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U.S. Investment in Clean Energy Production Is a Must

Handouts prop up nuclear, coal, and oil, so why not new technology?

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It's Time to Forget About Global Warming as a Reason to Pursue Green Energy

There are several "good" reasons people are jumping off the Global Warming/Climate Change crazy train.

1. Scientific myopia. Short term, precise, climate data is a relatively recent field. We're talking less than 30 years.

2. If enough computer models are used it is certain some will show the desired, subjective results.

3. A relatively educated populace understands that there have been periods of warming and cooling in the recent past. Many also know that when co2 levels were 12 times higher than now life on earth flourished. They also may be aware that sea levels have been rising for thousands of years.

4. It's obvious that politicians, and the scientists they pay, have a dog in this fight. It's made Automaton Al a multimillionaire, a Hollywood hero and nearly a saint.

5. There is nothing but short term circumstantial data indicating anthropogenic activity as a cause for fluctuating temps. Note that current climate data begins around 1855 - near the end of The Little Ice Age - which lasted about 3 centuries. Since the final years of centuries of depressed temperatures, global temps have risen about 1.5 degrees - with many long fluctuations.

6. H2O (water vapor) accounts for more than 95% of atmospheric "green house gas. Anthropogenic CO2 is a fraction of 1% and even cutting back an impossible 50% would have no effect on temps.

7. Temps. sea level and ice variations to date are all within historical norms.

8. It is nothing more than scientific hubris to assume that warmer temperatures are "unnatural" or unusual. Who decides what is "normal" or good for the Earth?

Agenda driven science is nothing new. Example, in the time it took to read this nearly one hundred people died because Rachel Carson's hysteria caused the banning of DDT. As a result more than a million children die needlessly each year. Please Google, "DDT - A Case of Scientific Fraud" for enlightenment.

Another example. Remember marine biologists said, "The "Gulf Oil Spill" would "cause irreparable harm - lasting centuries". Now, scientists struggle to find a trace of the spill. These agenda driven scientists know that fear and hyperbole provides them power, and so, in the immortal words of Rahm Emanuel, they - "Never a serious crisis go to waste". Enviro-theologists have learned that lesson well.

The pseudo science of environmentalism and "global warming" have rapidly morphed into the quasi State Religion of Environmentalism. Its theology influences our politicians, courts, schools, media and the bureaucracies of government at every level. History teaches us that this amount of power is corrupting and imperious - witness the actions of the White House, EPA, Interior Dept. and Park Service.

Green Environmentalist banners are leading us backward - beyond the Dark Ages - into Pantheism and the caves.

Stop the Madness - Going Green Has Gone Too Far

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:50PM January 22, 2012

I believe you are mistaken. Oil is the best, most efficient way to run our economy. We neednt fight wars for it. Owebama recently turned down a new pipeline, from our friend Canada, which would have brought jobs and no danger. We have millions of miles of pipelines in America, which do not easily leak, nor cause damage to the environment. And if you believe you have saved the environment from something by turning down this pipeline, you couldnt be more wrong. It will be used by someone else! It has not saved the environment, in the least bit! Some other country will benefit with cheaper energy costs, while American families suffer higher costs!

J. Russell of OK 12:24AM January 20, 2012