The Human Spirit

To demonize carbon/CO2, as environmentalists have done, is to demonize life itself. This is ridiculous hysteria and entirely unscientific. The only way to fully understand this anti-carbon movement is to recognize that it is ideologically-driven extremism now gone utterly mad. Its real goal is to slow, halt, and even reverse economic growth and development and it uses carbon as a proxy to fight growth and the human enterprise. But the Green movement in demonizing carbon has become anti-green, anti-life, and anti-nature.

Wendell Krossa

Paying Twice to Save Earth From Carbon - WSJ.com

It's quite amusing that, according to Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the developing world wants the developed world, primarily the U.S., to pay them to cooperate with us on CO2 emissions ("Technology Is the Answer to Climate Change," op-ed, April 3). I say amusing because any money we send to China for its help, we first have to borrow from the Chinese. The world's "richest" nation is its largest debtor nation.

Eric Dalton
Little Rock, Ark.

The world according to Jim Hansen

"We are now completely in charge," said NASA scientist James Hansen, who was not a part of the study but who first urged Congress to stem emissions in 1988.

"We are going to determine the climate for our children and grandchildren. We’re much more powerful than the natural forces.... We could be sending the planet back toward an ice-free state."