Posted on 11/21/2008 10:33:25 PM PST by FocusNexus
The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January, in the latest sign that Barack Obama's election could quickly reverse years of US footdragging on climate change.
Boxer, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee, said one bill would combat harmful gas emissions by providing 15 billion dollars a year to spur clean energy innovation and the development of advanced biofuels.
The other piece of legislation will direct the US Environmental Protection Agency to set up a cap-and-trade system to stem greenhouse gas emissions.
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Global warming ping
“Obama has called for annual targets that would aim to reduce emission levels to 1990 levels by 2020 and then by an addition 80 percent by 2050.”
The Obama and Dem plan should be named “How to finish killing the US economy”
lib MSM ‘foot-dragging’ == conservatives’ ‘ignoring junk science’
NOT a good idea.
Utter waste, thrown down the toilet.
They won't be able to achieve those goals without emitting other gasses.... like Zyklon B.
That kind of reduction can only be achieved with a massively smaller population living without heat, transportation or technology.
suicidal insanity.
I’m all for clean , but lets not go crazy . Although with this group in there we have on hell of a ride. Maybe let the screw it up fast so the shine on the 0bama penny will tarnish faster .
Change ???? You mean Clintoon Two . With moves like that it wont take long before people start wondering what spell they were under . I think they already are ,
Women, children, minorities and the elderly will be hurt the most by this crap.
I thought virtually every country has failed to meet their targets so far.
This is absolute madness to be even considering something like this especially during an economic downturn.
20% less energy followed by 80% less energy - doesn’t that equal no technology at all?
Precisely the case that someone should be making, but nobody has the ability or the balls to make on the national stage. For once, it's actually true: this is a tax that hits the poorest people the hardest.
Just in time to put the final, needless, bullet in the head of the economy.
You’re right. I don’t think I was being sarcastic this time. Putting dollars in Algore’s pocket with his “global warming” scam is really going to hurt these groups.
In the meantime, global warming, if there is such a thing, would allow us access to much more energy, but the enviro-idiots wants us to go back to the stone ages instead.
Global warming could lead to more Arctic energy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136417/posts
Maybe that's what his large civilian force is tasked to enforce.
Global Warming Predictions Are Overestimated, Suggests Study On Black Carbon
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119120155.htm
A detailed analysis of black carbon — the residue of burned organic matter — in computer climate models suggests that those models may be overestimating global warming predictions.
Helicopter Ben is going to have to double the number of printing presses at the Fed, and run them all 24/7 to keep up with their spending.
That would result in a final amount equaling 16% of the original, or 84% total reduction.
Only the elite Communist, I mean Democratic, leaders would be allowed energy use...
“That would result in a final amount equaling 16% of the original, or 84% total reduction.”
So where will that leave the economy — especially since the Dems refuse to use nuclear energy to provide energy without CO2 emission. Their real goal is to reduce the US to a third world country.
Oops. It got cold and the water froze too soon
If this term doesn’t wake people up in this nation, they deserve every misery the RATS inflict on them.
We had better hope for an extreme cooling period like the Younger Dryas (around 10,000BC; the Earth’s mean temp dropped up to 30 degrees in as little as a year).
Not that it would convince any of those morons that there is no global warming, but there’s some hope they’d freeze to death and Washington DC would be under a mile of ice.
Yea, but the other third world countries won't hate us any more, isn't that more important?
Obama is already screwed. The nation is broke. There are no oil com[any profits, for him to steal now that oil prices are tumbling to the break even point.
There is no money for all his promises, health care, free tuition.
He WILL achieve tax cuts however. Only because more "middle class will loose their jobs, hence pay less taxes, others will see wage roll backs, reduced hours of work,and paying less taxes, and businesses will be on the verge of bankruptcy, paying less taxes.
There is nowhere for Obama to steal money from. Anything these clowns do will have a profound negative effect on the economy.
We are in for a rough turbulant ride, better be ready and hang on.
If you have grown Children, or In-laws, that haven't read those 2 books...Gifting for the Holidays is a Natural.
I'm even sending a copy of “State of Fear” to my Congressman.
That's why wall street is very nervous, and gold is going up, the dollar down. Soon as those presses start, it's going to torpedo down.
“Meanwhile in the real world: Over 200 narwhal trapped in Canadian ice (only Global Warming can save them now...)
Oops. It got cold and the water froze too soon”
See! It’s CLIMATE CHANGE.
I think the cycle has changed, and these people will be completely discredited and ridiculed in 3-5 years, anyway.
I ask my fellow lurkers and Freepers to support the bottled water industry and sign the petition at bottledwatermatters.com
Freep this Petition! I just heard the House of Representative banned bottled water in PET bottles in their cafeteria. Unreal! PET is totally safe and bottle water is a healthy high quality alternative beverage to sugar beverages. Hello any beverage in a plastic bottle and all kinds of food products are packaged in PET.
Bottled Water has been unfairly targeted. One of the few home grown business that can’t be farmed out to the Chinese. The government might as well crush tens of thousands of American jobs so the left can buy filters to do a substandard job of cleaning up what they insist is great quality tap water. Hundred year old pipes help to make it that way!
And also let’s not forget save the planet which is BS. Truth is municipal water systems and many private water systems are heavily Unionized big surprise.
The plan here too is to ban anything made from carbon based product such as bottles. Even reusable bottles that make over fifty trips before being recycled are being targeted.
Guess what product gets to every natural disaster first? You got it! Bottled water! Katrina had no drinking water for weeks the area survived on bottled water and a large chunk of it was donated by the industry itself.
These company’s are comprised of hard working American’s providing a safe, necessary beverage that people really want. It is heart breaking what the government will do to US business in the name of Climate Change (Hoax of the century)
Bottled Water is the shot across the bow wait until the next great enviro scam comes out “THE WATER FOOTPRINT” Wait until you all find out how much water it takes to raise beef and meat, make beer and soda, water golf courses, The vegans are behind this move as well.
Dairy and Meat are in the cross hairs. Hell with the jobs and what Americans want to eat Pelosi is making up the menu right now and it ain’t gonna be pretty or tasty!
Please help and stop them here!
Blame the 20%ers who said “let him win and teach the GOP a lesson”... the same song and dance we heard from the unappeasables back in 2006.
If people would only face how many of our problems here are caused by enviromentalists and the DEMs are OWNED by the environmental lobby we they would never vote for another democrat.
John McCain was for cap-and-trade as well.
We’re so screwed.
Ah yes, the tire guage returns.
Exactly right and therefore no Republican of any stripe can ever do anything but condemn this effort, unrelievedly, uninterruptedly and at the loudest possible volume.
Just for the record and, yes, it's ad hoc, but the temperature here in central NC is 26 degrees, a record low for this date (breaking the one set in 1987).
“Americans want to eat Pelosi”
You MIGHT want to consider some punctuation! And where are you living? Your tap water is unhealthy?
You are an optimist.
They are more likely to take over the power plants, staff them with workers from the recipient class and order them to provide a maximum of 6 hrs a day of power.
Comparing nothing to something, people will be thankful for the pittance. Congress will attempt to trumpet how they saved everyone, however, with minimum power, most folks will not be able to watch TV. So, in their infinite wisdom, they will subsidize one channel radios for all, carrying only Congressional propaganda.
I wish I was being sarcastic.
Obama's first TAX INCREASE!!
Screw the grandkids. I'm cold *now*.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Hold the calls, we have a our answer.
“Your tap water is unhealthy?”
Do you object to people having the CHOICE to drink bottled water if they want to? Do you think CONGRESS/GOVERNMENT should tell peopl[e what kind of water they can drink?
“Do you object to people having the CHOICE”
Abdo-lutely not! I just don’t like some of the myths spread around about tap water!
Sorry for the late reply. Out shopping.
Obama promises leadership on climate change
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Global warming on Free Republic
Looks like this may be the Democrats’ suicide pact with America.
Europe is backing away from this as fast as they can and the stupid Rats want to show that America can be as stupid as Europe was.
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