And smart, under Obama, we are, or soon will be, caged primates.

A: Consquences of our actions don’t matter, it’s the thought that counts.

B: Republicans are Nazis

And my all time personal favorite:

C: Bu$hitler and Cheney lied and people died for big oil.

My post listed examples of what to expect once Lil Barry runs amok with his Cap and Trade tax scheme. Since you obviously have no clue about basic economics 101, your rebuttal is unsuprisingly nothing more than the equilvant of a 5 year old child putting his hands over his ears and humming a tune so as to not hear what is being told to him.

You say….“Better to do something and fail than stand back and do nothing.”

So with technologies that are at best 20 years away from being affordable enough for mass usage, the solution to do something now is to tax greenhouse gas emitters into oblivion? Explain how this benefits the society as a whole, since the consquences of this action will be a ruined economoy and mass unemployment that makes 8.5% look pretty good. Better to go forward with this plan, already seeing it will fail miserably?

Oh, just in case you missed it, environmentalists are tying up a massive solar power project in the Southwest because of an endagered Pupfish that can only be found in some isolated spring hole of water. The fish cannot be bred outside the spring hole as other attempts have failed. Your solution to this is?

But enough ad hominem…

AGW is allegedly science. Science requires the application of the scientific method, not consensus. (Please, stop me if I’m going too fast.) 1. Hypothesis: carbon dioxide is responsible for/related to temperature variations on Earth. 2. Collect data. 3. Examine data using math and gnarly Latin phrases. 4. Confirm or refute your hypothesis.

So, the data is in, the analysis complete and there is no correlation (let alone causation) between carbon dioxide levels and the temperature of the Earth. QED. Am I missing something, dude? The scientific debate is over. There is no AGW.

Have a nice day!

……”Love Obama…Glad I voted for him….”

That’s what I call ‘stupid-proud’….but then, as Larry says, “You can’t fix stupid”.

Nothing I said mentioned getting together with corporations, but you couldn’t resist the dig, could you?

He was propped up and promoted by big money interests led by George Soros and his buddies and 52% of the voting population fell for it so he now claims an overwhelming mandate. Who else do you know who could sell millions of dollars worth of autobiographies based on absolutely no noteworthy accomplishments and a razor thin resume? Someone knew history and took a page out of post world war I history to put this scam together.

Obama wasn’t around when all the things he thinks are brilliant were tried and failed miserably, and since he didn’t get his basic education in the U.S. he is blissfully unaware of his ignorance. He doesn’t know history, geography, business, science or economics–and he doesn’t have a lick of common sense. He’s never had to make executive decisions in any size business or government until now. As far as I’m concerned he is a slick talking, naive, ignorant fool. Merely a puppet of the George Soros group of rich international hedge fund managers. If we are lucky, we will survive and live to repair the damage he is doing in fairly short order.

Exactly the type of inane statement I’d expect from a liberal.

Banning DDT without data indicating any harmful effects to humans has only led to the death of millions from malaria in Africa. At least we did something.

Stagnating our economy in an attempt to solve a non-existent problem is beneficial to whom? Al Gore and the Chinese?

Do you read anything besides libwit propaganda?

BTW, the icecaps are expanding, and polar bear populations are growing.

If the globe was warming, it would be a boon to mankind. Longer growing seasons, more arable land, etc. Unfortunately, 2008 was the coldest year in a long time. We are in a period of recurring ice ages you know….oh, I guess you don’t know.

But that’s just common sense, not book learning. No liberal would ever believe it.

Another fact you may not have heard is that the climate has self adjusting mechanisms, like many natural processes. But that doesn’t fit the propaganda either, so it must be ignored.

A: Let’s get together with the corporations and build unrealistic models of what changing a problem could potentially cost us, so that we can delay actually doing anything about it until it’s too late.

B: Well, since its’ an act of God and it’s going to happen anyway, we might as well just sit back and throw feces (like caged primates) at those “stupid enough” to try…

And my all time personal favorite:

C: Cut Taxes.

As for the rest? Well, they’re just an incoherent mishmash of marginally similar situations that, again, propose to real solutions to actually FIX anything.

Better to do something and fail than stand back and do nothing.

Love Obama…Glad I voted for him…Can’t wait to do it again

Great post, RW

Let’s look at the examples of what will be affected with this cap and trade nonsense.

1)Travel Industry – this will kill off most of the airline industry because the average person will no longer be able to afford to fly. There will be no more $200 round trip fares from New York to Orlando as the cap and trade taxes will cause ticket prices to double or triple on the cheap ones. Business will curtail its flying and that is where airlines make their yield. Say goodbye to jobs at resorts, cruise ships, hotels, national parks etc. States that get most of their money from tourism will be in big trouble. Since gas will be back to $4-5 gallon, not many people going to do a lot of driving. Well, so what if we lose millions of jobs and even more in lost revenue, the environment will be so pristine.

2) Meat and Dairy – Might as well say hello to $5+ gallon for milk. Forget the .99 simple hamburger from McDonadls, that price just tripled. Of course, since all our kids are getting fat on fast-food, getting rid of a few chains (which mostly employ high school and college kids) won’t be such a bad thing on our overall health will it? Another good thing is since steaks will be priced so high, we won’t be using those environmental killing outdoor bar-b-ques to cook them in as often.

3)Sanitation – Since gas/diesel prices will be through the roof, watch your payments to have your trash picked up go a lot higher. Maybe you have a big garage to store your trash in, so you can afford to have your garbage picked up every 2 weeks instead of twice a week. Live in a big city? Then get used to all the trash lying in the streets since the city can no longer afford the cost of a consistant trash removal service. You can also forget about your road service doing a better job during snow storms since the budgets will be too strained to afford the salt and trucks needed to run 24 hour service with fuel prices so high.

4)Cost of All Goods – Since your cap and trade has put big bad oil in it’s place, the shipping costs for all goods will head back up. Your fresh produce that you get at the store? The clothes you buy in the store? The shoes for your feet?

I guess you are not worried about any of that, since you have obviously thought everything through. Did you stop to think though that with every household struggling to get by, that the video game industry will go kaput. No average working American or even those on the dole will be able to afford to buy anymore games. That finishes off the video games.

I guess that last paragraph got your attention, huh?

I didn’t know that, but it is very interesting.

It’s another example of what happened with the “loans to deadbeat” program dictated by our loving paterfamliasses in Congress.

When a business screws up, people lose perhaps up to a few billion dollars and a few thousand jobs.

When the government screws up, we get Depressions, massive devastation of savings, and millions of people are thrown into unemployment.

And we are told that the ONLY Solution is MORE government!!

And oh yeh, when was the last time the government did something right?

It’s surreal.

Back on topic, this whole thing reminds me of the Dust Bowl of the 1930′s. It began when the government allocated land to farmers and encouraged them to grow wheat during a time of abnormally high rainfall. The farmers tore up the hardy prairie grasses and made tons of money on wheat.

But then the rainfall patterns changed, and right on cue with the Great Depression the area went into a drought. The wheat died and with nothing to keep it down the top soil blew off into dust storms. High temperatures and high winds made it worse, but then the area already had those before the Dust Bowl.

It took one huge storm that reached Washington in 1935 before Congress took action. (So much for the lightning fast response of the super-intelligent Dems.) They listened to the experts and planted trees to make windbreaks and told famers to plow along the contours of the land so the wind wouldn’t be as likely to pick up the soil.

All that helped, but the Dust Bowl didn’t end until normal rainfall returned in 1939.

The point to the story? We have a hand in things, but nature does it’s own and we can’t control it. Also, the responses back then (once goaded into action) were rational. If Obama were president instead of Roosevelt he’d be fining farmers for the dust blowing off their lands and encouraging people to live off prairie grass.