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Critical Thinking Needed on Cap and Trade before It's Too Late - A Rant
Another study on Americans' attitudes towards global warming from the Yale Project on Climate Change has been released. Classifying people's attitudes into six categories of concern and awareness, the study found that while nearly half believe strong action needs to be taken, the amount who think it's all a hoax has doubled. Interestingly though, nearly everyone supports regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/nearly-half-americans-alarmed-co...
Several issues smack me in the face when I read the article above:
It's Time for Main Street to Wake Up Over Cap and Tax
Cap-and-Trade Cracks Up
The coalition of major corporations hoping to get rich off cap-and-trade legislation started to crack up yesterday when BP America, Conoco Phillips, and Caterpillar dropped out of the U. S. Climate Action Partnership (or US CAP [www.us-cap.org]). Their defections end the exceedingly small remaining chance that cap-and-trade could be enacted this year.
What to say to a 'warmer'
Unfortunately at some point in time this link will no longer be available, so visit it soon. This is a great article to get your global warming facts organized.
What to say to a 'warmer' (ClimateGate and its baby gates from the IPCC et al.)
http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=234092
Orange County Register ^ | 2010-02-12 | Mark Landsbaum
It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global warming alarmists. We're on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.
At your next dinner party, here are some of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel prizes for their work on global warming.
ClimateGate -- This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"
FOIGate...
More at http://www.ocregister.com/common/printer/view.php?db=ocregister&id=234092
