Posted by Jim Lindgren:
Congress Votes to Change the Weather.
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_06_28-2009_07_04.shtml#1246169930
As you undoubtedly know by now, Congress voted on Friday to change the
weather -- or more accurately, the climate. The idea that a government
of one country could appreciably change the world's climate over the
next 40 years is the ultimate hubris. Legislators may think they are
God, but they're not.
The blogger [1]Maxed Out Mama captures the silliness:
This is the most bizarre thing I have ever seen in my lifetime.
Let's hope it can be stopped in the Senate. Even if it is, our
nation has lost something here, and that something is the principal
legislative body's grasp on reality. It is as if the House of
Representatives suddenly passed a vote to reduce gravity by 10
percent in order to lessen the costs of obesity to putatively cut
Medicare costs in the future. Truly amazing.
A few months ago, if someone had to come up with a way to spend as
much money as possible and create as few jobs as possible, the
Stimulus Bill would be pretty much the ideal piece of legislation.
And with the Climate Bill, if someone had to come up with a way to
waste as much money as possible, destroy as many jobs and as much
wealth as possible, and do as little as possible to improve the
environment, the Climate/Energy Bill would be pretty much the ideal
piece of legislation.
PS: I was surprised how good much of the Republican debate in the
House was. Many of the Representatives understood what was happening
and seemed well prepared. Certainly, their grasp of the science was
better than that of the Democrats who spoke.
References
1.
http://maxedoutmama.blogspot.com/2009/06/so-whats-going-to-replace-democratic.html
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