The Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act

I called them on it, but I was thinking about writing my Elected Heroes to comment. This is what I would have sent, if I had written instead. Yes it is too long to sent to a busy senate or congress staffer reading their bosses email. No it is not long enough to get all the points in that I was wanting to make.

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We have an OIL infrastructure. We are not the only country in the world. If we hamper ourselves by restricting burning of useful fuels we will be left behind in the world economy by other countries willing to pollute as required to be successful.

Why is the senate considering crushing the american economy with a global warming bill, when we have a group of 31,000 scientists in the field, all of them with masters' and over 9000 with doctoral degrees, who signed a letter rejecting the idea that we are causing global warming? Contrary to the lies told by Al Gore and others who stand to make money from carbon trading, the earth does not have a fever. The ARGO project has been telling us that the oceans of the world are cooling, since the bouys started being placed 4 years ago. Climate change computer models are continually being revised because they don't take into account the feedback mechanisms designed into the planet's thermal control systems, and reality continues to NOT agree with the global warming predicted by the computers.

The planet doesn't have a thermostat, and we can't change the temperature, even if we were all trying to do the same thing. It is the height of arrogance (unsurprising from the Democrats in the Senate) to think that the actions of one country can influence the climate of the world, especially as dozens of small countries and a couple of really big ones are going through industrial revolutions of their own -and polluting- regardless of what we do.

And contrary to Senator Lieberman's environmentalist religionist whacko statement, I would NOT be thrilled about a 50 cent increase in gas prices. I would also not be thrilled by an increase of other energy prices, that will certainly come about if this bill passes in any meaningful form. Especially when we are sitting on more oil than is in the Middle East, but not tapping it. We can't drill off the coasts because of the tourists (the environmental concerns are hogwash, we're doing it cleanly on existing rigs now). We can't take our oil shales because of the view (obviously removing rock to take the oil is going to spoil the surface). We can't even expand a currently existing refinery without getting the oil company's feet stuck in red tape!

Alternative energy? No wind farms off the coast, that spoils the view. Can't build nuclear, that's too dangerous even though a modern reactor has NEVER had a problem that endangered the public. Can't do LPG, that's too dangerous. Solar is inefficient and costly. For some reason, there is no interest in developing a Hydrogen infrastructure even though the planet is covered in a material that's 2/3 hydrogen and it is not a polluting fuel source.

Vote NO on the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, and please work with your fellow elected representatives to convince them to do the same.