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Mr. Rasmussen is correct when he says there is little we can do about global warming. China recently surpassed the US as the world's largest CO2 emitter and their emissions are projected to double over the next 30 years.
While upper-class liberals neurotically install CFL's in their mansions in order to assuage their guilt any actual reductions they achieve will be swamped by a carbon tsunami from Asia. Barring a significant leap in technology that renders the internal combustion engine obsolete, the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will continue to increase.
But then again, we do already have a viable source of carbon-free fuel to generate electricity with. It's called uranium, but once again our environmentalist friends block any and all opportunity to actually do something substantial to reduce CO2 emissions.
It's all about controlling people, not solving the problem.
Global Warming apologists put so much faith in skewed data that they won't even believe their own eyes.
I've always been anti-pollution and have always done my part to look out for the Earth. But I won't fall for this deception and hypocrisy. Lying and scare tactics are not the way to push an agenda. The ends don't justify the means.
Its less noticeable here, but the closer you get to the polar ice caps, the more pronounced it is. Utah needs to remember that we are all part of an interconnected planet. We don't exist in a vacuum. and if people and governments start making small changes now, big changes can happen. I'd rather we were on the furfront of change, rather than sitting on our collective asses pointing at China and saying "well, they're doing it too..." like somehow that makes everything ok.
Another point that the global warming people use is the ice cap reduction. The problem is that they are using a period where we had excessive ice as a starting point. We probably won't be able to establish a reliable base measurement for the polar ice caps for several decades as we go through several cooling and warming cycles.
Also, did you know that the climatologists don't take the sun and solar activities into account that change the intensity of the light emitted from the sun? That is why Mars is also going through global warming right now, and all they have are solar powered electric cars running there.
We still do. It happened last year.
In fact, this November we received so much snow in our mountians that several ski resorts opened early.
Heck, last month there was 5 inches of Global Warming on my lawn after a cold storm.
A Rational Look At Climate Change Concerns
Utah Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee
November 19, 2008
The Committee will hear a presentation and receive a handout regarding
critical issues about climate change and the production of energy.
Kimball Rasmussen, President, Deseret Power
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