”We’re not going to take a lot of time debating this anymore.”
Barbara Boxer announced that decision in February 2007. The reason I bitched about it then was she opposed Kyoto before deciding the debate was over. A lot happened between 1997 and 2007 tho, to be fair.
Primarily the hockey stick sent everyone fleeing for a carbon free spot on the planet so they wouldn’t die instantly of global warming that was supposed to end life as we know it about three years ago.
Some people weren’t quite so convinced the hockey stick meant anything. By the time Boxer decided the debate was over, the hockey stick was already proven flawed, if not fraudulent, and dismissed. Now it’s become evident that the data used to garner those scientists Nobel prizes and convince Al Gore to make a for-profit movie that got him a Nobel as well, which in turn prompted Barbara Boxer to invest in green companies and do her best to shut off all dissension, was the latter of the two assumptions. It’s fraud. It wasn’t enough that the Earth was cooling while they were telling us it was warming, but the emails stating they were fudging numbers for grant money seems to have gotten some people’s attention. But, to date, not Barbara Boxer.
Simultaneously, President Obama is set to fly to Denmark. While there accepting his Nobel prize for what he might do someday, he will ask other industrialized nations to match what the United States might do someday. Additionally, today he announced he could give everyone jobs if we just taxed carbon. Simple concept huh? Think about it. People used to laugh about taxing the air you breathe. The reason the IMF feels this way is the free market trading of carbon credits has pretty much collapsed as they are becoming worthless. Obama is now plugging a plan that is failing right now to solve the problem that probably doesn’t exist.
In the meantime, the heavy snow forecasts for San Antonio and Houston have been downgraded to a light dusting.
And, as my beautiful and well read wife pointed out, although the global warming prediction seems to be going down in flames, another prediction seems to be playing out perfectly. Read this:
A couple of players are a little off, but the premise, bam!
I really don’t think he Crichton would have ever pondered just how crazy this whole thing has gotten.
Tags: al gore, barbara-boxer, carbon credit, climate-change, denmark, Global Warming, hockey stick, imf, inconvenient-truth, international monetary fund, michael crichton, nobel, obama, phil jones, state of fear, the debate is over
I don’t understand the last two paragraphs. Who is “he”?
Guess it would make more sense if what you were supposed to read was actually there.
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