Monday, April 12, 2010

More complete insanity from John Kerry: He equates nuclear armageddon with fluctuations in a natural trace atmospheric gas

Kerry: U.S. Must Lead on Climate Change - Roll Call
It has been three months since President Barack Obama and the United States took an important step toward leading the world in developing the Copenhagen Accord, a breakthrough new global agreement among almost 120 nations, including China and the developing world, to reduce emissions, increase transparency and support international climate change investments.
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The clean energy industry is still in its infancy in the United States and yet already relatively substantial in its size — with 770,000 jobs (and growing three times faster than jobs in general), venture capital exceeding $12 billion and public investments of $85 billion in direct spending and tax credits.   [So how much of our actual energy is provided by all of those people and all of that spending?]
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For nearly half a century, we were willing to pay any price and bear any burden to win the Cold War. The threat from Soviet nuclear warheads was a clear and present danger in our lives.

Just as clear and present is the danger climate change poses
to our economy and national security.
Energy in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The majority of this energy is derived from fossil fuels: in 2005, it was estimated that 40% of the nation's energy came from petroleum, 23% from coal, and 23% from natural gas. Nuclear power supplied 8.4% and renewable energy supplied 7.3%, which was mainly from hydroelectric dams although other renewables are included such as wind power, geothermal and solar energy.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So Senator, if I fart, would that be a tactical or a strategic nuke?

Anonymous said...

And IF climate change should ever pose a threat, our money would be better spent adapting to the new climate rather than trying to control it.