Are We Becoming a Nation of Science Dunces? - Green Blawg

Now, we have ample proof of global climate change and what we need to do to combat it, although there are significant forces in place challenging the science behind the theory.

Deceived by Al Gore, teenager goes on climate crusade, and parrots Al Gore talking points: '...sea levels will rise over twenty feet', blah, blah, blah. | GORE LIED

It could be that Alec is aware of Gore’s deceptive strategy, but I doubt it. Hopefully, Alec will read this, and find enough inspiration to take a second (and closer) look at the facts in the debate over this issue.

[Sen Mark Udall: That's not strangling, that's "unleashing"]

Various questions addressed a carbon cap-and-trade proposal being debated in Congress.

One questioner asked why "strangle our economy" with emissions limits while in China, pollution continues unchecked.

"We're not going to strangle our economy," he said. "What we're going to do is unleash our economy."

He said the legislation would energize the burgeoning market for green energy and result in new technologies [like what?] that could be exported to developing countries to revitalize our economy and allow theirs to grow in a sustainable fashion.

He called maintaining the status quo the more "radical" option because it entails simply sitting by to see what consequences arise from climate change.

He was asked whether his support for cap and trade represented a conflict given the position of his wife, Maggie Fox, as head of Al Gore's organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection.

"My wife has her own career," he said.