Santorum's NASA conspiracy incarnate. Who ya gonna believe?
Mitt Romney may have accepted the role humans are playing in global warming — before he was against it. But Tricky Rick Santorum has been priming the misinformation and character assassination industries consistently from the get go. Santorum, speaking at CPAC, demonstrates that, unlike Mittens, he may be sincerely clueless:
President Obama, you may remember, tried to pass cap-and-trade and tried to get control not only of the health care system but of the energy industry, the manufacturing industry, another two big sectors of this economy, and using this facade of man-made global warming. I stood up and fought against those things. Why? because they will destroy the very foundation of prosperity in our country.
So not only are NASA, NOAA, and the National Science Foundation leading a world-wide scientific conspiracy on climate change, these devious scientists managed to infiltrate right-wing think-tanks, covertly develop the Cap-n-Trade concept, and persuade Republicans to embrace it! Right up until Obama suggested it might work, at which point the facade suddenly became an attack on the very foundation of prosperity in our country.
Maybe I’m not being fair. Let’s put that NASA surface station graph in perspective. Aterall, the NASA graph only shows the last century or so:
Woops!
If you want to hear from an actual premier climate scientist, check out this site or Daily Kos on Sunday. I’ll be featuring Dr. Michael Mann, yes, that Michael Mann, the guy who helped discover the paleo-climate record for the last thousand years known as the Hockey Stick above, and who was rewarded for that landmark work with death threats and intimidation orchestrated at the highest levels of government and industry.
I’m not skeptical about anthropomorphic global warming. I am, however, deeply skeptical about how well Cap-and-trade will work.
I have little confidence in cap-and-trade working, because it depends on the absolute honesty of human beings. Enron came out as being in favour of cap-and-trade, opining it to be a wonderful thing.
Any scheme that the fraud artists of Enron thought to be great, probably would have been great to drive truckloads of fraud through. It deserves a second look, all right: to see where the fraud is likely to occur.
Can’t you just see a polluter buying fraudulent certificates permitting them to continue to produce greenhouse gas?
There would defintely be oppotunity to defraud, depending on how it worked. I think the reason some dems warmed to it is because it 1) it wasn’t opposed by the right, and 2) they thought it might make them look, to the progressive green base, like they were taking some real action.