George Rebane
Washington, DC - NASA scientist James Hansen, perhaps the most vocal voice in the U.S. warning of a man-made global warming crisis, has declared he hopes Congressional efforts to pass a cap-and-trade climate bill fail. "I hope cap and trade doesn't pass, because we need a much more effective approach,” Hansen said during a keynote lecture at Columbia University's climate conference on May 2, 2009.
This report on climatedepot.com by Marc Morano details the 11th hour machinations going on as the Waxman-Markey (Cap and Tax) bill comes up for a vote tomorrow. Not to worry, Hansen has had no epiphany on the bogus climate models he has been promoting for the last decade or so. The man who introduced us to the notorious global temperature ‘hockeystick’ just doesn’t think that the bill goes far enough, and considers its carbon trading provisions “verging on a giant scam”.
Nobody in Congress actually knows what this bill contains, much less about the devastation it will cause to the country. Hansen just wants much more of it. And the line of catastrophes that Washington is prepared to launch is just getting longer. Our only hope now is that government, in its inimitable and numberless ways, will screw up implementing these social and economic pogroms so that the damage will not be as comprehensive as projected. But, of course, they can screw up in the other direction just as well, and make it even worse.
We wait, watch, and wonder.
(More on Russ Steele's NC Media Watch)
Dear Ruminations reader, here is an opportunity to make your voice count! Anthony Watts at Watts Up With That has the vote count and a list of those leaning toward voting yes on this economic suicide pill. Anthony, has a link here to contact your representative and senators regarding the Waxman-Markey bill. This link makes it very easy to send an email or make a phone call. Act NOW!
Posted by: Russ Steele | 25 June 2009 at 09:19 PM
Watching the making of political sausage can be a painful experience, but some times it is necessary, especially when they are about to put in place legislation to tax you and family to solve the non-existing problem of human caused global warming. Here is a link to CSPN with wall to wall coverage of of our economic suicide. Link: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx
Posted by: Russ Steele | 26 June 2009 at 08:18 AM