Please sight your sources.
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In spite of that, here is the current proposal cruising through Congress:
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles...
One analysis of that bill by CRA International, an international business consulting firm, predicts the Lieberman-Warner bill could cost $4 trillion to $6 trillion over the next 40 years, according to an editorial in the November 11 Washington Times.
If that bill were passed and made law, the tax would cost every man, woman and child – more than 303 million Americans – $494 a year, a significant burden on the U.S. economy.
“There is no effective way to meaningfully reduce emissions without negatively impacting a large part of an economy,” Greenspan wrote. “Net, it is a tax. If the cap is low enough to make a meaningful inroad into CO2 emissions, permits will become expensive and large numbers of companies will experience cost increases that make them less competitive. Jobs will be lost and real incomes of workers constrained.”
Granted, the $100 billion or so per year that this new global warming tax would cost is far, far less than the nearly $1.5 trillion that%26#039;s needed every year to fund the U.S. military expenses (about 54% of our federal income tax funds):
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The problem I have with both of these expenditures is that the United States government is not accountable for the results of its programs. We can see that they fail time and again, yet we keep trowing money at crooked politicians, as if they won%26#039;t just waste it in exchange for campaign contributions (bribes)! 0% 0 Votes
We need to get our priorities straight. 0% 0 Votes
evrey time the tempeture of the earth changes a little there is doomsday people shouting the end of the world
The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970, amidst hysteria about the dangers of a NEW ICE AGE. The media had been spreading warnings of a cooling period since the 1950s, but those alarms grew louder in the 1970s.
Three months before, on January 11, The Washington Post told readers to “get a good grip on your long johns, cold weather haters – the worst may be yet to come,” in an article titled “Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age.” The article quoted climatologist Reid Bryson, who said “there’s no relief in sight” about the cooling trend.
Journalists took the threat of another ice age seriously. Fortune magazine actually won a “Science Writing Award” from the American Institute of Physics for its own analysis of the danger. “As for the present cooling trend a number of leading climatologists have concluded that it is very bad news indeed,” Fortune announced in February 1974
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there is nothing wrong with the earth!!!! it just scare mongers predicting doomsday events for they can get more research money!!! reporting the earth tempature is going up but it pretty common does not get more money but saying the earth is dieing and we are all doomed does...
there is global warming on many planets other than earth...this is natural for example
the global warming on Mars is a well-known story. Between 1975 and 2000, Mars warmed up by 0.65 Celsius degrees, much faster than Earth: see Nature 2007. pluto and venus and other are also warming...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
according to reports from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that reveal that almost all the allegedly “lost” ice has come back. A NOAA report shows that ice levels which had shrunk from 5 million square miles in January 2007 to just 1.5 million square miles in October, are almost back to their original levels.
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worst case scenareo.....if all the polar ice caps melted we would just have to move from some of california florida new york city and almost all of lousiana and other low lying areas humans will adapt...other areas up north would become more habitable
earth has had many ice ages where ice has covered much more of the planet and global warming has accurred, long before we invented the car...and started to use oil and coal...
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Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global COOLING. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels.
NEWS WEEK STORY...
There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production – with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.