This is Bela's last week operating out of Texas. Not that Texas wasn't a kind host, home to a broad expanse of beaches and wide estuaries teeming with wildlife - Texas is generous to those so inclined to explore its natural resources. But every good host has its limits.
There is still so much more that this grand state can do to preserve its natural legacy and promote a healthier, wiser and cleaner approach to its prospering economy. On that note, the state has decided to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for implementing a cap on the emission of green house gases. Citing it as unfair to small businesses and entrepreneurs as well as questioning the science behind this regulation, the lone star state has once again sided on the side of economic sense over common sense.
Do dollars today necessarily equal a natural disaster for tomorrow? Why not dollars today and a healthier environment for tomorrow? What about clean energy, cleaner industry and new jobs to replace older ones? Has this topic not been debated and abated long enough?
I leave you with more questions than answers. Until then, we will be operating from the west coast, hoping for clearer sunsets and a cleaner tomorrow.
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I agree that it's important that we all be good stewards of this earth - live and work and consume in a sustainable fashion. Don’t pollute, always recycle, bike rather than drive (when feasible), seek out alternative fuel sources / technologies, eat organic, and protect the health of the world for future generations. But it does the environmental movement, and the world as a whole, a disservice, when the argument for anthropogenic global warming are based on junk science. Relativity is a theory, Evolution is a theory, and yet with Global Warming, the debate is over? For me, it's about the Data. If that has been compromised (clearly it has been), then all other theories or arguments that are based upon that data is moot, regardless of how 'compelling' they may be.
ReplyDeleteWith that said, I agree that it is indeed a good idea to act and think sustainably - regardless of whether junk science is being used to support that belief.
They may be separate issues, but I'm really not so sure that warming is occurring. Particularly since, this year, several cities have been experiencing record low temperatures, and record snowfalls, and record early snowfalls. Speaking of which, (one of my favorite quotes) from Kevin Trenberth of the Climate Research Unit, on the failure of their modules (based on their fraudulent data):
"The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t. The CERES data published in the August BAMS 09 supplement on 2008 shows there should be even more warming: but the data are surely wrong. Our observing system is inadequate."
Plus, cap and trade will bankrupt industry, or make them uncompetitive, or both. Even the French government (their supreme court) ruled that C+T is a fraud. The only things it will result in is bankrupt industries, and governments enriching themselves with increased revenues and increased power.
ReplyDeleteNo thanks.
Good points Alex. I understand your concerns as they are shared by many others. It seems when it come to junk science, the interpreter is mistaken for the scientist.
ReplyDeleteI don't claim to be one, do you?
Please read this article, http://ecobeachhotels.blogspot.com/2010/02/climate-warming-and-rising-seas-truth.html and follow-up on the reference listed. If junk be found in that data, then junk I be peddling.
There should be debate and by no means is it over; however, the warming trend is not in debate. The exact cause, however, remains.
But the point remains, as you stated, "
it's important that we all be good stewards of this earth - live and work and consume in a sustainable fashion." That's the message we should all take from this.