How to Win My Vote for Obama

IX. To combat "global climate change" (global warming, to be specific), Barack Obama wants U.S. companies to institute a "cap-and-trade program" for carbon emissions, meaning they would have to buy carbon-emission permits.32 Such a program is beginning to be implemented in the European Union. The price for the right to pump one ton of carbon into the atmosphere is now at $47.60. (Under the Obama plan, these rights would be auctioned off.) This is causing costs to skyrocket. Just one German energy company will pay $14.2 billion for the right to create electricity — the costs will be transferred to the company's customers. The German cement industry is looking at cost increases of $1.4 billion — half its current annual revenues. Even though the program is just getting going and rates haven't hit their uppermost levels yet, Germany has lost thousands of jobs as companies flee to countries not involved in the program.33 How can Obama conceive that this won't destroy American industry?

X. Voters are told that actions like cap-and-trade for carbon emissions must be instituted because if they aren't, catastrophic events from global warming will occur. In fact, there's no evidence of any measurable human-caused warming34, 35: the warming trend matches well with increased Sun activity36 and is consistent with warming for the past several hundred years — since the "Little Ice Age."35 The Earth's temperatures have stabilized over the past decade,37 and at the height of the recent warming, the Earth hadn't yet reached its 3,000-year average temperature.38 Further arguing against warming theory, a cooling trend seems to have begun, as evidenced by the fact that most of the world had an especially harsh winter last year39, 40, 41 and the fact that the oceans have begun to cool42 — which takes a very long time and runs completely contrary to all catastrophic global-warming scenarios. Hundreds of previously believing scientists have now become warming skeptics,37, 43 and the IPCC, which is the political entity that initiated all of the super-scary climate scenarios, has revised its figures on sea-level rise from 11.9 feet by the year 2100 to 1.9 feet,44 so why is the United States considering a cap-and-trade program?