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How will the Mass election of a Republican impact Cap and Trade legislation in the Senate?
The Democrats now have only 59 of 100 Senate seats. The energy bill which will soon come before the Senate passed in the house by only 3 votes out of 435. To pass the house of representatives requires only a 50%+ majority. But to bring a new bill to a vote in the Senate and avoid a filibuster requires at least 60 votes. It appears that the house-passed energy bill is Dead On Arrival in the Senate, so it will not even come to the Senate floor for a vote. If "cap and trade" fails in the USA, as it most likely will, how will the rest of the world react in its efforts to slay the CO2 dragon?
13 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoIf we are experiencing global warming, how come the earth is not getting warmer?
Note the seasonal highs and seasonal lows. Sure doesn't look as though any catastrophic change is going on. Yeah, 1998 was hot, but 2007 was very cold. Seems to be going up and down not with CO2 (the lower line on the chart), which has steadily increased, but with the sun spots which increase and decrease every 11 years..
See for yourselves...
10 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoHow many think China is right about CO2?
Although China and India are using 8 % more coal every year, they believe that it is their right to do so. China is arguing that the West should reduce CO2 even more than they are so that China and India can burn more without harming the environment. They argue that the CO2 per ca pita in China and India is way below that of developed nations. How many of my environmental comrades are willing to sacrifice more of those things we have grown use to, i.e. heat, transportation, electricity, etc. so that our Chinese brothers and sisters can live better?
2 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWill the Waxman bill satisfy environmental wack-tovists?
The jury is in on this bill. If the bill is passed as it is now marked up, it will do nothing to lower CO2 production in the U.S. It will however raise the cost of energy. Read this and you'll see why I believe this..
http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2009/06/climate_bi...
This is exactly what happened in Europe. For example, activists hold up Denmark as an example of a country really moving ahead with CO2 control. What really happened in Denmark is they shut down two aging inefficient coal powered electric plants. Denmark now buys that electricity from German coal powered electric plants. Germany is in the process of shuttering 17 nuclear plants by 2020. What's Germany looking at to replace that energy? Clean coal. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Technology/France+G...
Is this what the Gore lemmings really wanted - I wonder if they even no!
1 AnswerJokes & Riddles1 decade agoWhat will the greenies do if Nuclear is added to the Waxman/Gore climate bill?
Will they support this bill if it includes Nuclear, or will they pitch temper tantrums and throw the baby out with the bathwater if Nuclear is added to the mix of non CO2 contributing options like solar and wind?
6 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhich is worse, a bit of AGW dissent or politicians hijacking science?
It is clear that debate about AGW continues with each side declaring that the facts support its argument. We see that debate played out here every day. What I find amazing is that so few in America are alarmed by the fact that Gore's film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, is allowed to be shown in America's K-12 schools as if it was the “only” view of AGW which exists. This film is clearly a politicized portrayal of AGW at the extremes. In Britain, a truck driver took Gore head on an won. The British High Court reviewed the film, listened to arguments from both sides and finally ruled that Gore's film was in fact more political than scientific. The court went on to state that eleven of the key points made in the film were either alarmist exaggerations or blatantly untrue. As a result of this ruling, when the film is shown in Britain, the key areas of dispute must be made clear to students so that they realize that the film has been crafted in such a way that it presents a politically one sided view of AGW. However, in America, parents have thus far allowed the Gore film version of AGW to be forced upon their children, without protest. Given the distrust of government which has been demonstrated historically by the political left, I am surprised that some concerned parents on that side of the aisle are not raising a stink about “Big Brother's” use of Gore's film to provide this - according to the British High Court - one sided alarmist version of AGW to be used as a propaganda tool to indoctrinate their children with this lopsided view of AGW! Why do you think that American parents have not challenged the use of this film in court as was done in Britain?
7 AnswersPolitics1 decade agoWhy is China now asking America to reduce CO2 by 40%?
I find it a bit outrageous that China, a country which now consumes more coal than the US and Europe combined, would suggest that the west reduce CO2 by 40% while China continues to open 2 new coal powered electric plants every WEEK! In the next four months, China will open more new coal powered electric plants than the US has planned for the next ten years! How can this makes sense for America?
7 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWill you help stop CO2 abbuse? Sign government petition?
Help stomp out the abuse of CO2... please visit this petition site!
5 AnswersOther - Politics & Government1 decade agoWhy does the Waxman bill now propose allocating only 2% of the carbon permits to the refining industry?
This seems to me to be a way of adding a fuel tax at the pump which will show up in everything we use or consume from cars to cabbage! This cap and trade proposal seems to me to be just a stealth consumption tax which will ultimately be paid "only" by individuals! Even if CO2 is a problem, this seems to be the wrong solution!
2 AnswersConservation1 decade agoHow can we make some money off of the hysteria surrounding AGW?
Greenpeace now receives $500 M/year in funding from various sources. This money is used mostly to aid Green Peace in becoming a pain in the (_@_) for the average worker in the developed world. There is tons of money here to be made over this hysteria. How can we get our share?
2 AnswersConservation1 decade agoWhere have all the sun spots gone?
Why is more not being said about the fact that we are heading for a new ice age! Just last year they discovered a live woolly mammal at the North Pole! It had horns and a very red nose!
1 AnswerCurrent Events1 decade agoWhat is climate expert congressman Henry Waxman talking about?
Climate expert Henry Waxman - the congressman who is the author of the climate change bill now being debated in the House of Representatives - during a recent interview on NPR withe Tavis Smiley made the following statement.
“We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap.."
This is really scary stuff... evaporating North Pole and tundra being set free. How can this be happening and what can we do to save Santa and Rudolf from sharing the plight of the soon-to-be extinct Polar Bears.
6 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhy do so many people believe that scientists agree that AGW will cause a global catastrophe!?
Not even the UN - IPCC report makes this claim. Is this just because Al Gore and Jim Hansen have said that the debate is over?
8 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhy do so many need to believe that CO2 has a significant impact on the temperature of the earth?
The evidence is so strong that atmospheric CO2 has never had a significant impact on the temperature of the earth. And, even today, the correlation between the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the temp on earth for the past 100 years is very inconsistent, while the correlation between solar activity and temperature change is nearly perfect. I find this cult-like bonding by so many scientifically illiterate young in their need to view CO2 is a villain to be a very curious social phenomenon. Is CO2 their version of the anti-God? This social situation, is analogous to the need of the German youth to worship the Fuhrer in Nazi Germany during the 1930s. Where the German youth burned books to show support for their leader, today's young wish to simply deny the right of debate and the relevance of all arguments which disagree with their "beliefs" in the cause of global warming.
Nuts to AGW.... the movie!
16 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoIs Antarctic ice really melting?
Since the temperature drops below zero every day on Antarctica, how could the "continental" ice be melting? That seems physically impossible. And, if it is just sea ice which is melting, how could that raise the level of the ocean, since sea ice is formed from the ocean in which it floats. Something is not right about this argument.
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/1...
12 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agore. Global warming - What temperature should the earth be?
What is our goal here? Warmer, cooler... stay the same? Think about it, do we even know what outcome we are hoping for, much less how to get there? I would actually think that a few degrees warmer would be a very good thing for most people and most animals.
11 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhat will environmentalists do if the climate bill now being debated is defeated?
Will they accept this as the "will of the people" or will they continue to quibble about this. Whether the bill ever gets to the senate bill is very much an open issue. The 50 Blue Dog Democrats have stated that they will only vote for a bill which supports both coal and nuclear. Many more liberal democrats have indicated that they will vote against a bill that contains nuclear and support for coal. Next week the real fireworks will start. Perhaps we will see more of the "other side" of the science argument next week.
4 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade agoWhat will "green environmentalists" do if the climate bill now being debated is defeated?
I wonder, will they accept this to be the will of the people or will Goreites continue to pound on this issue? Whether this issue will ever make it to the Senate floor is still very much in question. At least 50 Blue Dog democrats have stated that they will only vote for a very watered down version of an energy bill which "must' include coal and nuclear, and which must be far less aggressive than the current bill. Some liberal democrats will not vote for a bill which has nuclear and coal options included.
2 AnswersGlobal Warming1 decade ago