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Watch the video and read my response below.

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Oh My God! The climate is changing!!!! The climate is changing!!! The Climate is… wait a minute? Hasn’t the climate always been changing? I mean, what about back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, things were different then, right? Or hey, lets get even more recent, say 1944? Yeah, one of the coldest winters on record in Europe. Or even this year where Britain is experience a severe cold shock. THE CLIMATE IS ALWAYS CHANGING!!!! I mean hell, Many scientist who were part of the IPCC recently came out saying that they made a mistake. Oh, and lets not forget about ClimateGate… yeah…

We don’t even fully understand how the climate works and we are trying to change it? Isn’t that bad? Shouldn’t we invest a little more time in trying to figure out how the system works before we spend untold trillions of dollars to change it to our liking?

And what are they talking about that these jobs that would be created “can’t” be outsourced’? WTF? Most of the manufacturing would be done in China, so there goes most of those jobs. And construction of the massive wind or solar farms (which would take up huge tracts of land) would probably go to the lowest bidder, like all government contracts. So how are those good paying jobs?

Also, how is this not going to increase the deficit? I mean really, lets think about this. The bill calls for government money to be poured into the economy to stimulate growth in this sector. At a minimum these projects would take 5-10 years to come online in strength all the while requiring subsidies, and probably for a long time after. Best bet, you would probably see a return on investment somewhere around the 30 year mark. So yeah, in 30 years time you will see it not effect the deficit. But today where we are sitting at the highest deficit EVER we will continue to load up on that, making our economy weaker and our ability to compete globally worse. And if we tax the hell out of “the polluters” guess what, they will stop creating jobs in the US and move them overseas. Don’t believe me, look at California. Industries have found it cheaper to do their manufacturing in Nevada and ship products into California rather than keep their main operations there rather than pay the exorbitant taxes. Put that on a national scale. Tweak that gap toothed fro boy!

Next, end our dependance on foreign oil because we get it from countries that don’t share our views and want to kill us. Who, Canada?!?! Whoever wrote this piece of garbage needs to do a little research: DOE Oil Imports. The only country on there that I can see who really hates us is Venezuela. But they would never do anything but spout off rhetoric because exporting oil to the US supports their ENTIRE ECONOMY! And what about the whole Hollywood message of tolerance of others. Basically this message tells me that others (Arabs) are all bad and want to kill us. What about that anti-war, love Iraq BS you were spouting a couple years ago Leo?

To conclude I’m all about sustainability. People should do more to use what they have, keep what they have usable for longer periods of time, support local businesses, increase efficiency, ect. ect. But people should also look at the big picture. We can’t change the climate in any definitive terms. And why should we try? I mean people are talking about .01 degree changes in a century if we did everything that groups like Greenpeace want. Has anyone thought that if we try fucking with something that we don’t fully comprehend there might be some negative consequences?

I think that Bjorn Lomborg’s book Cool It is one of the best arguments about the whole climate change deal. If you are truly worried about this whole thing, then rather than pour money into something that may not do anything, help the world adapt. For pennies on the dollar we could teach people how to better cope with the new realities of a changed climate.

People make the whole climate change thing sound apocalyptic. It’s not. As I mentioned earlier, the climate has been changing forever and will continue to change. Trying to keep it stagnate, which is what these Hollywood bobble heads want us to do, is selfish. Oddly enough humanity has the ability to adapt to vastly different climates. If the climate were to change by a global average (how do you get a global average? We have such varying climates that that would prove hard) of 1 degree by 2100, mankind isn’t going to shrivel and die.

If people want to e-mail their Senators in support of it, cool. They have staffers who will read it and trash it because it’s a form letter. I for one don’t support the Senate energy bill and am pretty confidante that it will not pass (Scott Brown FTW!).