66gardeners
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I am going to use whatever fuel I use whether it comes from Canada, or Iran, or Rev. Sharpton's butthole.
EO's are largely meaningless unless Congress funds them.
Who is their right mind thinks pollution is not real?
Can anyone figure out why Obama made this speech? Hmm..., could it be because he has lost control and is trying a sleight of hand to cover up the various scandals that have recently come to light?
The question is not whether pollution is real, the question is whether there is sufficient proof of MAN made global warming AS a global crisis that threatens to ruin our world AND if there's actually anything we can do about it that would be more than a gnat's fart in the wind...
... color me skeptical, at least skeptical about seriously damaging an already frail economy in the name of something so uncertain.
You do not need to be a rocket scientist to see the correlation between pollution and climate change.
WASHINGTON -- ...
Obama also made a point to dismiss those who don't acknowledge the science behind man-made global warming, something that Organizing for Action, the advocacy arm of his administration, has featured in its climate campaign.
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My problem with the left-v.-right flap in the matter ..
.. Is that if there is no deadly global warming caused by human over-population and polution that is about to kill us off .. and we do nothing .. no harm done .. .. and if we do something we've at least improved environmental conditions, providing what we do doesn't cripple needed industry ..
.. But if there is a deadly global warming caused by human over-population and polution that is about to kill us all off .. and we do nothing .. that's really, really bad.
So my tendency is to want to err on the side of safety in this matter, and at least do something relevant and effective.
But the problem is that with the polarized stalemate between liberals and conservatives on this topic, with each buying their set of experts complete with compelling "scientific" testimony, .. well, it's difficult to get any impetus for any kind of action going with these two holding sole power.
So suggestions like making solutions a cooperative venture between government via taxation and reimbursement to private industry so that private industry does the preventative work and paying a share of that cost and passing some of it on to the consumer ..
.. Nothing gets done.
And, we therefore, all debate stalemate considered, simply appear to be flipping a coin about whether deadly human-caused global warming is real or not.
Since I trust neither side to be telling the whole and relevant truth in the matter, I find myself frustrated, .. and a bit frightened .. as reticence to do anything appears to be all about the question of who's going to fund it and impetus to fix it all appears to be all about making industry pay.
Neither of these stalemated approaches will get anything done.
Sure wish we'd at least do something.
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