Energy industry and business trade groups have launched a concerted campaign against the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. The bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, is much less stringent than some other climate bills in Congress, but Lieberman-Warner is so far the only one to pass out of committee; it's scheduled for a Senate vote in June. Industry and business groups are sponsoring a 17-state anti-climate-bill tour to head off the legislation. The centerpiece of the roadshow is an industry-funded study stressing huge job losses and energy price hikes due to the bill. Also this week, some 70 conservative and religious leaders wrote a letter to senators urging them not to support the Lieberman-Warner bill, describing it as "a vain attempt to change global average temperatures." The letter also characterized the bill as economically catastrophic and questioned the reality of climate change, declaring that even if climate change is real, the warming so far is negligible and "may be beneficial" to humans.
source: Associated Press, Associated Press
Obama headed to Copenhagen, sets the bar for success
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freeztar Posted 4:37 am
20 Mar 2008
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usandthem Posted 4:40 am
20 Mar 2008
There will be wars over food,water,and energy.There will be political upheavals and they can pray or look the other way until god comes down from heaven and it still won't stop global warming.
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catman Posted 12:30 pm
20 Mar 2008
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snedunuri Posted 3:31 am
29 Mar 2008
cheers
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A Spencer Posted 5:33 am
11 May 2008
BUT, keep this in mind: the Lieberman-Warner bill is not necessarily going to fix anything, or at least not fast enough. If half of the info in this blog is correct (http://energysmart.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/voicing-reaso ...) the bill was half-assed to begin with. Surely we should try to educate people who are ignorant, and fight against those who are just plain greedy, but let's get upset when the future bills that will actually help something are being heavily contested. The motive for shooting this bill down is what's upsetting (of course it's preposterous to think that climate change is in any way beneficial), not the bill itself. Not implemented until 2012, and giving away billions of dollars to polluters instead of making them pay NOW for the rights to contribute to the problem? This is how it's phrased: "Provides for the distribution of emission allowances, including initially giving allowances to: (1) specified owners and operators of covered facilities; (2) states; (3) load-serving entities that deliver electricity to retail consumers; (4) the Secretary of Agriculture to reduce GHG emissions in the agriculture and forestry sectors; (5) international forest protection activities; and (6) the Emission Allowance Account for covered facilities in the electric power and industrial sectors." (found at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:SN02191:@@@L ...).
Now look at #6. The biggest polluter -- the producers of electricity -- are being given allowances by two guys who support McCain? This is a soft bill, if that other blog is even close to accurate, so let's focus our anger and attention where it really counts... when Bush is no longer president.
In conclusion, I move that we start a national campaign to have the future newly-elected Obama get down on one knee and beg Al Gore to be his Secretary of Energy.
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