'Cap and trade' bill potential disaster
The House of Representatives did a grave disservice to the U.S. by passing the so-called "cap and trade" bill. I urge you contact your Senators to correct this mistake by voting against this bill in the Senate.
Reducing human-made global warming was the original battle cry to justify this legislation. While the "believers" cite research linking human-produced carbon dioxide to rising global temperatures, there is an increasing amount of research that repudiates this link. The issue is no longer based on true science but on politics and mass hysteria.
One of many examples of how far the political machine has taken this issue is a report prepared by Alan Carlin, an economist/physicist at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics. This report points out the scientific flaws in the research cited by the "believers," and was recently squashed by Al McGartland, its director, because Carlin's comments "do not help the legal or policy case."
But even if you believe that human-produced CO2 is causing deadly increases in global temperatures, please consider the following published by The Heritage Foundation: 1. Two percent of the atmosphere is composed of so-called "greenhouse gases." 2. CO2 accounts for 3.62 percent of greenhouse gases. 3. Three point four percent of CO2 is caused by human activity. If we eliminate all CO2 caused by human activity, it will change .00246 percent of the atmosphere and eliminate approximately 0.1238 percent of greenhouse gases. Simply put, "Cap and Trade" is like using one of North Korea's nukes to swat a pesky mosquito.
I personally believe that all Americans should embrace environmental stewardship, energy conservation, alternative energy and energy independence. But there is so much conflicting science regarding human-made global warming that imposition of the many disastrous elements of the "cap and trade" bill for no other reason than politics is one of the gravest mistakes this government could ever make.
Roger Willis
Naperville