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I don't lose much sleep worrying whether you will make yourself look stupid. I merely wonder why you don't.
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Originally Posted by Wapasha
Because we are watching politicians assemble draconian carbon tax legislation, to tax the living snot out of us, in order to save the earth from global warming, while at the same time its snowing in June, and the sun looks to be going to sleep, possibly for a very long time.
Actually, cap-and-trade and a direct carbon tax are two different things. Meanwhile, much more than global warming is involved in getting off carbon release as a way of life. It will not portend well for our economic futures if we allow ourselves to run last in the race away from it. Whatever "first scheme" comes along will have serious flaws that will later need to be adjusted, corrrected, and even done away with. That's a given. Hence the important thing is to work to make the scheme as good as it can be made up-front, and then to get it out the door.
I will assume you understand that tax dollars do not simply disappear. They get pumped right back into the private sector almost immediately. Hence, "us" are going to break even on the deal. All the while, incentives to move toward less carbon-abusive technologies and lifestyles will have been created, and that will actually be an important thing for "us" to do.
And yet, every time there is a tropical storm the AGW crowd points to it and cries "the sky is falling, it's the CO2". They are equally common-can't have it both ways boys and girls.
In Montana, places like Sula pass and the west fork of the Bitterroot get snow all the time, and at elevations much lower than Maria pass (east/west glacier).
Snow in June is a rare occurence but does happen....Minnesota has had snow in June also.
It's rare but hardly noteworthy and may or may not have a relation to Global Warming.
And only people who have not educated themselves on the effect of Global Warming(which is a misleading title) would think that "warming" is the ONLY effect of Global Warming.......for instance:
Melting glaciers COOL the ocean temperature...that cooling affects something else which changes something else.....it all doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.
ISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.
National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday.
Ismarck? Is that near Fargo?
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