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theoilpatchplug on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:15:37 PM
Climate Change: The president's plan to reduce carbon emissions legitimizes the environmentalist agenda of destroying the earth in order to save it. At least one scientist says we need more CO2 emissions, not less.
It must have seemed a good idea at the time, this attempt to blunt the global warming agenda and head off a regulatory train wreck. But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that global warming is caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.
As Christopher Horner, author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming," says: "All this accomplished was to legitimize the agenda, wrench the political center of the issue far to the left, and leave some very good men and women out there hanging."
It also comes at a time when an increasing number of scientists are giving warming theories a cold shoulder.
Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short-time scales."
Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."
But it's not nice to blame Mother Nature when you have the Industrial Revolution and the internal combustion engine as convenient scapegoats. This comes after a debate driven primarily by ideology and not by sound science. It's a way of achieving economic, political and social control that communism, another tyranny sublimating freedom to the greater good, could only dream of.
The Environmental Protection Agency already is under orders from the Supreme Court to determine if CO2, the basis for all plant and therefore animal life on Earth, is endangering the public health and welfare. If so, the EPA must regulate it and our economy.
Global warm-mongers are using the polar bear, poster pet for climate change, to force action through the Endangered Species Act. They're also trying to hijack laws such as the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. The Bush global warming plan, whatever its intent, will not slow them down. It merely will provide a sanctioned tree on which they can hang their ornaments.
"U.S. taxpayers are already spending $40 billion a year to address climate change," notes Brian Kennedy, spokesman for the Institute for Energy Research. "And to date we're achieving better results than the Europeans are under a bureaucratic regulatory framework."
Horner agrees, pointing out that the U.S. "is the world leader in reducing the rate of growth of CO2 emissions while also growing its economy — faster on both counts, as with population as well, than its principal antagonist, Europe. "
Global warming extremists have wreaked more havoc on this planet through their policies to save it. The rush to biofuels such as ethanol has raised the price of food around the globe to the point of causing food riots. Agricultural runoff from increased cultivation is degrading rivers and coastal areas. Meanwhile, trendy "carbon offsets" turn needed Third World farmland into tree farms.
Solar scientist David Archibald recently told a Hong Kong conference on climate change that because of declining solar activity, we should be thinking of ways to increase CO2 emissions. Seems we might be heading into global cooling.
By taking ownership of the issue in this manner, Bush is only setting himself up as the fall guy for the unintended consequences to follow. Our advice to him is to cool it.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:20 PM PT