Worried About Climate Change? Promote Free Markets!
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Every day more and more Americans are growing skeptical of the climate change doomsday claims and plans to ration energy through cap-and-trade type proposals. Despite this, many environmentalists still claim that far-reaching government intervention is needed to achieve greater energy efficiency and lower greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the threat of global warming. Although there has been no statistically significant global warming since at least 1995, the same groups often claim economic growth and lack of comprehensive environmental regulations have created a society that wastes energy and pays no regard to greenhouse gas emissions. But what if less energy use and lower greenhouse gas emissions are a byproduct of limited government and economic freedom? What if environmentalists’ goals can be reached by freer markets and prosperity? Recent Cascade Policy Institute research shows that very phenomenon.
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All this alleged unanimity
All this alleged unanimity amongst the scientific world on the human component to global warming is bogus. Just by coincidence, the vast majority of the scientists that endorse this view point happen to be political leftists and have a very unscientific agenda. Thus just as Islam is subversive political movement masquerading as a religion, most of those "scientists" that support the huge human component to global warming are leftists masquerading as scientists.
Iceland's volcanoes this year have added more to global warming potential than mankind has in many decades. Al Gore makes a movie and the leftist environmental wackos all genuflect ....and Al Gore, with a carbon footprint that dwarfs many corporations, walks away with multi-millions. The hypocrisy is enough to give an objective person the dry heaves.