Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Can't hold back China and India

Robert Samuelson uses facts and statistics instead of overheated rhetoric to explain the reality of global warming, assuming it exists:

Most of the many reports on global warming have a different plot. Despite variations, these studies reach similar conclusions. Regardless of how serious the threat, the available technologies promise at best a holding action against greenhouse gas emissions. Even massive gains in renewables (solar, wind, biomass) and more efficient vehicles and appliances would merely stabilize annual emissions near present levels by 2050. The reason: Economic growth, especially in poor countries, will sharply increase energy use and emissions.
The Massachusetts Democrats won't allow a wind farm off Nantucket Sound, the Detroit Democrats won't allow stricter CAFE standards, and Harry Reid is blocking the federal nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. But they're all in agreement than Halliburton is just awful.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well, they are.

Brian said...

Where's all that global warming that Al Gore keeps promising us? It's cold out tonight.

Anonymous said...

Let's get the GOP back in control so we can put an end to overheated rhetoric and hypocrisy in politics.

Anonymous said...

What war in Iraq? I haven't had MY legs blown off, and no one I know has, either.

Anonymous said...

The global warming crisis is a fraud. Sooner or later the left will get bored with it and move on to something else. Who's smart enough to predict the next science fad?

Jody said...

anon:
my guess is toxic nanotech