re: #97 simoom

Utah’s house of Representatives passes a Non-Binding Resolution “disputing science of climate change, claiming emissions are ‘essentially harmless’”:
[Link: www.guardian.co.uk…]

The Bill can be found here:
[Link: www.le.state.ut.us…]

China and India are essentially doing the same thing. Expect South Africa and Brazil to follow, which means that the effort to get a global discipline in place to limit emissions is a dead horse.

From a policy standpoint, the only way we will effect a decline in emissions is through an industrial energy policy that gets us off burning carbon profitably.

Back to my hobby horse, but the Breakthrough Institute has been predicting this for some time and more and more jurisdictions are simply going to abandon emissions targets (or place false homage to them while cheating) because the incentives to cheat are overwhelming.

The US will lead the world into clean energy just as it has led on other industrial advances - what we have to do is put together the energy policy, the research funding and the overhaul of how we build and license plant construction to bring it about. Bypass the carbon rationing and just stop burning the stuff.