America's climate-change bill: In need of a clean »
Posted By JessicaLaurie 6 months ago in Science & Technology
Even if bill passes the Senate w/out further compromise -- very uncertain -- a relatively weak U.S. bill from environmental POV could have negative influence on hold-out countries coming to Copenhagen for global talks on possible successor to Kyoto..
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Endoscopy6 months ago
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This foolish bill needs to die. The mere fact that the 300 page amendment was put forth at 3:00 AM the day the bill was voted on says there is a lot of hanky panky going on. Note that the vote was much closer than the stimulus package was. Democrats are leaving the fold. They can't stand the odor either.
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Then there is the fact that there is no scientific basis for the greenhouse gasses really being greenhouse gasses in reality. Just because Gore and his Goreabites named them that means nothing. The theory was put forth and not proved. The fact that the Moon has the same average temperature as Earth means that either we are exporting these gases to the Moon or it is just the Sun.
Of the 2.5% increase in CO2 people only produce half of that. Statistically that is insignificant. -
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simonsez6 months ago
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We now live in a world of constant churn ... government rattling our cage on a daily basis, thousands of agendas using scare as the motivator, millions of opinions moving at the speed of light being shouted in print around the planet. Names, hate, insults.
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We've lost something important and I suspect we will never get it back.
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