Bush’s War (on Warming)
April 16th, 2008 by Peter SudermanMonday’s Washington Times had a story indicating that President Bush would give a major speech on global warming today — and that it would likely include a significant shift in climate change policy.
Details are still scarce, but over at NRO, my former colleague Iain Murray says this about what’s rumored:
We are hearing some very bad things from reputable sources. One who certainly cannot be dismissed commented that “the last line of defense has been breached” and that “it will be very bad.” No matter how they spin it, any mention of mandatory emissions limits amounts to an invitation to a cap and trade regime at the very least. Once you’ve conceded that, then you have an open invitation not to something weaker, but to something stronger than Lieberman-Warner.
Is this an attempt at legacy building? It certainly appears it could be. We’ll find out more this afternoon, and I’ll have more to say on the subject soon. In the meantime, there’s plenty of discussion of the speech, what it might say, and what that might mean over at Planet Gore.
April 16th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Cheeky.
Tell me, what would the government have to be spending 500 billion dollars on with no end in sight for FreedomWorks to examine it?
April 16th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
BTW, have you guys ever checked your Alexa rankings? I wanted to see how you guys measured up against a couple RWOC bloggers (that stands for “Radical Women of Color”), just for sh!ts and giggles.
I don’t think you want to know the results…
April 16th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Alexa is pretty discredited, you should use compete.com. Whats the RWOC site?
April 17th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
You know, those women have to deal with the worst kind of racism I’ve ever seen, including daily death threats. I’m afraid I won’t be linking to them here, therefore. My goal was only to see if your blog outdrew something considered to be a very fringe and niche place.
However, I did check out compete.com, thank you, and did the same check.
and the results are… (drum roll please!)
well, let’s just say that, if I were you, I’d keep using those Alexa rankings.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
My goodness, you guys just can’t stay on task, can you.
Global Warming, the increase in the earth’s average temperature do to man made CO2 emissions, has not been proven or even seriously supported in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Maybe we should ask our scientists to use their expertise and talents to postulate, test and support such a hypothesis before we (1) throw a lot of money at it and (2) give other countries power over our economy, productivity and money supply,
There is a well-educated doctor in my part of the world who takes great delight in using the data, charts and references in Al Gore’s book to disprove the premise of anthropologic global warming and present some pretty sound reasons why we are seeing some global weather changes. Remember, with the dame data set that Mr. Gore uses to “prove” his point.
That’s enough to make me want to reevaluate the concept and what we should do about it. Just imagine the money being thrown about here.