I was watching Congressman Henry Waxman going on about the dangers of the Keystone XL pipeline and how it would spew carbon into the air and make global warming even worse. It would appear that the distinguished congressman didn't get the memo that there has been no global warming in the past 10 years. None. Zip. Nada. Zero.
Yet people like Waxman rattle on about climate change (or whatever politically expedient phrase is currently in use) with the fanatical faith of a true zealot. Even if Mr. Waxman does represent that center of intellectual rigor that is Hollywood, it would be a lot more seemly if a member of Congress did not rely on "Trust me!" as a justification for attempting to control a vast swath of the American economy.
The climate change issue is championed by Liberal Progressive Democrats (L-P-Ds) such as Waxman, Al Gore and even our "smartest-guy-in-the-room" President. The support of these worthies is invariably accompanied by the underlying assumption that changes in the globe's climate are primarily caused by increases in man-made CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal. Consider the claims of potentially catastrophic results being used to arouse public fear of global warming: the disappearance of island nations, the extinction of species of animals, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world due to causes such as the spread of disease in epidemic proportion, greater numbers and severity of hurricanes, droughts and heat waves, flooding and, on and on and on.
Yet people like Waxman rattle on about climate change (or whatever politically expedient phrase is currently in use) with the fanatical faith of a true zealot. Even if Mr. Waxman does represent that center of intellectual rigor that is Hollywood, it would be a lot more seemly if a member of Congress did not rely on "Trust me!" as a justification for attempting to control a vast swath of the American economy.
The climate change issue is championed by Liberal Progressive Democrats (L-P-Ds) such as Waxman, Al Gore and even our "smartest-guy-in-the-room" President. The support of these worthies is invariably accompanied by the underlying assumption that changes in the globe's climate are primarily caused by increases in man-made CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal. Consider the claims of potentially catastrophic results being used to arouse public fear of global warming: the disappearance of island nations, the extinction of species of animals, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people around the world due to causes such as the spread of disease in epidemic proportion, greater numbers and severity of hurricanes, droughts and heat waves, flooding and, on and on and on.
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