Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:26:51 PM
Clearly, when it comes to green blogs, global warming is a foregone conclusion. They are truly convinced that some sort of disaster is going to take place on Earth because we are not doing enough to curb our emissions. But it is not just green blogs, it is those in high places in our government as well. Take this
Treehugger article for instance...
Now here's a scary thought: If we don't see significant cuts in China's carbon emissions by 2050, even if every other country reduced theirs by 80%, the world will still see a 2.7°C rise in average temperature. That's what Assistant Secretary of State for Energy David Sandalow said in The Guardian:
Sandalow went on to say,
China can and will need to do much more if the world is going to have any hope of containing climate change.
It doesn't end their though; they still have to blame America for not doing enough as well as every other nation in the world.
No One is Making Strong Enough Emissions Reduction Commitments
Fair enough, but frankly that statement could just as easily apply to the United States, to Japan (whose recent emissions reduction pledges are just 2% below its Kyoto agreement pledges and are being universally lambasted for being weak), to Australia, to any number of smaller nations flying under the radar as "developing nations" but where per capita emissions are higher than in Europe...for plenty of places.
The long and short of it is, every nation, China included, thinks they are doing enough to curb emissions and in a time frame that they believe effective (or effective when compared to political expedience), but not one of them is making deep enough emissions reductions commitments that happen quickly enough to avert the worst of climate chaos.
At the end of the article they use the ever favorite line of the greenies 'inaction is not an option'. Blah, Blah, Blah...
The worst enemy of these greenies is the economy. And now that it has come crashing down, disposable income spent on trying to be more environmentally savoy is no longer in style. Obama will try to force it down our throats with a cap and trade system (or more honestly an 'energy tax') but hopes are dwindling on that front as well. People are not interested in the environment when they are trying to keep food on the table. They will try to do their part, like recycling cans or using their local trash recycling, but they are not going to spend extra money to do it, and they are not going to vote a tax on themselves to do it.
Most importantly though, I think ordinary citizens are starting to see the light. They are not buying all the alarmism any longer, looking instead at the facts for themselves. They are seeing the money involved and the favoritism from the left. They are seeing that they don't have to feel guilty about it being hot outside. It is just the weather. The information age we live in overloads us with way to much of it. We are inandated with stories of global catastrophies and 'what if's' about global warming, yet none of them has happened, and there is simply no proof that they will. Some days it is hot, somedays it is cool, other days it rains. It's the weather stupid!