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POPSThe Decline Of The Senate Senator Specter, age 78 "The American people live under the illusion that we have a United States Senate. The facts show that the Senate is realistically dysfunctional. It is on life support, perhaps even moribund. The only facet of Senate bipartisanship is the conspiracy of successive Republican and Democratic leaders to employ this procedural device known as filling the tree. It is known that way to insiders, and it is incomprehensible to outsiders." The device was used last week when Reid called up the bill to control global warming, producing the state of futility that has haunted Reid's year and a half as majority leader. Characteristically, Reid neither found support to pass this bill nor attempted a compromise with opponents. Debating an energy tax as gasoline prices hit four dollars defied political logic. But Sen. Barbara Boxer, chairman of the Environment Committee, insisted. Reid bowed to her.
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POPSHurricane Lieberman-Warner That’s another little bitty fact that will never see the light of day on most press reports. Instead what we’ll get is the usual hot air, except this time it has the price tag of 660 hurricanes.
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POPSEconomist: We Can't Afford Not to Address Global Warming So says Dr. Frank Ackerman, Economist, Tufts University & Stockholm Environment Institute in response to a promised Bush veto of climate legislation. Agence France-Presse : Bush warned that the bill "would impose roughly six trillion dollars of new costs on the American economy," and was the "wrong way to proceed." White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Bush would veto the bill "if it were to pass in its current form." Not surprisingly, this is BS. The legislation includes " cap and trade " provisions, which would open new markets.
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POPSEmail The Senate: Vote NO on the Climate Security Act! S. 3036 significantly grows the government by giving more power to bureaucrats, such as requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a greenhouse gas (GHG) registry You will soon be voting on S. 3036, the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008. This legislation is a cap-and-trade plan that will attempt to impose a limit on greenhouse gas emissions. But what it really will do is place severe regulatory burdens on domestic industry, impede trade, and harm the nation's economy. Cap-and-trade is nothing more than a hidden tax, as the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that this bill would raise costs on energy use to $1.13 trillion by 2018. I urge you to oppose this bill and the dramatic increase in the government's control over my daily life!
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POPSFive Myths About The LW Global Warming Legislation
For example, the recent United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report estimates 7 to 23 inches of sea level rise by the end of the century--far less than the widely popularized claims of 18 to 20 feet and little more than ongoing trends over the past several centuries. Myth #4: LW effectively addresses the threat of climate change. Fact: Even assuming the worst of global warming, LW reduces the threat by a minuscule amount. The bill reduces emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the United States only. China has overtaken America as the world's largest emitter, and its emissions growth is several times greater than that of the U.S. India and other fast-developing nations are on a similar trajectory. Thus, the unilateral impact of the bill on global emissions would be inconsequential. At most, it would reduce the earth's future temperature by one or two tenths of a degree Celsius--too small to even verify.
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POPSTell Congress To Stop Massive Utility Tax Increase EMAIL YOUR SENATORS:::SENATE LIBERALS BACK BILL TO RAISE UTILITY BILLS, COST JOBS, AND REDUCE ECONOMIC GROWTH. On June 2, the Senate will vote to bring up a bill that supporters claim will reduce Global Warming. S. 2191, the “Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act,” would set up a complicated government run system in which a cap is set on the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by American businesses and then permits would be auctioned off and traded between those who emit more or less greenhouse gases hence the nickname “cap and trade” bill. The cap would decrease over time, thus the permits would trade for higher and higher prices, driving up the cost of the energy you use. This scheme is a massive tax increase on the American people disguised as a “market approach” to the so-called “Global Warming crisis.” TELL YOUR UNITED STATES SENATORS TO VOTE “NO” ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED ON S. 2191, THE LIEBERMAN-WARNER CLIMATE ACT.
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POPSSenate Poised To Vote On Lieberman-Warner "Cap-And-Trade" Plan (S. 2191) -- would also establish an emissions trading system that would permit companies that emit fewer greenhouse gases than they are allowed to sell the excess portion to companies that exceed their allowances. The Act's sponsors estimate that the bill would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by up to 63% by 2050. As this could be voted on as early as next Monday, one would think this poll would get a lot of attention...only in a world where media haven't bought into the global warming myth hook, line, and sinker, that is.
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POPSOppose Climate Alarmist Gore: Sign Free Petition Worried about high food prices, Congress tries to push the biofuel industry to use nonfood crops. Chicago - America's love affair with corn-based ethanol is cooling – at least in Washington. Some legislators blame the rising use of corn as a biofuel as a key factor behind high food prices. Others want to freeze the federal mandate on biofuels production at current levels, reversing legislation passed just a few months ago that increases it through 2022. Still others are pushing to shift tax incentives away from corn-based to cellulose-based ethanol in the nearly completed farm bill. These moves represent a dramatic backlash against corn ethanol, which until a few months ago was widely viewed as a boon for both farmers and consumers. Many experts worry that Washington's new skepticism will undo important progress the US has made in replacing foreign oil with domestic energy alternatives. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0501/p03s03-usec.html
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POPSAnalysis of Lieberman-Warner Reveals Massive Economic Pain EIA also found Lieberman-Warner would result in up to a 9.5% drop in manufacturing output by 2030. “Despite this gloomy EIA analysis, proponents of Lieberman-Warner are still claiming the bill will not impose economic harm to America. Only in Washington could higher energy prices be characterized as not negatively impacting the U.S. economy. If Democrats have their way, Americans will pay significantly more at the pump, in their homes, and in many cases, with their jobs, all to accomplish an undetectable impact on the climate. “The question now is which U.S. Senator will dare to stand on the Senate Floor a month from now to vote in favor of significantly increasing the price of gas at the pump?” Both government and private sector analysis have shown the cost of the Lieberman-Warner bill to be extremely painful.
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POPSDo you support nuclear energy? from 'The Nation': "This much seems clear: a handful of firms might soak up huge federal subsidies and build one or two overpriced plants. While a new administration might tighten regulations, public safety will continue to be menaced by problems at new as well as older plants. But there will be no massive nuclear renaissance. Talk of such a renaissance, however, helps keep people distracted, their minds off the real project of developing wind, solar, geothermal and tidal kinetics to build a green power grid."
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POPSCitizen Petition To Stop Al Gore Tax & Climate Alarmism By my signature below I hereby join the growing number of scientists and informed citizens deeply concerned by the dire predictions and proposed solutions of Climate Alarmists. Fears that mankind has created a ‘planetary emergency’ are scientifically unfounded, and as such the doomsday predictions of Climate Alarmists are irresponsible and dangerous. Also, the solutions proposed by Climate Alarmists would have a harmful and possibly devastating impact on our economy, without any detectable climatic impact let alone benefit. http://www.grassfire.org/106/petition.asp?PID=16245502
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