Mencken also said, “The urge to save humanity is almost always the false-face for the urge to rule it.”

Smart guy, that Mencken.

There are a number of individual proposed amendments that look to be getting prepped to attach to must pass bills that fall right in line with this agenda and they are hoping to slip them in under the radar.

By my last count there are at least ten that fit into this description.

It all revolves around Al Gore and his “green” friends. And, of course, it involves lots of money.

Two birds with one stone and all that.

Cleaver Americans can and will find solutions to our problems.

And kathie, with all due respect, this whole discussion is way beyond Wally and the Beav.

First he basically dismisses anybody who doesn’t have the faith in Gore

As this week’s debate on climate change has unfolded, the American people and those watching us around the world had every reason to hope that we would act.  Every credible scientist and expert believes action is necessary

Then he buys into the world is just a Katrina flood in waiting stuff

We can’t afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake. We are already breaking records with the intensity of our storms, the number of forest fires, and the periods of drought.  By 2050, famine could force more than 250 million from their homes.  And if we do nothing, sea levels will rise high enough to swallow large portions of every coastal city and town.

Even with the 45 trillion world wide cost estimate for a 50% reduction he goes for 80%

Let me be clear, this bill is not perfect.  Emissions reductions must reflect the scientific consensus, which are reductions of at least 80 percent 2050.  We must ensure that more middle-class families reap more of the financial benefits created by this bill.  And we must direct greater resources to the regions of the country that will bear the brunt of this critical transition to a clean energy economy.

 I cease to be amazed as to what you can do with a few facts and unlimited ignorance.

Socialism, which hasn’t worked for 6,000 years and still doesn’t work (hat tip: Milton Friedman), is making it’s last move trying to use the environment as an excuse to grab money from the people who work hard to make it and give it to…themselves and their supporters. They are trying to play it as the money goes to “green technologies”.

Once the high price of everything becomes apparent, they will then need to send this money to their constituents who require subsidies to maintain their current lifestyle. Voila! Socialism keeps rolling.

Already, the enviros I know have moved away from ‘Global Warming’, calling it Climate Change, as if humans are making a material difference to the climate.

Just wait until the solar cycle plays out in 2012 and we start getting cooler. It’ll be entertaining to watch what they say when that happens.

A bonfire does not impact global warming. That dead wood is going to decay if you don’t burn it and release all its CO2 anyway. And the carbon that is in it came from the air to begin with. You basically have a chunk of carbon taken from buffalo farts and when you burn it or allow it to decay, you return the CO2.

The council simply wants to end the bonfires. My guess is that the fire pits cost money to maintain and create places for litter to collect that needs to be cleaned up. But rather than come out and say that it is getting too expensive to maintain the fire pits, they try to use “global warming” as the excuse.

Look for that to happen more and more often. Governments making decisions that adversely impact our quality of life and blaming it on “global warming”.

Basically, the problem is that the research community has gone so far along the path of frightening the life out of the man in the street that to recant publicly even part of the story would massively damage the reputation and political clout of science in general. And so, like corpuscles in the blood, researchers all over the world now rush in overwhelming numbers to repel infection by any idea that threatens the carefully cultivated belief in climatic disaster.”

Bush presented a comprehensive energy plan in 2001. Can anyone tell me what happened to that plan? I remember it was comprehensive.