Global Warming, Global Stupidity
Tuesday at the third International Conference on Climate Change:
Global warming skeptics, the ones with some common sense who kept demanding hard-science evidence to refute doomsday predictions from alarmists, have some new information.
The 250 people listened to a dozen elite scientists refute the claim that global warming is either man-made or would have harmful effects on Earth.
But we still have a problem because of intended legislation based upon this doomsday stupidity.
The Heartland Institute is a 25-year-old think tank that produced the three international climate conferences. They brought in seven elite economists to tell us the results of the legislation sponsored by Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.). These new laws want to put a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Businesses, commercial structures, farms, and other emitters could purchase and trade the permits to emit carbon dioxide and other gases that exceed the cap. Money, taxes, revenue. Sound familiar?
The scientists disputed the currently-believed causes and severity of global warming. The economists proved that Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme would not stop the release of greenhouse gases. But it would add huge costs to businesses that of course, will and must be passed along to us. Everything will cost more. Taxes, revenue. Sound familiar?
Furthermore, independent economic studies showed these stupid laws would:
- reduce employment by 1.1 million jobs each year from 2012 to 2030, and more than double that job-loss in 2035.
- slash gross domestic product by an average of $491 billion a year from 2012 to 2035, and hit $662 billion in 2035 — a total evaporation of productive output of goods and services worth more than $9.4 trillion.
- reduce average global temperatures by an insignificant 0.36º Fahrenheit by 2100 and by 0.09º F by 2050.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (D-Calif.), garnered applause when he declared that the partisans of Waxman-Markey are "stampeding the public and elected officials in the biggest power grab in the history of human kind."
Economist Dr. Gabriel Calzada of King Juan Carlos University in Madrid reviewed the dismal performance of cap-and-trade mandates in Spain, where unemployment has reached a daunting 18 percent, carbon emissions are higher today than before cap-and-trade was installed, and fraud and misrepresentation of emission abatement programs are rampant.
Calzada dismissed claims that such policies have created "green jobs" in the Spanish economy and presented data that showed Spanish businesses have spent billions of dollars on carbon credits and abatement programs, resulting in two jobs being lost in the regular economy or never being created for every one job created in the "green economy."
Is anyone listening? Of course they know this, but I maintain that their true objective is the power grab.
Energy industry scholar Ben Lieberman of The Heritage Foundation rounded out the economists` dire projections by showing that by 2035, the added costs stemming from Waxman-Markey would add 58 percent to the price of gasoline at the pump, 90 percent to the typical family of four`s annual cost of electricity, 55 percent to the price of natural gas, and 56 percent to the price of heating oil.
In all, Lieberman said, the tax impact for a family of four would average $4,618 a year through 2035, creating a total additional outlay of more than $110,000 with no added benefit to the family`s quality of life or personal consumption.
Thankfully, some people see through the idiot speeches like Al Gore`s statement that 49 percent of the United States is in drought conditions; U.S. Sen. Harry Reid`s statement that California wildfires are a manifestation of global warming; several alarmist predictions of a three-foot rise in sea levels; and a decline in agriculture yields.
Lord Christopher Monckton,who was a science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, brought the crowd to its feet in a cheering standing ovation when he said, "… the highly placed conspirators who seek to ride the climate scare to world domination have reckoned without one thing. You. You are here, and you will not let the truth go.
"Thanks to you, it is becoming evident that the rent-seeking promoters of this great boondoggle, through the very scientific ignorance that they had sought to exploit in others, have merely deluded themselves.
"In the end, it will be here, in the United States, that the truth will first emerge. … Not in Europe, for we are no longer free. … It is here, in this great nation founded upon liberty, that the battle for the world`s freedom will be won." source
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