Reuters
reports:
“The exemptions included in the carbon tax run counter to the aim of fighting climate change and create inequalities with respect to public charges,” the Constitutional Council said in a statement. “93 percent of carbon dioxide emissions of industrial origin, other than fuel, will be totally exempt from the carbon tax,” the government body said in the ruling.
This shows that this global warming stuff has nothing to do with saving the planet — it’s just a money-making scheme.
When human Mad Cow (BSE) first took off in Britian, I made predictions from current data that showed everyone in the UK would be dead in 10 years.
Just because there is a trend in the data, that doesn’t mean you can predict the future.
AGW is worth study, and monitoring, but it will take centuries of data collection to see a trend.
re: “this global warming stuff”…
That’s all I had to read.
# 14 testtubebaby said, “Did you know that live whales where once the source of fuel?”
I just know I’m going to regret this: Okay TTBaby – tell me how “LIVE” whales were used as fuel. Not dead, harpooned whales that have had their blubber melted down, “LIVE” whales.
#23, Animby,
Very carefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whaling
#21 has a brain
Thank goodness. After a week or so without anti-climate change story I was starting to worry if Dvorak was dead or something…
carbon tax is just a ploy to separate liberals from their money.
#5 Sad but true Greg. I’m bemused that global warming has become such a hot button for wingnuts. Looks like a case of “follow the money”… all the powerful interests that would be harmed if AGW was proven true are working with the wingnut leaders (Beck, Limbaugh, etc.)
And #1 was a good point too, studiously avoided by the wingnuts… reminds me of the Onion article:
Powerful Rest And Fluids Industry Influencing Doctors’ Treatment Of Colds
http://theonion.com/content/news/powerful_rest_and_fluids_industry
Damn those tree-hugging, quiche-eating global warming believers, with their countless billions of dollars swaying the debate in their favor! Or not.
#22 Might as well. I doubt you would’ve gotten anything afterwards.
#29 I doubt that you’d more amused than us watching you warmers in full blown dementia yelling “the sky is falling”
#30 Back to your twittering ways I see little pedro… old habits die hard, don’t they?
#31 It’s specially for you. Your brainless posts (all of them) deserve just few lines for scorn.
The smaller the better. Unlike your empty drivels that go on and on saying the same vacuous drivel.
I’m sure those of you who actually worry about AGW are now resting a lot easier knowing the Russians are on the job and will save us from Apophis:
NASA says collision unlikely, as Russia considers asteroid mission
December 30, 2009 14:22 EST
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s space chief is considering a space mission to knock away an approaching asteroid, though NASA officials don’t consider the giant rock a threat to Earth.
When the 885-foot asteroid was discovered in 2004, astronomers gave it as much as a 1-in-37 chance of hitting Earth in 2029. But scientists have been lowering their estimates ever since. Now, a NASA astronomer says the space rock isn’t “anything to worry about.”
Yet, the Russian space chief tells Golos Rossii radio that he’s heard the asteroid is getting closer to a possible impact in about 22 years. He adds that, “People’s lives are at stake.”
He says Russia’s space agency will hold a meeting on the topic soon. He says that, if an asteroid deflection mission is finalized, NASA would be among those invited to join.
Hmmm…
On second thought, it was a NASA a-hole who was first caught lying about AGW, and now NASA says we have nothing to fear…
Dammit, now I’m getting worried…
If we weren’t so far into the red I’d say having a go at knocking an asteroid off course before we need to do it for real or seriously bad things happen might be a good thing to try and do.
I think the last I heard NASA has stopped looking for bad news rocks because Congress needs to build monuments for Teddy Kennedy, bridges to nowhere, hospitals in places without patients, take working trips to vacation hot spots, or some such.