Northwest Voices | Climate change: Is it treason to deny global warming? | Seattle Times Newspaper
How long will The Seattle Times continue to repeat the tired mantras of global-warming believers?Letters - Taking Steps to Fight Global Warming - NYTimes.com
While there can be no justification for opposing conservation or alternate sources of energy, there are considerable current climate and atmospheric science reasons for opposing the fraud of cap-and-trade legislation.
-- Steven Keeler, Seattle
While it’s encouraging to see Congress taking steps to reduce global warming, the approach championed at the moment — cap and trade — is fraught with perils and ineffectiveness. The biggest drawback is the creation of a trillion-dollar market in carbon futures and derivatives, a speculator’s playground that has economic disaster written all over it.
Your admonishment to the Senate notwithstanding, the bill that was passed in the House appears dead on arrival.
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Come late fall, when the Waxman-Markey bill has languished in the Senate, lawmakers will see the need to move on to Plan B — the carbon tax.
Steve Valk
Atlanta, July 1, 2009
The writer is the communications director for Citizens Climate Lobby.
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As a small business consultant I have followed the Waxman-Markey Bill from its inception. I am truly amazed at the amount of misinformation that passes for fact regarding the bill. Although the American public is not currently behind cap-and-trade legislation, this can be remdied by better communications.
Please see my review cap-and-trade.
http://thegreenmarket.blogspot.com/2009/06/helping-small-business-accept-us-cap.html
Mr Matthews allow me to retort.
There has indeed been an amazing amount of misinformation regarding the reasoning behind this bill.
Please see my rebuttal at
Watt's Up With That.
I think Pamela Grey sums up my position pretty well.
Pamela Gray (12:09:54) :
So the catastrophic global warming that furrows the sweated brow of our politicians in the House and soon in the Senate is cooking right along at…ZER0. Yessir, Mr. Malarkey, we must do something to stop this runaway train screaming past us on the way to carbon Armageddon at the speed of…ZER0. I predict the cap and trade system will just make tons of money at a market interest rate of…ZER0. I have got to buy me some of these! No one can pass up that interest rate. Why, it beats the hell out of our current -25% all to hell and gone! Why, with the $1000 I lost last year in my retirement account, I will be directing my financial adviser to invest in stocks with an interest rate of…ZER0. Finally, anyone who votes for any scheme even remotely related to such a bright future based on runaway global warming of…ZER0, should receive exactly…ZER0 votes in his or her next election.
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