Global Warming Fact Finder

By:  Greg Henss

As we have predicted, it is a slippery slope we are on when we allow activists to garner credibility with their doom and gloom predictions of global calamity.  When it is repeated long enough and loud enough, eventually others will begin to believe it, no matter how outlandish the claim.  And not long after that we will see laws and legislation that will cost us dearly to try and counteract the calamity.  This is what happens when people like Al Gore, touting ‘junk science’ are given encouragement.  And so it begins. 

With the election of a liberal president, and control of both the house and senate in the hands of the liberal democrats, there is little the conservative side of reason can do now to stop a ridiculous bill from being ram-roaded into law.  The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act just recently passed through the house.   This bill with more than 1500 pages has no less than 397 new government regulations, 1090 new economic mandates.  It sailed through with relatively little debate as debate was severely squelched by the Speaker Of The House, the lovely Nancy Pelosi.  All of the Republican suggested amendments were thrown out, save one.  And Representatives were given all of nine hours to read through the 1500 pages, ensuring that no one has a handle on everything that is in this huge bill. 

And if you think it won’t affect you, think again.  Also known as the ‘cap and trade’ bill, the ACES act will place taxes on electric generation, oil refineries and natural gas producers.  All of those new costs will be passed on to you, the consumer.  And according to those who have studied bill, the cap and trade taxes will be expensive and kill millions of jobs.  

By Greg Henss

How many of you remember the Global Cooling predictions of the 1970’s.  Scientists and climatologists, who started looking at average temperature declines over the past three decades, were actually predicting the possibility that we could be heading into a mini ice age.   Back then, just as now, they were afraid that politicians would not take them seriously enough to do anything about it.  Predictions of serious declines in food production, lack of rain, shifts in population centers, and the outbreak of devastating tornadoes, had pundits decrying the coming changes would change life as we know it, unless the government did something to try and stop it from coming.^[1]   And the government actually did try and do something about it. 

If you can believe this, the government actually sent bombers north, up to the polar ice cap region and cast soot out over the ice in an attempt to increase the amount of solar radiation the ice absorbed and thereby melt the ice.   Well of course, that didn’t work.  They also suddenly became concerned about what consequences it may have if it did work.  How might they have created problems far worse than those they solve?   What’s more, it wasn’t long after that the temperatures started cycling upward - naturally.  It is only recently that the average earth temperature has recovered to pre 1941 levels.  

And what is happening now?  The temperature averages are again showing signs of cycling downward.  Climate change has reversed - again.  Glaciers are growing^[2].  Polar ice is thicker than previous years, and growing seasons are again getting shorter.  This year, in June 2009, the average daily temperature is still not above freezing, marking the first time in fifty years of record keeping that has happened.^[3]

Does any of this sound familiar?  Wake up America.  Climate and global temperatures are cyclical.  And it is arrogant to believe that man could possibly have any control over it, either negatively or positively, in either direction.  In spite of evidence that shows the earth is cooling again, alarmists are still trying to convince us that we are heating up the planet by driving our cars and turning on an electric light bulb.  If politicians actually start passing legislation and taxation aimed at Global Warming, not only will they be wasting our money, but they could conceivably break our economy chasing a fix that will never work. 

But wait, they already have.  Just days ago, the United States House of Representatives led by the lovely Nancy Pelosi, passed, (or should I say ram rodded) a bill through that contains no less than 397 new government regulations and restrictions, and 1090 new economic mandates, in an effort to save us from ourselves and stop “Global Warming”.   This bill, the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act containing more than 1500 pages was narrowly passed 219 to 212, and I guarantee you that not one congressman has read the entire bill let alone understands it, especially since it was handed to them only nine hours before the vote. 

Ordinarily, voting for a huge tax on energy in the middle of a deep economic recession would be tantamount to political suicide.  But that didn’t seem to bother most of Speaker Pelosi’s Democratic flock of obedient sheep.   Although there were 44 of her flock who decided to vote their own mind and voted against it.   There probably would have been many more NO votes had the supreme leader Pelosi allowed debate on the bill to run its normal course.  But democrat leaders allowed only 3 hours of debate after which Rep. Henry Waxman (co-author) actually complained when it ran over that.