Thursday, July 23, 2009

Energy-cost safeguards sought for climate bill - TwinCities.com
Consumers need stronger protections against potential rising energy costs that could result from climate-change legislation recently passed by the House, a coalition of consumer and environmental groups said Wednesday.
...
"The point of a carbon dioxide reduction plan is to squeeze the pollution out of coal burning, not to squeeze families," said Michael Noble, executive director of Fresh Energy, a nonprofit that favors renewable energy
[But wait a minute: Obama said this would only cost a postage stamp per day.  Don't these people believe our President?!]
But Obama said the measure would cost the average American about the price of a postage stamp per day.

"It is paid for by the polluters who currently emit dangerous carbon emissions," the president said. "It provides assistance to businesses and families as they make the gradual transition to clean energy technologies."
Greenpeace Activists Want US To Take Action On Climate Change
Greenpeace activists, a non-governmental organization staged demonstration to implore upon the visiting United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to check the green house emissions in US.

The demonstrators cited the suffering of the victims of the cyclone 'Aila' which they attributed to global warming.
Global cooling? Wish it was true | Alarmist Andrew Glikson
Earlier Evans questioned the greenhouse effect due to an alleged absence of a tropical troposphere "hot spot", the loci of rising warm air plumes, stating "If there is no hot spot then an increased greenhouse effect is not the cause of global warming. So we know for sure that carbon emissions are not a significant cause of the global warming".

Not so. First, the hotspot is not a signature of the greenhouse effect but of warming from any source. Second, a hot spot has been reported.

No comments: