Wolfman07's Blog

Hi Mr. Wolfman07 & son:

In my opinion, "energy" has become a political football.

I am sure your son has heard all about Global Warming&Climate change. If you want to understand why things the way they are today, we have to consider some history.

Over the past several decades there has been a very strong and growing environmental movement which has villified oil & fossil fuels due to the fact that its usage gives off CO2.

The man made global warming theory assumes that an increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has/will lead to catastrophic climate change.

These groups have spent alot of money on politicians, and gotten alot of favorable press coverage to the point that it has been just assumed by alot of folks have never questioned it that we HAVE to cut down on CO2 emissions or we will all DIE.

wolfman thanks for the post. great job on the posting of this blog.

Actually, Dose, if you track the money, the 'campaign for global warming' has not been heavily funded as you claim. There has been more funding in the US to support the whole 'can you prove global warming exists' campaign starting in the 90's. Literally billions of dollars have been spent on propaganda to get conservatives, and even some liberals to think that global-warming and the environment are 'not a big concern'. The reasoning was that when the Kyoto Protocol was supposed to be signed, Clinton thought that the measures would have hurt our economy at the time, and he realized that congress wouldnt accept it. Rather than stepping up on the matter, he buried it, and started the whole system of propaganda with 'other scientists', paid by the government, who say 'global warming cant be proven, and may not be true'. Many leading scientists on global warming have been gagged in the process as well. All you have to do is look around at the facts. We have acid rain. We have high levels of smog in major US cities. There are plenty of other things that do suggest that at the very least, burning an olympic size swimming pool of oil every 15 seconds might not be a good idea. Take whichever viewpoint you may, but even if you throw the whole environmental concern out, you still have the whole foreign dependence issue.

Mr. Hahnmeister:

You've gotta be kidding if you think:

More money has been spent on research which in its conclusions don't support global warming.

Since 1993, total US, UN, and EU dollars spent on Global Warming research amounts to 80 BILLION dollars.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/PaulDriessen/2007/02
/06/global_warming_ethics,_pork_and_profits&Comments=tr
ue?page=1