re: #84 lostlakehiker

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So you’re certainly going to see Republicans use the machinery of government to push the case that action on the environment is devastating to the economy. And no doubt there will be bit of grandstanding at these hearings from select GOPers about global warming perhaps being a hoax. But no hearings as of yet are being planned that would focus specifically on the science underlying global warming.
Sounds like the leadership knows that the science is correct and would hold up under any possible attack.

It’s legitimate to fret about the cost of making the adjustments we must make. There are better and worse ways to get to where we need to be. And lest we forget, we aren’t even the biggest player any more; that’s China.

What’s not legitimate is to insist that CO2 is purely and simply plant food. Oxygen is necessary for human breathing but a pure oxygen atmosphere would be most unhealthy. The levels of CO2 we’re looking at over the next 50 years and more are not good for our economy. That’s a cost too and it has to be reckoned. The GOP is supposed to be the party that thinks about costs. Man up, dears.

fergetaboutit…until AGW is framed as a national security issue, nothing will get done…the feds are idiots