I feel a rant coming on:
Global warming is an utter hoax.
Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, and former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, has written a series of articles on the IPCC (CanadaFreePress.com). He contends that
UN structures were designed to prove human CO2 emissions were responsible for global warming, with the political purpose of causing the demise of industrialized nations.
Not sure about that?
Well I'm sure few here in the UK know that the US Congress is about to debate the Lieberman_Warner Bill which would impose cap-and-trade mandates on anything that generates carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and that pretty much includes everything involving energy use, including backyard barbecuing.
A study by the Heritage Foundation predicts the following consequences if the bill is passed:
# The impact on the economy would be horrendous. Heritage estimates that cumulative gross domestic product (GDP) losses of at least $1.7 trillion that could reach $4.8 trillion by 2030 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
# Single-year GDP losses of at least $155 billion that could exceed $500 billion (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars).
# Annual job losses that would exceed 500,000 before 2030 and could exceed a million.
# The annual cost of emission permits to energy users to cost at least $100 billion by 2020.
# The average household will pay $467 more each year for its natural gas and electricity (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars). That means that the average household will spend an additional $8,870 to purchase energy over the period 2012 to 2030.
OK, so you may think well that's in the US, so who cares? There's an old saying that when the US sneezes we catch a cold. It will have a very negative effect on the UK economy
We need the Czech president Vaclav Klaus to take over. This Tuesday he said he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms.
'I many times tried to talk to have a public exchange of views with him, and he's not too much willing to make such a conversation,' Klaus said. 'So I'm ready to do it.'
Klaus was speaking a the National Press Building in Washington to present his new book, Blue Planet in Green Shackles - What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?, before meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney Wednesday.
'My answer is it is our freedom and, I might add, and our prosperity,' he said.
I am literally aghast at the stupidity of our "leaders" who are about to wreck our economies on something (man-made global warming theory) with which 31,000 scientists - yes, 31,000 - disagree.
Makes me mad...
RANT OVER
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