increasingly more unlikely given the emerging proclamations by China, Russia and most recently, India. Three of the most rapidly growing economies - and by virtue of such, CO2 emitters - have done something our own congress will not; they actually took the time to realistically study the negative impacts cap and trade would have on their economies. As a result, all three have opted out of the Copenhagen Accord which would, if adopted, replace the Kyoto Protocol.

Ostensibly, the whole intent of such machinations are designed to protect the planet from harmful CO2, maligned as a "pollutant" and a greenhouse gas. Rising levels of CO2, we're told, are causing global temperatures to rise and, therefore, we have to cut our emissions drastically and quickly. Going on the assumption that this is true just for the sake of argument, our own reductions without those of other industrialized nations will accomplish nothing more than destroying our economy once and for all.

Now let's toss the assumption of veracity out and address the truth. The climate has been steadily cooling since the turn of the century. In fact, just since the release of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, the average global temperature has dropped .74 degrees fahrenheit. That is strange considering that CO2 concentrations have continued to rise: That is not how the true believers tell us it's supposed to be. If we're still pumping CO2 into the atmosphere, and CO2 is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming, how could the Earth possibly be cooling? Perhaps the entire notion of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is an equation designed by a nefarious mind and adopted by legions of lesser ones. Quite telling is the trend currently being set; anyone who has been paying attention would have noticed that the urgency of the true believers is matched equally by the numbers of scientists emerging in opposition to AGW.

As the case crumbles around them, the true believers feverishly work to enact damaging - and most likely, catastrophic - legislation before the opportunity disappears. I only hope that enough members of the Senate realize this before they finish off America.

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EPA: Everyone Pay Attention

Will wonders never cease? The mainstream media has reported on something detrimental to their agenda.

I am stunned yet gratified that CBS News has actually reported on the EPA squashing a report questioning the science of anthropogenic global warming. The report called into question the causation of CO2 emissions and their effect on the climate. It also cautioned that limitations on emissions would have little or no impact on climate change, effectively rendering the president's proposed cap and trade scheme useless and pointless. In other words, it exposed the legislation approved by the House of Representatives yesterday as the scam that many of you have already known it to be; the largest tax increase in the history of the nation that will accomplish nothing more than spreading the wealth.

Alan Carlin, Senior Operations Research Analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics, told CBSNews.com in a telephone interview on Friday that his boss, Al McGartland, was being pressured himself. "It was his view that he either lost his job or he got me working on something else," Carlin said. "That was obviously coming from higher levels." Also from the linked article:

Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."

Leading up to yesterday's vote in the House, Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi were burning up the phone lines to members, beseeching them to vote for the bill on climate change. The EPA knew about this report and let it happen anyway, because they were getting pressure from above that the legislation was going to be passed and that they had better get out of the way. It should be no mystery to any thinking person that there is something foul afoot.

First it was the IPCC and the Gore-ites insisting that the "science was settled" and that anyone who dared question them were heretics and fools. Now there is collusion within our own government to ram through an horrendous piece of legislation that will cause irreparable harm to our economy, something of which I have been warning for years. Hopefully more mainstream media outlets will bring this to the public's attention so they can see that this scam is designed for no good purpose.

In the meantime, I encourage all of you to read up on this EPA scandal and bring it up when you contact your senators. Let them know not only that you are dead set against this bill, but also that you are on to the scheme and will not tolerate the destruction of your country. Here are a few good links:

CBS NEWS
Washington Examiner
The Wall Street Journal

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