Copenhagen Collapse?
Bensblurb #511 Dec. 7, 2009.
Copenhagen collapse?
Just as American Indians once danced around the fire to make it rain out west, global warming gurus are huddling in Copenhagen to make it cool.
However, even the offer of free nookie from Copenhagen’s infamous tarts hasn’t kept old Al Gore from taking a pass, contrary to Obama’s late decision---to give a speech, of course.
He had struck out royally there on Chicago’s bid for the Olympics, but whatever.
In any event, Copenhagen won’t matter. EPA’s actions will. Sad, because “global warming” would otherwise become a laughable phrase.
Indeed, The Pew Research Center found that by last January, global warming “ranked at the bottom of the public’s list of policy priorities for the president and Congress this year.” Independent voters and Republicans ranked it last on a list of 20 priorities, while Democrats ranked it 16th, according to Politico..
Other polling suggests Americans are growing more skeptical of the science behind climate change, with those who blame human activity for global warming — 36 percent — falling 11 percentage points this year, according to Pew.
“That skepticism is likely to increase following the embarrassing leak last month of e-mail exchanges among climate scientists dissing the work of peers who doubt that humans are causing global warming.”--Ben Smith, in Politico
Even so: A political agreement short of a treaty in Copenhagen, Sen. John Kerry has said, could be an assertion of the president’s primacy over a recalcitrant Congress. “It’s a restatement of the power of the president to direct the [Environmental Protection Agency] to regulate greenhouse gases. He has the power of the budget to make requests of Congress, he has the power of executive orders to order certain behavior in the transformation of energy in buildings, fleet purchases,” said Kerry. “But the main thing is that the president is committing to move in a direction...”
So, tough toenails.
George Will weighs in: “The travesty is the intellectual arrogance of the authors of climate-change models partially based on ...reconstructing long-term prior climate changes. On such models we are supposed to wager trillions of dollars--and substantially diminished freedom.”
In any event, Copenhagen won’t matter. EPA will. Oh yes, and by the way, Remember Pearl Harbor.
Copenhagen collapse?
Just as American Indians once danced around the fire to make it rain out west, global warming gurus are huddling in Copenhagen to make it cool.
However, even the offer of free nookie from Copenhagen’s infamous tarts hasn’t kept old Al Gore from taking a pass, contrary to Obama’s late decision---to give a speech, of course.
He had struck out royally there on Chicago’s bid for the Olympics, but whatever.
In any event, Copenhagen won’t matter. EPA’s actions will. Sad, because “global warming” would otherwise become a laughable phrase.
Indeed, The Pew Research Center found that by last January, global warming “ranked at the bottom of the public’s list of policy priorities for the president and Congress this year.” Independent voters and Republicans ranked it last on a list of 20 priorities, while Democrats ranked it 16th, according to Politico..
Other polling suggests Americans are growing more skeptical of the science behind climate change, with those who blame human activity for global warming — 36 percent — falling 11 percentage points this year, according to Pew.
“That skepticism is likely to increase following the embarrassing leak last month of e-mail exchanges among climate scientists dissing the work of peers who doubt that humans are causing global warming.”--Ben Smith, in Politico
Even so: A political agreement short of a treaty in Copenhagen, Sen. John Kerry has said, could be an assertion of the president’s primacy over a recalcitrant Congress. “It’s a restatement of the power of the president to direct the [Environmental Protection Agency] to regulate greenhouse gases. He has the power of the budget to make requests of Congress, he has the power of executive orders to order certain behavior in the transformation of energy in buildings, fleet purchases,” said Kerry. “But the main thing is that the president is committing to move in a direction...”
So, tough toenails.
George Will weighs in: “The travesty is the intellectual arrogance of the authors of climate-change models partially based on ...reconstructing long-term prior climate changes. On such models we are supposed to wager trillions of dollars--and substantially diminished freedom.”
In any event, Copenhagen won’t matter. EPA will. Oh yes, and by the way, Remember Pearl Harbor.
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