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Posted on 04/08/2007 2:12:13 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
How popular is global warming as a political issue? So popular that even conservative state lawmakers are getting into the act, using the issue to sell everything from building dams and nuclear power plants to thinning forests.
The arguments are simple enough: Higher temperatures reduce mountain snowpack, so more dams are needed to capture winter precipitation that falls as rain.
Nuclear power plants produce few greenhouse gases, the leading cause of manmade warming.
Forest fires, on the other hand, send plenty of gases into the air -- so why not encourage timber companies to clear more brush to reduce fire risk?
Environmentalists, who are skeptical of the proposals, are peeved that the other side has stolen their issue.
"Clearly these legislators are just dressing up their existing legislation with a thin veneer of a pretended concern about global warming," said Bill Magavern, senior representative for Sierra Club California.
Republican lawmakers strongly opposed last year's landmark legislation -- Assembly Bill 32 -- to cut the state's greenhouse gases by 25 percent by 2020. They criticized the bill as a job-killer and a primitive attempt at placing local controls on a global problem.
Have they converted? Not necessarily, says Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, author of the nuclear bill.
"It's politics," he said. "If the (Democratic) leadership has said this is a problem ... then all I'm suggesting is maybe this is one of the solutions we should look at."
That Republicans are now talking about climate change shows how far it has come, said GOP strategist Dan Schnur.
"You can always tell that an issue has evolved when both parties start using it," he said. "They're not arguing about global warming anymore in the state Legislature. They're arguing about what issue it next influences."
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That’s really great. Use it in a way that fits your agenda, who the hell cares about the truth?!?!
Sure. Why not? Come out with a strong stance on air pollution and overfishing as well. Just keep it locked up in committee and say anything that sounds good.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Dead and decomposing trees, which were carbon dioxide sinks while alive, release that carbon dioxide back into the air after death.
The only environmentally responsible thing to do to prevent the release of carbon dioxide (which liberals now say is a pollutant) is to cut down those trees and use them before they die.
In the Sierra Nevada range, it would be possible to get in earlier than usual due to a smaller snowpack this year, unfortunately regulations are very restrictive to anyone touching much of anything in federal lands.. we may be looking at even more extreme conditions for fires this year as well as a result.
Incredible how hypocritical the enviro and eco crowd and those who follow them blindly are. .. but then , we did have 8 years of Clinton not so long ago, they did a lot of damage that lingers to this day.
Time to put the politico boxing gloves and go toe to toe..
Let ‘er rip!
Preemptive strike on Iran means fewer street vendors with their harmful charcoal kabob cookers...
Shut down ANWR get rid of the caribou that emit all the methane from grazing.
No private jets for the Hollywood jet set.
And best of all, a muzzle for Hillary that shuts out all the hot air and CO2.
An emergency like this calls for extraordinarily actions by the President.
That’s really great. Use it in a way that fits your agenda, who the hell cares about the truth?!?!
It takes a charlatan to promote the myth of global warming.
Note to lefties: careful what you wish for--you just might get it.
Actually, I believe it makes more sense to take back the Republican party, already established. Far less effort and, potentially, faster rewards. Let the liberal Republicans that seem to be growing like a cancer start their own party or go ahead and join the Democrats.
lol
YUP! Time for a HUGH Texas BBQ at the WH..
Smile.
5+ months out of the majority and still without a strategy...
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A week ago, I was sitting in a hotel room in Nuernberg, watching a special on german TV about the huge number of trees that were flattened by a recent storm.
The Green reporter asked a Forester, “Will you leave these trees as habitat for the little animals?”
Forester, looking horrified, “Oh, H$LL no - one lightening strike, and the entire country would burn to the ground. We have every logging truck in Germany working 24/7, to haul this mess to the sawmills. Of course, it is a 4-year supply of lumber, but...”
I fell out of my chair laughing. It seemed such an apt reminder, that the Greens know exactly as much about forest management as the Goracle does about Climatology.
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