Global warming no excuse to buy energy

Global cooling? Intense concerns over global warming and government-mandated restrictions over domestic energy development is costing this nation trillions of dollars a year and is putting our nation at severe risk from potential adversaries in the Middle East, Venezuela, Russia and other nations.

We have enough energy in domestic offshore oil, coal, shale and nuclear technical capabilities to meet our own needs for centuries, but we are not allowed to develop them because of the shrill hysteria over global warming.

Has anybody noticed that NASA has confirmed that the earth has been cooling for the last ten years? Or that the computer model that predicted global warming has been proved to be wrong? Or that 30,000 scientists recently signed a document challenging the danger of man-induced global warming. Or that the earth has gone through multiple heating and cooling cycles on a regular basis for millions of years? Or my favorite is that the U.N. has confirmed that cow flatulence is the primary cause of global warming, not man.

Given the tremendous cost and danger associated with our current course and the scientific disagreement over the extent and cause of global warming, why is there not more discussion and challenge on this topic?

Where is the cost/benefit analysis?

As is always the case, follow the money and power. Who makes more money or gets more power if we continue to not use our own resources? Who is funding the enormous budget used to promote global warming on TV and in the media every day?

I don't know about you, but it sure worries me that the very adversaries that we need to worry about will make the most money if we keep on our current course of global warming goofiness.

Could they be funding this campaign through the loony left that always likes to blame America first?

Of course we the taxpayer and consumer will bear the cost of not developing our own energy as always.

Think about it.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake