Comments on: Hansen belittles models, carbon trading, Kyoto; calls for coal-destroying carbon tax

By: Ben Blankenship

Ben Blankenship — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:17:44 +0000

"…the costs of climate change…" are…what? I am all for making the world cleaner and safer. The air around here is much healthier since fall leaf-burning was banned. Climate change is beside the point, even if we could do something about it. People generally prosper in milder times historically, and the onset of a colder climate (is that really what we want?) is much more dangerous to lives, history teaches.

By: jeff johnson

jeff johnson — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:43:33 +0000

The notion that fossil fuel is cheap should have become a fossilized myth by now. Unfortunately, the carcbon industry and their hired guns have perpetuated this distortion of the facts. The external costs of fossil fuel, paid for by the taxpayers, are an essential part of the voodoo energy economy this country has been running on for too long. The cheap energy at the pump, does not include the costs of climate change, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, ecosytem destruction caused by oil spills and drilling, increased rates asthma, displacement of indigenous peoples, resource wars (Iraq), etc.. Privatizing profit while socilaizng risk is chimeric capitalism at best. jeff johnosn

By: Ben Blankenship

Ben Blankenship — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:16:53 +0000

Hansen and Gore keep yelling fire, fire out of habit and aren't aware that most people in the theater have already gone home to put another log on the fire. The audience now believes, according to survey data, that global warming is nowhere near the most compelling problem we face today. Other agendas have crowded out warming, which will have to take a back seat at least until banks work again, the stock market finds a bottom, and unemployment stops growing. By then, we'll have at least one more year of global cooling under our belt to add to the 21st century's nonwarming persistence. We'll get over global warming disease before you know it, despite the death rattles from Gore and company.