Saturday, February 19, 2011

American Thinker: Can Truth Prevail in a Culture of Spin?
The Environmental Protection Agency's demonizing of carbon dioxide strikes everyone but the politicians and carbon merchants as ludicrous. CO2 passes out of our lungs when we breathe and enables plants to convert carbohydrates and water to oxygen. This is the very natural and necessary process of photosynthesis. If a business exhausts this colorless, tasteless, non-combustible gas, the EPA wants to demand that it buy expensive carbon credits if they intend to continue. If you are a manufacturer you may have to shut your operation down. If your business is a power plant, power rates to the customer would "go through the roof."
Policy makers have locked up our natural resources and destroyed so many industries that we cannot work or produce our way out of our 14 trillion dollar debt. The President and Congress are betting our mortgaged chips on green technology. The U.S. Department of Energy is the primary investor. Sixty to ninety per-cent of the manufacturing will be done off-shore. Bankrupt California, gobbling up federal dollars while it drives out productive businesses in favor of green industry, is the DOE's green show dog.
American Thinker: What do Climate Data Really Show? The Berkeley Climate Data Project
[S. Fred Singer] I applaud and support what is being done by the Project -- a very difficult but important undertaking. I personally have little faith in the quality of the surface data, having been exposed to the revealing work by Anthony Watts and others. However, I have an open mind on the issue and look forward to seeing the results of the Project in their forthcoming publications.

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