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America's First Global Warming Cap and Trade Program Is Working, and Here's Why

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Where are the green jobs? Its now 2011 and the economy has tanked, my utility bill is higher. What a bunch of BS.

danno of MD 9:24PM October 25, 2011

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Vivian R. Perkins of MD 12:36PM September 14, 2009

That's because the simpletons who voted for him don't realize that when he shakes down industry, 100 percent of the additional cost must be passed on to the ratepayers, which includes all of them. They also need to be gullible enough to continue believing the politicians man-made global warming hoax. This is all about politicians seizing control of industry by any rationalization they think they can sell to voters. It's sad to see USN&WR letting politician use this site for propaganda purposes.

Barry of CA 8:44PM July 24, 2009

We are being forced to pay for ‘alternative’ sources of energy that never pay for themselves with the energy they produce. This is why wind and solar energy, don’t even supply one percent of mankind’s needs. Producing Ethanol from corn actually consumes more energy than the amount of energy you get from the Ethanol. This creates a net loss of energy, while driving up the price of corn. Whether or not that ‘works’ depends on whether you are trying in good faith to produce an abundant sustainable supply of energy, or you are just trying to control a greater share of the economy for your own political purposes. Since it has already been proven that CO2 doesn’t cause climate change, efforts to control it are only efforts to control the economic activities that produce CO2. This is nothing more than greed disguised as concern for the environment. So our access to hydrocarbon energy and nuclear energy is being throttled for no good reason.
Regarding concerns about sea level rise:
"The reason why Dr Mörner, formerly a Stockholm professor, is so certain that these claims about sea level rise are 100 per cent wrong is that they are all based on computer model predictions, whereas his findings are based on "going into the field to observe what is actually happening in the real world".
When running the International Commission on Sea Level Change, he launched a special project on the Maldives, whose leaders have for 20 years been calling for vast sums of international aid to stave off disaster. Six times he and his expert team visited the islands, to confirm that the sea has not risen for half a century. Before announcing his findings, he offered to show the inhabitants a film explaining why they had nothing to worry about. The government refused to let it be shown."
http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=3116
Journalists are very slow to realize that their readers now have far more choices than they had 10 years ago. If you want to keep your readers, you had better be honest with them.

Barry of CA 4:10PM July 24, 2009

Cap-and-Trade amounts to a massive tax increase on all conventional energy usage, to be paid for by you every time you buy something manufactured or transported using energy, which includes everything you spend your money on. Here is more background on this deliberate hoax from 1988:
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/hansens_anniversary_testimony/
31,478 scientists signed a petition opposing the man-made global warming theory, which stated the following:
“We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind.
There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
Their reasoning is outlined in a peer-reviewed journal article with evidence disproving the theory. Please follow this link:
http://www.petitionproject.org/

Barry of CA 4:09PM July 24, 2009

If the objective of Cap-and-Trade is to drag America toward poverty in an energy starved future then it’s working. Cap-and-Trade cannot protect the Earth from climate change, because CO2 isn’t causing climate change. Failure to face this truth shows that these self-described environmentalists are not sincere.
In 1988 James Hansen testified before congress predicting global warming. His failed predictions appear on page 7 of this PDF from NASA’s website as published back then:
http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988_Hansen_etal.pdf
All satellite data proves that he was wrong. The predicted warming never occurred:
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/HANSEN_AND_CONGRESS.jpg
2008 was 0.3 degrees colder than 1988, not 0.7 degrees warmer as he predicted. Since 1988 the federal government has wasted $79 billion on this non-existent problem:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/climate_money.pdf

Barry of CA 3:38PM July 24, 2009

Maybe you didn’t know about this:
“Walter Duranty (1884–October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born British journalist who served as the New York Times Moscow bureau chief from 1922 through 1936. Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a set of stories written in 1931 on the Soviet Union. Duranty's reporting has fallen into disrepute primarily because of his reports denying the famine in Ukraine. He has also been criticized for his favorable portrayals of Stalin and his uncritical coverage of Stalin's show trials.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
“The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор; translation: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death because of the Soviet policies that forced farmers into collective farms.[1][2] The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history. Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine died of starvation in an unprecedented peacetime catastrophe.[1][3][4][5] Estimates on the total number of casualties within Soviet Ukraine range mostly from 2.6 million[6][7] to 10 million.[8]”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Barry of CA 2:51PM July 24, 2009

Your credibility is spiraling downward. If you are wondering where your readers went who used to support your weekly paper publication, check the Drudge Report, which gets 24 million hits per day. Continuing to publish lies about the climate is only destroying your credibility.

Barry of CA 2:42PM July 24, 2009

What are you afraid of?

Barry of CA 2:37PM July 24, 2009

Chinese spokesman reiterated that his country's priority is economic growth: "Given that, it is natural for China to have some increase in its emissions, so it is not possible for China in that context to accept a binding or compulsory target." That was redundant: In January, China announced that its continuing reliance on coal as its primary source of energy will require increasing coal production 30 percent in the next six years.
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India told visiting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that there is "no case" for U.S. pressure on India to reduce carbon emissions.

read of TX 2:59PM July 23, 2009