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Was thinking even if nutjobs were right & climate change not happening isn't the potential scary enough to warrant changing our habits?

The Associated Press: Governors say climate policy could create jobs

Republican Gov. John Hoeven of North Dakota said the legislation under consideration would cause job losses in his oil-producing state. The prospect of a climate change bill already has halted new technologies to harvest oil and natural gas, Hoeven said.

He was joined by Arkansas state Rep. John Lowery, a Democrat and the owner of Lowery Oil Co., who said that while the bill may create green jobs for the West Coast and Northeast, it would harm middle America.

"It might be popular for some in Washington to demonize oil and gas, fertilizer and chemical companies, and farmers," Lowery said, "but where I come from, they are an integral part of our communities."
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"As I've stated before, cap-and-trade benefits the coasts at the expense of the heartland," said Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the panel's top Republican.

No Impact Man: What I'd say if I was wrong about climate change

The list goes on and on, but in short, I am glad that we have embraced the opportunities presented by the crisis of climate change in order to improve our society in ways we should have done anyway.

theblogprof: Great Lakes Water Levels Increasing. Global Warming Alarmists Still Claim They Will Fall!

Note here also that there was a substantial drop in the level from 1860 until about 1920, right in the heart of the industrial revolution. Since that time, as our carbon footprint increased very significantly, there is essentially no change in the lake level average. Thus, the quote in the Detroit News/AP article by the director of the University of Michigan's Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute that there is a decreasing mean is bunk! But even if it were true, the pattern extends into the past far beyond the industrial revolution when we simply could not have an effect by burning fossil fuels! So what caused that?

Informal world climate [hoax] talks in Bonn in August | Reuters

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - World climate negotiators will gather in Bonn next month to edit an "indigestible" set of proposals into a manageable document for international consideration, the head of a key U.N. panel said on Tuesday.

The August 10-14 meeting will be the first in a series aimed at reaching a new worldwide agreement to combat climate change in Copenhagen in December, said Michael Zammit Cutajar, who chairs a working group of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate change.