Steve Fielding recently asked the Obama administration to reassure him on the science of man-made global warming. When the administration proved unhelpful, Mr. Fielding decided to vote against climate-change legislation.
If you haven’t heard of this politician, it’s because he’s a member of the Australian Senate. As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to pass a climate-change bill, the Australian Parliament is preparing to kill its own country’s carbon-emissions scheme. Why? A growing number of Australian politicians, scientists and citizens once again doubt the science of human-caused global warming.
Among the many reasons President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority are so intent on quickly jamming a cap-and-trade system through Congress is because the global warming tide is again shifting. It turns out Al Gore and the United Nations (with an assist from the media), did a little too vociferous a job smearing anyone who disagreed with them as “deniers.” The backlash has brought the scientific debate roaring back to life in Australia, Europe, Japan and even, if less reported, the U.S.
In April, the Polish Academy of Sciences published a document challenging man-made global warming. In the Czech Republic, where President Vaclav Klaus remains a leading skeptic, today only 11% of the population believes humans play a role. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to tap Claude Allegre to lead the country’s new ministry of industry and innovation. Twenty years ago Mr. Allegre was among the first to trill about man-made global warming, but the geochemist has since recanted. New Zealand last year elected a new government, which immediately suspended the country’s weeks-old cap-and-trade program.
The number of skeptics, far from shrinking, is swelling.
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Imagine elected officials that both listen to the voters and think for themselves, where do we find some.
My view is that the largest political problem the US has (by far) is the concept of “earmarks”. Glenn Reynolds has been on the situation for a longtime.
“Want me to vote that way — buy me!”
It should become a criminal offence punishable by 20 years in the slammer.
Folks, we are witnessing the destruction of America by the left, lead by Obama. America has not ever faced a greater danger from an enemy as it does today from Obama and his cartel of socialist lunatics. What has happened in the past half a year or so would be unimaginable if we hadn’t actually witnessed it happening. As far as the Dems climate change legislation even the EPA has even come out saying it will not work, that it will be counter productive. Unbeleivable.
It happened because of “earmarks”, BTDT. As I said before, they should be outlawed.