True Lies, The Sequel
Climate Change: Five Western governors have joined forces to fight global warming by limiting carbon dioxide emissions. But all they’ll be limiting will be the economies of their states and the free speech of skeptics.
Not since King Canute have government officials engaged in an exercise as futile as the governors of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon, who have formed something called the Western Regional Climate Action Initiative.
Taking the lead is California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger. Speaking at last year’s annual meeting of the Western Governor’s Association, he proclaimed, “We are long past the time when we can just talk about this problem.”
Schwarzenegger pledged that California will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to 80% of 1990 levels. It’s an ambitious plan that will bring taxpayers little environmental benefit, while costing them a lot of money. If the U.S. had agreed to Kyoto’s anti-growth agenda, the total on GDP could be as high as 4.2%, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Legislation already signed by Schwarzenegger aims to lower California greenhouse gas emissions by 145 million by 2020. Sounds like a lot, but it’s only three-tenths of 1% of the 42.6 billion tons of greenhouse gases the world is expected to emit that year.
Still, Schwarzenegger insisted, “We cannot wait for the United States government to get its act together on the environment.”
This initiative also embraces one of the great shell games of all time. As the “governor” noted, it “sets the stage for a regional cap-and-trade program.”
“Cap and trade” is a system that lets some continue to pollute with a cleat conscience because they’ve bought emission “credits from those who’ve managed to stay under arbitrary limits.
The U.N.’s worst-case computer models say Earth will warm about 1.3 degrees, Fahrenheit by 2020. So, by our math, knocking out California’s 145 million tons would slow this warming by four 1/000ths of a degree – an amount too small to measure.
In 2006, Schwarzenegger went to China on a trade mission. It’s not known if he brought up the fact that every seven to ten days, a new coal-fired plant big enough to serve every household in San Diego comes on line on China, exporting more pollution to California and to the Western U.S. than his draconian proposals would ever hope to eliminate.
China is exempt from Kyoto as a “developing” nation. China burns 2,500 tons of coal and 210,000 gallons of crude oil per minute. It has plans for 2,200 additional coal generators by 2030. Beijing consumed more than 2.7 million kilowatt hours of electricity in 2006 – almost double its 2002 rate.
Much of the pollution wafting over the western U.S. is not from here. Even if these five states meet all their emission goals, the air above may not change by a single molecule of carbon dioxide.
George Taylor, who is a frequent speaker at the American Meteorological Society events, is one of many climate experts who has said human activity isn’t the chief cause of global climate change. Taylor believes natural climate variations played a significant role in the end of the Little Ice Age, and that they’re a prime factor in the current warming trend.
For having an open mind based on empirical evidence, Taylor and others like him must be silenced so greenhouse gasbags can feel good while doing nothing.
Why did Al Gore never visit the controversial issue of chem.-trails, those cloud forming noxious, and disease causing plumes that cover the sky almost daily? Discovery’s Best Evidence has finally taken on that 9-year-old subject. The mystery continues.
Kyoto must be signed by China, India, Russia and Mexico. Or the world is, AHH, just blowing smoke, you know where!
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