Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/01/2009 9:16:27 PM PDT by GRRRRR
He was on the Don Wade and Roma show on WLS this morning. The entire bill is predicated on the assertion that having more CO2 in the atmosphere is a bad thing and that a warmer, rather than colder, climate is also a bad thing. The reality is that we are long, long, long past the place where adding more CO2 to the air can have any effect on atmospheric temperature. The largest effect takes place between 0 and about 100 ppm. After that the effect rapidly levels off so that if we were to quadruple atmospheric CO2 there would be little discernible effect on global temperatures. On the other hand, there is such a thing as too little CO2. If there is less than 200 ppm, there is no plant growth. Doubling CO2, however, would result in almost optimal plant growth and reduce plants’ water requirements. Increasing the tiny amount of atmospheric CO2 is the easiest way possible of increasing plant growth.
But at least WE wouldn’t be dependent on them for any oil and WE wouldn’t be funding them and could control our prices and reserves more consistently.
I think that’s the crux of the argument for drill here, drill now. We need to increase refinery capacity also, which the sierra club and other enviro-weenies won’t allow. We need a real president that’s on the side of America that will tell these people to stuff it vs. what we currently have where the president tells everyone but them to stuff it.
He still is on...now talking health care....I don’t think Don Wade was very tough on him at all.
How can he not support drill here drill now????
Interesting that he is not taking phone questions—but Congressmen Peter Roscum did earlier this morning when he was on—Don kept calling it a townahll—guess Kirk was not willing to field questions....
Thanks for posting Kirk’s words, GRRRRR. Outstanding comments BUMP!
“In 1998 and 1999, I served as part of the U.S. delegation to both the Kyoto and Buenos Aires UN Climate Change conferences. In those years, there was a significant debate about the amount and effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide. I was a skeptic and spent hundreds of hours on the subject of 1990s climate science. In the Congress, our job is to learn as much as possible from the latest peer-reviewed non-partisan scientists and then plot the best course for our nation.”
Ten years after and Kirk is a completely brainwashed irrational collectivist.
Music to read this post by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUokMbJC3P8
(hope you’re doing OK, GRRRRR)
This guy Kirk has played conservatives like a fiddle. Goes on local talk shows and talks the talk. Goes to Washington and is a very reliable vote for the Demos when they need him.
What a jerk! get him out of Congress
Rep. Kirk is my congressman. I emailed him, four times, within the past two years, and I asked why he’s a Republican, although he’s pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, pro-spending increases, pro-illegal alien, and anti-Iraq surge. I didn’t receive a response, so I emailed four of his aides and asked them why he’s a Republican. I didn’t receive a response.
“emitter” to Kirk.
Standby to take FiRe.
RMSP member
The moderates deliver again...
when will the GoP learn?
I have my doubts that ANY legislation authored by the Democrats would allow for increased drilling and mining for fossil fuels in the US.
Not likely -- he represents a heavily invested Rat district.
Oops — make that infested.
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