Well, here it comes. The climate change cat is coming out of the bag. The real danger of climate change is from bureaucrats, not the environment. This mania is driven by a desire for more government regulation over every aspect of our economy and our lives. Remember when candidate Obama said this,
“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.”
Like most Global Warming Climate Change fanatics, those rules apply to you, not him.
Here we are, on the verge of an economic “catastrophe“. Obama reminds us every day that this is the worst crisis since the Great Depression. The federal government is spending TRILLIONS to fix the mess. And now, under the politically correct cover of allegedly saving the planet, the Obamacrats are salivating over the prospect of strangling this economy to death with micromanagement and massive regulation.
New York Times: E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials….
…If the environmental agency determines that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant to be regulated under the Clean Air Act, it would set off one of the most extensive regulatory rule makings in history.
And for what? That is the question that needs to be asked. For what? The human contribution to CO2 emisions is 3.2%,
That’s a global figure, not a US figure. If we eliminate every car, truck and plane. If we all cut our lawn with scissors and do who knows what else, what then? What do they propose to do about that other 97% of naturally ocouring CO2 emissions? Will they regulate the oceans because they produce 95%?
This is insanity. Especially at a time of severe economic crisis. These people are fanatics, pure and simple. Climate change is code for government control. Always has been, always will be.
For the record, the sources for this heresy include the Journal of Geophysical Research, the Virginia State Climatologist, the Energy Information Administration; Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government and former Pundit Review Radio guest Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, the Alfred P. Slone Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT.