CO2 caps

[gbjeep]

Has anyone heard about the new caps the gov. wants to put on emissions? I'll try to dig up some facts, but from what I understand it's the same old regulations on steroids. These would limit companies CO2 output, and increase every year. This means high gasoline, and energy bills for us using coal power plants. Also, these credits could be traded on the open market. Meaning that anyone from any country can buy American companies credits. Scary thought considering the most polluting countries in the world have little or no regulation. We're regulating ourselves to death.

[Questor]

Regulating ourselves to death is right. It's time to find the loopholes and exceptions, just like other overregulated countries in this crazy world. First thing to start doing is finding ways to reduce your taxes.

[magooch]

Have you forgotten that "Global Warming" has been changed to "Climate Change?"  There certainly isn't evidence of Global Warming in this neck of the woods and I doubt that anywhere else has proof of any such development.  Now climate change--that happens all the time around here.  The climate changes from one season to the next and even from one day to the next.

I still say that the best way to reduce CO2 would be for those who believe in the concept of limiting that emission is for them to quit exhaling it; anything else is just a scam to line someone's pockets.

[kinslayer1965]

I think the global warming eco terorist have had to back off a little bit. I  am concerned about  the limits they want to enforce and the effect it will have on our weakened economy.

What angered me was the junk science they put forth to further their political agenda. That and the fact that a lot of people bought it hook, line and sinker. Any time the term consensus is used that means science can not put forth the proof they require.

I think climate change is the right term. I believe that we are in the beginniings of a climate shift toward cooler temperatures. The ice core data they preached about clearly showed the rise in carbon dioxide lagged behind the rise in temperature and preceeded a cooling trend.

Just my .02.

CR

[Chilachuck]

I'm looking up at the glacier tracks around here and getting nervous. It would not take much to bring them back. One of the local mountains had a snow field on the peak all last summer and still has snow this year, and that patch normally melts by mid April.

It's going to be an ice field pretty quick, and ice does not melt as fast as snow pack.

Then again, we have not had any -40 weather out of the interior of Canada in the last few years, so there's a bit of slack.

[magooch]

Mother nature will do what it will do in spite of man--not because of man.  That doesn't mean we should crap on ourselves, but should also not deny ourselves a good and prudent life.