Crisis Guide: Climate Change

[Interactive Content] There is almost no question that temperatures are rising on average globally. Over the last half century the rate of warming has been about double the rate of warming that we've seen over the last century as a whole. Eleven of the last twelve years have been in the twelve warmest years on record. There is a possibility that we'll discover some flaws in the temperature record, but it's extremely unlikely that people will find that ... Full Story »

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Randy Dutton
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by Randy Dutton - Oct. 22, 2008

Missing are the consequences of eco policies. Food to fuel policies put 100 million more into starvation, which increases terrorist recruitment. Ethanol increases ozone pollution. Growing crops for biofuel increases N2O emissions (a signficant GWG), ocean kill zones, and uses significant water aquifer resources. Ethanol destroys gas powered equipment fuel systems, necessitating the buying of new equipment - from China. Biodiesel damages fuel system. Meanwhile environmentalists block wave, wind, and nuclear energy projects. Environmentalists prevent us from storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain, and instead we have to store it in 2000 cooling ponds around the US - smart! Congress has blocked the US from using its own oil and forces us to buy from Canada oil sands project that burns 2/3 of the energy to liberate the remaining 1/3 - smart!! Congress blocks the US from tapping most of our offshore oil that is within 50 miles so that we must buy from Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Russia - smart!! Over the last 600 million years CO2 has progressively dropped to almost nothing in the atmosphere. During the age of dinosaurs CO2 was 10X what it is today and the temp was only 10 degrees C warmer. Its not a linear relationship. This report claims the poor will suffer from global warming but misses the suffering that occurs from bad environmental policy. Yes we need clean air and water, but the knee jerk reaction to adopt bad technologies such as ethanol and ester based biodiesel are not the way.

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