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June 11, 2007
Denver to Save World From Global Warming
For those who still choose to believe in anthropogenic global warming, there's good news. The problem may not exist, but the city of Denver is going to save the world from it anyway.
Denver bureaucrats intend to reduce emissions of allegedly harmful CO2 by 4.4 million metric tons by 2020. This will come at a price, but fortunately you don't have to pay it — unless you live in Denver.
Aspects of the "climate action plan" include:
- Charging higher rates for heavy users of electricity and natural gas.
- Monitoring how many miles you drive, and pricing your auto insurance accordingly.
- Pushing economically inefficient "alternative energy."
- Priority parking for environmentally ruinous but politically correct hybrids.
- Making it impossible to sell older homes unless they are brought up to new energy efficiency standards.
- Cutting back on landfills, supposedly forcing residents to recycle their garbage.
- Forbidding you to throw away electronic trash like broken TV, dead computers, etc.
- Start charging $10 a month for garbage collection: more if you leave more than the regulation number of bags.
Municipal bureauweenie Beth Conover encourages us to think of these costly penalties and authoritarian intrusions as "market signals." Benita Duran of CH2M Hill, which presumably has financial motives for participating in the plan, shouts that it will address "a global matter of serious concern."
The witchdoctors running Denver actually believe that subjecting the city to this expensive nonsense will change the local climate, thus decreasing the risk of drought and wildfire. Why not just point a bone at the sun and command it to cool down? It would have the same effect on the weather, without causing economic damage or garbage to pile up.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 11, 2007 10:07 AM
Comments
Maybe these nitwits should learn a little about the region they decided to inhabit. It's a high-plains semi-desert subject to wild temperature and precipitation swings. Merely having a city there could be descibed by tree huggers as being "high impact".
If they are that worried about the environment maybe they should move to an area more amenable to humans - or just jump off a bridge and get it over with.
Posted by: forest at June 11, 2007 12:41 PM
