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Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, a Democrat, hopes to challenge Republican Sen. Richard Burr next year. Am I reading too much into this comment, per the Asheville Citizen-Times? Is Marshall a global warming skeptic?...

With climate change, Marshall said she didn’t know enough to comment about bill introduced by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., to cut carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2050.

Climate change was something to which the government should pay attention, but it might be too early to take large steps, she said.

“We have got to have good sound science before we start spending money,” she said.

YID With LID: LIFE WITHOUT TOILET PAPER, Obama's Environmental Utopia?

COLIN BEAVAN: And we discovered that, you know, there is a climate emergency happening and it is possible for us as citizens to actually take care...

ETS and NBN are reckless misadventures | The Courier-Mail

In short we have a prime minister who wants to destroy the most basic foundation of a modern civilised society - cheap and available power. And then ' finish the job' some time in the future by destroying our export industries.

Along the way, Rudd's typically bureaucratic 'clever' alternative to closing our power stations, is to 'allow us' to pay billions of dollars to foreigners to let us keep them open.

I have to stress this, because the utter stupidity of what is proposed is so breathtaking, that the average person wouldn't believe it.

We would get nothing, repeat nothing for the billions of dollars potentially shipped overseas. Except the 'right' to keep emitting CO2. To keep our power stations open.

...to have a government and a prime minister actually proposing such an attack on the country is beyond rational or even irrational belief.

Hmm: Guest post by Gavin Schmidt « the Air Vent

    E) There does appear to be data collection and transparency issues in the AGW research area.

    [Response: Give me all the data you have used to publish a paper from in the last 10 years. What? It'll take time? Your graduate student has it? You aren't sure where you put it? There is only 90% online - I want the last 10%! I claim conspiracy! Appears to me like there's a transparency issue there, and you haven't even responded. (See how easy that is?). - gavin]

    Comment by Tkearney — 5 October 2009 @ 7:52 AM

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