The end of President Bush's time in office is 14 months away. But already I can guarantee two things. First, the next president will be elected on a promise to lead the nation to energy independence. Second, the promise won't be kept.
Julie Walsh
A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends associated with global warming.
American officials are planning to back a new United Nations document that says governments and businesses will have to spend billions of dollars a year to reduce global warming and adapt to its effects.
Climate Audit tied for Best Science Blog of the 2007 Weblog Awards!
Senator Hillary Clinton says that if elected president she will promptly commit the United States to a Kyoto Protocol “Round II”. She would strike a deal in 2010, which she says, somehow accelerates global salvation because, though Kyoto expires at the end of 2012, “we cannot afford to wait two more years.” Of course. Voters can’t be swindled into anything as bad as Kyoto: they have to be stampeded.
A bureaucrat in Washington has decided to spend $89,000 of your tax dollars to make himself and like-minded souls on Capitol Hill feel better.
This week, the United Nations' climate scientists will release a major report synthesising the world's best global warming research. It will be the first time we've heard from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since its scientists won the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice-president Al Gore. The difference between Gore's claims and IPCC research is instructive.
In his pursuit of reelection, the chairman of my Northern Virginia county’s commission sent out a flyer on how he has partnered with the Sierra Club to launch the “Cool Counties” initiative, making ours a “national model” in the fight against global warming. He neglected to add that this initiative will cost us millions of dollars, though the typical county homeowner already pays $4830 in real estate taxes per year. The flyer has four boasts:
He has set aside 30,000 acres of open space. Rather than increasing the tax base through allowing businesses in, he is preventing “overdevelopment.”
He has instituted new “green building” standards for county buildings, supposedly “saving taxpayers money.” If cost/benefit analyses have been done on previous public building projects, then supposedly the amount saved versus the added cost of “green standards” should have been calculated to maximize the taxpayers’ dollars already. Therefore, these standards, would be either be unnecessary or more expensive to enact.
He has added hybrid vehicles to the county fleet. This is even though companies, such green-minded FedEx, have realized that the ten year break-even costs of hybrids are not worth the added expense.
He is increasing our use of renewable energy. Even though he claims to have doubled our use of costly wind power, fortunately this will not have much effect upon us, as it currently is such a small fraction of our power sources.
Yes, I will remember to vote on Tuesday, November 6.
Sen. Barbara Boxer of California delivered a speech in the Senate last week in which she linked global warming to the San Diego wildfires, Darfur, the imminent loss of the world's polar bears and even a poor 14-year-old boy who died from "an infection caused after swimming in Lake Havasu," because its water is warmer. Forget arson. Forget genocide. Forget nature. There is no tragedy that cannot be placed at the doorstep of global-warming skeptics.
Corn ethanol is the answer to global warming and American energy independence. Right? Wrong.
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