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March 21, 2007
Joe Barton Lays Waste to the Goracle
Kudos to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), who used a hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as an opportunity to rip Al Gore's hysterical global warming propaganda into tiny bits of confetti. He had this to say to the Goracle:
You just gave us an idea for a straight CO2 freeze, if I heard you correctly. I think that's an idea that's flawed. If you take that literally, we can add no new industry, nor new cars and trucks on our streets, and apparently no new people. People are mobile-source emitters. Every person emits 0.2 tons of CO2 a year, so an absolute true freeze would be no new industry, no new people, and no new cars.
No new industry, no new cars, no new people. That pretty much sums up the environmental agenda. While tearing down the lie that CO2 drives climate change, Barton sums up Gore himself:
Mr. Vice President, you're not just off a little. You're totally wrong.
Barton noted that changes in CO2 levels follow climate changes by hundreds of years rather than preceding them, and that CO2 levels in the past have been many times higher than they are today.
Prince Albert was called to account for some of his groundless predictions, including his outlandish 20-foot rise in sea levels and the discredited notions that global warming will strengthen hurricanes and spread malaria, a disease that is common in frozen Siberia.
As for Gore's radical policy recommendations:
Your suggestion of a carbon tax is a something that would harm our competitiveness, raise costs to American families, export jobs, and actually do very little to improve our environment. Likewise, a Kyoto-style cap-and-trade system for CO2 will mainly increase the price of electricity while providing few, if any, environmental benefits. These proposals, especially considering that neither of them includes large emitters of greenhouse gases such as China and India, fail the common-sense test that any legislation should meet: they provide little benefit at a huge cost.
Of course, from Gore's point of view, crippling environmentalist legislation has one rather large benefit: the victory of stifling bureaucracy over human freedom.
An evil socialist bureaucrat in George Orwell's 1984 exultantly describes the future as "a boot stamping on a human face — forever." If Al Gore et al. have their way, it won't be a boot, but a Birkenstock.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 21, 2007 9:30 PM
Comments
Birkenstocks have to be the UGLIEST shoe ever invented. I wouldnt be caught dead in those ugly ass shoes.
Barton should have told Al Bore that he should not excercise to burn off all that blubber around his torso since that would increase his carbon emissions since he would exhale more CO2.
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at March 22, 2007 4:53 AM
Sometimes it just takes a Texan to cut through the bullshit and call a spade a spade, a moron a moron, and a thief a thief.
Way to go Barton!
Posted by: Jimbo at March 22, 2007 6:23 AM
That video that was linked here the other day, The Great Global Warming Swindle, is fantastic. I'm forwarding that to everyone I know. According to that, the primary source of CO2 is not humans, not volcanoes, but OCEANS. In order to reduce reduce global CO2 output, we'll have to ban oceans.
Oh, and CO2 is not the primary greenhouse gas; water vapor is. And climate is more directly correlated to sunspots than CO2 (or any other greenhouse gases).
Posted by: the paperboy at March 22, 2007 8:33 AM
My url is a link to a clip of Bill O'Riely and what he thinks of climate change.
Posted by: Calvin Jones at March 25, 2007 2:59 AM
