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Support clean energy for future generations
Like Bill Ferrel (Friday guest column), I, too, want to hear how Republican candidates will ensure our long-term economic stability as our nation continues to grow warmer. This is sure to happen in coming decades because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere. We need to support people with the courage to confront future problems.
Since Iowa has so much wind power, candidates who support clean energy are supporting jobs and long-term economic growth for Iowans.
I also urge President Barack Obama to do his part — refuse the Keystone XL pipeline permission to send its dirty oil from Canadian tar sands 1,700 miles down to Texas refineries. Pipeline construction would tie us into decades of dependence on fossil fuel, with high carbon dioxide emissions. Leaks in the pipeline would pollute the Ogallala aquifer, a major source of drinking and irrigation water for the Midwest. We don’t have to rely on this dirty energy — we have clean energy, if government just gives it a level playing field on which to compete.
Climate change is a human rights issue. We have a responsibility to give our children and grandchildren a healthy planet. Contact Obama at www.whitehouse.gov, urge him not to sign the pipeline permit.
Elisabeth Robbins
Marion
Build a oil refinnery in canada problem sloved, big oil companies control how much oil it’s willing to put out to keep prices at the pump high. Our oil refinneries in America run at roughly 80 percent,it varies to keep demand high and supply low.
I’ve have heard some good things about methanol recently. It’s already used as a fuel, cheap to produce, and is already in production.
I’m all for finding an alternative to oil, but you’re behind on the curve. It’s not called global warming anymore. The science can no longer support that theory. It’s Climate Change (a term too abstract to either prove or disprove).
I thought the current term was “climate disruption”.
The ice core record shows that increases in CO2 lag increases in temperature and therefore could not be the cause of temperature increases. The first analyses on ice cores were done at a resolution of 1000 years. That resolution proved to be too large to be able to determine whether CO2 led temperature or whether it was the other way around. When the analyses were repeated at a resolution of 100 years it was clear that temperature increases led increases in CO2. This was known in 2003. Al Gore’s documentary was made in 2005 so he had to have known that what he portrayed in his documentary was the opposite of the truth.
The realclimate web site tries to explain this discrepancy away by saying that something else triggers an initial temperature increase and then the increase in CO2 accelerates the increase in temperature, but they provide no evidence to support their position; just arm waving.
As evidence of how little faith the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) crowd had in the realclimate web site theory, the internet was all abuzz at word that the Vostok ice core taken from Antarctica would be analyzed at a much finer resolution and would finally show that CO2 led temperature. However, when the results of the analyses were released they also showed that temperature leads CO2. The reason is that there are many Gigi tons of CO2 dissolved in the oceans, and ocean temperatures affect the rate at which CO2 is taken up or released by the oceans. See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/temperature-change.html
Moreover, even the CAGW crowd admits that nothing they are proposing will have any noticeable effect on temperature. It was said that the Kyoto protocol, if fully implemented, would reduce the predicted temperature increase over the next century by 0.06 degrees.
“he had to have known that what he portrayed in his documentary was the opposite of the truth”
Maybe he just had the graphs mislabeled. After all, the children’s book written by his partner, Laurie David (“The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming”), had the labels on the CO2 & temp graph reversed, making it look like CO2 went up before temperature.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
“This is sure to happen in coming decades because of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.”
No, its not sure to happen. There have been more greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere in earth’s past than there are now. Somehow, we still had ice ages…
The truth is, long term stability requires abundant, reliable, cheap energy. Republicans fully support the development of cleaner, greener energy sources, but draw the line at committing economic suicide to do it. Democrats seem content with driving up energy prices to “go green”, which can have a devastating effect on the poorer populations of this planet. That’s what will hurt future generations.
Specifically designed for you Progressives out there…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NydSuHoQZqk
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45447
“But the validity of the science behind the image — presented as an ignoble testament to our environment in peril by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truth — is now part of a federal investigation that has the environmental community on edge. Special agents from the Interior Department’s inspector general’s office are questioning the two government scientists about the paper they wrote on drowned polar bears, suggesting mistakes were made in the math and as to how the bears actually died, and the department is eyeing another study currently underway on bear populations.”