I am a football fan. I live about ten minutes from where the New England Patriots play. Having spent my teenage years in New Jersey, I am a Jets fan, but I still like the Patriots. I watched Sunday's game from the comfort of my living room as I watched the snow fall outside--in October!! I felt sorry for Tennessee--I think they just wanted to go home.
The current consensus of opinion is that since 1998, the earth is cooling. There are a number of theories as to why that is happening, my favorite website on global warming is Watts Up With That. If you want to follow the science of climate change, that is a good place to do it.
This is not an article about global warming; it is an article about what is being planned to combat global warming regardless of whether or not it is actually happening.
Human Events posted an article yesterday about the Congressional law requiring all of us to use compact fluorescent bulb -- CFLs. The mandatory phase-out of incandescent bulbs starts in 2012. Let's look at the CFL's for a moment. CFLs contain mercury, a hazardous waste, so the EPA wants you to discard them only according to its guidelines.
In his article at Human Events Ernest Istook points out:
"My complaints are widely-held but poorly-publicized. Buried in the back pages are details about the new bulbs: poorer quality lighting; overstated claims of long life; and that they're mostly (80%) made in China."
In the name of preserving the planet, we are shipping jobs overseas to a country that does not have the anti-pollution standards that we have. That makes a lot of sense.
Watts Up With That has the video of a speech given by Lord Monckton October 14th, 2009 at a climate skeptic event sponsored by the Minnesota Free Market Institute. They also have the powerpoint presentation he used. For me, the bottom line on this speech is his comment on the United Nations Climate Change Treaty:
"I have read that treaty. And what it says is this: That a world government is going to be created. The word "government" actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to Third World countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, "a climate
debt ," because we have been burning CO2 and they haven't and we've been screwing up the climate. We haven't been screwing up the climate, but that's the line. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government is "enforcement.""
To be totally honest, I don't know what to think of this. I know that the majority of Americans do not want to be part of a treaty that takes away our sovereignty. I hope the President and Congress read this treaty carefully before taking any action on it.
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