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Dont forget General Electric... which owns NBC news... which owns MSNBC.... and which is the largest producer of CFC Lightbulbs and is setting up a carbon exchange as well as being the largest "green" energy companies out there....
General Electric and Goldman Sachs both have investments in multiple green house gas trading companies, such as The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the Chicago Climate Exchange, United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP).
Goldman Sachs owns Constellation Energy's Carbon Trading Operation (CEG; GS) and Horizon Wind Energy, and many more. We know GE stands to make billions off green energy, and if the carbon cap & trade bill that the house passed last year becomes law, GE will make billions more when people are forced to upgrade all their appliances, furnace, hot water heaters and air conditioners. Is it any wonder why man made global warming is being pushed on us from all directions, $$$$$.
Just Google the below and see how many hits you find:
I have studies the scientific evidence on this issue and have concluded that the globe will get warmer in the next few decades no matter what we do to curb our propensity for converting huge amounts of geologically sequestered carbon into present day carbon dioxide. I also believe the predictive models of the amount and timing of the increase are subject to considerable doubt. I will be watching this for the rest of my life and have considerable interest in the outcome. BTW there is no way I will be buying any beachfront property in the future.
Now there is a topic for debate. What should, given the assumption that the sea level will rise a considerable amount, the government do to protect sea side dwellers and their property from damages created by ever higher sea level and storm surges. Should the current owners have huge and costly Netherlands style costal barriers built for their protection? Should their property be purchased by the government at current values and the building moved or destroyed? Or should nothing be done to protect these people from the rising sea?
What source do you refer to concerning sea level rise? May we see it please?
Remember when Dick Cheney had to divest himself of Haliburton? I think that before we go any further with government carbon cap & trade bills, that any politician, or advisor to the president should divest themselves of any and all investments or ties to carbon trading or green energy. I know 0bama has a lot of Goldman Sachs folks on the payroll, and Goldman Sachs owns stock in these green house gas trading companies. It makes me wonder how incestuous the business relationships of this whole "we have to save the planet from CO2" crowd are.
Yea. Good ole Dick, the straight shooter.
Here, I'll turn in my free lunch card and my couple million in Halliburton stock options for trillions to be made bleeding Iraq dry (literally and figuratively).
I believe a market is the wrong way of controlling greenhouse gases. Markets only increase costs by transferring money from the producers to the traders and market owners. Eliminating this overhead can save the consumers a huge amount of money. The greenhouse gas emitters should be regulated by the government and the right to release rapidly decreased thus forcing the utilities to purchase power from nuclear facilities owned and operated by the Atomic Energy Commission. This would rapidly reduce our contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere.
We could protect our market by imposing countervailing tariffs on imported goods to eliminate the price differential created by “dirty” energy, slave wages and government subsidies. These tariffs would be lowered as the importing countries switched to green energy, paid their workers decent wages and stopped subsidizing industry.
You state that climate science is buit on weak data we can argee to disagree as far as many climate scientists don't believe in models, is there another choice?
To agree to disagree means that we are in contest of the facts. The science is also in such contest as well. This means that the hypothesis of AGW is not scientifically validated, it is merely a belief without proper support. It is inconclusive.
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There are many good reasons to reduce fossil fuel consumption even if you don't believe in AGW. Anyone can see that continuing to use fossil fuels is a losing proposition on many fronts.
The problem is not that it would be good to find alternate sources, or that we should attempt to be cleaner. The issue is the process to which this is trying to be obtained. That is, they are impractical solutions that penalize people, require society to give up to obtain, and are destructive to a healthy economy.
So, science is used politically to demand conformity through claims of fear and urgency. This way they do not need the permission of the people, they can simply install their solutions while disregarding them.
The common opinion of alarmist follow these lines concerning the science:
“It is no secret that a lot of climate-change research is subject to opinion, that climate models sometimes disagree even on the signs of the future changes (e.g. drier vs. wetter future climate). The problem is, only sensational exaggeration makes the kind of story that will get politicians’ — and readers’ — attention. So, yes, climate scientists might exaggerate, but in today’s world, this is the only way to assure any political action and thus more federal financing to reduce the scientific uncertainty.â€
- Harvard University PhD candidate Monika Kopacz
â€we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have.â€
-Professor Stephen Schneider, global warming guru at Stanford University
This is not science, it is politics, it is dishonest, it is a disgrace to the field of study.
We all want cleaner and more efficient, but some of us have the integrity to search for such without lying to the people to achieve it.
Those who would lie are simply people pushing subjective opinion in the face of the facts. The science is not the reason for their position, the science is simply a vehicle of credibility. Their use of climate science to push such agenda as sullied the field, made it a joke, and damaged its reputation.
To agree to disagree means that we are in contest of the facts. The science is also in such contest as well. This means that the hypothesis of AGW is not scientifically validated, it is merely a belief without proper support. It is inconclusive.
BZZZT!!
Wrong yet again. In fact, you are on the opposite side of the fence from actual science, and that is why your opinion stands in stark contrast to the 95% of scientists that have actually studied climate change.
The models you dispute you offer no contrary evidence to dispel their validity, that is why any reasonable person not blinded by ideology will agree with science, which is further backed by actual temperature averages, showing that the 10 warmest years in world history have occurred in the past two decades.
Sounds to me like science is supportable by actual measurement, not just models.
Wapasha, take a look at that study summary I linked to and see if you can find the very glaring thing stands out.
seriously it is very funny, if you can find it.
Their study just reinforced what their opponents have been saying, the warming we have been experiencing, since the end of the little ice-age is normal, and is not "unprecedented", and it shoots down alarmist talk from those like al Gore.
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