Posted by
Catmman on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:03:07 PM
"Climate change" poses an "unprecedented threat" to American's way of life? Really?
Just how exactly?
I take umbrage to the use of the word "unprecedented." America has
NEVER BEFORE faced a threat as dire as "climate change"? The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are apparently mere child's play in the cannon of threats faced by America. Unprecedented, by definition, means having no precedent, so perhaps the government official referred to in this
story means that "climate" has never before posed a dire threat to America? How about the then "unprecedented threat" of climate change ("global cooling") which was bandied about in the 1970's? Words mean things and to say that climate poses an "unprecedented" risk to America is a lie. Then as now the whole notion of the climate threatening anything is untrue.
I hear and read this stuff the pols use to scare the hell out of the citizenry and wonder, "why in the hell isn't a reporter asking the most simple and obvious follow up question there is. 'How'?" How is "climate change" posing such an unprecedented threat? If I could get one of these administration officials to give an answer
NOT straight from "
An Inconvenient Truth": then perhaps I'd listen a little more attentively.
And the author of the above linked article does a disservice, either by omission or simply writing or posting someone else's script by referring to some type of "climate-altering pollution". What type of pollution would the article be referring to? Certainly not CO2? CO2 is
NOT pollution for goodness sake! It is a naturally occuring element found all over our planet! Every form of plant life on this planet needs CO2 to survive. Carbon is also
NOT a pollutant! It is the most plentiful element on the planet. If it were not for carbon,
THERE WOULD BE NO LIFE ON THIS PLANET! Can we stop letting the talking points of the morons saying carbon is pollution influence articles in conservative resources please?
And stop saying "green technologies" will expand our economies and create jobs, wealth, blah, blah, blah. I suppose
subsidizing Russian energy companies is a way to
not outsource our money and jobs, making us less dependent or foreign source for our energy? Democrats admit that cap-&-trade will kill jobs. Why else
build in a safety net to the C&T legislation? Stop saying it will do otherwise.
I am sick and tired of hearing myself and others referred to as "climate change deniers". I do not deny nor have I ever denied the climate was changing. What I and others vehemently
DO deny is the effects of said change. I simply deny that I have to forfeit the decisions of my life to
carbon cops who will tell me how many miles I can drive, what kind of food I can eat, as well as what kind of lightbulb I can put in my lamps!
As to reassurances from these government suits that cost will be minmal, does
ANYONE believe that?
EVERYTHING the government says will ONLY cost x NEVER gets it right! How in the hell does the government expect me to believe that enacting one of the costliest tax increases in the history of this country will only cost me $.50 cents in 2020? Even for the sake of argument, if I were to buy the "it''l only cost $.50" for my home electric bill, what about the extra coming out of my pocket to defray the increase in gasoline costs? Food costs? Other tranportation costs? What if my local utility, to comply with the federal mandates decides to increase their rates? Then what? There is a great movie line spoken by actor John Vernon in the classic movie "
The Outlaw Josey Wales": "Don't pi$$ down my back and tell me it's raining." Which incidentally, he spoke to a Washington Senator who was trying to sell him a bill of goods.
"Climate change" as preached by
ANYONE on the Left, especially Democrat politicians, is not an "unprecedented threat".
Don't pi$$ down America's back and tell us it's raining.
(H/T: Hot Air for the links)